Generator: Dispatches from Zarkany


Since THE DEVIL CITY & ITS 77 VICIOUS PRINCES is player-driven, and I love being lazy, I've come up with a number of generators for it. You can get at most of them on the game's carrd, but here's me experimenting whether I can just put them here for ease-of-posting. If this works well I'm hoping to stick more generators on here as we go.

This generator is for dispatches, the game's term for courtly intrigues. A dispatch is a momentous occurrence in the city—something  everyone has heard about. The generator includes:

  • How your princes hear about it
  • The event that occurred
  • Potential additional NPCs who were involved
  • A potential complication if things don't already seem thorny enough
  • Opening ideas--dispatches are meant to provide opportunities along with their seismic shift that PC princes can take advantage of.
Give it a go or two--you can hit the button on the bottom to generate another scandal.




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