Got Drunk, Got a New Tattoo (A One-throw Chart)
You got drunk. Really, really drunk. You made a lot of threats, shared a lot of secrets, and cried on a lot of shoulders. You also stumbled into a tattoo shop, and got a tattoo. At least you didn't get married, right? (Wait, right? Right?)
This is a one-throw chart, so cast each of the commonly supplied dice in a dice set.
1d4: Is the tattoo magical?
1d6: If 1d4 = 2, roll on this chart. When is the tattoo's magic active?
1d8: If 1d4 = 3, roll on this chart. What action will cause the tattoo to activate?
1d10 & 1d%: If 1d4 = 2, 3, or 4, roll on this chart. How is the tattoo magical?
1d12: Where is the tattoo?
1d20: What is the tattoo of?
Is the tattoo magical?
1 The tattoo artist said it was magical. It isn't.
2 The tattoo is only magical under specific circumstances.
3 The tattoo becomes magical after achieving something.
4 The tattoo is indeed magical through and through.
If 2, what are the specific circumstances?
1 When you're drunk
2 When you're feeling happy
3 When you're feeling angry
4 When submerged in water
5 When in darkness
6 When struck by moonlight
If 3, what do you have to achieve?
1 You save an orphan from a terrible fate
2 You bring joy to a grieving elder
3 You feed a town in the dead of winter
4 You make a prince out of a pauper
5 You tell the truth when a lie might save you from pain
6 You find justice for a needy person
7 You light the sky in celebration
8 You dance naked in the town square
If magical, what are the effects?
00 Bees are unusually friendly to you
01 Dogs are unusually friendly to you
02 You can grow hair anywhere on your body at will
03 Your hair stops growing entirely
04 Your hair changes color depending on your mood (Angry: green, Sad: yellow, Afraid: red, Happy: blue)
05 Your eyes change color depending on your mood (Angry: green, Sad: yellow, Afraid: red, Happy: blue)
06 Every time you swear, your lips burn slightly
07 You can speak to black house cats
08 Your voice can become twice as loud at will
09 You can assign one word as a magic command; you burst into tears on that command word
10 If you get a full night's sleep, you awaken with a copper coin in your mouth
11 Your hair is replaced with vines
12 Any time you knowingly lie, someone in the room sneezes
13 You do not sweat, you leak salt crystals instead
14 You can summon a six-inch tentacle from the site of your tattoo; it isn't very strong
15 You gain close-range telepathy with squirrels
16 You need to sleep half as long as usual to feel fully rested
17 You telepathically hear pleasant music when you're hungry
18 Your tattoo leaks honey when you feel sad
19 If your tattoo touches a glass surface, it will shatter the glass
20 A slight haze of glitter floats around your tattoo
21 If you dream, you can remember everything clearly when you wake
22 If you dream, you watch -- in real-time -- a far-off shoreline
23 When you sneeze, leaves fall from your hair
24 When you cough, you cough up a puff of glitter
25 You exude a pleasant, floral odor
26 When you curse, it's in a language you don't understand
27 You have a powerful command of the use and history of nautical knot-tying
28 You can speak another language fluently, but it always comes out backwards
29 If your tattoo is visible, people always smile at you, regardless of how they feel about you
30 You do not become drowsy; you are only ever wide-awake or fast asleep
31 If there is a broom in the room, you can call it to your hand
32 At any time, you may choose someone in the room: they believe that you're meowing like a cat
33 Snakes are unnaturally afraid of you (this doesn't mean that they won't bite if threatened)
34 You can speak to queen bees by dancing
35 You can assign one word as a magic command; your skin sparkles slightly on that command word
36 You can become invisible for one second at will each day
37 All food tastes good to you
38 You become immune to the common cold
39 If someone touches your tattoo while wearing a holy symbol, they have visions of the afterlife
40 You can change the pitch of your voice to any humanoidly possible extreme
41 You do not know the direction, but you know the distance to the nearest lighthouse
42 You can assign one word as a magic command; your become drunk on that command word
43 When you feel insulted, the tattoo expands to cover your body and becomes more intricate
44 If you are within earshot, the tattoo will glow just before a bell rings
45 If you tell a joke to a pig, it will find the joke hilarious; you cannot comprehend the pig
46 People automatically assume that you like riddles
47 If you get a full night's sleep, you can see three seconds into the future when you wake
48 If you play a dice game, the dice will never stop rotating after you throw them
49 You exude a piny odor
50 Flowers near you will lean towards you
51 Your clothes and/or armor always look clean
52 Any money you handle looks like new
53 No one understands your jokes
54 If you whisper, you can still be understood as if speaking at normal volume
55 The tattoo will melt gold and silver coins left in contact with it over the course of an hour
56 You know the generic name of any stone, crystal, or metal by looking at it
57 Your skin becomes impenetrable to copper
58 You are immune from becoming a ghoul
59 Your skull cannot be fractured
60 Your tears become an effective antacid
61 You can identify every musical note by ear
62 Iron you touch takes a bluish hue until you stop touching it
63 You can change the appearance of any flag by touching it
64 You can see through your tattoo at will
65 You can change the appearance of your tattoo for up to thirty seconds each day
66 Your tattoo appears as a three-dimensional hologram
67 You appear to have a faint, incorporeal halo around your head
68 You can summon a two-foot tail
69 You can change the sound of any nearby musical instrument with another at will
70 You exude an odor of woodsmoke
71 You can summon a small raincloud over your head that drips slightly
72 You can change the color of any nearby fire
73 Your tattoo telepathically whispers unintelligible words to anyone who touches it
74 You know the words for "hello" and "goodbye" in every language that has such a concept
75 You can shrink or grow any beard you touch at will
76 If you touch someone, your hand- or fingerprints glow softly on their skin
77 You appear ever-so-slightly transparent
78 You can make a small amount of water hover up to six inches from a surface
79 You can make pebbles and small rocks roll away from you slowly
80 All of your dreams occur in black and white
81 You are well-versed in mixing pigments to find a precisely desired color
82 If you ingest poison, your tattoo will glow brightly
83 You repel crickets and cockroaches
84 Flames grow slightly brighter around you, although not larger
85 You feel slightly less pain than usual
86 You can make books temporarily grow slightly larger
87 You can make fruits and vegetables become invisible for thirty seconds each day
88 If you touch someone, you can cause them to become unable to see one color for thirty seconds each day
89 You can ask a gargoyle one question each day. They cannot speak in return, but you can understand their gestures
90 If you touch someone, you can steal their sense of smell for thirty seconds each day
91 If you touch a scar, it disappears for the next thirty seconds
92 If you wear a hat while you get a full night's sleep, an egg will appear under it when you wake
93 If you hold a wooden object, it appears to be made of iron until you release it
94 You can change the color of cloth you are wearing at will
95 If you sleep next to someone for a full night, they appear one inch taller for the next day
96 You can feel the emotions of nearby jellyfish and octopuses
97 You can skin citrus fruits by touching them
98 You can understand the barking of canines
99 You make nearby reptiles that are smaller than you feel calm around you
Where did you get the tattoo?
1 Upper back
2 Lower back
3 Chest
4 Belly
5 Thigh
6 Calf
7 Ankle
8 Shoulder
9 Bicep
10 Hand
11 Neck
12 Butt
What is the tattoo of?
1 A dolphin with a sunset behind it
2 A crab with swords in its claws
3 A shark with a goofy smile
4 A small, fluffy dog
5 A house cat with tiger-like stripes
6 A butterfly on top of a toad
7 A bottle of beer
8 The tattoo artist's face
9 Your face
10 An abstract noun, misspelled (examples: "RERSPECT," "STENGTH," "VALER," "GLOORIE," "HAMONY")
11 A very poorly drawn set of crossed axes
12 An abstract design of geometric shapes
13 Tentacles on fire
14 A plate of food
15 A family member's name, misspelled
16 A friend's name, misspelled
17 A moon with a poorly drawn face
18 A misquoted religious verse or family motto and roses
19 A head of cabbage with an unrelated abstract noun that has been spelled correctly
20 A word in a foreign language you don't know, but the tattoo artist does
This is a one-throw chart, so cast each of the commonly supplied dice in a dice set.
1d4: Is the tattoo magical?
1d6: If 1d4 = 2, roll on this chart. When is the tattoo's magic active?
1d8: If 1d4 = 3, roll on this chart. What action will cause the tattoo to activate?
1d10 & 1d%: If 1d4 = 2, 3, or 4, roll on this chart. How is the tattoo magical?
1d12: Where is the tattoo?
1d20: What is the tattoo of?
Is the tattoo magical?
1 The tattoo artist said it was magical. It isn't.
2 The tattoo is only magical under specific circumstances.
3 The tattoo becomes magical after achieving something.
4 The tattoo is indeed magical through and through.
If 2, what are the specific circumstances?
1 When you're drunk
2 When you're feeling happy
3 When you're feeling angry
4 When submerged in water
5 When in darkness
6 When struck by moonlight
If 3, what do you have to achieve?
1 You save an orphan from a terrible fate
2 You bring joy to a grieving elder
3 You feed a town in the dead of winter
4 You make a prince out of a pauper
5 You tell the truth when a lie might save you from pain
6 You find justice for a needy person
7 You light the sky in celebration
8 You dance naked in the town square
If magical, what are the effects?
00 Bees are unusually friendly to you
01 Dogs are unusually friendly to you
02 You can grow hair anywhere on your body at will
03 Your hair stops growing entirely
04 Your hair changes color depending on your mood (Angry: green, Sad: yellow, Afraid: red, Happy: blue)
05 Your eyes change color depending on your mood (Angry: green, Sad: yellow, Afraid: red, Happy: blue)
06 Every time you swear, your lips burn slightly
07 You can speak to black house cats
08 Your voice can become twice as loud at will
09 You can assign one word as a magic command; you burst into tears on that command word
10 If you get a full night's sleep, you awaken with a copper coin in your mouth
11 Your hair is replaced with vines
12 Any time you knowingly lie, someone in the room sneezes
13 You do not sweat, you leak salt crystals instead
14 You can summon a six-inch tentacle from the site of your tattoo; it isn't very strong
15 You gain close-range telepathy with squirrels
16 You need to sleep half as long as usual to feel fully rested
17 You telepathically hear pleasant music when you're hungry
18 Your tattoo leaks honey when you feel sad
19 If your tattoo touches a glass surface, it will shatter the glass
20 A slight haze of glitter floats around your tattoo
21 If you dream, you can remember everything clearly when you wake
22 If you dream, you watch -- in real-time -- a far-off shoreline
23 When you sneeze, leaves fall from your hair
24 When you cough, you cough up a puff of glitter
25 You exude a pleasant, floral odor
26 When you curse, it's in a language you don't understand
27 You have a powerful command of the use and history of nautical knot-tying
28 You can speak another language fluently, but it always comes out backwards
29 If your tattoo is visible, people always smile at you, regardless of how they feel about you
30 You do not become drowsy; you are only ever wide-awake or fast asleep
31 If there is a broom in the room, you can call it to your hand
32 At any time, you may choose someone in the room: they believe that you're meowing like a cat
33 Snakes are unnaturally afraid of you (this doesn't mean that they won't bite if threatened)
34 You can speak to queen bees by dancing
35 You can assign one word as a magic command; your skin sparkles slightly on that command word
36 You can become invisible for one second at will each day
37 All food tastes good to you
38 You become immune to the common cold
39 If someone touches your tattoo while wearing a holy symbol, they have visions of the afterlife
40 You can change the pitch of your voice to any humanoidly possible extreme
41 You do not know the direction, but you know the distance to the nearest lighthouse
42 You can assign one word as a magic command; your become drunk on that command word
43 When you feel insulted, the tattoo expands to cover your body and becomes more intricate
44 If you are within earshot, the tattoo will glow just before a bell rings
45 If you tell a joke to a pig, it will find the joke hilarious; you cannot comprehend the pig
46 People automatically assume that you like riddles
47 If you get a full night's sleep, you can see three seconds into the future when you wake
48 If you play a dice game, the dice will never stop rotating after you throw them
49 You exude a piny odor
50 Flowers near you will lean towards you
51 Your clothes and/or armor always look clean
52 Any money you handle looks like new
53 No one understands your jokes
54 If you whisper, you can still be understood as if speaking at normal volume
55 The tattoo will melt gold and silver coins left in contact with it over the course of an hour
56 You know the generic name of any stone, crystal, or metal by looking at it
57 Your skin becomes impenetrable to copper
58 You are immune from becoming a ghoul
59 Your skull cannot be fractured
60 Your tears become an effective antacid
61 You can identify every musical note by ear
62 Iron you touch takes a bluish hue until you stop touching it
63 You can change the appearance of any flag by touching it
64 You can see through your tattoo at will
65 You can change the appearance of your tattoo for up to thirty seconds each day
66 Your tattoo appears as a three-dimensional hologram
67 You appear to have a faint, incorporeal halo around your head
68 You can summon a two-foot tail
69 You can change the sound of any nearby musical instrument with another at will
70 You exude an odor of woodsmoke
71 You can summon a small raincloud over your head that drips slightly
72 You can change the color of any nearby fire
73 Your tattoo telepathically whispers unintelligible words to anyone who touches it
74 You know the words for "hello" and "goodbye" in every language that has such a concept
75 You can shrink or grow any beard you touch at will
76 If you touch someone, your hand- or fingerprints glow softly on their skin
77 You appear ever-so-slightly transparent
78 You can make a small amount of water hover up to six inches from a surface
79 You can make pebbles and small rocks roll away from you slowly
80 All of your dreams occur in black and white
81 You are well-versed in mixing pigments to find a precisely desired color
82 If you ingest poison, your tattoo will glow brightly
83 You repel crickets and cockroaches
84 Flames grow slightly brighter around you, although not larger
85 You feel slightly less pain than usual
86 You can make books temporarily grow slightly larger
87 You can make fruits and vegetables become invisible for thirty seconds each day
88 If you touch someone, you can cause them to become unable to see one color for thirty seconds each day
89 You can ask a gargoyle one question each day. They cannot speak in return, but you can understand their gestures
90 If you touch someone, you can steal their sense of smell for thirty seconds each day
91 If you touch a scar, it disappears for the next thirty seconds
92 If you wear a hat while you get a full night's sleep, an egg will appear under it when you wake
93 If you hold a wooden object, it appears to be made of iron until you release it
94 You can change the color of cloth you are wearing at will
95 If you sleep next to someone for a full night, they appear one inch taller for the next day
96 You can feel the emotions of nearby jellyfish and octopuses
97 You can skin citrus fruits by touching them
98 You can understand the barking of canines
99 You make nearby reptiles that are smaller than you feel calm around you
Where did you get the tattoo?
1 Upper back
2 Lower back
3 Chest
4 Belly
5 Thigh
6 Calf
7 Ankle
8 Shoulder
9 Bicep
10 Hand
11 Neck
12 Butt
What is the tattoo of?
1 A dolphin with a sunset behind it
2 A crab with swords in its claws
3 A shark with a goofy smile
4 A small, fluffy dog
5 A house cat with tiger-like stripes
6 A butterfly on top of a toad
7 A bottle of beer
8 The tattoo artist's face
9 Your face
10 An abstract noun, misspelled (examples: "RERSPECT," "STENGTH," "VALER," "GLOORIE," "HAMONY")
11 A very poorly drawn set of crossed axes
12 An abstract design of geometric shapes
13 Tentacles on fire
14 A plate of food
15 A family member's name, misspelled
16 A friend's name, misspelled
17 A moon with a poorly drawn face
18 A misquoted religious verse or family motto and roses
19 A head of cabbage with an unrelated abstract noun that has been spelled correctly
20 A word in a foreign language you don't know, but the tattoo artist does
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