The majority of the terms here are tropes in

common usage. This precise arrangement of

charts and such is copyright to Luke Green but
there's nothing stopping anybody from putting
together there own similar charts.

Animation Generator

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 The purpose of this is to produce talking points 1d20 Roll Genre
to serve as background information to make a 1 Slice of Life
piece of fiction or a character's backstory feel a 2 Western
bit more real. 3 Thriller
4 Science-Fiction
While the charts were designed with the idea of 5 Military
creating animated series of various types, they 6 Superhero
can also be adapted to create any sort of 7 Space Opera
running television show. All that you have to do 8 Sports
is not roll on the Art Style chart (though even 9 Comedy
there certain practical effects and casting 10 Fantasy
choices can produce those styles in a live action 11 Horror
show). 12 Mystery
13 Alternate History
Also some of the charts can easily be adapted to
14 Martial Arts
other things. The Space-Opera chart can easily 15 Supernatural
be reworked to an Earth-bound naval series 16 School
such as the Horatio Hornblower series or 17 Police Procedural
something out of a Robert Louis Stevenson 18 Court Room
novel. 19 Medical Drama
20 Roll twice and mix the results
You can roll on as many of these as you like or
as few. If you are playing an RPG and only need
a couple of talking points there's no reason to
roll on everything at the moment. On the other Slice of Life – The series focuses on the day to
hand you can create yourself some notes before day lives of the characters.
hand to work from when you want your Action – The series focuses on action sequences
character to start talking about his favorite such as car chases, fights, battles and the like.
animation or other television show.
Thriller – The series focuses on ramping
suspense and psychological pressure.

Science-Fiction – The series focuses on near-

future technology and developments.

Military – The series focuses on dealings with

the armed forces.

Superhero – The series focuses on independent

crime fighters often with strange abilities.

Space Opera – The series focuses on space-

faring circumstances and the far-future.

Sports – The series focuses on athletes involved

in some kind of sport.

Comedy – The series focuses on humor and

silliness.

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 Fantasy – The series focuses on magic and Rural – The series primarily takes place in the
mythological occurences. country.

Horror – The series focuses on fear, death and Suburb – The series primarily takes place on the
feelings of helplessness. edge of a big city.

Mystery – The focus of the series is on Space – The series primarily takes place in outer
uncovering a mystery or intrigue. space.

Alternate History – The focus of the series is on Other World – The series primarily takes place
a what if scenario. off of Earth.

Martial Arts – The focus of the series is on Computer – The series primarily takes place
martial skill and conflicts. inside a computer.

Supernatural – The focus of the series is on Travel – The characters travel from place to
urban fantasy elements such as vampires, place.
zombies and werewolves.
Past – The series primarily takes place in a past
School – The focus of the series is on the life of time-period.
students in a school of some sort.
Future – The series primarily takes place in the
Police Procedural – The focus of the series is on future.
dealing with crimes and red-tape.
1d10 Roll Art Style
Court Room – The focus of the series is on 1 Western Action
dealing with trials and legal issues. 2 Asian Action
3 Bishie
Medical Drama – The focus of the series is on 4 Distorted
medical issues and the drama at a hospital or 5 Idiosyncratic
doctor’s office. 6 Cartoons
1d10 Roll Setting 7 Realism
1 City 8 Sexualized
2 Rural 9 Computer Generated
3 Suburb 10 Roll twice and mix the result
4 Space
5 Other World
6 Computer Western Action – The art style of the anime is
7 Travel characteristic of Western action cartoons like
8 Past Batman, X-Men or Johnny Quest.
9 Future
Asian Action – The art style of the anime is
10 Roll twice and mix the results
characteristic of Asian action cartoons like
Dragonball Z, Sword Art Online or Gundam
Wing.
City – The series primarily takes place in a big
city. Bishie – The art style of the anime leans toward
very beautiful people. The physical differences
between men and women are less emphasized

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 and some characters might be hard to identify Realistic – The story focuses on being realistic
as a particular gender. rather than obey dramatic necessity.

Distorted – The art style is deliberately distorted 1d6 Roll Build Up

in some manner though it may not be obvious. 1 Episodic
This often sets a surreal feel to the show. 2 Slow
3 Intense
Idiosyncratic – The art style is unique and 4 Quick
unusual, such as being all stick figures or being 5 Hidden
purposefully sloppy. 6 Roll twice and mix the results
Cartoons – The art style is reminiscent of sillier Episodic – The series doesn’t really have an
cartoons like Looney Toons, Animaniacs, overlapping arc. Each episode is a whole
Doraemon or Tom and Jerry. storyline on its own with occasional two-
Realism – The art style is intended to be as parters. Prior episodes are only rarely referred
realistic as possible. to.

Sexualized – The differences between men and Slow – The series is slow to build its
women are exaggerated. There are a lot of momentum.
provocative costumes, bouncy breasts and Intense – The series is intense making you want
bulging muscles. Cheescake and beefcake to see what happens next all the time.
abound.
Quick – The series builds momentum quickly,
Computer Generated – The art is created using maybe from the very first episode.
a computer.
Hidden – Most people don’t consciously notice
1d6 Roll Mood the building momentum at first.
1 Light-Hearted
2 Silly 1d10 Roll Features
3 Idealistic 1 “Fight” Scenes
4 Cynical 2 Cool Vehicles
5 Realistic 3 Character Development
6 Roll twice and mix the results 4 Hidden Depths
5 Romance
6 Character “Death”
Light-Hearted – The series mainly tries to be fun 7 Politics
and casual. 8 Philosophical Questions
9 Strangeness
Silly – Logic is rarely paid heed. The Rule of 10 Cultural References
Funny reigns supreme.

Idealistic – The story constantly returns to

You should roll at least twice to figure out two
messages of hope and optimism.
or three features that the anime is known for.
Cynical – The series constantly has terrible One is a primary feature, the others are
things happening and focuses on pessimism. secondary. These are things the anime is known
for but may be astoundingly good, astoundingly

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 bad, unintentionally funny, unexpectedly well Philosophical Questions – Whether they use a
received or some other reason. sledgehammer or lightly hint upon some things,
the series asks a lot of questions or gives a lot of
Fight Scenes – This could be a literal fight scene,
fodder to get people thinking.
athletic competitions, card games, dance
competitions or anything else. The anime is Strangeness – Weird stuff, above and beyond
renowned for these for some reason. any supernatural elements, happens and there
doesn’t seem to really be any real explanation
Cool Vehicles – There are a lot of really cool
for it.
vehicles, or animal mounts, in the series. These
elements get a lot of play and are almost Cultural References – The series makes
characters in their own rights. Of course, in a frequent homages to other bits of pop culture,
bad circumstance, this means they detract from perhaps ham-handedly having a famous
the actual story rather than add to it. character show up in the background, using
expies with the serial numbers filed off or
Character Development – The character
having characters make lots of comments
development is notable either for its excellent
referring to other series.
handling and depth or else its lack thereof.
1d6 Roll Cool Vehicles
Hidden Depths – There is more to the series
1 Cars and Bikes
than is immediately obvious, either because the
2 Living Mounts
creator swears that he put some subtle 3 Out of this World
meanings into it, because the fanbase 4 Aircraft
obsessively over analyzes it, or because there 5 Robots
really is a hidden thread that is done well and 6 Roll twice and mix the results
noticed.

Romance – Romance is something the story is

known for. This can range from mature and well- Cars and Bikes – The cool vehicles are primarily
handled love stories to being basically modern day vehicles. This can include trucks as
pornography. Note that no chart for well.
determining sexuality focus exists, that is left up Living Mounts – The cool vehicles are horses,
to you. riding cats, dragons and who knows what else.
Character Death – The story is well-known for Out of this World – The cool vehicles are meant
dealing with character death in some way. This to travel between worlds. The most obvious are
could be the revolving doorway to Heaven (or space ships, but this can also include time
Hell) or it could be one where characters are traveling blue boxes or the like.
regularly removed. This is most focused on
removing characters so characters being fired, Aircraft – The cool vehicles are different kinds of
sent to jail or expelled from school might also airplanes, helicopters or zeppelins.
fit.
Robots – The characters have pilotable robots.
Politics – There are a lot of different factions
that interact with each other in significant ways.
This can be a highly intricate web of alliances
and intrigue, or it can be a nonsensical farce.

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 1d6 Roll Love Interests Grade-School Crush – The character of the
1 Partner of the Week romance is about what you’d expect in a story
2 Main Couple aimed at young children. Luminescent blushes,
3 Love Triangle chaste kisses on the cheek, gift giving and very
4 Shakespearean little past that regardless of the age of
5 Harem characters.
6 Roll twice and mix the results
High-School Romance – The romance gets a bit
more serious. Some sexual innuendo occurs
Partner of the Week – There is no set frequently. Kisses on the lips happen as well as
relationship, but a rotating love interest that the occasional light make-out sessions. Some
might only get one or two episodes. sex might occur off-screen, especially with old
characters, but it will rarely be confirmed.
Main Couple – There is a primary set of two Consequences of romance and the differences
characters who are the focus of the romance. between love and infatuation are rarely if ever
There is occasionally a rival to one of the two, dealt with. Relationships are emotional and
but the romance primarily hangs on those messy.
them.
Mature Drama – The relationships are given a
Love Triangle – There are three people who are depth of treatment. Consequences are dealt
the focus of the romance. Two of them are with. Relationships can be messier or more
usually in competition for the third but there stable dependent on what is taken to be most
can be other combinations. realistic. Sexual relationships are confirmed but
not shown.
Shakespearean – The romantic situation is a
confusing mess often involving a main couple Fade to Black – Action on the screen often gets
and a secondary couple. There may possibly be up to the point of sex about to happen but
a third couple. Characters might not know the either the scene changes or something
identities of their loves or might not have interrupts the matter. There is lots of skin
attracted their attention. showing but no actual sexual acts happen on
screen.
Harem – Similar to the Shakespearean in terms
of participants but in this case there are a large Sexy Times – Sex scenes are shown outright.
number of characters who are interested in one There is no question of what is going on.
specific other character and the focus is on who Censorship standards may cause some artistic
that character will eventually choose to be with. strangeness to occur, but it is still very clear. This
can still be either maturely handled or outright
porn.
1d6 Roll On Screen Romance
1 Grade-School Crush
2 High-School Romance
3 Mature Drama
4 Fade to Black
5 Sexy Times
6 Roll twice and mix the results

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 1d6 Roll Romance Ending been a surprise result that was slowly hinted at
1 No Resolution along the way.
2 First Love Wins
3 Rival Wins Marry them All – One character ends up having
4 Darkhorse Wins a long term stable relationship with multiple
5 Tragedy partners. They all know about each other and
6 One True Threesome are accepting. The other partners may or may
7 Marry Them All not have relationships between each other. This
8 Roll twice and mix the results may be a literal polygamous marriage or just an
open relationship.

1d8 Roll Ending

If you have secondary romance arcs, determine 1 Unresolved Ending
their ending separately. In some cases, one 2 Happy Ending
romance might resolve causing a separate pair 3 Downer Ending
of characters to become the central characters, 4 Twist Ending
at least in terms of the romance subplot. 5 Hasn’t Ended
6 Next Generation
No Resolution – The series either hasn’t ended
7 Reboot
yet and the romance arc is still ongoing or else it
8 Roll twice and mix the results
ended without resolving the hanging matter of
the romance of the story. Unresolved Ending – The series ended without
resolving storylines. This often happens when
First Love Wins – As it says, the couple that gets
an episodic series stops producing new
together in the end is the main character and
episodes. There may be a final episode
whichever love interest was first revealed.
presenting some vague implications of what the
Rival Wins – The primary rival for the expected end results are, but mostly questions are left
love interest ends up winning the heart of the hanging. Or the ending might be so bloody
main character in the end. confusing that nobody is sure what the hell
happened.
Darkhorse Wins – A character nobody expected
to win the romance subplot gets the guy/girl. Happy Ending – The series goes out on an
This could be due to authors reacting to a upbeat note. Good wins, evil is defeated and
popular hope among fans, because of an author people live happily ever after.
favorite or corporate meddling. Whether the
Downer Ending – The world might be saved but
match is popular or not, nobody expected it
the characters’ lives are usually ruined and
would really happen.
some likely die or worse. For that matter, the
Tragedy – The romance resolves tragically. The world might not get saved either.
characters break each other’s hearts, one or
Twist Ending – The ending reveals a twist that
both of them die, or something else happens
makes everything that has happened in the
that makes the relationship doomed.
series so far appear in a new light.
One True Threesome – Three characters end up
Hasn’t Ended – The series is still being made
in a relationship together. They may have
and hasn’t ended yet.
started out as a love triangle. Or it may have

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 Next Generation – The original cast for the supports currently unpopular philosophies or
series has more or less retired and their children politics, perhaps the gore or sexual content has
or protégés have taken up the torch. people concerned. Whatever the case,
conversation about the series tends to wander
Reboot – The series is a reboot of an older,
to the minefields of politics, race and religion.
classic series.
Broken Base – Something happened in the
1d10 Roll Status
series that caused the fan base to split into at
1 Classic
least two factions. In the matter of a reboot,
2 Obscure
this could be an argument as to which version
3 Unpopular
was better. Otherwise it might be an argument
4 Popular
over the introduction, or removal, of a
5 Cult Popularity
6 Unexpected Popularity particular character. It could be anything that
7 Controversial could result in fans of the same show arguing.
8 Broken Base Rabid Fanbase – The fans of the series have a
9 Rabid Fanbase strange tendency to be incredibly obsessive.
10 Roll twice and mix the results They can be competitive with other fandoms
and prone to being hostile to new fans or
people who like the anime but aren’t the right
Classic – The series is considered to be an sort of people to be “real fans”.
absolute classic example of the genre. It might
still be running, but it is generally one most
people who like that genre recognize as a great,
even definitive, work of art.

Obscure – Only a few people have even heard

of the series.

Unpopular – Not very many people like the

series. People outside the genre point to it as
the reason they don’t like that genre. People in
the genre point at it as making them look bad.

Popular – The series is currently very popular

for some reason or another.

Cult Popularity – The series is a little obscure

but the people who know about it all rave about
it. Lots of in-jokes exist in the fanbase.

Unexpected Popularity – The series is popular

with a group of people that nobody expected it
to be popular with.

Controversial – The series has scenes or

elements that create conversation and conflict
about its value as a piece of art. Perhaps it

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 Character Details 1d8 Roll Villain Cast
1 The Big Bad
Below are several details for coming up with 2 The Villainous Duo
specifics on characters. Including numbers of 3 The Evil Three
protagonists and antagonists and some basic 4 Four is Death
tropes followed by a list of details that can be 5 Five Bad Band
rolled based on the specific genre of the anime 6 Monster of the Week
being created. Roll as many or as few details as 7 Big Bad Ensemble
you want for each character. 8 Roll twice and mix the results

There are descriptors for the archetypes in the Monster of the Week – There is no real single
Protagonist and Villain Type charts, but there entity to point at as the regular antagonist.
are far too many tropes out there for one set of Instead a different villain or problem rears its
charts to reliably contain them. In fact, you can head each week. This is common in episodic
create heroic and villainous versions of several shows. In more serial shows this indicates that
of the characters. Also modify the types based the villains aren't the main source of drama for
on the mood of the show. A “complete the show.
monster” in a light-hearted slice-of-life anime
Big Bad Ensemble – While villains typically don't
might be only go so far as to set people up to
work well together in the first place (though
fail tests and get blamed for cheating while a
there are exceptions), in this case the various
bureaucrat in a grim horror genre might arrange
major villains are all likely working counter to
for a psychotic killer to find the protagonists in
each other most of the time. There may be a
his or her path. Also there are a lot of genres
sequence of short lived alliances between
that don't really have villains or even consistent
different villains or even with the protagonists,
antagonists.
but in the long run each of the villains is in it for
For the detail charts, there are no descriptions themselves.
so it is left up to your imagination what is meant
by things like “android” or “dinosaur”.

1d8 Roll Core Cast

1 Main Character
2 Duo
3 Power Trio
4 Quartet
5 Five Man Band
6 The Squad
7 Ensemble Cast
8 Roll twice and mix the results
Ensemble Cast – There really isn’t a main
character to speak of. Any given character can
be important from episode to episode. The
story tends to have a large number of
interweaving individual storylines.

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 1d20 Roll Protagonist Type and cleverness. Even if they are a soldier or
1 Reformed Evil warrior, they fight in an intelligent and cunning
2 Knight in Shining Armor style.
3 Deadpan Snarker
4 The Big Guy The Loose Cannon – The loose cannon is a
5 The Smart Guy character who has little to no regard for the
6 The Loose Cannon rules or established ways of doing things. They
7 The Chosen follow their own rules and codes doing
8 Spanner in the Works whatever they see as right and damn the
9 Jerk With a Heart of Gold consequences.
10 Moe
The Chosen – The character has been chosen
11 Beware the Nice Ones
for a specific task. In a setting with a
12 Blood Knight
supernatural element this could be destiny,
13 Knight in Sour Armor
prophecy, the gods or what have you.
14 The Legacy
15 The Mentor Otherwise they could have been groomed from
16 Bunny Ears Lawyer a very young age to a specific role. Or
17 The Lover genetically engineered for it.
18 The Skeptic Spanner in the Works – This character is a bane
19 The Chessmaster to all plans. When they're around, nothing
20 Cloud Cuckoolander works the way anybody expects. Even more so
Reformed Evil – This protagonist used to be a than the loose cannon they seem to be chaos
villain. They could have had their change before incarnate.
the series began, or they could have had a Heel-
Jerk with a Heart of Gold – Outwardly this
Face Turn mid-series.
person is an irritating, offensive jerk, but when
Knight in Shining Armor – This protagonist is it comes down to it, they actually do care about
the stereotypical hero full of idealism and out to people. Unlike the deadpan snarker, they're
save the day and do what is right. They are usually just crass and offensive rather than
usually rather well balanced in mental and perceptive.
physical ability. Their idealism is their stand out
Moe – The character seems helpless and makes
feature.
people want to protect them. The impression
Deadpan Snarker – The protagonist is full of may be false or real, but it's just something
snide commentary and sarcasm. They are often about them.
rather cynical and usually quite intelligent.
Beware the Nice Ones – The character is one of
The Big Guy – This protagonist is either the nicest people anybody is every likely to
physically very large or has enough strength or meet. They just seem like they could never hurt
power of another kind to serve the same roll as a fly and only rarely ever get angry. But when
the big strong guy. Usually characterized as they do get angry, it's like something out of
fairly slow, they can also sometimes be very myth.
wise.
Blood Knight – The character lives for the
The Smart Guy – This protagonist is contest. Whether it is martial arts, sports, battle
characterized most strongly by their intelligence or whatever. They exist to face and overcome

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 challenge and it is the way they define when the rules change. In a less supernatural
themselves. show they'll be the ones that view the
characters talking about conspiracies as loons.
Knight in Sour Armor – Once upon a time, they
Once they do believe, however, they often
were an idealist in full shining armor but then
become dangerously analytic about things.
something happened to them that caused that
idealism to fade into cynicism. They still follow The Chessmaster – This character plans out
their old rules and codes, refusing to give in that everything and have contingencies of all sorts.
much to despair, but much of their faith is gone. They can often be a bit secretive about their
plans even with their friends. Sometimes they
The Legacy – The character has inherited a
go so far as to manipulate their friends and
position of importance from someone else,
allies as much as their enemies.
usually a family member who had to leave the
position for some reason. There is a lot of Cloudcuckoolander – The character has a very
pressure on the character to perform. In some tenuous connection to reality. The reasons for
cases if the inheritance was expected to go to their actions are bizarre as are the actions
someone else, then there's an expectation of themselves. It is hard to tell how much of their
failure. chatter is wisdom or insanity or where the line
is drawn. Sometimes they just know more about
The Mentor – The character is experienced in
the world around the characters. Sometimes
many ways and is acting as a teacher or guide to
they're just batty.
some other character in the series. Usually, age
has dulled their abilities but not their mind, but 1d20 Villain Type
this is not always the case, especially if they are 1 The Black Sheep
extremely long lived for some reason. Mentors 2 Eldritch Abomination
have a bad habit of getting killed off. 3 Noble Demon
4 The Anti-Villain
Bunny Ears Lawyer – The character is extremely 5 Mad Scientist
competent at their job, so competent that 6 The Invader
people will overlook the weirder aspects of 7 The Crime Lord
their nature. And they are usually fairly and 8 The Hive Queen
blatantly weird in some way. 9 Affably Evil
10 The Corporation
The Lover – The character is focused mostly on
11 The Government
romance, whether or not they are successful.
12 Ax-Crazy
They are charismatic persuaders and silver-
13 The Xanatos
tongued devils. Most often, they will try (and
14 The Casanova
often succeed) at charming their way out of 15 Complete Monster
trouble. Of course, once a handsome or 16 The Brute
beautiful stranger comes into the mix, they 17 The Bureaucrat
might just get themselves and everybody else 18 The Emperor
back into trouble. 19 The Fallen Hero
20 Hidden Villain
The Skeptic – The skeptic is slow believe in what
cannot be directly seen. In a show with the The Black Sheep – The villain is from the same
supernatural, they are the last to believe and family or organization as one of the characters
even when it is real, they are slow to accept and may have been a close friend at one time.

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 They may have started the series as a villain to to their side. They could be an incredibly
be revealed later, or they might have made a charismatic speaker and talented at
Face-Heel Turn at some point. manipulating facts to get someone to change
their loyalty. They might have actual mind
Eldritch Abomination – The villain is from
control powers or the ability to physically
outside the world as the characters understand
transform people. Whatever the case, they
it. They could be a demon or other supernatural
quickly accrue a legion of followers.
entity or else be the result of some sort of
secret government experiment. Regardless they Affably Evil – This character is genuinely friendly
have bizarre views on things and great personal and cheerful with people, but at the same time
power. is willing to commit horrible acts of evil. They
may regret the necessity, but they will do it
Noble Demon – This person is a villain but they
none the less. Like the Noble Demon, they will
have a sense of honor and fair play. They will
truly like the protagonists. Unlike the Demon
often respect the protagonists even as they are
they're unlikely to let concepts like fair play get
in conflict. They may be a literal demon or an
in their way.
honorable enemy military leader.
The Corporation – The villain is either a high
The Anti-Villain – The character has goals that
ranking member of a particular corporation or
the protagonists might agree with but their
the corporation itself. Their interest is in power
methods of obtaining those goals are decidedly
and money. They are usually far removed from
villainous. A prime example of good intentions
the actual bad deeds and thus don't have to
and paths to hell.
face the consequences of what they do. Or else
Mad Scientist – The character is obsessed with they just don't care.
unlocking secrets. This could be a very specific
The Government – The villain is, or at believes
secret, such as trying to restore sight to their
that they are, operating on behalf of their
blind eyes, or something more general such as
nation. They are either patriots and true
just curiosity. The mad scientist will tend to use
believers or else simply using the government
unethical means and experiment on random
for their own purposes. The government could
people to see what the results of any particular
either be corrupt or just unaware of what is
project.
going on.
The Invader – The Invader has come to conquer
Ax-Crazy – The character just seems to want to
the protagonists' home. This might be an
kill and do violence. They may be cunning and
attempt to take over their high school or even
clever or mindless violence. Regardless, violence
the whole planet, but they seek to place
seems to be their only reason for existing.
everything under their control.
The Xanatos – A strategist and planner who
The Crime Lord – The villain commands a crew
operates wheels within wheels. At times it
of criminals of some sort. They live outside of
seems like almost everything that anybody does
society and obey their own self-enforced rules
has been predicted, or even engineered, by
often without concern for anybody else.
them to complete some goal.
The Hive Queen – Despite the name, this might
The Casanova – The villain's interests in
be either male or female. Either way, this
conquest are entirely of the bedroom nature.
character has a way of somehow turning people
They have little interest in their paramours as

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 people and are generally possessive and magically or scientifically transformed from
controlling. They are very charming but in the what they were before such as by brainwashing
end they want victory, not companionship and or a vampire's knight. In whatever case, their
they won't discriminate how they achieve that former passion for goodness has been
victory. redirected in full against what they once
protected.
The Complete Monster – A villain who shocks
other villains with his actions. They have no Hidden Villain – This character starts out
limits to their behavior and seem to thrive seeming to be on the side of the protagonists
simply on causing suffering. The Ax-Crazy might but it is just a ruse. There is no betrayal because
seem mindlessly insane and feral, but the the hidden villain has never been a hero at all.
Complete Monster seems horrifically in total They've been playing the heroes the whole
control of themselves and yet is unfazed by time. Perhaps at someone else's command,
depravity. perhaps at their own.

The Brute – The villain specializes in brute force 1d20 Roll General Details
power and applies it like a cudgel. They are 1 Teacher
usually stupid, but can still be cunning 2 Student
occasionally. Whatever the source of their 3 Businessman
strength, it provides them a massive advantage 4 Doctor
and their simple and direct approach often 5 Geek
seems to ruin complex stratagems. 6 Recluse
7 Artist/Author/Musician
The Bureaucrat – The bureaucrat cares mostly 8 Scholar
about order and procedure. Something about 9 Drifter
the protagonists upsets their view of how the 10 Pilot/Driver
world should be and they are willing to bend 11 Military
things to make sure that world view is 12 Criminal
maintained. They will usually act within the laws 13 Police
and rules of the organization they are part of 14 Government Agent
but if they get desperate they may break that 15 Bureaucrat
restraint. 16 Merchant
17 Craftsman
The Emperor – This villain believes that control 18 Laborer
and mastery is their right as a superior being. 19 Roll on a specific chart
They stand apart from other the Invader in that 20 Roll twice and mix the results
they view what they do as putting down
rebellion rather than bringing conquest. They
stand apart from the Government agent in that
they are not serving something else but believe
themselves to be the one true authority.

The Fallen Hero – Similar to the Knight in Sour

Armor, this character at some point lost faith in
their ideals. Unlike the other, they gave up
following their code in favor of something new
and darker. In some cases, they may have been

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 1d10 Roll Sci-Fi Details 1d10 Roll Superhero Details
1 Dinosaur 1 Super-Soldier
2 Mutant 2 Mentalist
3 Experiment 3 Brick
4 Cyborg 4 Shapeshifter
5 Clone 5 Owns Power Item
6 Android 6 Vigilante
7 AI 7 Power Armor
8 Traveler 8 Super Scientist
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Supernatural Details 1d10 Roll Horror Details

1 Witch 1 Survivor
2 Hunter 2 Investigator
3 Vampire 3 Psychopath
4 Werecreature 4 Cultist
5 Ghost 5 Occultist
6 Holy 6 Lunatic
7 Demon 7 Scion of an Old Family
8 Mythical 8 Killer
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Fantasy Character Details 1d10 Roll Military Details

1 Elf 1 Recruit
2 Dwarf 2 Grunt
3 Halfling 3 Sergeant
4 Orc 4 Veteran
5 Wizard 5 Squad Leader
6 Cleric 6 Major
7 Nobility 7 Colonel
8 Dragon 8 General
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

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 1d10 Roll Space-Opera Details 1d10 Roll Mystery Details
1 Alien 1 Deductive Genius
2 Smuggler 2 Private Eye
3 Fighter Ace 3 Ex-Con
4 Spacer 4 Assistant
5 Navigator 5 Conspiracy Theorist
6 Pirate 6 Surveillance Expert
7 Captain 7 Intuitive Sleuth
8 Engineer 8 Disgraced Cop
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Martial Arts Details 1d10 Roll School Details

1 Gifted Student 1 Delinquent
2 Weapon Master 2 Slacker
3 Duelist 3 Jock
4 Archer/Rifleman 4 Top Student
5 Gunslinger/Thrown Weapons 5 Student Government
6 Monk 6 Social Butterfly
7 Ninja 7 Faculty
8 Success by Hard Work 8 In Crowd
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Police Details 1d10 Roll Court Room Details

1 Neighborhood Cop 1 Paralegal
2 SWAT Officer 2 Judge
3 Detective 3 Prosecutor
4 Lieutenant 4 Defense Attorney
5 CSI 5 Jury Selector
6 Undercover 6 Bailiff
7 Profiler 7 Civil Attorney
8 Medical Examiner 8 Tax Lawyer
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

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 1d10 Roll Medical Details 1d10 Roll Western Details
1 Resident 1 Native
2 ER Surgeon 2 Farmer
3 Neurosurgeon 3 Rancher
4 Administrator 4 Cowboy
5 Immunologist 5 Lawman
6 Lab Tech 6 Railway Worker
7 Nurse 7 Outlaw
8 Paramedic 8 Bounty Hunter
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Sports Details 1d10 Roll Comedy Details

1 Team Captain 1 The Clutz
2 Playmaker 2 Straight Man
3 Ace 3 Troublemaker
4 Cheerleader 4 Ditz
5 Team Load 5 Ambitious Loser
6 Talent 6 Scaredy Cat
7 Coach 7 The Unlucky
8 Mascot 8 The Lucky
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

1d10 Roll Thriller Details 1d10 Roll Slice of Life Details

1 Company Man 1 The New Person
2 Covert Operations 2 The Bad Influence
3 Mercenary 3 The Gamer
4 Freelance Spy 4 The Cool One
5 Terrorist 5 The Rich One
6 Thief 6 The Silly One
7 Handler 7 The Talented One
8 Analyst 8 The Responsible One
9 Roll on a different detail chart 9 Roll on a different detail chart
10 Roll twice and mix the results 10 Roll twice and mix the results

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 Episode Details Moment of Awesome – Some character did
something that was truly marked as one of the
In case you want to have inspiration for high points of the series.
characters discussing specific details of a recent
or favorite set of episodes, here are some Tearjerker – Something incredibly sad
inspiration pieces to roll for. happened during the episode or episodes being
discussed.
1d20 Roll Episode Details
1 Sudden Mood Shift Nightmare Fuel – The episode had something
2 Wham Episode terrifying enough to give people the shivers and
3 Character Leaves nightmares.
4 Character Returns
Moment of Funny – One of the funniest
5 Moment of Heartwarming
moments of the series happened this season.
6 Moment of Awesome
7 Tearjerker The Reveal – The episode being discussed
8 Nightmare Fuel revealed a major plot element of the series
9 Moment of Funny completely changing several things that the
10 The Reveal audience thought.
11 Heel-Face Turn
12 Face-Heel Turn Heel-Face Turn – A bad guy became good this
13 Time Skip episode, at least temporarily.
14 New Focus
Face-Heel Turn – A good guy turned bad this
15 Spotlight Episode
episode, at least temporarily.
16 Training Arc
17 New Character Time Skip – This episode occurred a significant
18 Character Development amount of time after the end of the previous
19 Filler one. It may have been weeks, months, years or
20 Roll twice and mix the results even decades.
Sudden Mood Shift – After this episode the New Focus – The focus of the series changed.
mood of the show shifted tremendously. You Maybe the place of main character changed
can choose how or go ahead and roll on the hands or maybe the story went from a war story
mood chart again. to a story of rebuilding.
Wham Episode – Something happened in this Spotlight Episode – The episode focused on the
episode that shocked the audience. Something story of one particular cast member, often one
that they never expected would happen. of the main characters but also occasionally one
Character Leaves – A major character left the of the minor characters.
cast. Maybe they died, maybe they retired. But Training Arc – The episode is part of an
they stopped showing up around this time. extended training arc where the characters are
Character Returns – A character that once left preparing for some major challenge. This can be
came back to the show somehow. martial training for a fight, a research montage
to handle a plague, a vision quest for a mage, or
Moment of Heartwarming – An incident a series of makeovers in a romantic story.
happened that warmed the souls of everyone
watching.

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 New Character – A new character is introduced paramedic. There is one major antagonist who
to the story. is a xanatos lab tech that does work for the
police department.
Character Development – One or more
characters received major development in their The player decides to call this anime Bedside
personal arcs this episode. Manner. And decides that the character she
embodies is the bunny ears lawyer paramedic
Filler – This episode wasn't part of the main
which the player decides gives her exceptional
plot.
driving skills, emergency medical talents and a
Example One – Bedside Manner quirk of talking almost entirely in Shakespeare
quotations. The player names this character
A character named Rani Sky who is a superhero Karen Kilray and decides that Rani calls herself
going by the name of the Animated Girl who Riley Star while embodying her.
gets her powers by embodying the
characteristics and abilities of characters from Example One – Hades Oblivion
her favorite stories, though not necessarily her
For a second show the player decides to start
favorite characters. So her player decides to
with the idea of a supernatural horror anime
make a couple of stories.
featuring a complete monster type character
The player rolls for genre and gets a medical who happens to be a smooth-talking werewolf
drama set in a Suburb. The art style is a with a penchant for corrupting people and
distorted bishie style. It had a silly mood and committing horrible atrocities. This show is
was episodic but with a quick build up of being called Hades Oblivion. For the heck of it
momentum. The story was known for having the player decides to roll up the Art Style and
hidden depths to it as well as lots of hospital some episode details so Rani can rant about
politics and romance. what a horrible character said werewolf is,
triggering the first time she embodies him.
The romance including two love triangles and None of the above was rolled, just decided
despite being a primarily silly show the romance upon. This werewolf character gets named Eric
was characterized by mature drama. It also Cheney and while embodying him, Rani calls
featured a fair amount of explicit on screen herself Reign Night and while still good
sexual behavior. One of the romances ended in becomes close to being a heroic sociopath.
tragedy and the other never resolved. Though this does give her the ability to turn into
The show has recently moved on to a new a wolf and also spooky talents of conversation
generation of main characters. The second love and reading people.
triangle involves one of the children of the The art style is bishie again. For episodes the
characters from the first few seasons of the player rolls up a Face-Heel Turn and talks about
show. how this werewolf slowly turned an innocent
The player rolls up that it was unpopular with violinist into a psychotic murderer by gaining
an unexpected audience but blanks on how to her trust and leading her along, without even
interpret that and decides that it has a cult infecting her with lycanthropy. Then a tearjerker
following. resulting in a story about how the werewolf
arranged for a particular character's vampire
Currently there are two main characters, a mother to be stranded in a pass without help or
reformed villain nurse and a bunny ears lawyer blood for so long that she devolved from a

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 noble and heroic vampire into a mindless a soldier in one of the few remaining loyal
bloodthirsty beast that had to be killed. Then legions, who have somehow not realized who
there was a roll of a new focus and the story she is yet. Naming the character Melandra aka
turned toward how the werewolf tainted the Drani in her soldier persona, the player decides
drinks at an academy party with his blood that while embodying her, Rani gains good
causing all the students to turn lycanthrope and archery and tactical skills and calls herself Rally
go berserk in their first hunt at once, resulting in Celestia.
the entire focus of the series shifting toward
hunting down and stopping him in particular
where before he was just a recurring villain.

Example One – Legion of Calandros

For a last story, the player doesn't have a
specific idea so he decides to roll something up
again. Just for the heck of it the player decides
to roll two genres and mix them even though no
20 was rolled. The two genres are Fantasy and
Military. After some rerolling the setting is
another world, appropriate for fantasy. Having
recently watched a lot of Lost Roman Legion
themed movies, the player calls this story the
Legion of Calandros.

The art style this time is Western animation,

making this likely to be an American or
Canadian cartoon. The mood is idealistic and
the build up is intense. The cartoon is known for
fight scenes primarily but it is also known for
cultural references and hidden depths.

The cartoon Rani likes is a reboot of an older

cartoon and the title has a rather rabid fanbase,
which she has run afoul of more than once.

The cartoon is about a five man band against a

Big Bad. The player decides to just roll up one
character to determine who Rani embodies and
rolls once each on the Fantasy and Military
charts as well as the protagonist chart. She
determines that the character is a legacy and
also from the nobility but apparently acting as a
sergeant in the military.

The player determines that the character is a

princess and the rightful heir to the kingdom
usurped by the Big Bad and that she is hiding as

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