Planet Gnome Games

D20 Technobabble

Originally published on November 11, 2023 on the old blog.

This one is pretty self-explanatory. I was poking through some abandoned RPG projects, and found this technobabble table I had written while procrastinating working on some space backgrounds for Troika.

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Technobabble

Roll 1d20 in the moment or 4d20 ahead of time.

d20 Action Modifier Component 1 Component 2
1 Realign the Turbo Encabulator Assembly
2 Tune the Quantum Inverter Manifold
3 Focus the Differential Wavelength Antenna
4 Replace the Heisenberg Polarity Fuse
5 Cycle the Subspace Regulator Engine
6 Decode the Neural Interpolation Lattice
7 Divert Power from the Secondary Warp Core
8 Interrupt the Phase Breaker Plate
9 Scrub the Plasma Recycler Filters
10 Calibrate the Light Emitter Array
11 Jump Start the Flux Capacitor Circuit
12 Swap the Modian Gyroscope Bearings
13 Upgrade the Atomic Probe Casing
14 Charge the Magneto Resistor Board
15 Purge the Organic Electron Matrix
16 Excite the Binary Crystal Mainframe
17 Scan the Auxiliary Cathode Conductor
18 Format the Nano Diode Generator
19 Hack the Probability Ray Network
20 Reconfigure the Fluid Data Coupler