WELCOME TO TROPELAND!

Version 0.01

BY DR. GERALD RAVENPIE

2023
WHAT’S THIS…
This document is an update of the old (okay, maybe no that old, it was
published only 10 months before this one!) Higher Resolution add-on for
the first edition of the VISORPGZ game, but also a revisiting and expansion of
the all trope-related aspects from the second edition. Nevertheless, as in its
previous incarnation, this add-on is as system-agnostic as it can be, so it can
be used with any other solo RPG games. Or GM-less RPG games. Or classical
RPGs, from 1vs1 to ‘I know have to GM ten players each game-night, please
someone shoot me’.
Once said that, as this document takes the VISORPGZ as starting point, you
should get familiar with some of its nomenclature (or, to be precise, one piece
of nomenclature and one mechanism, in order to translate it to your chosen
system. Don’t worry, it won’t take too long.
o Chapters. VISORPGZ games are divided into chapters, something that is,
more or less, the equivalent of a session. Nevertheless, if there’s one long
time skip during one session, you can see it as the end of a chapter and
the beginning of a new one.
o Rolling on tropes tables. Just to clarify, when you are prompted to roll
on one of the Trope tables included in this Add-on, you just have to roll
two d10 dice of different colors: one to select the column and one for the
row. It’s assumed that a white die is used for the former and a red die for
the later, but you can use any two colors you want.
THE GENRERATOR
The Genrerator is a tropeomatic (I know, I know…I probably should stop
making up words) system for generating plots, game content, or random
events, based on the use of tropes (being applied straight, or played-with in
some way)…all of that while following the expectations of some specific
genre. Or, to be precise, a mix of specific genres.
To apply this system, when you set-up your game you must create a Genre
Table based on those genres you want to define it, from those available (more
about that later). In this very page, you’ll see an example of a blank Genre
Table, still unfilled. Don’t worry, it won’t stay that way for too long…
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D6
1
GENRE

2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
EXECUTIVE MEDDILING     
FILLING THE GENRE TABLE
In order to prepare the Genre Table, first you must decide which are the
narrative genres you want in your game, i.e., which of the available Tropes
Tables you want to use for generating plots, scenes, random events, etc. On
the other hand, some of the selected genres should (and would) appear in
more than one cell, which leads to the following four options:
 Two flavor fudge. Fill the 1 to 3 cells with one genre, and the 4 to 6 cells
with a different one. Use this option if you want to play a ‘X meets Y’ kind
of game, both of them which equal weight in the story.
 Sundae. Fill the 1 to 4 cells with one genre, and the 5 & 6 cells with a
different one. Use this option if you want to play a ‘X with Y’, kind of
game, with the latter working as a modifier to the former.
 Topped Sundae. Fill the 1 to 3 cells with one genre, the 4 & 5 genres
with a second one, and the 6 cell with a third one. Use this option if you
want to play a weird mix or, as you’ll see soon, to include a very specific
subgenre to refine the main one, or the other two.
 Three scoop ice cream. Fill the 1 & 2 cells with one genre, the 3 & 4 cells
with a second one, and the cells 5 & 6 with a different one. Use this option
if you want to play a kitchen-sink history, or ‘X meets Y meets Z’ history
where X, Y & Z have equal weight in the narrative.
Of course, you can use other combinations if you want: for each taste,
there’s a color. And an ice-cream!
We want to play in a game of monster-hunting, manga & anime style,
and with a healthy doses of comedy. Okay I want to play it, so just humor
 me, jeeze! So, among the different options, I choose the Three scoop ice  Foreshadowing. You can write down the trope in a literal way, without
cream one, with the three following flavors: Action!, Comedy & Horror. This giving it any meaning…for now. This works for any kind of trope, and
way, the Genre Table will look like this. gives you a sense of ‘okay, something’s gonna happen related to this,
but…what?!?’. In other words, foreshadowing. Once you give a specific
meaning to that trope, on the other hand, you should take note of it, as it
D6 GENRE won’t be not just a foreshadow anymore, but an established fact!
1 Action! 
2 Action!  EXECUTIVE MEDDLING
3 Comedy  If you don’t like a specific result, or at any given moment you would like to
4 Comedy  introduce a trope from a genre that isn’t mentioned in the Genre Table, or if
5 Horror  you want to use one the options in the Genre Table instead of roll it…just do
it! Your game, your rules, after all!
6 Horror 
Nevertheless, if you want to apply a bit of self-restrain (i.e., the following
EXECUTIVE MEDDILING     
is an optional rule…or, to be precise, even more optional than the rest), check
one box in the Executive Meddling section of the Genre Table each time you
USING THE GENRE TABLE act this way. Once all those boxes are checked, it probably means that you’re
You use the Genre Table each time you must (or want to) roll for a trope meddling a bit too much. But remember: ‘shouldn’t’  ‘couldn’t’. The good
during your game. The process is quite simple: you roll 1d6 and look the news is that, when you reset the Genre Table, you also erase all those
result in the Genre Table. If that result was unchecked, you use the Trope Executive Meddling checks. Time to star meddling again, free of regrets!
Table corresponding to that genre, and check the corresponding box. If that
result was already checked, on the other hand, you select any other among WAIT, THAT AGAIN?!?
the still unchecked ones (prioritizing those with the highest number of What happens when you roll a trope that you have recently used (or is
unchecked boxes, when possible). When there’s only one result unchecked pending of using) second time, or even more? Because, let’s be realistic, this
and you use it, check it and then uncheck the rest; this is called ‘resetting the isn’t a matter of if it’s gonna happen, but when. Well, you have the following
Genre Table’, by the way. And…that’s all! options:
Of course, one you get your trope, you still have to give it a meaning.  Give it a different meaning than the original one. Maybe you already have
Generally speaking, you can use one of the three following options: one Artifact of Doom that you have two throw into a volcano (by the way,
 Theme. The trope can represent a relevant theme in a plot, scene, event, have you thought about asking those Eagles?), but why should it be the
etc.; something more abstract than material, which will give flavor to only Artifact of Doom in your game? After all, that orb of long-range
other tropes or events happening in the same timeframe. This way, the communication, or whatever, seems quite intriguing...
more poetic, allegoric, literary, etc., tropes usually fit better in this  Play with it. Action out-of-character, you can use an exaggerated or
category…but they’re not the only ones! subdued version of it, play it just for laughs, or even totally subvert it. In
 Game content. The trope can suggest a character, an item, a place, a character, you (or the NPCs) may discuss it, defied it…or even lampshade
piece of setting lore, whatever. There’re tropes that specifically call for it, it (this one, specially, if you have rolled that trope too many times!)
but that’s just one option, so feel free to take them as it says in the tin, or  Just apply the original interpretation. After all, a trope is a trope because
reinterpret them. Write down the final meaning of that trope…but also of its recurring nature, and fate seems to be telling you that you should
keep near the original result, just to remind you from where it came! use this one, this way, this time.

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USING TROPES
Okay, you have a trope. One related to one of the genres your game is
based one. Now…what can you do with it? To be fair, that’s a decision you
surely already took before rolling for that trope (there had to be a reason for
doing that, hadn’t it?), but nevertheless let’s discuss your options…being
them describing game content, making a trailer for the next chapter, and
make something happens.
DESCRIBING GAME CONTENT
When you’re creating new game content (a character, a place, a plot, etc.)
or you want to give additional details to already created content, you can use
the Genre Table instead of (or in addition to) any other one.
 Theme. For plots, quests and the like, using a trope as a Theme is an
excellent way of describing in a few words what you can expect of it. Not
as ‘what’s gonna happen?’, but ‘how’s gonna feel what is gonna happen?’.
 Game content. Yes, it can happen: you may end up creating new game
content even if your initial plan was just describing some already existing
content. This is one way of introducing characters, places, etc., in a plot or
quest, for example; an alternative way to those specific tables for
characters and locations in the VISORPGZ game…but the more alternatives,
the better! One advice: for this very-new created game content, better
use those specific alternatives instead the Genre Table, or you may enter
in an endless loop of content generation.
 Foreshadowing. Just to give some mystery (or a Mystery with capital
letters, speaking in VISORPGZ game terms), you can just write down the
trope and keep it for later. For the ‘now it’ll make a better story’ later, to
be precise.
Let’s start the game! … Oh, wait, there’s no protagonist yet? Rats! Well,
let’s see if using the Genre Table give me some ideas to create one. I’ll roll
two tropes and see what happens. In fact, I’m making all of this on the spot,
with honest-to-God die-rolling.
1d6 (5) = Horror  1d10, 1d10 (5, 2) = Came back wrong
1d6 (4) = Comedy  1d10, 1d10 (7, 3) = Cue the pigs flying
Well…let’s just say that our protagonist was a somewhat loser who had
a very stupid death when slipped on a banana peel and fall downstairs
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(first) and through a tenth story window (second). Unexpectedly, and that’s
an understatement, our protagonist came back as an avenging
revenant…which is gonna be a problem because they has nothing to
avenge. Seriously, even that banana peel was theirs! Also, that monster-
hunting career doesn’t fit their tastes…but hey, it’s hunting monsters or
being seen as a monster to be hunted, so better start learning!
And once done that, the Genre Table looks like this:
D6 GENRE
1 Action! 
2 Action! 
3 Comedy 
4 Comedy 
5 Horror 
6 Horror 
EXECUTIVE MEDDILING     
CREATING THE TRAILER OF A CHAPTER
This concept was already discussed in the VISORPGZ manual, but to the
benefit of those who want to use this add-on with another system, let’s revisit
it: at the beginning of each chapter (or, as already mentioned, game session),
roll three tropes using the Genre Table and write them down. The idea is
using all those tropes during the chapter…so you’re on a time limit, because
they’ll vanish once it reaches its end. Initially, you just have to use each one
only once, but don’t feel limited by this if you end up find plenty of times for
giving it a good use.
 Theme. If you use one of these tropes as a theme, expect that it will
permeates the whole chapter, or at least a relevant part of it: a full scene,
or until the end of the chapter once you ‘activate’ it. Point is, when it’s the
time to play it, play it at its full: the trope has less time to shine…so don’t
blame it too much if it hogs the spotlight a bit.
 Game content. This doesn’t seem a good option, because why waste time
creating something that may not even happen? Skip this option, thus.
Nothing to see here. Keep reading, please.
 Foreshadowing. This’s probably the best use for these tropes, because it
gives you carte blanche to use it however you want, whenever you want,
whatever you want, whatever you like, whatever you...okay, you get the MAKING SOMETHING HAPPEN
idea. And that would be the right moment to use it for create game When during the game, you want to make something happen, you can roll
content! some kind of random event in your table of choice, or you could use a trope
instead (or in addition to). You can use one of those trailer tropes you have at
your disposal, one trope associated to the current plot or quest, or a new
Let’s play the first chapter of the game…or, to be precise, a prologue:
trope from the Genre Table. And regarding the last case…forget about
there’s no plot nor quests nor nothing to speak of, after all.
Foreshadowing: you want to use that trope now! Instead, use it to give a
1d6 (5), already checked. As the Action! genre has been still unrolled, I’ll Theme to a random event, or to generate new Game content on the spot (as
use the 1 result, then (1)  1d10, 1d10 (5, 10) = Training from Hell! when you use a classical random encounter table…but this time you will
1d6 (6) = Horror  1d10, 1d10 (9, 8) = Satanic paraphernalia encounter narrative conventions instead of wandering monsters).
1d6 (3) = Comedy  1d10, 1d10 (4, 1) = All hands down. A few minutes into the prologue I want to know what happens next so
Okay, so in theory I don’t need to give specific meanings to those tropes I’m going to roll a random event. But, at this point, this totally looks like a
yet…but, as they are, they already give me an idea about the plot of the High School story, son I’ll roll in that table this time even if it’s not in the
game’s prologue! It will be settled on a monster-hunter school, where our Genre Table.
protagonist is gonna receive a veeeeeeery demanding training (with other High School  1d10, 1d10 (6, 7) = Gang warfare.
newbies) by a diabolical teacher…in a literal way, because that guy’s half
human, half demon. This way, I’m using the Training from Hell trope to set There are factions in this school, then? Ah, yes, now I see: one faction is
the theme of the prologue, and Satanic paraphernalia to create new made by the ‘100% human’ students, and the other by the ‘not-totally-
content. I left the last trope as a foreshadowing of a future scene, then. human’ ones. And there’s gonna be a fight…with our clueless protagonist
caught in the middle!
Point is, the Genre Table now look like this.
And so then, after all these examples, the Genre Table ends up looking
like this. Two more uses (not counting executive meddling), and it’ll be time
D6 GENRE to rest it.
1 Action! 
2 Action! 
3 Comedy  D6 GENRE
4 Comedy  1 Action! 
5 Horror  2 Action! 
6 Horror  3 Comedy 
4 Comedy 
EXECUTIVE MEDDILING     
5 Horror 
6 Horror 
EXECUTIVE MEDDILING     

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GENRES & SUBGENRES GENRE
Action! (100)
PAGE
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By looking at the trope tables available in both VISORPGZand this add-on, it Comedy (100) 8
can be see that there’s a mix of tables with 100, with 50, or with 25 Crime (100) 9
tropes…each one with their own meaning:
Drama (100) 10
 100 tropes. These tables concern the more generic genres, as Action!, Fantasy (100) 11
Comedy, etc. Thus, they’re more apt to be used as 3-entries genres (or, at
Horror (100) 12
the very least, as 2-entries ones) when creating the Genre Table.
Romance (100) 13
 50 tropes. These tables concern genres that are a) very wide and, thus, 14
Chanbara (50)
have been subdivided in different sub-genres (as the case of Sci-fi, Space
& Cyberpunk), or b) somewhat specific genres that are, nevertheless, very Cosmic horror (50) 14
troperific just by themselves (as the Pirates or Zombie outbreak ones). Cyberpunk (50) 15
They can be used, thus, as 3-entries, 2-entries or 1-entry genres with Faery tales (50) 15
equal ease. 16
High school (50)
 25 tropes. There are very specific genres, or examples of a subgenre Modern war (50) 16
from a more general one. Or, as in the case of Gangsters, Slashers or 17
Pirates (50)
Ninjas, subgenres that are very troperific, but with plenty of those tropes
already covered in another table (in these cases Crime, Horror & Post-apocalyptic (50) 17
Chanbara, respectively). Thus, they should be just used as 2-entries or 1- Sci-fi (50) 18
entry genres, as they better work as a side-dish instead of as the main Slices of life (50) 18
course. 19
Space (50)
At the right, you’ll find an index of all the available trope tables, sorted Spies (50) 19
first by size, and then alphabetically. Those tables in cursive were already 20
Swords & Sorcery (50)
present in the VISORPGZ core manual, but they have been included here again
for your convenience. Note that there have been some changes in some them, Tragedy (50) 20
as separating the former two-part tables (as High School & Anime), expanding Western (50) 21
(as Drama), etc. And also note that some tropes will appear in more than one Zombie outbreak (50) 21
table…but that’s WAD, because some tropes fit more than one genre too well. 22
Gangsters (25)
E.g., you can see plenty of ‘Incoming missile’ in Action! stories, but that’s also a
staple of the Modern War genre, so…yes, it appears in both tables, even if it’s Musical (25) 22
expected than the latter case would probably be more realistic (and tragic) Ninja (25) 23
than the former. Slasher (25) 23
Peplum (25) 24
Regency England (25) 24

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A new
A coveted A dangerous A deadly A mysterious challenger A shoot from A spectacular Almighty Alone against An attempted
1 McGuffin! fall! poison! figure! enters the the dark! heist! janitor! danger! kidnapping!
arena!

An improvised An open Astonishing Bavarian fire Better lucky Bound and

2 weapon! challenge! powers!
Badass boast! Battle Royal!
drill! than good!
Big explosion! Bloodsport!
gagged!

But for me, it Cackling villain Casual danger Chekhov's Clash of Collapsing Collateral
3 Breaking glass! Bullet time!
was Tuesday! speech! dialog!
Chekhov's gun!
skill! powers! mineshaft! damage!

Crawling
Conveyor belt Countdown of Curb storm Dirty fight- Dramatic Explosive
4 o' Doom! Doom!
through the air Crushing walls!
battle! trick! entrance!
Elevator fight! Exotic locales!
bobby-trap!
ducts!
ACTION!

Fast-paced Fight on top of Hidden Hostage

5 Extreme sport!
chase! a vehicle!
Flooding room! For Science! Gas leak! Guns akimbo! Gust of wind!
weapon! situation!

Loads and
Incoming Innocent Just a flesh Law of inverse Lost in the MacGyvering
6 missile! bystanders! wound!
Killer pets! Knock-out gas!
ninja power!
Left for dead! loads of
wilderness! time!
weapons!

My kung fu is
Master Vs. Mexican My name is On the One in a One-person Panicked
7 Disciple! standoff! [insert name]!
stronger than
rooftops! million shot!
One last bullet!
army! crowd!
Prepare to die!
yours!

Secret
Reinforcements Shut up, Spikes of
8 are coming!
Righteous fury! Riotous mobs! Rope swing!! underground
Hannibal!
Shut up, Kirk! Slippery floor! Snipper attack!
doom!
passage!

The whole
Suddenly The Brutish The building is The enemy of The Masked The Old The reckless
9 Spy games!
disarmed! Giant! on fire! my enemy!
The Hired Gun!
Avenger! Master! scoundrel!
world is
watching!

The wrath of This time is Touch of Training from Ultimate Uncontrolled Vanishing in Vitriolic best Words of
10 Mother Nature! personal!
Thunderstorm!
Death! Hell! technique! power! plain sight! buds! encouragement!

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…and that
Abhorrent Accidental Arson, murder Backfired
1 would be
admirer pervert
All hands down Angrish
and jaywalking prank
Balloon belly Berserk Button Big eater
wrong

Big Lipped Bread, eggs, Breaking the Captain Chirping

2 Alligator
Big 'Shut up!' Big sweat drop Bishie sparkle Bleeped word
milk, squick fourth wall
Brick joke
Obvious crickets

Comically Crouching
Collective Cue the flying Deadpan Disproportionate
3 Clown car
groan
Comic damage missing the Corner of woe moron, hidden
pigs snarker retribution
Dope slap
point badass

Funny Gratuitous
Embarrassing Embarrassing Excruciating
4 acquaintance photograph
Empty pockets
long speech
Face fault Face palm background Gilligan cut Gonk foreign
event language use
COMEDY

Hanging one's Hiding behind High-five left Humiliation Hyperventilation

5 Ha ha ha no Hammer-space
head
Head desk Heavy sleeper
a stick hanging
Horrible singer
conga bag

I take offence
I'm standing Impact Improbable Incompetent Inconvenient
6 for the last I'm not dead!
right here! silhouette weapon user
In vino veritas
sidekick resemblance
Insult to rocks Ironic karma
one!

Let us never
Lost in Minor injury Mischievous No indoor
7 speak of this Lethal chef
translation overreaction kid
Motor mouth
voice
No social skills Nosebleed Obnoxious fan
again

One dialogue,
Oh, crap! Overreacting Priceless Ming Ridiculously
8 Moment
two Only sane guy
big 'Nooooo!'
Phrasing! Poe's law
Vase cute critter
Sad trombone Shout-out
conversations

Skewed Small name, Stop helping Stupid sexy That was not a Too dumb to
9 Silly walks
priorities
Slapstick
big ego me! Flanders
Terrible artist Terrible driver
compliment! live

Your approval
Too kinky to Unplanned Vaudeville Vocal Wardrobe Yelling at a
10 torture
Twinkle smile
crossdressing hook dissonance malfunction
Wink 'Ding!'
cloud
fills me with Zany scheme
shame

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Accidental Amoral
1 murder attorney
Arsony Art thievery Bank robbery Big scam Black market Blackmailing Border patrol Bounty hunter

Breaking Conflicting Cool blood Corrupt

2 parole
Bribery Code of silence
evidence murder politician
Court-martial Custom agent Cybercrime Death squad

Disinformation
Diplomatic Disturbance of Drug
3 Death threats
immunity
Dirty cop and
public order
DNA traces Double agent Drug overdose
trafficking
Embezzlement
propaganda

Extradition False Foreign Good cop, bad

4 laws
Fall guy
testimony
Federal agent Fencer Forced labor
account
Front company
cop
Gunrunner
CRIME

Hardboiled Honor among Hostage House- Illegal Illegal Incriminating Industrial Influence
5 detective
Hate crimes
thieves exchange breaking gambling immigration evidence espionage peddling

Innocent Insurance International Jurisdiction Life

6 witness fraud
Internal affairs
crime
Isolation cell Jail break
issues
Kidnapping
imprisonment
Lost evidence

Lynching Maximum Meddling Medical Miscarriage of Money Mysterious

7 attempt security prison paparazzi negligence
Military secret
justice
Mob war
counterfeit disappearance
Papertrail

Prisoner Professional Protection Repeat

8 Parole officer Patrol car Pay-a-bail Pickpocket
transfer killer racket
Pyramid scam
offender
Rigged match

Security Skeleton in the Sleeping with Special crimes Surprise Suspicious

9 Safebuster
cameras
Serial killer
closet the fish
Smoking gun
unit
Sports doping
witness accident

Trade in Undercover Unregistered White collar Workplace

10 Tax evasion The snitch
organs agent firearm
Vigilantism Violent crowd War crimes
crime harassment

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Acting on an Ain't Too Approval Becoming the
1 Achilles’ heel
impulse Proud to Beg
Androcle's lion
seeker
Bad boss
mask
Bitter betrayal Blind loyalty Blind wrath

Broken Broken Cassandra Conflicting Cycle of

2 Blood feud
friendship promise truth
Clashing sides Coming of age
loyalties revenge
Death seeker Die as a hero…

Dramatic Driven by Due to the Even Evil have Facing defeat

3 weather
Driven by envy
greed
Driven by lust
dead
Enemy mine
standards
Evil twin Face turn
with dignity

Fire forged Forgiven, not Hate to the Heel-face door Honor before
4 Feuding family
friendship
Flashback
forgotten
Hate sink
different
Heel turn
slam
Hidden depths
reason

How the
DRAMA

Ignored Jerk with a Jerk with a Jerkass has a Loss of Misplaced

5 Hostile crowd mighty have Hurtful truth
epiphany
Ironic echo
Heart of Jerk Heart of Gold point confidence retribution
fallen

Missed Personal Pragmatic Prank gone Punished Redemption Refusal of the

6 opportunity
Mood swing Paranoia fuel
vendetta decision wrong hubris equals death call
Riding a tiger

Screw the Screw the Screw the

Sadistic Self-fulfilling Separated at Sic transit Silence of
7 decision
money, I have rules, I have rules, I make
prophecy birth gloria mundi sadness
Sins of the past Social rejection
rules! money! them!

Tears of Tears of The Abyss The beginning

8 Solemn vow Sore loser Stepford smiler Team dissent Tears of joy
remorse sadness looks back
The Atoner
of the end

The great The halcyon The The Un- Them's fightin' Too good to
9 reveal days Incorruptible
The lesser evil The Redeemer
favorite
The Woobie
words last
Tranquil fury

Unreasonable
Unexpected Unexpected Used to be a Villainous With great You hate what
10 Troubled past Unable to cry
return reunion
figure of
sweet kid glutton
White lies
power… your fear
authority

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Adventurer’s Angelic Artifact of Artificial Assassin’s
1 Guild
Alchemy lab Ancestral tomb Ancient war
creatures
Animated tree
Doom creature Guild
Avatar of a God

Big Frigging Blood covered Burning Castle in the Chaotic magic City under the Conquering
2 Sword battlefield
Breath weapon
crusade sky zone
City sewers
sea
Clockwork City
warlord

Council of Dashing Dead magic Demonic

3 Elders
Cursed item Daring rogue
swashbuckler zone
Deadly trap
creatures
Dire beast Doomed city Elixir of Life

Enigmatic Giant sea Here be Jolly/Bloody

4 riddle
Fairyland Fallen Empires Forgotten God Giant rats
creature dragons
Isekai
pirates
Living element
FANTASY

Magic Magical
5 Living rock Living shadows
invisibility
Magic potion Magic scroll Magic shop Magic weapon Magical barrier Magical blast
bloodline

Magical Magical Mind control Mind fooling Monster Noble in N-parts

6 Magical curse
impersonation substance
Mana node Martial monks
magic illusions infestation disguise McGuffin

Palace of Peaceful Portal to other Power hungry Raging Ravaging

7 Old grimoire
Crystal countryside
Pest infestation Petrification
worlds wizard
Preachy cleric
barbarian horde

Sufficiently
Realm of the Shining armor Summoning Swamp of
8 Dreams
Sacred vow Sealed evil Secret door
knight
Spoony bard advanced
circle Hopelessness
Talking animal
magic

The End Reach The Evil The Grim The prophecy’s The walking Thought
9 Tavern brawl
of the World Empire
The famine
Reaper Chosen One
The siege
dead warrior
Town fair

Twisted
Twisting Underground Undersea Unnatural Unpassable War-seasoned
10 Treasure map magical
tunnels world kingdom weather Mountains commander
Wild druid Witch hunter
contract

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Abandoned
A pact with the A visit to the Abandoned Alien Apocalyptic Baleful Blasphemous
1 Devil morgue
amusement
mine experiments
Ancient curse
cult transformation canticles
Blood stains
park

Came back Clinic of Cold blood

2 Body horror Buried alive Buzzing bugs Cabin fever
wrong
Cannibal cult
Horrors torture
Cosmic horror Creepy child

Creepy old Cursed Cursed Decadent den Decrepit

3 Creepy crows Creepy doll Creepy mists
person
Cries of pain
bloodline videotape
Deathly puzzle
of iniquity mansion

Derelict Desecrated Despair Distressed Drug-induced Ghostly Horrible

4 building altar feelings
Distress call
animals hallucinations
Found footage Ghost town
apparitions nightmares
HORROR

Human Inhuman Inhuman Isolation Macabre urban

5 Human hunt
sacrifice ancestors features
Isolated village
feeling
Jump scare Lonely Park Macabre Circus
legend

Maddening Madness Madness Marked for Messages in Monstrous

6 visions journal mantra
Maniacal laugh
death
Memory gap
the static
Missing corpse
fauna
Mutilation

Out of the
Mysterious Mysterious Old creepy
7 creature
Mysterious idol
vanishings
Old basement Old bookshop Old cemetery
tome
Old water well Oubliette’d corner of the
eye

Out-of-body Partially Poltergeist Prophecy of Satanic

8 experience burned notes
Past atrocities Personal Hell
phenomena Doom
Rotten smell Sanity slippage
paraphernalia
Severed head

Shattered Sinister The lights go The lines are

9 innocence conspiracy
Sinister locals Slasher killer Subtle threat Sudden thump The Asylum The door closes
off cut

The room gets Threats on the Unnatural Unsettling Useless Whispers in Withering Writings in the
10 The Orphanage
cold phone
Uncanny valley
silence vistas authorities the shadows plans wall

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A walk by the Arranged Chaperone's Cheating Childhood Declaration of
1 park
An old crush
couple
Battle couple Blind date
duty partner
Chick magnet
friends love

Drowning the Failed flirting

2 Disastrous date Doomed love Double date
sorrows
Dude magnet
attempt
Fear of love First kiss First love First sight love

For richer, for Forgotten Friendly Happily Heated

3 poorer
Forbidden love
anniversary
Fragile love
breakup
Friendly ex
married argument
Hidden love Hopeless suitor

In love with Insecure love Inspirational Just a toy for Kavorka Lack of Let just be Long-distance
4 Hurt feelings
love interest love you? man/woman
Kiss-kiss-slap
commitment friends relationship
ROMANCE

Love across Love Loves makes Loves makes Loving a Married to the Meeting the
5 Lost love
battle lines dodecahedron
Love letter Love triangle
you stronger you stupid shadow job family

Mistaken for Mistaken for Mistaken for Mocked Mr./Ms. Oblivious to Obsessive
6 cheating flirting declaration
Mixed feelings
romance Fanservice
Need to talk Now or never!
love admirer

Relationship
Officially Open Poor Post-reject Real life writes Redeeming Reigniting the
7 Obsessive ex
betrothed relationship communication overeating
Prank date
the plot love flame
for
convenience

Samaritan
Romantic Romantic
8 Resenting ex Revenge dating Rival suitors Romantic date Romantic gift
keepsake wingman
relationship Scorned love Secret admirer
starter

Suddenly
Secret Shipper on Star-crossed The green-eyed The strange
9 relationship deck
Slap-slap-kiss
lovers
Stood up revealed The Casanova
monster couple
The temptation
beauty

Unresolved Waiting the Wrong

Too cute for Toxic Untimely Why can't I Wolf in sheep's
10 words relationship
romantic
interruption
Valentine's day Vengeful ex charming
hate you? clothing
declaration of
tension prince(ss) love receiver

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Ancestral Ashigaru Astute Band of Blind Bloody Buddhist Cherry
1-2 katana
Angry gaki
troop warlord samurai masseur battlefield
Bowl of rice
temple Blossoms

Hard
Crowded Elder Empty Foreign Greedy Incorruptible
CHANBARA

Inexperienced
3-4 matsuri
Death duel
counselor
Elder sensei
Throne missionary merchant
working
magistrate young daimyo
peasants

Invading Loyal Master Matchlock Mysterious Outlaws Peasant

5-6 army
Kagemusha
yōjimbō swordsmith guns
Mount Fuji
yōkai
Ninja attack!
band rebellion

Power
Red light Scheming Shinto Somber
7-8 Pirate crew hungry
district
Rice taxes Ritual suicide Sake bottle Samurai duel
courtier temple ronin
warlord

Sumotori Tea Test of Unrested War among Young

9-10 bouncer
Sword saint
ceremony
Test of Honor
Loyalty peasants lords
Yakuza gang Yamabushi
kabukimono

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Alien Amorphous Ancient Antiquities Apocalyptic Artifact of Blasphemous Colossal Cyclopean
1-2 technology aberration inscriptions seller log Doom work of art
Body horror
monstrosity architecture
COSMIC HORROR

Doomed Going mad by

Degenerated Diseased Disjointed Disturbing Fortean Haunted
3-4 town fancy ramblings physiognomy
scientific
phenomenon
Foul smells From beyond the
bloodline
expedition revelation
Madness- Non-
Hideous Maddening Message in Mysterious Nameless Nameless Ominous
5-6 monolith music
inducing
dreams cult City monstrosity
Euclidean Old library
chants
tome geometry
Sudden
Psychically Reanimated Ritual Sigil of Strange Summoning Terrible old
7-8 sensitivity dead sacrifice protection
Sinister relic Strange eons
survivals
suspicious
ritual man
dead
Vision-
The Great The Lands of The Outer The stars are They wait, Tomato in Unholy University Whippoorwills
9-10 Old Ones Dreaming Gods right dreaming the mirror worship professor
inducing laughter
drugs

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Automated Brain Corporate Corporate Corporate Corporate
1-2 133t Hacker Archology
factory
Black Ice Black market
uploading tower Assassin suit wars

Cyber-
CYBERPUNK

Corporate Counterculture Cult of the Cyber Cyber- Cybernetic Cybernetic

3-4 Zaibatsu movement Machine
Cyber Ninja
psychosis fashion
implanted
limb malfunction
Design drug
weapon

Drone Environmental Experimental Illegal Labyrinthine Mercenary

5-6 vehicle activists drugs
Flying car Identity chip
cloning
Killer robot
sewers army
Neon lights

Neural Orbital Polluted Powered Sewer

7-8 implanting colony
Police State
skies armor
Private police Rich paradise Security cam Seedy bar
insurgency

Street Technological The Ultra-violent Virtual Virtual Weapon

9-10 Samurai prototype
The Warzone
Wasteland gang assistant celebrity
Virtual World VR addiction
dealer

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Anthropo-
Animated David Vs. Enchanted Fairy Foolish Forbidden Genie in a
1-2 object
morphic Brutish giant
Goliath Forest
Evil magic
Godmother promise fruit bottle
personification
FAERY TALES

Knight in
Haunted Impossible Jolly crew of Karmic Love at first
3-4 Gentle giant
castle
Healing plant
task pirates punishment
shining Lost parent
sight
Loyal pet
armor

Merry band Mysterious Prince(ss) Prince(ss) in Reluctant Secret test of

5-6 of outlaws traveler
Noble brat
charming trouble hero
Rule of Seven Rule of Three Secret room
character

The Curse of
Spirited Talking The Big Bad The Big
7-8 away
Sword duel
animal
Talking tree
Wolf Tournament
Shape- The Devil The Dragon The Fair Folk
changing

The fairest of The Good The Good The Magic The Old The youngest Town's Trickster Wicked
9-10 them all Monarch Monarch Sword Wizard child festival puck
True Love
stepparent

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Chemistry Foreign Literature Science lab
1-2 Biology class
class language class
H.E. class History class
class
Math class Music class Physics class
class
HIGH SCHOOL

Class Class Council of Council of

After-school First aids New transfer
3-4 cleaning duty
representative representative Club exhibition Club meeting Students Students Field trip
training student
duties elections elections tensions

School health School open Self-defense Sport Substitute Swimming

5-6 P.E. class Pop quiz Scheduled test
examination day training competition
Study group
teacher pool class

High School
Clash between Disciplinary Inter-class Interesting Inter-school
7-8 cliques measures
Dodgy rumors Fire drill Food fight Gang warfare newspaper
rivalry gossip rivalry
scoop

Intra-class Lockers Malicious Malicious Popularity Random

9-10 rivalry inspection gossip vandalism
Petty theft
contest
Power failure
vandalism
Urban legend Yard fight

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Amphibian Band of Behind the Collateral Combat Counter-
1-2 assault
AWOL
misfits enemy lines
Booby trap
damage medic
Combat tank
strike
Covering fire
MODERN WAR

Cowardice in Dear [X] Ensign Field Frontal FUBAR Glory seeker Hand Heavy
3-4 combat letter
Elite unit
newbie promotion assault equipment official grenade artillery

Mass
Helpless Hostile Incoming Medal of Military
5-6 civilians civilians missile
La Résistance Last stand Martial court destruction
honor academy
Mine field
weapon
Reinforce-
Missing in Pincer Prisoner of Sabotage Scorched
7-8 action
Night combat
movement war
R&R ments are Retreat!
mission earth
Secret plans
coming!

Secret Suicide The call of Trench Unconditional Unruly

9-10 weapon
Shell-shock Sniper shoot
mission duty
Top gun
warfare surrendering platoon
War crimes

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A love in each Bloodthirsty Bustling Castaway
1-2 port
Backstabbing Black flag
pirate
Bottle of rum
tavern
Cabin fever Cabin kid Cannon ball
draft

Corrupt Dividing up Drunken Gang-pressed

3-4 Casting off Crown envoy Dead calm Eye patch Fencing duel Flogging
PIRATES

governor the loot sailor crew

Gunpowder Inescapable King / Queen Letter of Message in a

5-6 Ghost ship
gun
Hook hand
prison of the Pirates marque
Losing course Man’o’war Marooned!
bottle

Nameless Palm and Pirate-hunting

7-8 Mutiny!
island coconut trees
Peg leg Pirate Code Pirate parrot
fleet
Roguish pirate Scurvy Sea monster

Squandered The Black Thunder and Walk the

9-10 Sea shantie Shipwreck! Spyglass
riches Spot
The gallows
lightning
Treasure map
plank
Whirlpool

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A light for the Barely fertile Crumbling Decayed Deserted Feral former
1-2 Black rain Bust a deal… Deathly winds Food supplies
POST-APOCALYPTIC

lost ones fields building highway settlement pets

Gang of Improvised Irradiated Lost Medicine

3-4 Fuel tank
marauders gear ghouls
Junk Market Local militia
knowledge stash
Nuke Old engine

Old power Old water Out of the Radioactive Ravenous Reclaimed by Records from
5-6 plant supply ruins
Polluted water
fallout beast nature the past
Road warrior Savage kid

Something to Technology The Human The Irradiated The New The old
7-8 Slave-riding
trade off Savant
The Blaster The City
Popsicle Zone
The Master
Religion sewers

The
The Scientific The Secret The Social The Tribute Two enter, Weapons
9-10 Reinstated
Institute Valley Darwinist
The Vault
Wasteland collectors one leaves
War machine
stash
Authority

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Ambulant Artificial Automated Big Frigging Big Brother Body Combat Combat Corporate
1-2 city human city Gun is watching swapping
Cloning blues
drugs simulator government

Crapshoot Cybernetic Dimensional Domestic Doppelganger Energy melee

3-4 A.I.
Cryogenization
limb travel robot infiltration
Elite hacking
weapon
Energy shield Flying city
SCI FI

Freak lab Genetic Humongous Killer Killer Lotus-eater Mental

5-6 accident abomination
Hive mind
mecha
I.A. assistant Kaiju attack
satellite software machine implants

Out of Sufficiently
Outdated Powered Precursor Psychic Secret Steampunk Super-
7-8 Nuclear fear control
tech armor technology powers project tech
advanced
soldiers
nanites technology

Ultraviolent Uncontrolled Underground Underwater Unscrupulous Uplifted

9-10 The Info Net
gangs pollution city city science
Unobtanium
animal
Virtual World War droids

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Attending a Attending a Attending a Attending Beetle/cicada Buying Community
1-2 festival film shoot live show cram school hunting
Bike ride
groceries
Chatting online
work
Cooking lunch
SLICES OF LIFE

Doing house Doing physical Going for a Going to a Going to a Going to the
3-4 Cosplay party
chores training
Family time Going fishing
walk bathhouse concert arcade
Half-time job

Helping with
Helping an Karaoke Mowing the
5-6 elder
class Home crafts Home repairs Jumble sale
singing
Making a pie
grass
Neighbor visit ONG work
homework

Paying respect
Playing Reading a Reading Street
7-8 Ordering food Partying to the
videogames book manga
Relaxing bath Stargazing Street market
entertainers
departed

Volunteer Writing in
Trip to the Trip to the Visiting Visiting the Watching Watching the
9-10 Tea drinking
beach or pool countryside someone sick temple
firefighting
fireworks clouds
Watching TV your Dear
work Diary

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Alternate- Artificial Automated Climatic Derelict
1-2 selves world
Aquatic world
satellite
Artificial world Asteroid belt
defenses
Black hole Bug hunt
instability spaceship

Electro- Extra-
Forbidden Galactic
3-4 Desert world Distress signal magnetic dimensional First contact
zone Empire
Hollow planet Hostile fauna Hostile flora
interferences visitors
SPACE

Infectious Nuking from Parasite life- Precursor Psychic

5-6 disease
Living world Lost colony Megafauna Meteor impact
orbit form
Planet-ship
species anomaly

Quarantined Shields are Space Space

7-8 planet
Radiation leak Reality warper Sentient world
failing
Solar flare Space exodus
mercenaries
Space pirates
shipwreck

World-
Space fleet Temporal Terraformation The last of Tourism World-
9-10 battle
Space-God
anomaly troubles their kind planet
Unstable orbit
destroyer tech
devourer Worm hole
entity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Bang and
Agent Black Brush Clandestine Countdown
1-2 provocateur
Burn
operation contact
Burned agent Chicken Feed
radio
Cool car Cool jet
bomb
operation

Covert Action Deep cover Electronic Electronic Encrypted Exfiltration Eyes only
3-4 operation agent
Double agent
espionage surveillance data operation document
Fake accident Fake death
SPIES

False flag Foreign Hidden Information Intercepted Luxurious Manchurian

5-6 operation
False identity
liaison weapon
Honey trap
exchange signal
Killer Laser
Casino agent

Misinformati
Military Mission Prisoner Ransacked Security Self-destruct
7-8 secret
on &
Control
Poison pill
exchange
Q Branch
doom
Safe house
cams message
Propaganda

Self-destruct Sponsored Sponsored Stash of Tracking Tuxedo and

9-10 base
Sleeper agent
dictator paramilitary documents
The Defector The Mole The Torturer
device Martini

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A sharp
A few stood Back from Band of Barbarian Barbarians at Beast from a Beast from
1-2 sword and a Ace of spades Battle rage
SWORDS & SORCERY

against many the Pit of Hell scoundrels hero the walls Lost Time Beyond
straight path
Beyond the
Breaking the Consuming Covetous Decadent
3-4 realms of
law ambition merchant
Crafty thief Cursed blade Cursed tower Dark ritual Day of Doom
noble
Death
Discourteous Fire and Gigantic
Dissipated Earning a Eldritch Fear of the
5-6 civilized
riches throne location
Evil magic Exotic dancer
dark
Wind from Fleeing slave melancholies
person the sky and mirth
Live, love,
Honor among Master of Mercenary Only pain Raiders from
7-8 thieves
Into the void slay, being Lost Temple
puppets band hurts
Ophidian cult Pirate crew
the sea
content
Treading
The secret of The Sunken Thirst of To crush Troubled Uncaring Underground Welcome to
9-10 steel Continent blood your enemies
jeweled
heir Gods people
Venom trap
the jungle
thrones

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
A death in the Act of Broken Caught in a Change of Collateral Corrupted Crippling
1-2 family cowardice
Brainwashing
dreams
Broken heart
trap sides victim ideal addiction

Crippling Crippling Domestic Falsely

3-4 Crippling fear Exiled Gaslighting Heroic BSOD Identity theft Job loss
TRAGEDY

injuries regrets accident charged

Marked as a Missed
5-6 Job problems Just forgotten Kidnapped Left behind Loss of an item Loss of faith Lost chance
criminal
Memory loss
opportunity

Natural Random Ruined Severe Start of

7-8 disaster
Old wound Power loss Public shaming
beating reputation
Sadistic choice
sickness
Shell-shock
darkness

Suddenly Target of an Target of Temporal(?) The past is a Vehicle Wounded

9-10 Stressed-out
homeless attack rumors blindness lie
Unsurmountable
debt accident
Work accident
pride

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Fire-and-
Bounty Canadian Greedy Hanging Herd of
1-2 Bank robbery
hunter frontier
Dust devil brimstone Fist brawl Gold digger
landlord judge buffalo
Preacher

High Noon Honest Loner Mexican

3-4
WESTERN

Herd of cattle Horse chase Indian village Loyal horse Lynch Mob Military fort
duel farmer gunslinger frontier

Morbid Outlaws Railroad Shot in the Smoke

5-6 mortician band
Poker game
tycoon
Rattlesnake Rodeo lasso Rustler
back
Six shooter
signals

Snake oil Stick of Stubborn The Death The Great The Oregon The Rocky
7-8 salesman
Stagecoach
dynamite mule
Tenderfoot The Civil War
Valley Plains Trail Mountains

The Town
The town’s Train Trick Wagon Wanted Whiskey
9-10 The Saloon with No
sheriff
Tombstone
robbery shooting caravan poster bottle
White hat
Name

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Barricaded Burn it with Catatonic Crawling Defiant to the Disabling Distant
1-2 position
Blocked door Blocked road
fire survivor
Cries for help
limb end injury shooting
ZOMBIE OUTBREAK

Humans are
Doubtful Driven to Emergency Evacuation Fighting for Heroic Hidden
3-4 contagion suicide
Eaten alive
refueling plan
Fast zombie
resources sacrifice contagion
the real
monsters
Know- No good deed
Improvised Jumping Life or limb Lost in the Need of Never my Opportunistic
5-6 weapon zombie
nothing Left behind
decision wilderness pharmaceuticals fault
goes scavenger
know-it-all unpunished

Panicked Promise of a Quarantined Rumors of a Senseless Social

7-8 mob
Patient Zero Power failure
sanctuary zone cure
Scientific lab
sacrifice
Slow zombie
tensions

Surprisingly Trigger-
Undead Unforeseen Weapon Zombie Zombified
9-10 Straw nihilist clever The Immune happy
horde access point supplies animal acquaintance
Zone Zero
zombie military

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1-2 A friend of mine A friend of us An offer you can’t refuse Cold-served revenge Group of cagnolazzi
GANGSTERS

Making it look like an

3-4 Keeping enemies close Kiss of Death La Famiglia Made man
accident

5-6 Making your bones Mob War Nothing personal Omertà Sleeping with the fish

7-8 The Caporegime The Commission The Consigliere The Don The loose cannon

9-10 The Mustache Pete The ratter The speakeasy Tommyguns With a kind word, and a gun

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

1-2 Classical music theme Country theme Crowd song Death song Distant duet

3-4 Duet battle Duet song Epic orchestral theme Ethnic music Hard rock theme
MUSICAL

Jukebox musical Jukebox musical Jukebox musical Jukebox musical

5-6 Heavy metal theme
– The 60’s – The 70’s – The 80’s – The 90’s

7-8 Love song Ominous chorus Opera Pop rock theme Rap theme

9-10 Rock opera Sad ballad Sudden musical ending Techno theme Villain song

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1-2 Disguise gear Distraction fire Flash step Foliage camouflage Goshiki-mai

3-4 Grappling hook Hiding in plain sight Kite Riding Kuji-kiri Kunai
NINJA

Multiple images
5-6 Kusari-gama
technique
Ninja assassin Ninja saboteur Ninja spy

7-8 Ninja village Ninja school Ninjato Nukenin Poison vial

9-10 Shadow merging Shuriken Smoke bomb Wall crawling Water walking

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

1-2 Alpha bitch Asshole victim Blood and guts Bound & gagged Butcher knife

3-4 Creepy basement Creepy church Creepy derelict building Creepy farm Creepy forest
SLASHER

5-6 Creepy graveyard Final girl Frightful mask Gratuitous shower scene Hook and chains

7-8 Killer trap Not quite dead Past victims Severed head Severed limb

9-10 The Jerk Jock The Nerd The Stoner Useless adults Useless police

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1-2 Barbarians at the gates Bread and circus Christian martyr Civil war Corrupt governor

3-4 Decadent party Egyptian scribe Galley slave Gladiatorial combat Greek erudite
PEPLUM

5-6 Indomitable gaul Influential demagogue Laurel wreath Phoenician merchant Pretorian guard

7-8 Public baths Sacrifice to the Gods Siege weapons Slave rebellion Triumphal procession

9-10 Turtle formation Tyrant Emperor Vae Victis! Veteran centurion War elephant

1-2 3-4 5-6 7-8 9-10

1-2 A game of cricket A play by Shakespeare Ballroom dance Bare-knuckle boxing Big fancy mansion
REGENCY ENGLAND

Daughters' marriage
3-4 Dark glamour
prospects
Dramatic weather Duel of honor Elopement marriage

Fortune of mysterious
5-6 origin
Gambling addition Gold digger Horse racing Master & Commander

Romanticism Vs
7-8 Napoleonic Wars Official & gentleman Political oppression Regent’s Park
Enlightenment

9-10 The Dandy The house servants The Révolution The rookeries Tragic love affair

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