WH Tabell för att slumpa fram en feodalvärld till Wh40k o liknande

En slumptabell för att hjälpa en skapa en feodalvärld till i huvudsak Warhammer 40k. Tabellen är skriven på engelska eftersom de andra tabellerna (som jag ursprungligen skapade för ett engelskt forum) är på engelska. En syster tråd till min WH Tabell för att slumpa fram en stackstad till Wh40k o liknande.

1. Many large areas of high radiation. They were [ there when the colonist were dropped on the planet | created by the use of atomic weapons during the great war that bombed the planet to the stone-age it now has moved away from ]. Those areas are marked out with [ standing stones with skulls and rad-symbols on them | skeletons and skulls hanging from trees and poles | signs with the skull-n-crossbones on them and warnings in low gothic | statues in the local style of death and/or sickness-spirits that all the natives knows the meaning of, outsiders on the other hand… | walls with watchtowers built around the whole areas, each watchtower is the home to at least one family that keeps the right to live there by keeping watch ].

2. Tulous is the main kind of group dwelling, and most cities are either giant tulous or grouping of tulous (with or without lesser buildings between).

3. The nobility rules from ancient planetary defence bastions, equipped with anti-air cannon and surface-to-space missiles, but also made to defend from ground-based attacks. Part of the aristocracy’s duty is to caretake to those ancient machines. More than one dynasty has found themselves detitled and thrown out among the people they ones lorded over for having grown lax in this duty.

4. Highly fearful of the witch and they quickly flee from what they see as witchery, but only to return later prepared and with more people to take out the supposed witch. Witches are feared in such way that sworn enemies will work together to take out a witch.

5. The nobility lives in luxury and surround themselves with STC technology that makes their life easier, while keeping the commoners in a pre-industrial stage by stamping out anything that they see as too advanced.

6. It’s traditional that noblemen have more than one wife and many lovers, and they have full right to demand the sexual service of any commoner woman. The noblemen act as if what they do is something the women and their family should be thankful of – which they sometime are, since a pleased nobleman is supposedly a generous one, and while a commoner could never become a noble’s wife could she become his concubine, and living a life in comparable luxury.

7. Farming technology is at early 20th-century western Europe level.

8. Totem pools, crowned by the Emperor or the double-eagle, is raised in every village.

9. Zeppelins and dirigibles travel between the important cities and holdings.

10. The natives will see things as firecrackers, las weapons, and vox-casters as magic.

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11. The cities, castles and bastions are all equipped with stationary vox-casters. One of the parts of the ceremony of city-privilege is the installation of the vox-caster.

12. The cities and castle-towns are equipped with loudspeakers that transmit sermons, important news, and direct orders to the population.

13. There is a Adepta Sororitas’ Order Hospitaller fortress-monastery on the planet. Beside training new sisters and caring for the natives do they also train non-sororitas healers, who leave with an advanced knowledge in practical healing, using the technology and resources available – even if they leave with a medical kit comparable to an early 20th-century doctor’s.

14. As above but the sisters also travel around in their Rhinos visiting the different parts of the planets, to give sermon, healing, sterilize people deemed unfit to procreate, and make certain that no heretical dogma have found a way in.

15. The planet have many priories that function as dumping grounds for the unwanted or unruly [ sons | daughters | children ] of the sub-sector’s nobility and oligarchs. Here to either be forgotten or to be retaken when they have learned their lesson and/or a use for them have appeared.

16. The main export are handcrafted exciting underwear.

17. The colossal ruins that puncture the lands are often dangerously radioactive and infested with foul creatures or worse. The ruins and the land around them are taboo. It’s the duty of the local [ warrior nobility | standing army ] to patrol the lands around the ruins and slay any monster that pass beyond the taboo-markers.

18. Lots of servitors.

19. Mechanical walkers are used instead of draft animals for pulling ploughs, vehicles, winches or similar.

20. Ogryns are used as draft animals, carriers, and others stuff that use sheer physical strength.

21. Crossbows are the main ranged weapon

22. Paddle steamers ply the rivers and coast.

23. All larger ships are equipped with sails as well as steam engines.

24. Trains connect the major cities. The trains and their tracks are owned and maintained by an order of tech-priests. All the kingdoms see the orders and their trains as neutral ground, and doing anything that harms them makes one an outlaw (if one survives the tech-priests' defences).

25. Shrines (from freestanding simple altars with figurines of the Emperor and/or saints, to multi-room temples) can be found at every crossroads, resting place, bridge, and place where something important has happened, or something one wants to protect from should exist.

26. D10 generations ago, a plague spread throughout the world. To prevent its spread, a number of cities were quarantined, surrounded by high wooden palisades with watchtowers, whose guards had orders to shoot anyone who tried to leave the cities. These orders are still followed.

27. Gargoyles and grotesques, carved from wood and stone in [ gothic- | tiki- | ancient greek- | mesoamerican- ] style, adorn and/or guard important buildings and gates. They are said to protect against evil spirits and it is considered important to replace them if they are broken or decayed.

28. Feral orks infest the [ forests | mountains | swamps | hills ] and routinely make raids toward the human fortresses and settlements.

29. There is a mystery cult that constructs and flies primitive lighter-than-air aeroships – possibly degenerate heirs to the planet's original tech-priests. They stand outside the various wars and conflicts between families and realms, offering their services to anyone who can pay.

30. Firecrackers and fireworks are used as entertainment during festivals and to drive out evil spirits.

31. Fireworks are used during wartime as part of the sides displays of powers before battle, to lighten up the battlefield during night fighting, and as shock-weapons.

32. As a group are the [ nobility | natives ] noted as having cold eyes, and strong moody faces. In them is ferocity, and savagery, but not a wild, upbursting fury. Theirs is fierceness backed by grim determination and stolid stubbornness.

33. Longhouses is the main kind of group dwelling, and most towns and cities are either giant longhouses or grouping of longhouses (with or without lesser buildings between).

34. The warrior-elite rides on [ horses | pansarés | giant-flamingos | raptorsaurs ] and are psyber-linked to their mounts.

35. Goobos infest the [ forests | mountains | swamps | hills ]. Known thieves, night raiders and childnappers, some still trade with them for poisons, hallucinogen potions, and strange machinery.

36. The nobility believes it’s wrong to not treat honourable dead enemies with at least the minimum of respect that they treat their own dead. Non honourable enemies (like highwayman or peasant rebels) don’t deserve this respect.

37. The natives believes it’s wrong to not treat dead enemies with at least the minimum of respect that they treat their own dead.

38. Walls at least 10 m thick protects all towns and cities.

39. The [ natives | nobility ] practises segregation of the sexes at almost every level, with very little contact between them except under strictly-ritualized circumstances.

40. Peasants need a letter of approval from their lord if they want to travel outside their village’s territory.

41. The nobility jealously guard their status and privileges, and have instituted many laws that will prevent commoners to rise to their ranks. This has left the nobility [ slightly | notably | disturbingly ] inbreed.

42. The [ natives | nobility | peasants ] are insular and superstitious, to a degree rarely seen even in the Imperium.

43. The warrior-nobility use sentinel-walkers as mounts and fighting vehicles.

44. The nobility and their guard use lasguns. While the guns can be lost or stolen do each of the ammunition power pack rechargers lay in the nobles’ castles.

45. Nobility have forbidden range-weapons since they see them as dishonourable. Anybody found using one is [ hanged, drawn and quartered | crucified | get their right hand cut of, declared outlaw and branded with the glypth for “outlaw” on the left hand | xxx ].

46. The serfs are branded with the mark of the noble to whose land they belong.

47. At least 90% of the peasants are made up by serfs.

48. The nobility have lawful right to strike and potentially kill with their sword anyone of a lower class who compromised their honour. Because this right is defined as a form of self-defence, it follows a set of tight rules: the strike had to follow immediately after the offence, meaning that the striker can’t attack someone for a past grievance or after a substantial amount of time. Also, since it’s self-defence, it is not permissible to deliver a coup de grâce if a blow had been successfully applied.

49. The [ nobles | warrior-nobility | nobleborn warrior elite ] all carry shortswords that they are expected to use to commit suicide if they have notably failed in their duty or are about to be captured. Actually knowing how to use them in combat is not expected.

50. The [ nobles | warrior-nobility | nobleborn warrior elite ] have the lawful right to strike and potentially kill with their sword anyone of a lower class who compromised their honour. Since they are nobleborn can they only be questioned about if they did the right thing be other of the same status.

51. The nobility think little of the peasants and pay them real interest only when the taxes are late or notably small. The peasants themselves keep lots of secrets from their lords with lots of concealed farmland, smuggle paths to other villages, and organised tax dodging.

52. The nobles tax their subjects a stated amount, no matter how good or bad year it has been.

53. Most of the planet is [ baren | rad- and chem-poisoned | baren and rad- and chem-poisoned ] with the spread-out liveable areas usually only making up the territory of one too three noble families each.

54. The peasants and servants are generationally downtrodden and beaten down by the nobles. They would never dare to go in open rebellion or go against a nobles order (the clever among them know of to follow orders by the letter but in ways that are good for them).

55. The warrior-nobility are macabre, proud and ferocious, many obsessed with honour and glory.

56. On the [ planet | planet’s moon ] is an astropatic beacon, helping with Warp navigation or astropatic communication. The agents of the Adeptus Astra Telepathica turn to the population of the world anytime they need more hands to keep things going.

57. Most of the natives’s religious rites involve mortification.

58. Libation – an offering involving the ritual pouring out of a liquid, most commonly consisted of watered down wine, but also sometimes of pure wine, honey, olive oil, water or milk – to the Emperor, saint/s, the machine-spirits, ancestors, and/or similar is a common practice among the natives when they think they should give thank or honour, or ask for help or guidance.

59. The ruling nobility is highly honourable, most of them would rather lose a war then win it using dishonourable means. What they consider honourable and dishonourable may be a bit different from others’ ideas of those concepts.

60. The [ natives | nobility | peasants ] are straightforward and simple in their ways, with a disdain for those that make things too complicated, be it in warfare, speech or rituals. May react violently if they have to suffer such things for too long.

Några filmer/serier jag skulle säga är exempel på vad som skulle räknas som feodalvärld i Imperiets byråkrati (o som inte bara är förindustriella Europa pastischer):
Beowulf (1999 film)

Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Steel Dawn

Nausicaä från Vindarnas dal

Mortal Engines

61. The nobility and their men-at-arms use lasrifles and shock-weapons, both powered by the large power packs they carry on their back.

62. The commoners are notorious for their intensely superstitious customs, a practice that the frequent wars of propaganda among the noble families only exacerbates.

63. There are Executioner [ clans | guilds | families ] that the administration and nobility send out to take out those that have committed graven crimes (in their eyes). Their badge of office is the executioner-[ sword | axe | hood | nose ] and only they may bear those. When they are not sent out from above they work as bounty hunters.

64. Grand wigs are in, the grander the more you show of your status.

65. Canals, created by generations of work, connect all cities.

66. While the population lack the capability of massproduction can they make and repair chain-sword and [ lasrifles | standard cybernetics | simpler powerarmour | Centaur transport vehicles ].

67. Was once a Civilised World. Now kings rule from old PDF bastions, island cities are made from skyscrapers sticking up through tens of meters of water, towns are built along the pillars of motorway bridges that now goes nowhere, expeditions goes to where overgrown ruins supposedly hide treasure, and etcetera.

68. Most of the animals are dinosaur-like.

69. All [ natives | cunning folks | members of the Ecclesiarchy ] carry around a medicine bag, that contains sacred and personally symbolic items.

70. A shadow war of spies, saboteurs and possibly even assassins is going on between the noble houses.

71. The priesthood use [ casting of rune-stones/sticks | laying of the tarot | fire-reading | xxx ] to help them understand the Emperor’s will.

72. Ropes are stretched between many of the roofs or to the ground and on those ropes are prayer flags bound so they can flow in the wind.

73. Prayer scrolls are not flown freely, instead they are put in omamoris before being vaxsealed unto machinery or equipment, or hanged around necks or belts.

74. All higher members of the Ecclesiarchy hide their faces with golden masks and the rest of their bodies behind red fabrics.

75. The Ecclesiarchy try to teach all the world’s young basic reading and writing skills, so they can read the holy texts and write prayers.

76. The planet’s Machine Cult is highly mystical, with many and strange rituals and superstitions.

77. On hills beside roads or near towns and at the top of towers are poles raised, from with ropes are stretched to the surrounding ground. On those ropes are prayer flags bound so they can flow in the wind.

78. The people practises animal sacrifices, accompanied by singing and prayer, to the Emperor, ancestors, and/or similar. Afterward, hepatoscopy (divination by examining parts of the sacrificed animal) is often performed by the priests.

79. The planet’s degenerated tech-priest are knowing and cunning when it comes to repairing, jury-rigging and figuring out possible uses of technology, even if their theoretical/theological understanding is based on superstition and scraps of misunderstood Martian creed.

80. Many of the people’s religious rites involve animal sacrifices accompanied by singing and prayer.

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71. The priesthood use [ casting of rune-stones/sticks | laying of the tarot | fire-reading | xxx ] to help them understand the Emperor’s will.

72. Ropes are stretched between many of the roofs or to the ground and on those ropes are prayer flags bound so they can flow in the wind.

73. Prayer scrolls are not flown freely, instead they are put in omamoris before being vaxsealed unto machinery or equipment, or hanged around necks or belts.

74. All higher members of the Ecclesiarchy hide their faces with golden masks and the rest of their bodies behind red fabrics.

75. The Ecclesiarchy try to teach all the world’s young basic reading and writing skills, so they can read the holy texts and write prayer.

76. The planet’s Machine Cult is highly mystical, with many and strange rituals and superstitions.

77. On hills beside roads or near towns and at the top of towers are poles raised, from with ropes are stretched to the surrounding ground. On those ropes are prayer flags bound so they can flow in the wind.

78. The people practises animal sacrifices, accompanied by singing and prayer, to the Emperor, ancestors, and/or similar. Afterward, hepatoscopy (divination by examining parts of the sacrificed animal) is often performed by the priests.

79. The planet’s degenerated tech-priest are knowing and cunning when it comes to repairing, jury-rigging and figuring out possible uses of technology, even if their theoretical/theological understanding is based on superstition and scraps of misunderstood Martian creed.

80. Many of the people’s religious rites involve animal sacrifices accompanied by singing and prayer.

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72 är en så snygg kulturel detalj som man kan förmedla med en lätt visuell beskrivning!

81. 1D10 Navigator houses have vacation estates on the planet. They are built to resemble the high estates and/or castles of the natives but with all the comforts (and securities) the navigators have grown used to.

82. Among the castles’ and bastions interior defences are crossbows hidden behind walls, trap doors with spikes on the bottom, pendulum axes that swing down when you open doors the wrong way, and similar stuff spread by the tech-priest Trap-Magos Gyga-10.

83. The planetary-governor resides in a sprawling complex of armoured chambers and crypts deep underground, bellow the planetary capital. Those chambers are so ancient that they have possibly been constructed impossibly long ago in the forgotten Dark Age of Technology. From this subterranean sanctuary, the governor issues declarations and receives reports from hens most trusted advisors and underlings.

84. From hens well-protected castle do the hive-governor issues declarations and receives reports from hens most trusted advisors and underlings, many of them bearing scant resemblance to any sort of reality beyond its armoured doors. What fantasies hen now clings to remain a mystery to all but the inner circle, but hen has been known to order the raising of armies against imaginary foes or order a noble long dead to host a grand visitation.

85. The planet is home to many ruling houses, which trace their ancestry back for millennia. Many aristocrats have few or no responsibilities, other than keeping up a proper presence amongst noble society and maintaining their family name. These wealthy elite jockey for position in complex competitions for social status, which often escalate into secretive wars of blackmail and assassination, some which have been going on for generations.

86. The [ high-king | planetary-governor | shogun | pontiff ] have declared dueling over matters of honour to be illegal, but in reality are people only prosecuted for it if they themselves broke the rules of duelling or the match end in death.

87. Rowing repair-gangs, lead by chieftain-like tech-priests, demand tribute and honours from the cities, castles, and lesser settlements where they have parked their travelling workshops and are doing repairs.

88. The planet’s Machine Cult is corroded, just as the manufactories and machine-temples it once diligently maintained. It has fallen into mind-rust – a mix of disarrayed beliefs and damage to neuroaugmetics that would horrify better tech-adept. They have become ineffectual and strange, largely confined to their verdigris-stained temples and delusional contemplation of past glories. In their absence has risen [ a minor cult | many a-strange cults ] of tech-heresy and a society of tinkers who aspire to its/their ranks.

89. The planet function as the dumping ground for tech-priests that have made fools of themselves or found themselves on the losing end of political infighting in the [ sub-sector | sector ].

90. The planet’s [ tech-cunning folks | degenerated tech-priests | machine-shamans | wizards ] are highly mystical in their presentation and understanding of things, they mumbled blessings or curses upon devices, sky the future in dead viewing screens, make protective talismans from machine parts, and carve supposedly mystical symbol on equipment. While they are capable of repairing, jury-rigging and hacking much of the stuff they get their hands on, is this not some mystical thing but practical understandings of how technology and programming works, even if they themselves think their success would not be possible without their mumblings, symbols and talismans.

91. For all their claims of secret Martian knowledge do the planet’s heretekal [ tech-witches | cog-whisperers | machine-cunning ] only have a base understanding of technology, the great among them gets their greater results thanks to wyrd-powers or simpler Warp-rituals.

92. The planet lacks in trees, making wood (from shrubberies) a material used for smaller stuff instead of as building material. Houses are built using stones, reeds, hay, mud and/or bricks. This also makes spears something

93. Hair-less, colour-less semi-human vatborn exist on the planets. Short-lived creatures they seldom live over thirty even under the best of circumstances, and function as menials for mostly the kings’ courts and the Martian tech-temples, but can also be found working in other areas. They are [ developing their own society and culture unknown to their creators and masters | degenerating, each new “generation” being less human and/or shorter in life than the one before | full of secrets since their masters think nothing about them and talk openly in their presence | evolving, they are slowly growing more longlived for each generation and some of them have been able to bread (something they keep secret from their masters) ].

94. Truly a feudal world, each of the kings own all the land in their realms and the nobility only rules those lands by their kings’ will, the serfs in turn have no right’s to their villages or the land they farm, only by constantly working the farmlands of the nobility before their “own” may they stay and work (and they still pay taxes for their own harvest).

95. Carapacebuffalos are hardy, illtempered and consider frontal assault the best form of defence. Their carapace armour and massive frames makes them hard to take down and more than one knight have found henself slain by a carapacebuffalo that hen has delt a killing shot to. This makes the carapacebuffalo-riders feared, both for their ability and their obvious madness since they are willingly riding a carapacebuffalo. Freelances that comes from commoner-stock (none of the aristocracy would use such a unnoble animal as a carapacebuffalo as their mount) the carapacebuffalo-riders fight for payment, but also sometime just for pride or a mercurial sense of honour.

96. Many scavenger animals have had their heads replaced with cybernetic ditto with [ white-and-yellow | red-white-and-black | white-with-black-markings | mirror ] masks. The masks either mimic a human face or look like a stylised version of the animal’s original head. They supposedly function as spies and messengers for the Emperor, their tech-priest creators, the administratum or some other master depending on the telling.

97. The planet’s original colonisation cities were built with ferocreat skyscrapers, equipped with elevators, running water and air-condition. They are still functioning and tech-priest and their lay-followers work constantly to keep them so.

98. People know how to create and use hot air balloons. They are used for entertainment, as look-out points for armies or settlements and fortresses (with the balloon then anchored to the ground), and for exploration.

99. A majority of the serfs are abhuman ratlings.

100. The nobility have an extra reverence for their few automobile vehicles, they put lots of effort to maintain, modify and decorate them.

Jag har också gjort en tabell för möjlig allmän tekniknivå för en feodalvärld:

1. Romarriket

2. Antika Grekland/Mesopotamien

3. 1600-talet

4. 1700-talet

5. Samuraj Japan

6. Aztekriket

7. Inkariket

8. Högländaren: tecknade TV-serien

9. Faraoniska Egypten

10. Mad Max

11. Tidig medeltid (europeisk)

12. Senmedeltid (europeisk)

13. Medeltida Kina

14. Högmedeltid (europeisk)

15. Nausicaä från Vindarnas dal

16. Vampire Hunter D


Om folk har förslag på flera resultat för den här typen av tråd, bara dela med er

101. The planet is interstellarly known for its IG regiments of [ superstitious and tech-cunning | honourable and arrogant | prideful and steadfast | glory hungry and sharpshooting ] noble-born Rough Riders.

102. The nobility and their mimickers are believers in numerology and each grander aristocratic family have in their main holding an esoteric numerology-machine that supposedly help their numerologist crunch the numbers. Those numerology-machines are [ also the hold’s main shrine, surrounded by prayer scrolls and offerings of incense, flowers and machine-oil | actually unsentient (but still heretical by most standards) AI:s | in actuality ancient slot-machines with an extra math game feature | broken, the information they spit out full of mistakes and wrong conclusions, something their caretakers fully ignore beliving the machines’ wrong numbers more than their own mathematics or reality ].

103. The nobility and their mimickers are believers in numerology and each household have a [ numerologist | tally-tech | mathemagican | xxx ] to help them find fortune numbers and at what times to evade numbers that are then unfortune.

104. The planet is interstellarly known for its IG regiments of [ superstitious and steadfast | sharpshooting and kleptomatic | downtrodden and unsophisticated | death-defying and literally minded when it comes to orders ] peasant levy infantry.

105. The [ planet | areas ]’s tech-cunning folks are the simpler kind of hereteks, the greatest of them can perform the lesser labours of tech-adepts, whilst others are wishful mystics with little knowledge. All ply a living by placing mumbled blessings or curses upon devices, casting auguries from smashed components, and guessing the functions of tech-scraps cast away by the nobility or visiting offworlders.