GOZR Adventure Generator Bookmarklet

Let the java flow. Check out the GOZR category on this blog for more generators, including a gooz extractor and a monster maker. 

GOZVENTURES

Click this or drag it to your bookmarks toolbar. Fuckin use it with any D&Ds.

This one includes symbols from what appears to be a draft page that was never used in the final GOZR RPG. The symbols give good ideas.   Let's look at a sample output:

SEED: Awakening ENEMY: Wizard LOCATION: Mountain / Manse THING: Spellbook / Sorcerous orb COMPLICATION: Earthquake NPC: Cult leader TASK: Kill SYMBOL: Fish MONSTERS: Killer cats TREASURE: Frivolous Junk (7.2) Dice

So there is a creepy Innsmouth-looking wizard in a harbor-side cliff manor. He serves a Dagon-like entity and keeps his pet killer cats fed well with fish. He has started to cause earthquakes that are spreading the waters of the rivers that run through Gooz city's canals. A cultist of a rival god takes an interest in this and recruits the PCs to take care of it by stealing the wizard's Orb of Quakes (an egg from Shmagon's own sack). As the PCs make their way towards their objective quakes drop buildings and gangs taking advantage of the chaos get in their way.

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Redoing Threat Dice in GOZR

I did the math (and rounded up to the nearest 16%) (lord, someone should probably check my probabilities) to answer the question: 

What if you used the initiative die in J. West's GOZR as the threat die too?

This appeals to me because I'm the kinda dude that forgets threat if a macro isn't screaming at me about it.  

Remember, in GOZR, a 1 or a 2 counts as a threat realized.

Threat Die	% Chance (≥1 die rolls 1 or 2)	Equivalent d6 Roll ≤
3d4	87.5%	5
2d4	75%	5
3d6	70.37%	4
1d3	66.67%	4
2d6	55.56%	3
1d4	50%	3
2d8	43.75%	3
1d6	33.33%	2
1d8	25%	2
1d10	20%	1
1d20	10%	1*

*: Maybe you have to roll again and get 1 to 3 to represent this low percentage, or maybe let the common gooz (the monster with this sucky range) have their moment to shine anyways. I know I'd choose the later.

So it is possible for the PCs to win the initiative (they just need a 3 or better) but still have to deal with a threat coming to the fore.

I've been messing around with a similar, but simpler version of this change in my latest Fantasy Heartbreaker. 

In our roll20 GOZR games, I switched to a d20 for initiative and adapted the percentiles above to d20 ranges. The appeal of the honest d6 is tempting me tho. 

GOZR monster generator

I had a think and tried to isolate the kinds of sounds you might find in a GOZR RPG (affil link) monster name, then I figured what the heck, I’ll make yet another bookmarklet, a GOZR monsterator (drag it to your bookmarks toolbar or click it)!

But here is the table I plugged into it:

Prefix         (d20)	Middle (d12)	Suffix Table (d20)
1. Atta-	1. -ar-	1. -sor
2. Bol-	2. -in-	2. -k
3. Gru-	3. -ul-	3. -te
4. Hin-	4. -ek-	4. -rat
5. Ick-	5. -og-	5. -muck
6. Krol-	6. -ir-	6. -guin
7. Lok-	7. -ax-	7. -bot
8. Mro-	8. -um-	8. -n
9. Moo-	9. -or-	9. -ku
10. Pre-	10. -ix-	10. -dor
11. Quetzl-	11. -ur-	11. -pow
12. Rakka-	12. -az-	12. -don
13. Zor-		13. -zak
14. Vrak-		14. -vex
15. Thul-		15. -goth
16. Gor-		16. -lith
17. Skra-		17. -zul
18. Nar-		18. -vok
19. Xul-		19. -thar
20. Ygg-		20. -wyn

GOZR roll20 macros

If there were any fumbles, crits, or explosions,
the rolls would be highlighted.

Here are a few macros we used during a recent GOZR game. Basically, they do the math for you you. You can see at a glance how much you exceeded your AC by and then add it to your damage. If you fail to defend yourself the Gooz Master can see how much you failed by and add that to their damage dice. Easy peasy.

You'll need the attributes name, Prowess, WEAP,  Magic, and Cunning on your sheet to use the macros.

PRO

&{template:default} {{name=Prowess Roll by @{name}}} {{Roll=[[1d20+?{Modifier|0}-@{Prowess}]], success if 0 or more, solid hit if 5 or more, graze if exactly -1}} {{oh shit=you can spend a gooz to pass a roll}} {{dmg=[[@{WEAP}]]  plus margin of success (min 1)}}

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MAG

&{template:default} {{name=Magic Roll by @{name}}} {{Roll=[[1d20+?{Modifier|0}-@{Magic}]], success if 0 or more, solid hit if 5 or more, graze if exactly -1}}  {{oh shit=you can spend a gooz to pass a roll}}

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CUN

&{template:default} {{name=Cunning Roll by @{name}}} {{Roll=[[1d20+?{Modifier|0}-@{Cunning}]], success if 0 or more, solid hit if 5 or more, graze if exactly -1}}  {{oh shit=you can spend a gooz to pass a roll}}

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Finally, I used the below macro to roll initiative each round as well as monster threats. In retrospect, I think I'd like to have the threat dice be a roll query and input it myself each time.

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&{template:default} {{name=round ?{what round} starts}} {{initiative die=[[d6]] (on a one to three, the monsters go first)}} {{spend  gooz?= you can seize the initiative, personally}} {{threat dice=d3[[d3]][[d3]][[d3]] d4[[d4]][[d4]][[d4]] d6[[d6]][[d6]][[d6]] d8[[d8]][[d8]][[d8]] d10[[d10]][[d10]][[d10]] d12[[d12]][[d12]][[d12]] }} {{monsters losing? = Morale roll [[1t[monsterMorale]]] }}

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GOZR gooz generator

The following is intended to be put into a bookmarklet. I… dunno how to do javascript things otherwise… If keeping a script in a browser bookmark doesn't work for you, just revisit this page sometime or copy it to a .txt file. 
The bookmarklet: Make a Gooz (drag it to your bookmarks bar or make a new bookmark and copy the link from it, then edit it into your bookmark). You can test it just by clicking it here too.

It will generate a gooz PC for you. You’ll need James West’s GOZR to like, play the game. I really recommend you get the print version. 

Anyhoo, test it out, let me know if it works. If you wanna play GOZR, I am running it on Discord, so, if anyone wants in on that...

 

UPDATE: This bookmarklet has seen a few updates. It has many weapons and names from blog posts and drafts by JV West that I tracked down. It even has needs and deed from the sequel GOZR book that may never come out. A couple weapons (short bow and boomer) are ones I renamed to account for versions of a weapon where the damage was different in print. You may want to excise them from your game for being impure.  

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