Puzzle Dungeon

Lizard Wizard magic

I usually have my players' magic users roll random spells at the start of each adventuring day. Lately I've been using the 20 spells I made from spark tables, but before those we almost always rolled random Maze Rats spell names (perchance spell generator here). Then we'd have a conversation about what the spell actually did as the spell was cast. It's a bit of authorial fun that gives the terribly inept PCs an edge.

One of the PCs in my game is named "Dwizard, the Lizard Wizard." One day, as Dwizard started rolling for spells, we decided to instead roll from a table of song titles from Dwizard's namesake—the band King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Thus was born the Lizard Wizard magic system. King Giz have over 300 songs(!) and while I haven't listened to them all, they all have great spell name titles. Here's a table of my 100 favorite song titles as spells.

d100 Spell d100 Spell
1 Persistence 51 Muckraker
2 Hell's Itch 52 Extinction
3 Deadstick 53 Evil Death Roll
4 All Is Known 54 Exploding Suns
5 Dust In The Wind 55 Dragon
6 Honey 56 Bone
7 Hell 57 Evilest Man
8 Evil Man 58 Minimum Brain Size
9 Black Tooth 59 Boogieman Sam
10 Embryo 60 Eyes Like The Sky
11 The Great Chain of Being 61 Space Junk
12 Rattlesnake 62 Hot Water
13 It's Got Old 63 If Not Now, Then When?
14 Ants and Bats 64 No Body
15 Real's Not Real 65 God Is in the Rhythm
16 Evil Star 66 A New World
17 I'm in Your Mind 67 Cold Cadaver
18 Dirt 68 You Can Be Your Silhouette
19 Hypertension 69 Gamma Knife
20 Flying Microtonal Banana 70 Infinite Rise
21 Alter Me I 71 Quarantine
22 Automation 72 Invisible Face
23 Sense 73 Dreams
24 See Me 74 Mycelium
25 The Balrog 75 Hot Wax
26 Magenta Mountain 76 Murder of the Universe
27 Nuclear Fusion 77 Mirage City
28 Change 78 Dawn of Eternal Night
29 Float Along - Fill Your Lungs 79 Let It Bleed
30 Bloody Ripper 80 Crying
31 Swan Song 81 Melting
32 Let Me Mend The Past 82 Lunch Meat
33 Aerodynamic 83 Empty
34 Blame It On The Weather 84 Black Hot Soup
35 Muddy Water 85 God Is Calling Me Back Home
36 Work This Time 86 Flamethrower
37 Gila Monster 87 Countdown
38 Beginner's Luck 88 Blue Morpho
39 Greenhouse Heat Death 89 Self-Immolate
40 Eternal Return 90 Trapdoor
41 Life / Death 91 Lava
42 Altered Beast I 92 Good to Me
43 Big Fig Wasp 93 Converge
44 Field of Vision 94 Am I in Heaven
45 People-Vultures 95 Silent Spirit
46 Candles 96 Grow Wings and Fly
47 Sleepwalker 97 The Grim Reaper
48 Set 98 Loyalty
49 Mystery Jack 99 Phantom Island
50 Rats in the Sky 100 Inner Cell

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