Here's a Passage-style oraclular list but for Planet Psychon or Ultra Violet Grasslands or whatever Heavy Metal / Moebius inspired thing you want. Some are from Passage, because it has a great list of words in there.
1. Weakness
2. Might
3. PSI
4. Magic
5. Tech
6. Ancient
7. New
8. Crimson
9. Jade
10. Fuchsia
11. Azure
12. Light
13. Shadow
14. Memory
15. Hallucination
16. Walls
17. Portal
18. Discovery
19. Loss
20. Gods
The only thing that really needs explanation is the colors.
CRIMSON: Blood, Chaos, violence, brick, sky, rivers, motion
JADE: Wealth, vegetation, jungle, food, decoration, labyrinthine, complexity
FUCHSIA: Mutation, dust storms, sky, weather, skin, pools
AZURE: Sky, wind, air, starkness, openness, expanse, stillness in motion
Gods can be AI Gods, actual Gods, agents of Gods, false gods...
Memories or Hallucinations can be dreams, dream-quests, desires.
Planet Psychon has a lot of tables for weather, what the hex you're in looks like or sounds like, colors, etc. It's great, it's really vivid. UVG has some similar things going on with its illustrations and descriptions. Google them! They're AWESOME!
Passage is also pretty great. It's here: https://www.rpgnow.com/product/250996/Passage--A-Storytelling-Exploration-Game-for-Exactly-One-Player
Maybe this will be of interest to someone: literarydevices.net - A Huge List of Common Themes - Literary Devices
ReplyDeletehttps://myvocabulary.com/word-list/fantasy-and-imagination-vocabulary/
Also, the original Mythic Variations has a theme table.
ReplyDeleteSo I'm thinking that I would change Crimson and Fuchsia to Jale and Ulfire, because A Voyage to Arcturus!
ReplyDeleteOf course Jade is too close to Jale, so I would change Jade to Viridian!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Voyage_to_Arcturus