Hosting Your Fancy Balls

I did this for my weekly Ravenloft Hawksmire game.
Also, possibly running Pendragon and some Romantasy in future.
I realise now it fits into my magic-mansion genre work.
-Imagine this in Castle Amber

Have fun. I was 8 posts ahead and now im not. So it might be slow for a while as meatspace has improved for me.

1  Basic Balls

So roll on these tables and fabricate a wondrous ball.
You dont need to roll them all.

5 point method
-focus on 5 rooms
-have 5 interesting npcss (perhaps per room)

-have 5 big events spaced out over the event
-have 5 activities or problems 

d12 Celebrating?

1 Wedding
2 Holiday
3 Victory
4 Tournament or sport event
5 Investitude or ennoblement

6 Charity for some cause

7 Masquerade

8 Debutante

9 Hunt or contest 

10 Aniversary event 

11 Harvest

12 Birthday

d12 Hosts?
1 Merchant

2 Society

3 Charity

4 Guild
5 School
6 Order

7 Mayor

8 Rich foreigner

9 State official

10 Dame or knight

11 Barron or duke 

12 Royalty

d20 Other Features?

1 Tournament or contest

2 Feast or banquet

3 New construction or artwork

4 Latest dance fad

5 Ice or butter sculptures

6 Award for best dancer

7 New fashion craze

8 Eligibles looking for love

9 Themed decor theme

10 Celebrity guests

11 Diplomatic guests

12 Formal Announcement
13 Exotic foods
14 Foreign fantasy exotica theme 
15 Dance recital

16 Live concert

17 Bard or poet contest

18 Public duel or martial display

19 Performing magician

20 Old creeps here to meet youths

2 Guests

d12 Common Groups of Guests
1 Debutant youths at first ball as adults

2 Youths starting careers and notoriety
3 Young engaged couples
4 Newlywed couples
5 Extended clan members
6 Respectable citizens

7 Wild youths 

8 Pleasure seekers

9 Drama mongers

10 Intellectuals

11 Elder community leaders

12 Rickety elders 

d20 Guests Traits (+flip a coin)
1 Shy or flirty
2 Chaste or saucy
3 Kind or callous
4 Officious or mischievous
5 Kind or cruel
6 Forgiving or spiteful
7 Well-mannered or oafish boor
8 Controlled or impulsive
9 Generous or greedy
10 Learned or cretin

11 Cultured or cliched

12 Modern or dated
13 Immaculate or scruff
14 Fashionable or dreadful bore
15 Pious or apatheist
16 Indulgent or strict

17 Snob or social chameleon

18 Classy or crude

19 Talkative or quiet

20 Secretive or seeks a confidant

d12 Scandals & Secrets
1 Sordid affair

2 Financial ruin

3 Secret child

4 Corrupt money

5 Indulges in vice

6 Possibly a murder

7 Cheats and lies

8 Gullible

9 Scheming

10 Social faux pas

11 Cultist

12 Spy or agent

d12 Guest Interests
1 Gossip

2 Romantic

3 Hedonist

4 Politics

5 The fine arts

6 Poetry & Literature

7 Academia

8 Sports

9 Money

10 Status

11 Power

12 Influence

d12 Important Guests
1 War hero
2 Artist
3 Scholar
4 Poet
5 Athlete
6 Adventurer
7 Explorer
8 Banker
9 Merchant 
10 Philanthropist
11 Noble
12 Royal

d12 Strange Guests
1 Medium, seer or mystic

2 Heretic of a forbidden or unpopular sect

3 Cultist of evil otherworldly power 

4 A sneaky familiar spy

5 Haunting spirit 

6 Doppelgangers

7 Animal or nature spirit in human form

8 Faerie glamoured to appear human

9 Ghost or phantom

10 Lycanthropes

11 Vampires

12 Planar evil being in mortal form or appears to curse or threaten

d12 New Social Invitations

1 Boating trip

2 Games

3 Sports

4 Riding

5 Tea

6 Dinner

7 Holiday house

8 Hunt

9 Performance

10 Meet a famous person

11 Feast

12 Ball

d12 Trinket Things

1 Fan 

2 Opera glasses

3 Hip flask

4 Hankerchief

5 Hat pin

6 Pipe

7 Pillbox

8 Purse

9 Comb or brush

10 Hat

11 Poppet

12 Jewellery d4 1=ring 2=earing 3=bracelet 4=locket possibly with portrait or hair inside

d12 Secret Things
1 Love letter
2 Spicy chapbook

3 Forbidden potion
4 Political pamphlet

5 Book by a traitor
6 Cultist symbol
7 Treasure map

8 Combat plans

9 Conspiracy message

10 Coded or letter-locked note
11 Crooked dice or cards

12 Mysterious ornate key

d12 Magic Things 
1 Magic scroll ot tablet or runestone

2 Love potion

3 Poison potion

4 Invisibility potion

5 Silver +1 stilleto or hairpin

6 Spirit in a bottle

7 Duelling smallsword or flintlock or walking stick+1

8 Ring of spell storage 1x 1st Lv

9 Ring, fan or cape of protection +1

10 Ring of a dark lord

11 Cursed Scarab, figurine or gem

12 Diabolical wizard apprentice spellbook

3 Time

1 Reception 6-7pm
-Arrival on red carpet pat footmen and guards
-Guest check in with door staff, leave coats and grab a drink
- Pre-dinner drinks, canapés, music and costumed performers
-Guests announced and presented to the hosts
2 Formal Dinner 7-9pm
-Guests seated with a chime 
-MC, host and others make speeches and toasts

-Main course

3 Entertainment 9-12pm
-Desert and live entertainment
-Raffles, prizes, announcements
-Dance and band
-Late supper last dance and drinks
-Go home or some house guests may continue in smaller rooms 

4 Areas for Drama

d12 Main Rooms
1 Banquet hall

2 Parlour

3 Games room

4 Staircase

5 Restroom

6 Library or study 

7 Balcony

8 Conservatory

9 Trophy room

10 Stage or theatre

11 Chapel

12 Ballroom

d12 Downstairs Rooms
1 Servants room

2 Kitchen

3 Service Room

4 Backstage

5 Servants entry

6 Privy

7 Dumbwaiter

8 Stairs

9 Cellars

10 Pantry

11 Laundry

12 Coach house

d12 Grounds
1 Gatehouse & wall 
2 Stables
3 Greenhouse

4 Folly
5 Water feature or fountain

6 Temple

7 Gardeners shack
8 Garden beds

9 Hedges
10 Grassy field

11 Necropolis

12 Menagerie

d12 Hidden Secrets
1 Oubliette
2 Dungeon
3 Torture chamber

4 Shrine
5 Secret passage

6 Spyhole nook

7 Crypt

8 Love nest

9 Attic storage

10 Escape tunnel

11 Hidden vault

12 Long sealed room

5 Event Types

d10 Quick Event Types
1 Flirting
2 Dancing
3 Manners
4 Rivalry
5 Humiliation
6 Vice

7 Plots

8 Romance

9 Scandal

10 Supernatural

d100 Quick Event Types
01 Mysterious, attractive guest winks at you
02 Ladies with coded fluttering fans cast an alluring gaze
03 Attractive guests recite lines of verse for you
04 Requests to fill your dance card

05 Shy youth blushes at you and withdraws

06 Someone dropped a handkerchief near you

07 Creepy old noble drools at you and invites you to a quiet room

08 A wealthy noble with children who lost their spouse wants to meet you
09 Older person sends you a gift (d4 1=bouquet 2=jewellery 3=confection 4=trinket)

10 Youths follow you about giggling

11 Wardrobe malfunction on the dance floor

12 Exciting new dance
13 Guest band get fiesty

14 Clods tread on your feet several times on the dance floor

15 Someone tries to skip a place on your dance card

16 Opportunity for some solo dance feat on the dance floor
17 Fierce competition on the dance floor

18 Whispered taunts on the dance floor

19 VIP asks to dance

20 Cad tries to steal your dance partner

21 Test of correct dining etiquette

22 Disrespected someone of higher status

23 Made an embarrassing bodily sound

24 Lost a button or tore loose a thread

25 Slipped over or tripped?

26 Caughed up a morsel or canapé

27 Made a false identification of wine or morsel

28 Perspired for a moment

29 Vulgar laugh

30 Tell an inappropriate story or joke

31 Snob wants to humiliate you
32 Bully wants to make trouble for you for fun

33 Challenged to contest (d4 1=game 2=sport 3=dance 4=poetry)

34 Rambling old person tells you off for some reason

35 Old grump hates your type and wants to enjoy your suffering

36 Peer thinks your a romantic rival

37 Peer thinks your up to no good

38 Gossip spreads stories about you

39 Shunned love interest tells lies about you

40 Suspicious peer wants to learn about you
41 Someone loses a trinket
42 Someone feints and needs attention

43 Someone embarrassingly drunk and indiscreet

44 Foolish duel challenge

45 Fueding guest expose shocking secret in public

46 Embarrassing letter stolen

47 Secret lovers exposed in public

48 Legal threats made

49 Rich bullies plot some game with guest victim

50 Drunks have a fight

51 See a pickpocket
52 Theiving servant or performer

53 Gamblers prey on idiot

54 Charletan offers colourful magic potions
55 Implausible investment scheme on offer

56 Offers of jewels for sex

57 Overhear criminal deal

58 Factions fued in public
59 Drug sales used for coercion

60 Sharing naughty parchments banned by church

61 Blackmail plot

62 Assassin in disguise targets a guest

63 Overhear whispering plotters

84 Eavesdroppers spying on guests

65 See a stranger making magical gestures when they think they are unseen

66 Someone recruiting for a political faction

67 Someone sharing political pamphlets

68 Someone shows a print of the slanderous illustration of a VIP

69 Someone discusses giving the poor rights and political power

70 Someone advocating to free a political prisoner

71 See a perfectly desirable peer with much in common

72 A stranger sends you a letter via a servant to meet in quiet place
73 Dance with someone who was so dreamy you teared up

74 Dance with a mysterious stranger who whispered something about your past before flitting away

75 An abusive cad bullies a beautiful, teary youth who looks at you with deep moist eyes

76 Someone briefly rubbed against you and winked at you in a dance

77 Multiple admirers compete for your attention and for the chance to please you, some might even duel to win

78 Meet with a stranger who makes you feel squiffy but they are in unhappy marraige

79 Several admirers of different factions admire you, if you pick one other factions know

80 Meet a wonderful stranger trapped in a terrible relationship, they are pressured to keep up

81 Someone is revealed to be related do someone of shocking nobility

82 Leader falls ill, making many speculate wildly

83 Noble exposed engaged in vice and has public loss of honour 

84 Love affair exposed, resulting in shouting and a duel

85 Guest seized and arrested and taken to prison to await trial

86 Guest exposes secret lineage of a VIP

87 Guest drunk and embarrassing and shunned by other guests

88 Guest tries to shame others to join a fight in a foreign land for a cause

89 Guest killed in a disgraceful manner, who dunnit?

90 Letters expose a guest as a dastard and possible traitor

91 Medeum, seer or prophet issues a forecast for the next year

92 An evil cult infiltrated guests is up to something or recruiting with vice

93 A guest is a member of a forbidden sect and is trying to recruit ppl
94 A shapeshifter has a disguise failure after meeting many people and dazzling guests with wit and charm (d4 1=doppelganger 2=lycanthrope 3=sprirt animal 4=faerie 5=dragon 6=planar being)

95 Witch familiar seen spying and pranking guests (might be invisible)

96 Someone screams as they saw a spirit haunting the estate

97 Some guests perform a seance or some magic ritual

98 Someone finds a mauled corpse with missing chunks of flesh and lots of blood

99 Hag appears to warn guests of a curse on the land or some VIP

100 Villainous spellcaster not invited comes anyway to cause trouble