Barking Alien Challenge day12: Entertainment? + D100 Magic Bugs

Yes I have years of stuff for downtime (Bug stuff after - its one of my faves already)

I dont use xp or obligate ppl to be drunks. You can study instead or read or see a show or eat out. Id probably not use some of the consent-causing results anymore or warn players to try alternative activities. Players dont have to be awful murder hobos addicted to crime and vice. Its ok to go clog dancing in a barn instead of forgetting your dubious consent sex life.

See a show, dinner & drinks
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/10/tonights-theatres-of-exile-island-guide.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/10/local-festivals-or-why-you-need-frog.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2019/03/d100-food-items-and-events-at-evil-feast.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2015/08/d100-village-idiots.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2023/08/d100-puppet-shows.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2018/02/d100-carny-freaks.html

https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2022/01/d100-tavern-entertainments.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/06/d100-pubs-in-shadel-port.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/11/d100-tavernkeepers-adventure-tips.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/07/1d100-things-to-happen-in-pub.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/02/magic-jerks-you-meet-in-taverns.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2024/01/d100-tavern-tables-in-shadelport.html

https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/07/foodies-guide-to-exile-island-1.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/07/foodies-guide-to-exile-island-2-pub-grub.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/07/foodies-guide-to-exile-island-3-wtf-is.html

Bard Stuff
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2023/10/bardic-school-missions.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2018/03/d100-bardic-poetry-gigs.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/08/d100-poems-and-why-your-bards-are-lame.html

Shopping
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/12/d100-books-of-shadel-port.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/11/d100-saucy-pamphlets-of-shadel-port.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/11/d100-saucy-posters-and-flyers-of-shadel.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/03/d100-shonky-deals-in-shadelport-pt1.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/03/d100-big-shonky-deals-in-shadelport-pt-2.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/12/street-seller-stalls-of-shadel-port.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/08/d100-strange-little-shops-i-had-never.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2015/03/d100-dungeon-vice.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2023/02/d10-shopping-in-sewertown.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2024/12/market-places-again-test.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2018/08/d100-petty-magic-dealers.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/12/d100-stuff-for-sale-from-hooded-guy-in.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2021/07/strange-shopping-of-shadelport.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2015/12/d100-unwanted-things-from-back-of-magic.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2015/12/ye-old-magic-shoppe.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2018/03/d100-crafters-and-merchants-of.html

Tourism
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2025/09/d100-more-petty-rural-tourist.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2025/08/try-tourist-campagn-pointcrawl.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2025/08/aquaduct-ruins.html

Vice
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2021/02/awesome-fantasy-drug-abuse-in.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/01/a-lotus-for-all-seasons.html
http://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/06/black-lotus-dreams.html

Carousing
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-funny-thing-happened-on-our-shrine.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/01/they-fight-they-loot-they-party-in-city.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt1-and-some-other-stuff.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt2-how-rich-party.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt3-sholarly-persuits.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt4-holy-endevours.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt5-rambling-in-wild.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2013/07/d100-shore-leave.html (pt6)
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt7-dungeon-dwelling.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2014/09/carousing-pt8-underland-exploration.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2020/07/carousing-in-tundra.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/10/d100-village-carousing.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/08/d100-to-court-of-overlord.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2022/07/carousing-in-bronze-age-city-state.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2016/07/d100-prison-carousing.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2022/05/d100-that-funny-time-at-bathhouse.html
https://elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.com/2021/09/apocalyptic-carousing-rum-sodomy-and.html

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Magic Bugs
Petty magic resource to gross out humans 

Reptilians, goblins, orcs, frog and fish folk all enjoy bugs and critters and often carry them in their bags. Humans and demihumans find these all repulsive, but they do work. Possibly make a save to swallow without vomiting. A cooking skill could improve this. Swallowing with strong grog or honey can help +2. Some tribal folk use as supositories to avoid this save but takes a turn to effect. Specialist bug farmers and specialists can be found among bug eating races. Some breed their own special bugs.

Those wise in Bug Lore know secondary properties of bugs and how to preserve them. Many are also good for flavouring, dye, pest repellent or glue.

All the bugs here are uncommon and you'd need a roll to find one a day. A region tends to have only a few types of bug depending on terrain, vegetation, water and other factors.

d12 Delicious Bug Flavours for Bug Eaters 
1 Sweet goo like fondant

2 Spicy and flavourful heat

3 Caramel syrupy goop

4 Custard like creame

5 Spicy and sweet like mince pie

6 Crispy and salty like pork rind

7 Smokey like cured meat or bacon

8 Liquorish or aniseed

9 Squirmy fun sensation in mouth

10 Popping bubbles of sweetness

11 Liquified grilled steak

12 Cool minty fresh

d12 Horrible Bug Flavours for Non-Bug Eaters 
1 Liquified farts

2 Vomit

3 Latrine juice

4 Rotting meat juice

5 Compost

6 Squirning with maggots

7 Rancid grease

8 Sweaty socks

9 Fermented milk chunks

10 Rotten fish

11 Old eggs

12 Infected wound juices

d12 Other side Effects from failed saves for non bug eaters
1 After a ten minute turn have diareah for d4 hours

2 Causes flatulence for d4 hours

3 Mouth go numb for d4 hours
4 Mouth burns for d4 hours

5 Parasitic worms -1 max hp until cured, contagious

6 Teeth hurt for d4 hours

7 Vomit a d4 rounds loes 1hp

8 Develop sores and rash d4 days all over

9 Bones ache d4 days -1 all rolls

10 Blind for a d4 rounds

11 Strange dreams haunted by bugs lose a night's rest

12 Visions of bug gods who call your name a d4 days, they will turn up to criticise you, and bugs are attracted to you 

d10 Quick Types
1 Worms & centipedes

2 Caterpillars, moths and butterflies

3 Crickets & locusts

4 Beetles

5 Ants, bees, wasps

6 Roaches & Termites

7 Dragonflies and damselflies

8 Flies & mosquitoes

9 Spider, scorpions, ticks & mites

10 Other Critters

d100 Magic Bugs
01 Red worms - protect you from paralysis for a d6 rounds

02 Violet worms - +1 HP for an hour

03 Marsh worms - large white worms tasty for humans, worth a day of food, burrow in the wood of marsh trees and roots and are a good staple food for the poor

04 Ruby centipede - +2 save vs petrification and poison

05 Emerald centipede - d3 temporary HP for one hour

06 Golden millipede - +1 initiative and sensory rolls

07 Puece worms - protect you from ingested poison for a d3 months

08 Grain worms - scaled beetle larvae improve your AC by +1 for ten minutes

09 Brandy worms - pungent worms with old grape smell, +1 reaction rolls for one hour

10 Liquorish worms - black shiny worms found in wood, remove a d4 poison damage
11 Horned caterpillar - moth caterpillar, eater grows horns for one hour d4 unarmed attack 

12 Hawk Moth - hard to catch, eater gets +2 initiative for ten minutes

13 Jewel Moth - pretty colourful moth and caterpillar, +1 on a random attribute for one hour, more than one dose at a time causes vomiting

14 Emperor Butterfly - huge orange caterpillar becomes a pretty butterfly, causes eyes to glow and gain +d4 temp hp 

15 Horned Moth - infected by a fungus, eating it lets you communicate with the fungus for ten minutes, then you throw up and need to sleep for a d4 hours

16 Moon Moth - huge grubs in the ground or as moths, egg-like and a good meal that even humans can enjoy. Improves your night vision and you can see more stars

17 Brandy Moth - like a quarter bottle or brandy, so eating many gets you drunk

18 Spirit Butterfly - said to hold lost souls, recover one Lv1 arcane spell slot you have used

19 Solar Butterfly - eating makes you glow with a candle strength light

20 Silk Grub - keep in your pouch and feed daily leaves, and will spin fine up to 100 yards of thread a day. They stay grubs for seven years, then change to moths and fly to the moon

21 Emerald Catydid - turns the eater's skin green for a d4 days

22 Mole Cricket - burrowing speed +1 and holding your breath

23 Black Cricket - jump range increases by a d3 per leap

24 Fire Locust - make a bonus extra jump action each round

25 Green Locust - able to eat cellulose like plants, leaves, bark or wood for a day

26 Golden Locust - improves your climbing checks by +3 for an hour

27 Blue Cricket - resist lightning damage for a ten-minute turn -2 damage per dice and +2 saves

28 Ice Cricket - skin becomes room temperature for d4 hours, making thermal vision creatures confused

29 Devil Hopper - lots of spikes all over, makes you taste horrendously spicy for a d4 hours, any bite attacks from living beings must save or refuse to bite again. Will choose another target or flee if no other attacks

30 Carnivorous Locust - increases strength by +1 for an hour and makes you crave food
31 Stink Bug - makes you smell disgusting to foes tracking by scent for a d3 days, makes you less appealing to humans as well

32 Crusader Beetle - +1 AC for a d3 hours from rigid skin

33 Stag Beetle - +1 to hit and damage for a d4 hours and aroused

34 Scarlet Dung Beetle - immune to stench-based attacks for d3 hours

35 Assassin Bug - +2 damage on melee attacks for a ten-minute turn

36 Borer Beetle - +d3 STR for a ten-minute turn, after save or take a d4 damage from strain

37 Ladybug - +d3 Mov for a ten-minute turn, double speed if running away

38 Bombardier Beetle - makes flamible flatulence for a d6 rounds, each round fill a 10ft cube that without wind lasts a d4 rounds. If ignited by open flame causues 2d4 to everything in the area, half with a save

39 Darkling Beetle - gain +1 Mov and +1 AC for 2d4+4 rounds

40 Carob Beetle - gives +1 bite damage for a d4 hours

41 Yellow Ant - 2d4+4 rounds gain +1 hit and damage, and makes you angry

42 Red Ant - gain +1 STR for an hour but find sweet food distracting

43 Black Ant - gain +1 CON for a day

44 Murder Hornet - take a d3 damage makes you berserk for 2d4 rounds

45 Death Hornet - take 1 damage and gain +1AC for an hour

46 Blue Wasp - smell blood within 100ft for an hour 

47 Hell Wasp - makes you angry +1 hit and damage for d6 rounds

48 Velvet Bee - can fly for a d6 rounds at half your normal speed

49 Royal Bee - heal d3 HP, +1 CHA for an hour 

50 Golden Bee - solidary non swarming dopey burrowing bees, avoid the sting with a save to heal d4 hp and gain +1 on your CHA for a d4 hours
51 White Termite - once eaten, you can eat wood shavings and tough cellulose like straw. If you dont eat material in 24 hours, the fungal colony in your gut dies off

52 Giant Termite - can vomit glue once over the next hour, used as an attack action in melee,  attacks as an unarmed attack. Target requires save, if fail half move and -2 all rolls, on success -d3 move rate. Affects last an hour  

53 Wood Roach - +3 climb speed for 2d4+4 rounds

54 Swamp Roach - immune to diseased food for a d4 hours 

55 Jewel Roach - +1 CHA for a d4 hours

56 Carniverous Roach - double how much you can eat for a d4 hours and raw meat seems very tasty

57 Chockroach - tasty and sweet even for humans +1 temp hp for one hour, kids love them

58 Velvet cockroach - gain +1 to hit with missile weapons for a d4 hours, moving objects seem slower and leave trails

59 Bloodroach - extra juicy with red staining liquid, used for making dye or fake blood

60 Goldroach - gain thermal vision for a d3 hours
61 Fairy Damselfly - gain + d4 Mov for an hour

62 Scarlet Damselfly - gain +d3 DEX for 2d4+4 rounds

63 Green Damselfly - +2 initiative for one hour

64 Lapis Damselfly - can smell gold in 10 foot for one hour

65 Emerald Dragonfly - gain +1 Initiative and DEX for one hour

66 Crimson Dragonfly - +d3 melee damage for 2d4+4 rounds

67 Bluebolt Dragonfly - grants -2 per dice electrical damage dice and +2 saves for hour

68 Sickle Dragonfly - +3 initiative for 2d4+4 rounds 

69 Greater Dragonfly - +2 save vs breath weapons for 2d4+4 rounds

70 Demon Dragonfly - immune to fear for 2d4+4 rounds
71 Green Lacewing - +2 on dance rolls for an hour

72 Angelic Lacewing - protection from evil for 2d4+4 rounds

73 Lavender Lacewing - purges parasites if made into a tea

74 Gold Marchfly - gain weird compound eye like vision, hypersensative to movement and cant be surprised for one hour, the buzzing in your brain keeps you awake

75 Red Mayfly - gain +2 disease saves for a day but crave deliscious smelling garbage

76 Bluebottle fly - +3 Move but you must always move full speed each round for 2d4+4 rounds

77 Hellfire Fly - spicy, grants -2 per dice fire damage dice and +2 saves for hour

78 Radient Horsefly - glow as a torch for a d4 hours

79 Horned Fly - gain +2 on all skill rolls based on speech and persuation from softly buzzing voice for one hour

80 Creep Fly - enhances sense of smell +2 to scent or track
81 Red Scorpion - +2 poison saves for one day

82 Golden Scorpion - gain +1 CON for a d4 hours

83 Blue Scorpion - glow with soft blue light like a candle for one hour

84 Black Scorpion - gain +2 sneak and hide for 2d4+4 rounds

85 Giant Blood Mite - protects you from bleeding damage for an hour

86 Glory Mite - while attatched gain +1 CHA and instils a desire to be in charge and dress fancy. They love rich people

87 Jumping Spider - gain +2 jump for one hour

88 Trapdoor Spider - grants +2 hide skills and +1 initiative for one hour

89 Moon Spider - triggers lycanthropy changes, grants lowlight vision to others for d4 hours

90 Tarantula - grants +2 dance and resist poson for one hour
91 Giant Isopod - gives you +2AC for ten minutes, you can get +4 rolling into a ball but in this form you can only move by rolling

92 Green Mantis - gives +1 AC +1 Initiative for 2d4+4 rounds

93 Antlion - gain +2 save vs fear and intimidate for 2d4+4 rounds, roar loudly in any fight

94 Grey Weevil - gain +1 AC and STR for one hour

95 Golden Earwig - +1 CHA and +2 Intimidate rolls

96 Giant Water Bug - breathe water 2d4+4 rounds

97 Spiny Stick Insect - ants think you are harmless one hour 

98 Dragon Slug - makes you resist poison for 2d4+4 rounds

99 Purple Snail - makes good dye and if eaten +1CON for one hour

100 Giant Honey Aphid - makes flesh delicious for a day