“The gods watch the earth once again, floating slow time in twinkling satellites.
Inside the brown choked atmosphere, mountain ranges have been ousted by feudal zaibatsu arcologies. Deep in their halls, utopia machines eliminate all scarcity.
But, hierarchy is demanded by the lords of the zaibatsus, as is loyalty and the future of their subjects. There is no questioning the wisdom of ancient blood-lines.
Leave the fortress walls of the arcologies and see the endless lawless streets, the no-corp lands.
You are here, in the underworld, a place of freedom and death.
You are less than the most despicable bug to the corporate pantheon, but what is a god to a non-believer?”
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As a guide for the referee, it takes about quarter dayish to walk a street. The referee should take into consideration the needs for rest/food etc when traveling.
Residential occupation, slum-like: Apartments for sale for 4d10 coins. 1 in 20 chance of random encounter resting in an apartment purchased here. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Residential occupation, opulent: Apartments for sale 6d10 coins - allows safe rest and the next d6 tests after resting here will be rolled with advantage (Roll two die, use the best result). Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Residential occupation, high security: Apartments for sale for 5d10 coins - allows safe rest. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Residential occupation, run down: Apartments for sale for 4d10 coins. 1 in 100 chance of random encounter resting in an apartment purchased here. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Inn/Hotel: Rest safely for 2d10 coins a night. Eat for 1d10 coins per person. True rumors available for 2d10 coins a rumor. Travelers offer jobs - generally focused on acquiring something of value from the surrounding suburb. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Bar/Cafe: Eat for 1d10 coins per person. Eating here will generally have a calming/mentally restorative effect. The publican/chef offers jobs - generally focused on the acquiring of supplies/ingredients. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Temple: Deity specific blessings for 2d10 coins. Holy rituals for 4d10 coins. Clergy offer jobs - generally inline with the operations and ethos of the church. Use safe location room stocking if exploring (unless a particular chaotic deity, then use dangerous location room stocking).
Surgeon/Doctor: Minor healing for 2d10 coins. Major healing for 3d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Eatery: Eat for 2d10 coins per person. Food will have special effects. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Dustery/Imbibery: Ingest psychoactive substances for 2d10 coins. Substances will have a wide range of effects on the body. Neerdowell patrons will offer jobs - generally focused on theft and/or violence. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Workshop of mental labour: Purchase specialty knowledge for 2d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Library: A repository of something specific to the suburb. Librarians will offer jobs - generally focused on the acquisition of new stock/samples for the library. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Bath house: Clean and relax for 2d10 coins per person. True rumors available for 2d10 coins a rumor. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Workshop of mechanized labour: Purchase a very specific and small selection of goods here for d10 coins. Foreman will offer jobs - generally focused on the acquisition of supplies. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Garden: Relax and center oneself for free. Gardener will offer jobs - generally focused on the acquisition of exotic plants and animals. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Workshop of physical labour: Purchase a very specific and small selection of goods here for d10 coins. Goods made to order for 2-4d10 coins depending on size/difficulty. Foreman will offer jobs - generally focused on the acquisition of supplies. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Gang occupation, minor: Hire muscle for 3d10 coins per day. Leaders will offer jobs - generally focused on theft, violence and local terrorism. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Gang occupation, major: Hire muscle for 3d10 coins per day. Hire assassins/other types of skilled yet violent jobs for 4d10 coins. Leaders will offer jobs - generally focused on theft, violence and local terrorism. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring.
Monster occupation, minor: A building overrun with monsters. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring
Monster occupation, major: A building overrun with monsters, including several lairs of particularly powerful monsters . Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring.
Public entertainment venue: Relax and be entertained for d10 coins per person. Hire entertainers for 3d10 coins per day or provide entertainment appropriate for the venue for 3d10 coins per day. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Private entertainment venue: Denied access without completing a job for the owner first, then relax and be entertained for 2d10 coins per person. Hire high end entertainers for 4d10 coins per day or provide high end entertainment appropriate for the venue for 4d10 coins per day. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Order keeper occupation: Hire protection for 4d10 coins per day. Leaders offer jobs - generally focused on bounty hunting. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Graveyard: Respectfully dispose of corpses for 2d10 coins. Keepers offer jobs - generally focused on the removal of monstrous infestations within the graveyard. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring.
Storage warehouse: Purchase a very specific and small selection of goods here for d10 coins. Head watchperson offers jobs - generally focused on preventing break ins at the warehouse. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Guild, peaceful/passive: High quality guild specific goods and services available for 3d10. Guild master offer jobs - generally focused on the disruption of other nearby guilds. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Guild, aggressive/destructive: High quality guild specific goods and services available for 3d10. Guild master offer jobs - generally focused on the disruption of other nearby guilds. Use safe location room stocking if exploring. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring.
Dungeon entrance: Residents camped at the entrance will offer jobs - generally focused on recovering/destroying something within the dungeon. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring.
Store, food: Buy serves of transportable food, appropriate to suburb, for d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, general supplies: Buy general supplies, appropriate to suburb, for 2d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, weapons: Buy weapons, appropriate to suburb, for 2d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, armour: Buy weapons, appropriate to suburb, for 3d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, small/medium trade goods: Buy a sack of trade goods, appropriate to suburb, for 3d10 coins. Sell trade goods, the sell price of trade goods is multiplied by 1 for each suburb away from place of purchase. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, large trade goods: Buy carts/beasts of burden, appropriate to suburb, for 5d6 coins. Buy a cart load of trade goods/bulky trade goods, appropriate to suburb, for 4d10 coins. Requires cart/beast of burden to transport. Sell trade goods, the sell price of trade goods is multiplied by 1 for each suburb away from place of purchase. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, ornamentation: Purchase suburb specific decorations for 2d10 coins, or decorative services for 3d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, augmentation: Purchase suburb specific attribute increasing augmentations for 6d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Store, magical/useful miscellanies: Purchase suburb specific magical tools and speciality equipment for 4d10 coins or spell laden items for 5d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Abandoned, truly empty: Only use room purpose table, no stocking table, if exploring.
Abandoned, mad men and monsters lurking: Inhabited with suburb specific monsters and dangerous humans. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring but assume “Device” and “Strangeness” results are instead Group of aggressive npc’s/beasts.
Abandoned, diseases and traps: Filled with suburb specific diseased and traps. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring but assume “Device” and “Strangeness” results are diseases or traps.
Abandoned, falling apart: Suburb specific near building in ruin and disrepair. Use dangerous location room stocking if exploring but assume “Device” and “Strangeness” results are collapsed or collapsing rooms.
Utility, transportation: Fast, suburb specific, transportation available for 3d10 coins per trip. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Utility, air: Causing some suburb specific effect to the nearby air, appropriate services or products available for 4d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Utility, waste disposal: Disposing of some suburb specific waste, appropriate services or products available for 3d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Utility, sewage: Managing the suburb’s sewers. Implies the existence of sewers. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Utility, magical: Causing some suburb specific effect to reality, appropriate services or products available for 4d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Utility, water: Causing some suburb specific effect to the nearby water, appropriate services or products available for 4d10 coins. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Bank: Loans, deposits, and storage available. Managers offer jobs - generally focused on debt recovery. Use safe location room stocking if exploring.
Street stockings and their suggested uses:
Neutral npc - Will possibly physically assist, or provide guidance/knowledge
Aggressive npc - Will possibly attack or physically hinder
Group of neutral npc’s - Will possibly physically assist, or provide guidance/knowledge
Group of aggressive npc’s - Will possibly attack or physically hinder
Neutral beast - Will possibly physically assist
Aggressive beast - Will possibly attack or physically hinder
Group of neutral beasts - Will possibly physically assist
Group of aggressive beasts - Will possibly attack or physically hinder
Resource (native to the suburb) - guarded, roll a d8 to determine who by
Resource (native to the suburb) - unguarded
A fight! Roll a d8 twice to determine who between
Empty
Empty
Device - Will have an impact on nearby streets
Treasure - Something glorious birthed by the surrounded suburb
Strangeness - Something unsettling birthed by the surrounding suburb
Vegetation - Will possibly assist or hinder
Public art - Will possibly have a psychological impact on the party
Public utility - Will possibly provide a boon to the party
Roll twice and combine
Universal base room purpose table (combine with an appropriate room stocking table):
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - fitted with glowing light source
Staircase up made of surrounding material
Open arch way
Ajar door made of surrounding material
Ajar door made of surrounding material - swinging on hinges
Closed, unlocked door made of surrounding material - automatically opens on approach
Tiny, closed and unlocked, door made of surrounding material - halved in size
Unlocked and closed door, made of and hidden in surrounding material
False, unlocked and closed, door made of surrounding material, opens to wall
Recently installed unlocked and closed door made of surrounding material
Grand and gilded closed, locked door of design and material appropriate for area - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Locked, closed, door made of surrounding material - unlocked by a relatively simple inlaid puzzle
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material, splattered with grime, dirt or blood
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material, inset with thick one way mirror glass that allows vision through the door from one side
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - locks itself when closed on the other side
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by an obvious mechanism in the room
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - locks all other doors in the room when attempted to open, it and other doors in room opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - an appropriate guardian of physical menace is tethered to it to halt interlopers
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by an hidden mechanism in the room
Door arch covered with nearby natural materials such as vines, feathers or leaves.
Closed but unlocked door camouflaged as furniture or other large objects in the room
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - burnt, burning or unusually hot
Destroyed and collapsed door that requires clearing or repair to travel through
Staircase up made of and hidden by surrounding material
Closed and locked door of a terrifying and fearful design and material appropriate for area - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Limbs, appendages, grasping locomotion
Enormous, double closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material
Enormous, double closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - riven with cracks and/or peepholes
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to hold interloper in place.
Staircase down made of and hidden by surrounding material
Locked and closed door, made of and hidden in surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - ancient, crumbling and in disrepair
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to cause great pain and physical damage to interloper.
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to embarrass and humiliate interloper.
Hidden by a curtain of thick cloth is a closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant.
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to kill interloper.
Basic Room Purpose:
Place of rest and relaxation
Place of worship
Place of study or mental toil
Place meditation, prayer or thought
A vacant and empty place
Place of ancestors and the deceased
Place of ventilation and air
Place of preparing for journeying and travel
Place of ornamentation of tiny things
Place of cleaning and bathing
Place of planning and preparation
Place of growth and tending
Place of wealth and treasure
Place of learning and books
Place of butchering or surgery
Place of reflection and presentation
Place of pools, baths and water
Place of judgment and justice
Place of equipment cleaning
Place of holding and incarceration
Place of plants and gardens
Place of eating and feasting
Place of ornamentation of natural things
Place of dismantling and assembly
Place of industry and physical production
Place of wrecking and destruction
Place of tools and equipment
Place of far vision and spying
Monstrous, terrifying, abomination
Place of ornamentation of enormous things
Place of sleep
Place of artistic creation
Place of assembly and address
Place of structural support and engineering
Place of safety and defence
Place of records and recording
Place of healing and repair
Place of torture and desecration
Place of memorial and sadness
Place of death and disease
Room Modifier:
Inviting and well stocked with useful amenities
Organised, neat and tidy, with useful equipment and tools
Too bright and very well lit
Objects floating in the air
Walls or ceiling are open to the air and elements
Objects moving and operating of their own accord
Objects operating or work being done at a very fast speed
Objects and decorations are disturbingly too small
Something that should be obvious and on display is hidden or invisible
Filled with illusions or visual distractions
Objects have been recently installed or grown here
Ornate and opulent decoration and dressing
Decorated with thoughts, plans or ravings
Splattered with blood, viscera or decorated with preserved internal organs
Decorated with mirrors and or other reflective surfaces
Wet, flooded and damp
Everything is eerily of the same size
Scrubbed spotless and violently clean
Objects held in place, caged and captured
Natural growth, animals or vegetation where they should not be
Evidence of feasting, revelry or celebration
Naturally induced calmness and calm
Objects strewn, misused and general higgledy piggledy
Objects burnt or burning or a decorative or utilitarian flame
Objects destroyed and wrecked
An object/s in the room allows manipulation of other things from afar
Objects in the room allow vision to far away places or the past or future
Objects and decorations are monstrous and horrible
Objects and decorations are disturbingly huge
Objects wrapped in cloth and other soft coverings
The decorations of the room are depressingly cracked and ruined
The room is sunken, deep or holds a large pit
Objects and decorations are too heavy, crude and stone like
The ceiling or walls are crushingly low or close together
Aged, ancient and dusty
The ceiling is awe inspiringly high
Objects in the room have been used to cause death
Objects in the room have been used to cause pain and torture
Too dark and shadow filled
Objects and decorations are preoccupied with death
Room Stocker:
Empty
A boss monster
A boss npc
A spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A piece of special equipment
Some pieces of basic equipment
A trap
A supply of location specific resource
A npc
A group of npcs
A npc and another npc
A npc and a group of npcs
Two separate groups of npcs
A npc and a monster
A group of npcs and a monster
A group of npcs and a group of monsters
A npc and a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A group of npcs and a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A npc and a piece of special equipment
A group of npcs and a piece of special equipment
A monster
A monster and another monster
A monster and a group of monsters
Two separate groups of monsters
A monster and a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A group of monsters a a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A monster and a piece of special equipment
A group of monsters and piece of special equipment
A piece of special equipment and a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A piece of special equipment and a some pieces of basic equipment
A piece of special equipment and a trap
A piece of special equipment and a supply of location specific resource
Some pieces of basic equipment and a group of monsters
Some pieces of basic equipment and a separate npc
A supply of location specific resource and a npc
A supply of location specific resource and a group of monsters
A trap and a spell warping the room - roll on PC spell table
A trap and separate group of monsters
A trap and a npc
A trap and a group of npcs
Relationship between Sentient beings in the room:
Close friends or lovers
Slave and master
Teacher and student
Spiritual leader and student
Totally ignoring each other
One ever haunting the other
One messenger is the messenger for the other
One is the provider of transport for the other
One is shrinking the other
The two cannot see each other
The two share a mental bond
One is growing the other
Trading partners
One is studying the other
One is draining the blood of other
One is copying the other
One is getting revenge on the other
One is policing or the judge of the other
One is the cleaner or other wise domestic servant of the other
Captured and captor
Terrorist and terrorised
Hunter and hunted
One is growing and farming the other
One is experimenting on the other
One is attempting to grow the other
One is wanting to burn the other
One is wanting to crumble the other
One is wanting to remove something from the body of the other
Also here is button to press to get a random door:
d40 doors:
Curtain or cloth covered door arch
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - fitted with glowing light source
Staircase up made of surrounding material
Open arch way
Ajar door made of surrounding material
Ajar door made of surrounding material - swinging on hinges
Closed, unlocked door made of surrounding material - automatically opens on approach
Tiny, closed and unlocked, door made of surrounding material - halved in size
Unlocked and closed door, made of and hidden in surrounding material
False, unlocked and closed, door made of surrounding material, opens to wall
Recently installed unlocked and closed door made of surrounding material
Grand and gilded closed, locked door of design and material appropriate for area - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Locked, closed, door made of surrounding material - unlocked by a relatively simple inlaid puzzle
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material, splattered with grime, dirt or blood
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material, inset with thick one way mirror glass that allows vision through the door from one side
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - locks itself when closed on the other side
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by an obvious mechanism in the room
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - locks all other doors in the room when attempted to open, it and other doors in room opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - an appropriate guardian of physical menace is tethered to it to halt interlopers
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by an hidden mechanism in the room
Door arch covered with nearby natural materials such as vines, feathers or leaves.
Closed but unlocked door camouflaged as furniture or other large objects in the room
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - burnt, burning or unusually hot
Destroyed and collapsed door that requires clearing or repair to travel through
Staircase up made of and hidden by surrounding material
Closed and locked door of a terrifying and fearful design and material appropriate for area - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Limbs, appendages, grasping locomotion
Enormous, double closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material
Enormous, double closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - riven with cracks and/or peepholes
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to hold interloper in place.
Staircase down made of and hidden by surrounding material
Locked and closed door, made of and hidden in surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant
Closed but unlocked door made of surrounding material - ancient, crumbling and in disrepair
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to cause great pain and physical damage to interloper.
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to embarrass and humiliate interloper.
Hidden by a curtain of thick cloth is a closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant.
Closed and locked door made of surrounding material - opened by a key held by an inhabitant. Attempting to open without key triggers a trap that attempts to kill interloper.
Although the stocker was designed for "Orb Monsters" specifically, you can use the random Magic the Gathering card hex stocking approach for other games! I've included some of the notes/instructions from the original post to make the stocker easier to use from this post!
This method uses random Magic The Gathering cards profusely! When the rules below say “get/pull/use a random card” it is referring to a random Magic the Gathering card. Use the following link to get a random magic card: https://scryfall.com/random (Then click the “random” button in the top left of the screen for another random card, ad infinitum! Note: You may like to use the advanced search option to lock in sets/types of cards and then - from there you could pick the card you like or roll a dice with the number of sides you have results for your search. Use https://dicelog.com/dice to quickly make a dX). When the rules below say something like “A random spell/artifact/monster/etc just keep pulling random cards until you get the thing you need! Sometimes this may need to be a specific colour (Such as certain colour monsters/sentients and spells only appearing in that coloured land). The magic cards pulled by the referee of the game may need some changing/warping/only act as inspiration for their purpose in this game. The referee has total power to do this! Further, said inspiration may simply be the picture on the card, or the text, or a part of the picture or part of the text!
Hex Stocker Instructions:
Pull a random card! The hex is whatever color card you pulled! Roll a d12, the result is how many connected hexes are also that color! (Colours in magic are associated with specific lands: White = plain, Red = mountain, Green = forest, Black = Swamp, Blue = Island- so whatever colour a hex is - it is that type of landscape).
A basic land card will give you a very nice visual description of the d12 coloured hexes you generated. It doesn't seem possible to get a random basic land card with scryfall (I think because it only recognised each type as one card with lots of different reprints). To overcome this, on the scryfall website get a totally random card, then click on its set description, then in the search bar for that set write the type of land you need, “Swamp, Island, etc”. You will then get a nice picture of that type of landscape and you can use that for all of the hexes you just generated! You could use different images per hex/or an image for a few hexes. Scrolling through the “Prints” list will give you different basic land cards of that type!
Roll on the following tables to determine what else is in a hex beyond its colour!
Note: Only NPCS, sentients, monsters and spells of the same colour, or of the colour left or right of that colour (see colour wheel) will appear in coloured hexes - bear this in mind when stocking the hexes! You may need to pull several random cards to get a correctly coloured stocking item!
Travel Hazards: Each hex has a 25% chance of having some some sort of contextual, environmental hazard that makes traveling through it a strain on resources or possibly deadly! It is up to the referee to determine what exactly that hazard is - using the contents of the hex as inspiration.
Stocking instructions: Use the following guidelines for populating the map’s hexes.
A town, city or village: The population size is d100xd100. Pull a card until you get a building or structure, this is the base architecture of the settlement. Pull a card until you get a sentient (appropriately coloured) being, this is the people of the settlement. Pull a card until you get one mundane object or artifact and one magical object or artifact - these two things are the basis of the settlement's society. The referee can simplify or complicate this process as needed! See the colour relationship information to determine the relationship the population has with nearby monsters, spells and settlements.
An unusual structure: Pull a card until you get a building or structure - this is the structure! Pull three more cards of any colour, whatever they are - they are inhabiting the structure! Refer to the colour relationship information to determine what those things are doing in the unusual structure!
Monster/s: Pull an appropriate coloured monster card. d4 x d12 of that monster populate the hex!
Sentient/s: Pull an appropriate coloured sentient card. d8 x d20 of those sentient beings are in the hex! Use the desire and colour relationship information to determine what the sentients are doing!
A Spell: Pull an appropriate coloured spell card. That spell has warped/corrupted/changed the basic environment of the hex! It is now a weird and unusual place! A wizard can sense the spell magic here and mediate for a day to fill a spell orb with the spell (the spell stays in the environment though - the land still warped)!
A Powerful NPC: A powerful NPC of the hexes colour is in the hex! Use the instructions for generating a Sentient but assume it is a single, particularly powerful, NPC.
An artifact: Keep pulling cards until you get an actual "Artifact" card. That artifact is in the hex in a location of the referee's choosing!
Desires and Relationships:
Desires:
Sentient beings generally have desires! If those desires aren’t obvious to the referee, roll on the table! Sentient’s desires may form the basis of quests for in exchange for said sentients skills, talents, resources, services, etc on completion of a quest.
Relationships :
All beings (sentients in town and the wilds , monsters, wizards) will have relationships with other nearby beings. The type of relationship is determined by the colour, the exact specifics of the relationships is determined by the referee:
Beings of the same colour are generally close allies or symbiotes.
Beings of neighboring colours are generally co-operative, trading partners
or otherwise tolerable of one another.
Beings of opposite colours generally hate each other and are in open conflict or war.
Trade:
If a PC requires something from a sentient (in a town or in the wilds), beyond basic equipment, food, water and shelter - roll on the following table to see if they have it/can/will provide it (at the discretion of the referee)!
General Hex Stocking Guidelines:
The methods outlined above will give the referee a basic sketch of each hex - the referee is encouraged to run with that basic sketch and use it as an inspiration to fill in as much detail as needed! If a PC seeks to explore an area in more detail (perhaps wanting to spelunk an unusual structure, or the sewers beneath a settlement, or a cave in a mountain, etc) the referee can combine their knowledge of the hex they are exploring with the "Smaller Places Creation" (Place/Place Stocking tables).
Here are several automated tables/generators designed to make running solo games of Empyrean Dynasty easier. These tables could also be useful for generated organisations for sci fi games. Enjoy!