Random Signature Moves for The Grind! (2d100, could be used anywhere ...)

Still trucking along with The Grind, that DungeonPunk RPG I've been talking about the last few weeks. It's a fun exercise and my latest idea is to give each character a random Signature Move they could interpret as they like and use when their characters make the highest possible damage ... I do this rarely here on the blog, but have yourselves some 2d100 randomness for a change!

But first a few words about 19th slang terms and ...

... the randomness of things. Round about 80 % of the words in those two lists you'll find below are from a tome with the charming title Vocabulum; or, The Rogue's Lexicon. (compiled from the most authentic sources), a book published in 1859 and that means that most readers, even the native speakers, won't know some of those words or aren't aware of the meaning some others held over 150 years ago. That is not a problem. It is intentional.

The idea to give characters a randomly generated Signature Move (and with that something the players can play around with) should leave lots of interpretation. So they could take the random combination of words at face value and invent something or they could google it and go from there. It also carries some of the atmosphere from the era that is the backdrop for The Grind so that shroud of mystery is most welcome.

I'm not sure if I'll have a glossary in the game and if those words would be explained in it if I had one. For now I'll go with the mystery and people using google or checking that book out I've linked above. This could be used for several other things, of course. 

The combinations won't necessarily make much sense, but that's part of the charm and leaves room for the imagination. It could describe anything, but it will mean the certain doom for one unfortunate individual, even it's called [rolling 2d100] The Downy Ding (which could be translated as a "smooth throw away" ...) or [rolling some more] The Hockey Pop (something like a "drunk shot"), The Terrier Chimney (which sounds horrifying, IMO) or The Hammered Packet. Have fun!

Learned today about the Martial Arts Holmes is using: Bartitsu

Signature Moves (roll 2d100 for "The (A) ___ (B) ___"):

A

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1. Agog
2. Amazing
3. Amusing
4. Annihilating
5. Astonishing
6. Bear
7. Beef
8. Big
9. Bingo
10. Blasted
11. Blathering
12. Bleak
13. Bloody
14. Blooming
15. Bluffing
16. Boiling
17. Burning
18. Calculated
19. Chaunting
20. Cold
21. Cruel
22. Cutty-Eyed
23. Dabbing
24. Dancing
25. Daring
26. Dazzling
27. Devestating
28. Dinging
29. Dismaying
30. Distressing
31. Downy
32. Drab
33. Edging
34. Fizzing
35. Flat
36. Flay
37. Flickering
38. Flicking
39. Frumper
40. Glamming
41. Glancing
42. Glib
43. Goosecap
44. Growling
45. Gunpowder
46. Gutter
47. Hammered
48. Hash
49. Hilarious
50. Hockey
51. Honoring
52. Hot
53. Hung
54. Ivory
55. Jabbing
56. Jolly
57. Leery
58. Lurking
59. Maulding
60. Misleading
61. Mobile
62. Nacky
63. Old
64. Ottomised
65. Perforating
66. Phony
67. Pig
68. Pissing
69. Popular
70. Punishing
71. Purifying
72. Pushing
73. Quag
74. Raging
75. Randy
76. Ravenous
77. Ripe
78. Ripping
79. Savage
80. Screwing
81. Shady
82. Shallow
83. Shivering
84. Shredding
85. Sickening
86. Slicing
87. Smacking
88. Smelling
89. Soft
90. Stupefying
91. Surprising
92. Swell
93. Terrier
94. Tumbling
95. Twisting
96. Vinegar
97. Weeping
98. Whirling
99. Wuss
100. Yelling

B

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1. Albert
2. Alls
3. Begger
4. Blinker
5. Box
6. Bread-bag
7. Buzzle
8. Carnage
9. Capper
10. Chimney
11. Cloud
12. Coffin
13. Corset
14. Coven
15. Crab
16. Crop
17. Cut
18. Death
19. Demander
20. Derbies
21. Devil
22. Ding
23. Doctors
24. Dodge
25. Doom
26. Down
27. Drunk
28. Earth-bath
29. Ease
30. Explosion
31. Fever
32. Floorer
33. Fool
34. Gentleman
35. Grim
36. Growler
37. Handle
38. Hank
39. Harlot
40. Hook
41. Hose
42. Hubbub
43. Humiliation
44. Innocent
45. Implosion
46. Itch
47. Jack
48. Jeffey
49. Jig
50. Kittler
51. Lady
52. Lap up
53. Licker
54. Lift
55. Macer
56. Mischief
57. Moocher
58. Naider
59. Nail
60. Nancy
61. Nobble
62. Nose-ender
63. Oar
64. Office
65. Packet
66. Paradox
67. Peel
68. Pidgeon
69. Pimp
70. Pipe
71. Pomp
72. Pop
73. Principle
74. Rabbit
75. Racket
76. Red
77. Revolution
78. Rib
79. Rose
80. Rub
81. Saddle
82. Scandal
83. Scare
84. Scrape
85. Shirkster
86. Slap
87. Sleep
88. Split
89. Sprinkler
90. Tackle
91. Tail
92. Tatts
93. Thrust
94. Tickle
95. Toffer
96. Tomb
97. Twister
98. Tye
99. Vigor
100. Virgin

Well, maybe I should add those extra meanings at some point :) They'll be in the rules ...