A Bureaucratic Table

[manfred]

That NPC characteristics reminded me of a table I made once just for fun.

What kind of clerk can you meet in an office?

Basic Table (1d10):
1. Cheerful.
2. In a good mood.
3. Uninterested, does his job like a machine.
4. Sick of it all, considering a new job.
5. Problems with his boss.
6. Somebody just made him angry.
7. Does not like people exactly like YOU!
8. The superior is just in the same room...
9. Absolutely boring and uninteresting.
10.Special Effect!

Bribe Table (1d6):
1. Desperately needs money right now!
2. Will gladly accept.
3,4 Doesn't expect, but won't mind.
5. Tries to ignore attempts at first, then see 6.
6. Gets angry and calls the guards!

It is a corrupt world, this one, adjust to your standards.

Special Effects Table (1d6):
(re-roll the Basic Table, ignore a 10)
1. Is secretly checked by his boss or someone else.
2. Actively tries to get bribed, or may blackmail them later
3. Supernatural ability - can feel lies.
4. Supernatural ability - can read minds.
5. Drunken, or under influence of some drug.
6. Schizophrenic, will change his personality in a few moments.

[Strolen]

ooohhhhh. That is a great idea. Will have to revisit and add  

[Agar]

Intrege Table (1d6)
1. Mistakes you for the person having an affair with his bosses spouse.
2. Is a foreign spy and believes you are his contact.
3. Wants to defect and believes you are the spy to help him out of the country.
4. Works in the black market and offers you a chance to do him a favor to get what you wanted free.
5. Mistakes you for a prominent member of an underground prostitution/slave ring.
6. Tells you whoever you're dealing with is having an affair with the local lord.

[Strolen]

Integrity Table
1.  Will try and charge you twice what it is worth.
2.  Will try and charge a random sum over normal cost.
3.  Will charge normal retail cost.
4.  Will give a small discount.
5.  Will give a half off discount
6.  Refuse to sell to you.

Hidden Goods Table
1.  Tries to sell the cheapest made goods for normal price.
2.  Doesn't have the product requested.
3.  Doesn't have it and will tell the player where to get it.
4.  Doesn't have it and will charge the player for the info on where to get it.
5.  Has better inventory hidden for those that can recognize quality.
6.  Has a special inventory for 'special' customers that contains rare items.

[Kassil]

Irritable Public Servant Chart
1. Decides to make a nuisance of himself to make himself feel better.
2. Decides a PC is cute, and tries to coerce them to come along.
3. Decides a PC is a barbarian and gives them grief.
4. Denies that the requested service exists.
5. Insists the PCs fill everything out perfectly. In triplicate.
6. Hints that a bribe might make things go smoother, and causes a mess otherwise.

[manfred]

Integrity Table
1.  Will try and charge you twice what it is worth.
2.  Will try and charge a random sum over normal cost.
3.  Will charge normal retail cost.
4.  Will give a small discount.
5.  Will give a half off discount
6.  Refuse to sell to you.

Hidden Goods Table
1.  Tries to sell the cheapest made goods for normal price.
2.  Doesn't have the product requested.
3.  Doesn't have it and will tell the player where to get it.
4.  Doesn't have it and will charge the player for the info on where to get it.
5.  Has better inventory hidden for those that can recognize quality.
6.  Has a special inventory for 'special' customers that contains rare items.

Well, well, well. All interesting points, but not for a bureaucrat. Any merchant would do well with such options, however.

Now that I have processed this thread into a little generator of its own, does anyone have ideas on expanding this part? If there is a want for a merchant thingy, I can make it.