I sorely miss random tables in Vampires. As I found myself getting a bit stale regarding what kind of milieu and situations the PCs would end up in when they sought out various NPCs (it would almost always be a random party of some kind), I realized it was time for a random table of such situations, to inspire myself to think out of the box and come up with more interesting ideas in the future. What are the NPCs actually spending their nights doing, and what are they doing when the PCs meet them? Well, here's the answer! I'm open to other suggestions, as I could definitely remove some results from the table in order to add better ones. Note that this table is designed for Mexico City, so there's a couple of cliché Mexican activities represented.
Nightly Activities
1D200
Nightly Activities
1D200
- Cocktail party
- Clubbing
- Game night
- Sabbat games
- Plotting in the office
- Inspecting business
- Netflix and chill
- Burying/dismembering a body
- Digging up a body
- Torturing someone
- Gardening
- "Wine" tasting (using a ghoul)
- Golf
- Appreciating art
- Skulking
- Stalking
- Scolding the staff
- Building a car
- Creating art
- Lounging by the pool
- Shooting range / target practice
- Driving in the desert
- Enjoying live music
- Poetry reading / writing
- Trying out a newly established hotel
- Staying in (the coffin)
- Cleaning
- Cleaning (for an elder)
- Boating in Xochimilco
- Mountain biking
- Visiting luxury brothel
- Curating museum artifacts
- Walking their mariachi band
- Judging a pageant
- TV Interviews
- Preaching
- Church visit (struggling with faith)
- Racketeering
- Pushing drugs
- Prowling the streets (vigilanteism)
- Urbex
- Sauna club
- Attending sex orgy
- Playing bingo
- Reenacting telenovelas
- Catching up on telenovelas
- Stalking a celebrity
- Grooming a mortal
- D&D session
- Counting money
- Arranging matches
- Buying suspicious chemicals
- Lucha Libre
- Street racing
- Driving an ambulance (Mexico City has tons of freelance ambulances, so this is a great way to get blood)
- Band practice
- Planning smuggling run across the border
- Planning Elysium event
- Book burning/Vampire burning
- Preparing for violence (sharpening stakes)
- Hacking
- Dogwalking (own dog or elder's beloved ghoul pet)
- Buying guns from corrupt police
- Strolling in the zoo
- Hanging in cafés
- Library/book shop
- Weird porn surfing
- Attending late night university classes
- Impersonating police officer
- Training animals
- Redecorating
- Baiting stalkers
- Recording motive rant
- Reading magazines at the newsstand
- Flaunting the Masquerade
- Exploring magical anomaly
- Looking for favorite store (long since closed)
- Observing mortal family
- Home invasion
- Bribing politicians
- Medical experiments
- Recuperating from injuries
- Exploring strange oriental store
- Struggling with parking meter/ATM/modern technology
- Riding the subway
- Panhandling
- Busking
- Therapy (as patient or therapist)
- Veteran's group (You whine about Iraq! It's got nothing on Waterloo!)
- Self-help group
- Gentlemen's club
- Freemasonry/Satanic worship/Setite court/Church of Caine
- Baptising children
- Workout (probably to get to feed on hot Mexican fitness instagrammers)
- Rotary meeting
- Rainbow Gathering
- Punching mortals
- Dinner party (awkward)
- Hiding from enemies
- Preparing for torpor
- Light reading
- Staring at computer
- Playing arcade games
- Delivering a baby
- Menial labor
- Taking inventory
- Alpaca farming
- Various handicrafts
- Cooking
- Hiding from rain
- Filming a porno
- Cartel quincañera
- Staring into fire
- Waiting for dawn
- Practicing French
- Spa treatment/massage
- Manicure/pedicure/hairdressing/makeup
- Conspicuously hanging out in the meatpacking district
- Taqueria
- Faking binge drinking
- Thaumaturgical ritual
- Editing ancient literature
- Writing a speech
- Attending premiere
- Stargazing
- Street dancing
- Driving garbage truck for no legitimate reason
- Setting up an ambush
- Slumming
- Looking for love in all the wrong places
- Worshiping Santa Muerte
- Hanging upside down from roof
- Horseback riding
- Hate-editing Wikipedia
- Listening to voices (real or imagined)
- Twitch streaming (slutty)
- Dawdling in mental asylum
- Cruising
- Selecting a sombrero
- Piñata party (what’s in the piñata?)
- Drag show
- Weapons maintenance
- Practicing martial arts
- Waiting in car / at restaurant
- Spying on other vampires
- Bookmaking
- Gambling
- Buying sunglasses
- Trainspotting
- Hanging out in the airport
- Needle exchange
- Soup kitchen/handing out blankets
- Micromanaging minions
- Using a typewriter
- Body painting
- Posing for portrait
- Costume fitting
- Digging a hole
- Exploring aztec ruins
- Spelunking
- Instigating bum fights
- Attending political rally
- Carrying around kidnapee
- Arson
- Attending frat party
- Blind date / Speed date
- Covering up mistake
- Desperately trying to shave
- Contemplating suicide
- Jumping of a roof (for practice)
- DJ:ing (poorly)
- Developing film
- Getting escorted off the premises
- Bowling championship
- Detective work
- Attending creepy swimming pool
- Building a bomb
- Buying bitcoin
- Hoarding silver
- Defacing art
- Reading scripture
- Sampling blood
- Trying on historical dresses
- Smelling food
- Driving a cab
- Hiding in plain sight
- Tuning a piano
- Football match
- Clothes shopping
- Escape room
- Forging documents
- Bathing in blood
- Practicing disciplines
- Fighting the Beckoning
- Cleaning a meatgrinder
- Anointing a skull
- Still not getting sudoku
- Wallowing in misery
- Hanging out at the morgue
- Checking the Red List
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