giraffe/setting/setting.md

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GIRAFFE NAMES

Give your giraffe a name!

A giraffe can have any kind of name really. But traditional giraffe names always adhere to a specific formula.

Choose or roll adjective name adjective noun:

d6 adjective adjective adjective --- --------- --------- --------- 1 little black spotted 2 big yellow fast 3 tall brown walking 4 short jumpy thirsty 5 long hungry smelly 6 red sleepy sneaky

Table 1: Giraffe Adjectives

d6 name name name --- ---- ---- ---- 1 johnny chandler ingrid 2 irwin phoebe ricky 3 irving rachael lucy 4 thelma ross eddie 5 monica martha chloe 6 joey suzie mikey

Table 2: Giraffe Names

d6 noun noun noun --- ---- ---- ---- 1 neck spots bones 2 legs hoof tooth 3 horn kick mouth 4 tree coat face 5 leaf tree legs 6 tongue tail neck

Table 3: Giraffe Nouns

GIRAFFE PLACES

Here are some places you can go!

Figure 1: Giraffe Places

1. Giraffe Home

• Maraffe (supportive)
• Paraffe (eager)

2. Great Tree

• Best Leaves (out of reach)
• Sassy Monkey (taunting, gossipy, also out of reach)

3. Watering Hole

• Safari Truck (lots of tools and rope, stuck in mud)
• Humans (x2, frustrated)
• Crocodile (hungry, snappish)
• Zebras, wildebeasts (sipping, cautious)

4. Elephants

• Mystical, dreamy, meditative
• obsessed with tradition and matrilineage
• pulling up tree trunks, wallowing in mud

5. Lions Den

• Lions (lazy, sleepy, unhelpful)

6. Hyenas

• proud, noble, hardworking
• actual king of the jungle

GIRAFFE ENCOUNTERS

Here's how to do giraffe encounters.

1. Roll 3d6. One for creature, one for want/behavior, one for complication.

2. Count down that many lines in each column, skipping over any crossed out items, and note what you got.

3. Cross those items off the table.

4. Use the combination of creature + want/behavior + complicaton to create an imaginative encounter.

5. Repeat as many times as you like.

Example: I roll 1, 3, 2: a crocodile on the hunt, but there are snakes! Roleplay out the scenario.
For my next roll, 4, 4, 3, I count down that many on the columns, skipping what I've already rolled previously. I get zebra, on a pilgrimage, wounded.

If any dice rolls "best leaves" then start to wrap up loose ends and towards a conclusion. Ideally one in which you finally get the best leaves!

creature want/behavior complication ---------- --------------- -------------- crocodile hungry toothache mongoose just wants to chill snakes! lion hunting lazy/bored warthog wallowing in mud injured zebra on pilgrimage fleeing wildebeast passing through paranoid humans poaching lost wild dogs care for the dead it's a trap! cheetah laying an ambush blackmailed giraffe looking for a mate way too ugly/awkward elephant digging for water sick child at home hyena set up a lair is a baby best leaves best leaves best leaves

Table 4: Giraffe Encounters