Chaotic Shiny Productions

Powerful Flavor

The Powerful Flavor series brings you unique cultural backgrounds for characters from each power source. Many martial characters trained at ancient academies and the like, but how many learned to be a fighter in the ancient Legion of their city or honed their ranger skills as part of an elite group of mercenaries? Plenty of arcanists forge dire bargains and study dusty tomes, but how many did so to prevent their city from slipping between this world and the next? Add something extra to your character's background: powerful flavor.

Martial Flavor

So just where did you come from, anyway? Were you an orphan, sent out in the world on your own when [tragedy] happened to [beloved relative]? Did you learn [ancient fighting style] from [secretive order]? Were you a [menial laborer] who first picked up a blade in order to [grandiose verb phrase]?

Or are you a charming and sly Sijara, wandering the world eternally as all your people have been blessed to do? A wise Ikanoi warrior who triumphed over the arctic wastes before earning the right to call herself a fighter? Or could it be possible that you were once a ruthless, deadly member of the Daikort Pack, sworn to pledge your blade at your comrades' call forever more?

Introducing Martial Flavor: Five unique martially-themed subcultures, with over 50 pages of background and the feats, class features and utility powers to back them up.

Arcane Flavor
Currently in production, Arcane Flavor brings you five unique arcane subcultures. Do you hail from the feyveiled city of Cailleath, or the wilderness of Kraxal? Do you study sorcery to keep your people free of the callers of Valok, or to keep the balance of the world righted?

Learn about the group that makes mages of earth-shaking might tremble in their beds. Find out what happens when bards go bad. Journey with singers and players, killers and outcasts. And see bards, sorcerers, warlocks and wizards through entirely new eyes.

Martial Cultures

Expanding on the five cultures presented in Martial Flavor, the Martial Cultures books bring you 20+ pages of information on each culture, much of it new.

Don't have Martial Flavor? No problem - each one is complete and ready to be dropped into your campaign. Own Martial Flavor? Buy the Martial Cultures books for your favourite cultures to learn more about them.

All of the Martial Cultures books are currently in production - check back soon for more information, and check out the product pages for more details on each book.

Arytis

The fabled City of Arytis has been guarded by her faithful Legionnaires every since the first settlers carved it out of the wilderness. First introduced in Martial Flavor, the City of Arytis is much more than just her Legions.

Want to know more about the city that the Legions guard? Learn about the politics of the city - who's running for what office, how they intend to get there, and who stands in their way. Why do duels happen, and what are the odds on one breaking out in the Council soon?

Check out a map of Arytis, including places of interest. Get a complete list of Legionnaire ranks, their insignia, and descriptions of their duties. Find out what honors a soldier can win, and which ones even civilians are eligible for. And don't forget about the crunch - five new alternate class features for Arytyn adventurers, and the feats to match.

The Sijara
Can't get enough of everyone's favourite wanderers? The Sijara are more than an ancient myth, a well-turned phrase and love of gaudy jewelry. The free people have their own slang, their own take on every martial class, and even a few little-known magic tricks up their brightly-colored sleeves.

Want to put the Sijara in your game? Get some great Sijaran NPCs, a skill challenge, and more. Curious as to what evil Sijara would be like, or need another good faction for your game? Martial Cultures: The Sijara can help you out there, too.

Get new alternate class features, new feats, Death Flasks as wonderous items, and tons of new fluff about the Sijara.

The Ikanoi
Want to know more about the people of ice and legend? Learn more about Ikanikon folklore, and the ancestors and snow sprites who populate it. Find your Ikanikon zodiac sign, or find out what happens when a bargain with the snow sprites goes wrong.

The first tribe was more than just this warriors, and Martial Cultures: The Ikanoi has details about the other guiding ancestors on whom adventurers call for guidance, as well as ancestor feats. There are also descriptions of the snow sprites, and a detailed skill challenge that you can drop into your game. Can your players outwit wily Kero, or trick Phanax into giving up his secrets?

There's also more alternate class features, an original Ikanikon folktale, advice for good or evil Ikanoi, and example adventurers that you can easily turn into NPCs.

The Daikort Pack
Want to know more about the baddest group of mercenaries out there? Learn about the pack's allies and rivals, missions they've gone on in the past, the places where they fight and how they survive them. There's tons of organizations, plot hooks, rumors and background material just waiting to be dropped into your world, whether the pack makes a direct appearance or not.

The Daikort Pack can be a righteous band of heroic warriors, a merciless group of bloody sellswords, or anything in between. They're ruthlessly good, and have that little extra edge that sets them apart from everyone else. Is it training, magic, or a mix of both? No matter the answer, having the Daikort edge on your side - or in your party - can tip the difference in a fight.

There's also more alternate class features, stats for the Daikort's magic armor, exotic terrain to add to your next combat, and tons more cool flavorful fluff.

The Elessim
Currently in production, new and expanded content about the Elessim.

Generator Packs

What's better than a site full of generators? A program with generators that saves your recent history, and lets you edit, save, and print the results you like best. Each generator pack contains a mix of popular generators from Chaotic Shiny and exclusive, brand new generators.

Kingdom Builder
The party heads in an unexpected direction and you don't know what's out there? Writing a piece of fiction that requires a lot of diverse countries and stumped on inspiration? The Kingdom Builder is here for you.

The Kingdom Builder contains Motto, Flag, Region and Currency generators from Chaotic Shiny, as well as several brand-new generators and a graphical map generator.

You can generate complete kingdoms all at once, including the ruler, motto, flag, currency, and a description of the capitol city. Or you can create each aspect separately, generating dozens of mottos or flags or cities at once and picking the ones that fit your kingdom.

Treasure Hoard
Loot. You want it. You love it. You curse in frustration trying to come up with something more exciting than "100 gold pieces and a +1 flaming sword." The Treasure Hoard is here to save you!

The Treasure Hoard contains Charm, Gemstone, Magical Artifact, Art Object, Potion, and Treasure Trove generators from Chaotic Shiny in new and improved forms, as well as a brand-new generator and a graphical coin generator.

Generates tons of system-neutral loot, plus some inspiration for D&D-specific stuff, and a "treasure parcel generator" that follows D&D 4e's gp value guidelines.

Kingdom Builder II
You've got a great kingdom, full of cities and culture, but what's happening there? More important, what that your players will care about? The Kingdom Builder II fleshes out your kingdoms with laws, armies and fashions, plus people and events that make for great hooks. Uncover a conspiracy, fight an escaped monster from a traveling show, or just gripe about the sudden spike in ale prices.

The Kingdom Builder II contains Law, Fashion, Army, and Place Name generators from Chaotic Shiny in new and improved forms, as well as the brand-new Events, Conspirator and Kingdom & Hooks generators and a graphical flag generator.

You can generate a complete, colorful kingdom bursting with plot hooks, or create dozens of interesting people, places and events separately.

Free Products

Want to see what Chaotic Shiny Productions has to offer, and don't think product previews are enough? Here are some totally free products available for download.

5 Minute Mini-Games
Need to deal with one player's questions, settling an argument, or a split party, while making sure the rest of the group doesn't resort to dice towers or random destruction? We've all been there, on one side of the screen or the other. That's what 5 Minute Mini-Games is for.

5 Minute Mini-Games contains thirteen games for characters in any d20 system, easily portable to other systems. Challenge each other to a quick game of of Castles and Cornerstones to see who's more intelligent. Spend your downtime in a tavern playing Tall Tales, or show off your toughness with Thrag's Great Idea. There are games based on every stat - some that fighters will dominate, others that rogues will clean up at, and even more that everyone has a chance at winning. Let players entertain each other, or have an NPC challenge the party.

Pantheon Generator Portable
What's better than a free online generator? A generator that you can take with you wherever you go, with or without internet. A generator that lets you edit results, save them to a file, or print them directly.

The Pantheon Generator Portable is a standalone version of the incredibly popular Pantheon Generator at Chaotic Shiny. Create diverse, original pantheons with the click of a button. The generator should work on all versions of Windows and quite a few *nix boxes as well.

Damager
"I hit him for five." [Roll roll roll.] "He hits you for seven." [Roll roll roll.] "I take a swing at him." "You hit." [roll roll] "Three damage." Sound familiar? Everyone has trouble coming up with exciting attack descriptions every round of every combat. The Damager is a die-roller that generates attack descriptions based on your attack type and how much damage you do. Use them as a jumping-off point for your own creative descriptions, or as a way to mail it in on those days when it just doesn't seem worth it.

The damager can roll any combination of any size dice, with +/- static amounts, and even rerolls for any number lower than a certain point (the "brutal" weapon property). In addition to the damage roller, there's a generic die-roller in case the Damager is the only tool you have on hand. There's also a fun little icon that shows you what percentage of your maximum damage you did. Check out some screenshots.

10 Region Maps
Ten maps - all generated by the Kingdom Builder's map gen with only text added - describing five original regions. Each region has a Player Version map and a DM Version map, with descriptions of civilization, dangers, geographic features and points of interest in the area plus blank spaces to fill in your own.

10 Fantasy Coins
Ten unique coins - all generated by the Treasure Hoard's coin gen with resizing being the only change made. Trade your gold for Ariac Leonins or a handful of bronze 5-Tov pieces. Find Copper Dragons in ancient treasure hoards, or haggle over how much your Kefish Greenshells are worth. Receive a Golden Frog from the hand of the emperor himself, or sigh in relief at the familiar denominations of Teric. Each coin has a description, value conversions, and a printable page full of front and back images of the coin.

Tavern Tables
Tavern Tables is a short ebook full of dice tables for rolling up taverns. A list of 100 adjectives and 100 nouns gives you names like "The Greedy Zombie Tavern" or "The Brassy Wench Inn," and further tables provide for food and drink price and quality, the bartender's disposition, and any interesting patrons that you might find.

There are also tables for brawling and drunken shenanigans - does that PC who had a little too much wake up missing a few silver, with the mayor's daughter, chained to a wall in the dungeon of a fanatical cult, or all of the above? And if that's not enough, there's some example NPCs created with the tables in the book that you can drop right into your game.

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