Nekromanti Fildrop. 36 dramatiska situationer som tabell.

[Tell]

Skrev denna åt fästmön, i samband med en littuppsats. Det rör sig om en sammanfattning av 36 dramatiska situationer som en 1-50tabell med diverse undertabeller. Boken gavs ut 1916, och har som tes att det bara finns 36 grund-plotter som funkar på teatrar. Den har senare blivit daterad, men den är rätt ok som slumpgenerator när man inte vet vad dagens äventyr skall handla om.

Den lider av svaga formuleringar, etc., men alltid kan den vara användbar för någon.

 

[Tell]

36 dramatic situations, d100 list.

NB: Subjects will vary, as will levels. To save an alliance between once own country and another, is essentially a version of 3:3.

1. Supplication; Power at the hands of a 3rd party Judge
   1. Fugitives applying for help against enemies.
   2. Assistance implored for the performance of a forbidden duty.
   3. Appeals for a refuge in which to die.
   4. -6. Original version.
2. Supplication; Power in the hands of the accuser, mildness vs. Cruelty.
   1. Hospitality sought by the wretched.
   2. Charity entreated by those cast of from their own people, whom they have disgraced.
   3. The seeking of pardon or forgiveness or peace.
   4. Surrender of a corpse or relic solicited.
   5. -6. Original version.
3. Supplication; with a judge, but also an intercessor.
   1. Supplication before the powerful, for those dear to the supplicant.
   2. Supplication to a relative, on behalf of another relative.
   3. Supplication to a mothers lover, on behalf of the mother.
   4. -6. Original version.
4. Deliverance: A Saviour will of his/her own accord rescue the distressed.
   1. Appearance of a rescuer to the condemned.
   2. A Parent replaced upon a throne by his/her child.
   3. Rescue by friends or strangers, grateful for previous benefits.
   4. -6. Original version.
5. Crime pursued with a vengeance; a personal injury upon another.
   1. The avenging of a slayed parent or ancestor.
   2. The avenging of a slayed child or descendent.
   3. Vengeance for a child dishonoured.
   4. Vengeance for a spouse murdered.
   5. Vengeance for the dishonouring or attempted dishonouring of a spouse.
   6. Vengeance for a mistress slain.
   7. Vengeance for a friend.
   8. Vengeance for sibling.
   9. -10. Original version.
6. Crime pursued with a vengeance; a personal injury upon self.
   1. Vengeance for intentional injury or spoliation.
   2. Vengeance for having been despoiled during absence.
   3. Vengeance for an attempted slaying.
   4. Vengeance for a false accusation.
   5. Vengeance for violation.
   6. Cengeance for having been robbed of ones own.
   7. Revenge upon a whole sex for a deception of the one.
   8. –10. Original version.
7. Crime pursued with a vengeance: A professional hunt of the criminal.
8. Vengeance taken for kindred upon kindred.
   1. A parents death avenged upon the other.
   2. A brothers death avenged upon a son.
   3. A parent’s death avenged upon a spouse.
   4. A spouce’s death avenged upon a parent.
   5. -6. Original version.
9. Pursuit. Requires punishment and fugitive (fugitive in focus).
   1. A fugitive/-s pursued for brigandage/political crime etc.
   2. Pursued for a fault of love.
   3. A hero struggling against power.
   4. A madman fighting an interrogator.
   5. -6. Original version.
10. Disaster. An unforeseen catastrophe
    1. Defeat Suffered.
    2. A fatherland destroyed.
    3. The fall of humanity.
    4. A natural catastrophe
    5. -6. Original version.
11. Disaster. The fall of a king.
12. Disaster. Personal.
    1. Ingratitude suffered.
    2. Suffering unjust punishment.
    3. Outrage suffered.
    4. Abandonment by lover or husband.
    5. Loss of entire family.
    6. Original version.
13. Falling prey to cruelty or misfortune.
    1. The innocent made victim of ambitious intrigue.
    2. Innocent despoiled by those who should protect.
    3. The powerful dispossessed and wretched.
    4. A favourite finds himself forgotten.
    5. The unfortunate robbed of their only hope.
    6. Original version.
14. Revolt. Tyrant and conspirator.
    1. Conspiracy of one individual.
    2. Conspiracy of many.
    3. Revolt of one, who influences and involves others.
    4. Revolt of many.
    5. -6 Original version.
15. A daring enterprise. Warlike.
    1. Preparations for war.
    2. War.
    3. Combat.
    4. Carrying of a desired person or object.
    5. Recapture of a desired person or object.
    6. Original version.
16. A daring enterprise. Expedition.
    1. Adventurous expedition.
    2. Recapturing a beloved woman. Saving her honour.
    3. -6. Original version.
17. Abduction.
    1. Abduction of an unwilling woman.
    2. Abduction of a consenting woman.
    3. Recapture of women without the slaying of the abductior.
    4. Recapture of women with the slaying of their captor.
    5. Rescue of a captive friend.
    6. Rescue of a child.
    7. Rescue of a soul in captivity to error.
    8. -10. Original version.
18. Enigma.
    1. A search for a person who must be found on pain of death.
    2. A riddle to be solved on pain of death.
    3. A riddle to be solved for gain.
    4. Temptations offered to the hero for for information.
    5. Tests offered to the hero to ascertain mental conditions.
    6. Original version.
19. Obtaining.
    1. An effort to obtain an object by ruse or force.
    2. Endeavor by means to persuasive eloquence alone.
    3. Eloquence with an arbitrator.
    4. Original version.
20. Enemity of kin.
    1. Hatred of siblings.
    2. On sibling hated by several.
    3. Hatred between siblings for reasons of self-interest.
    4. Hatred of Parent and Child.
    5. Of a Parent or Child towards the other.
    6. Hatred of grandparent for grandchild.
    7. Hatred of inlaws.
    8. Infanticide.
    9. -10. Original version.
21. Rivalry of kin. (preferred kin, rejected kin, object desired). Of siblings.
    1. Malicious rivalry of a brother.
    2. Malicious rivalry of two brothers.
    3. Rivalry of two brothers, with adultery on the part of one.
    4. Rivalry of aunt and niece.
    5. Rivalry of sisters.
    6. Original version.
22. Rivalry of kin. (preferred kin, rejected kin, object desired). Of different generations.
    1. Sexual rivalry of parent and child for a permissible object.
    2. Sexual rivalry of parent and child for a nonpermissable object.
    3. Sexual rivalry of parent and child, for the spouse/SO of one of the parties.
    4. Rivalry of cousins.
    5. Rivalry of friends.
    6. Original version.
23. Murderous adultery.
    1. The slaying of a spouce by, or for, a paramour.
    2. The slaying of atrusting lover.
    3. The slaying of a spouce for a parabour, in self interest.
    4. -6. Original version.
24. Deed performed under Madness
    1. A kinsman slain.
    2. A lover slain.
    3. A non-enemy slain.
    4. Disgraced selfcaused by madness.
    5. Loss of loved ones through madenss.
    6. Madness from fear of hereditary madness.
25. Fatal imprudence. Victim is self.
    1. Imprudence the cause of ones own misfortune.
    2. Imprudence cause of ones own dishonour.
    3. Curiosity cause of ones own misfortune.
    4. Loss of possessions or love through curiosity.
26. Fatal imprudence. Victim is another.
    1. Curiosity cause of the death of another.
    2. Imprudence cause of a relatives death.
    3. Imprudence cause of a lovers death.
    4. Credulity the cause of a kinsmans death.
    5. -6. Original version.
27. Crimes of love.
    1. Discovery that one has married a parent.
    2. Discovery that one has sexual relations with a sibling.
    3. Discovery that one has sexual relations with a sibling, and that this has been engineered by a third party.
    4. Being about to take a sibling for a lover.
    5. Being about to unknowingly violate a family member.
    6. Being about to commit adultery, unknowingly.
    7. Adultery committed, unknowingly.
    8. -10. Original version.
28. Slaying of a kinsman unrecognized.
    1. On the command of a god.
    2. Through political necessity.
    3. Trough rivalry in love.
    4. Through hatred of their lover/SO.
    5. In anger.
    6. On the advice of a Machiavellian.
    7. Upon the person being framed.
    8. Failing to rescue an unknown kinsman.
    9. -10. Original version.
29. Self sacrificing for an ideal.
    1. Ones life for ones word.
    2. Ones life for another’s success.
    3. In filial piety.
    4. Ones life on ones faith or king.
    5. Love and life for ones cause.
    6. Love sacrificed for politics.
    7. Sacrifice of well being to Duty.
    8. Sacrifice of honour to faith.
    9. -10. Original version.

1. Self sacrifice for kin.
   1. Ones life for that of another.
   2. Ones life for the happiness of another.
   3. Ambition sacrificed for the happiness of a parent.
   4. Ambition sacrificed for the life of a loved one.
   5. Love sacrificed to laws.
   6. Modesty sacrificed for the life of a loved one.
2. All sacrificed for a passion. (Self)
   1. Vows broken for a passion.
   2. A future ruined by a passion.
   3. Power ruined by a passion.
   4. Ruin of mind, health, and life.
   5. Destruction of virtue of fortune through vice.
   6. Original version.
3. All sacrificed for a passion. (others)
   1. Ruin of fortunes, lives and honour for a passion.
   2. Temptations destroying sense of honour morality, duty etc. Consequences.
   3. Vows broken for a passion.
   4. A future ruined by a passion.
   5. Power ruined by a passion.
   6. Original version.
4. The necessity of sacrificing loved ones. Necessity of child sacrifice:
   1. for the public good.
   2. For a god.
   3. For a vow to a superior or benefactor.
   4. For ones faith.
   5. Ones secret child, under pressure of others.
   6. For the sake of reputation.
5. The necessity of sacrificing loved ones.
   1. Parent, as 33.
   2. Spouse, as 33.
   3. Inlaw, as 33.
   4. Contending or defeating a relative, in public, for the public good.
   5. Contending or defeating a friend, in public, for the public good.
   6. Original version.
6. Rivalry of a superior and an inferior – status.
   1. Between man and god.
   2. Of a strong god and a weak one.
   3. Of a magician and an ordinary man.
   4. Of conqueror and prisoner.
   5. Of victor and defeated.
   6. Of noble and a banished man.
   7. Of suzerain and vassal-king.
   8. Of king and noble
   9. Of an establishment man and an upstart.
   10. Of rich and poor.
7. Rivalry of a superior and inferior – emotion.
   1. Of equals, of whom one have previously cuckolded the other.
   2. Of one beloved, and one without the right to love.
   3. Of two successive husbands of a divorcee
   4. Of a queen/prince-concort and a subject.
   5. A monarch and a slave.
   6. Lady and a servant.
   7. Two almost equals, complicated by the abandonment of one.
   8. Rivalry between a memory and a reality.
   9. -10. Original version.
8. Odd rivalries.
   1. Love dodekon.
   2. Oriental rivalries.
   3. Rivalries of two people of similar status, for the love of one exalted.
   4. Of two lawful wives to the same person.
   5. -6. Original.
9. Adultery. Unsympathetic adulterer.
   1. A mistress betrayed for a young wife.
   2. A mistress betrayed for a girl.
   3. A spouse betrayed for a slave who doesn’t love in return.
   4. A spouse betrayed for debauchery.
   5. A double adultery.
   6. A spouse betrayed in bigamy.
   7. A spouse betrayed for a child-lover who does not love in return.
   8. A spouse envied by a young would-be lover of the S/O.
   9. A spouse betrayed by a courtesan.
   10. Rivalry between a wife and a mistress.
10. Adultery. Sympathetic adulterer.
    1. An antagonistic spouse sacrificed for a lover.
    2. A spouse believed to be lost, forgotten for a rival.
    3. A commonplace spouse sacrificed for a great lover.
    4. A good spouse betrayed by spouse’s rivals.
    5. A spouse betrayed in favour of a grotesque or odious lover.
    6. A perverse spouse betrays a relationship.
    7. A spouse betrayed for a useful idiot.
    8. -10. Original version.
11. Adultery and vengeance.
    1. Vengence of the betrayed party.
    2. Jealousy sacrificed for the sake of a greater good or a cause.
    3. Jealousy sacrificed out of pity.
    4. A spouce haunted and persecuted by a rejected rival.
    5. -6. Original version.
12. Crimes of love.
    1. Concentual incest.
    2. Rape-incest.
    3. Love of a step-parent for their stepchild.
    4. A lover shared by parent and child, knowingly and consentingly.
    5. Love-affair with an inlaw.
    6. Queer love or beastiality in cultures non-acceptant.
13. Discovery of the dishonour of a loved one.
    1. A parents shame.
    2. A child’s shame.
    3. Dishonour in the family of a fiancé.
    4. Discovery of a spouse’s violation, before or during the marriage.
    5. Discovery of the treason/error of ones spouse/lover.
    6. Discovery of a spouse’s history as a prostitute.
    7. Return of a dishonourable redeemed lover to old ways.
    8. Realising the bad character of ones love.
14. Obstacles to love.
    1. Marriage prevented by inequality of the parties.
    2. Marriage prevented by enemies.
    3. Marriage forbidden on account of previous marital status’.
    4. Impended by disagreeing relatives.
    5. Love frustrated by bad temper among the lovers.
    6. Original version.
15. An enemy loved.
    1. Pursued or hated by family of the beloved.
    2. Vendetta.
    3. Lover is murderer of beloved’s family.
    4. The beloved is the slayer of the husband of the woman who loves him, but who has previously sworn to avenge that husband.
    5. Beloved is the daughter of the slayer of the lover’s family.
    6. Combination.
16. Ambition.
    1. An ambition watched and guarded against by a kinsman or friend.
    2. Rebellious ambition.
    3. Ambition and covetousness heaping crime upon crime.
    4. Kin-killing ambition.
    5. -6. Other forms.
17. Conflict with a god.
    1. Struggle against a diety.
    2. Strife with the believers of a god.
    3. Controversy with a diety.
    4. Punishment for lack of humility before a god.
    5. Presumptuous rivalry with a god.
    6. Imprudent rivalry with a god.
18. Mistaken jealousy
    1. Mistake originates in suspicious mind of the jealous.
    2. Mistaken jealousy aroused from fatal chance.
    3. Mistaken jealousy of a love which is purely platonic.
    4. Mistaken jealousy of a relationship considered by one party to be a flirt.
    5. Baseless jealousy aroused by malicious rumors.
    6. Jealousy suggested by traitor moved by hate , self interest or love.
    7. Reciprocal jelousy between spouses, planted by rival.
    8. Jealousy sown by a rival/would be rival.
19. False suspicion
    1. Aroused by a misunderstood attitude.
    2. Drawn upon oneself to save a friend.
    3. Falling upon an innocent.
    4. Falling upon a nascent but unrealised conspiracy.
    5. As five, with guilty parties conscience-ridden.
    6. Falling on a witness to a crime, eager to fall on their sword.
    7. Falling on an enemy.
    8. Provoked by an enemy to fall on them.
    9. Falling on a kinsman, by their family.
    10. Thrown by real culprit upon an enemy.
    11. Thrown by real culprit against a secondary victim.
    12. Thrown upon a rival
    13. Thrown upon an innocent, who refused to be an accomplice.
    14. Thrown by a deserted lover, upon an ex.
    15. Struggle to rehabilitate oneself, in the eyes of the law.
    16. Creating remorse for the unknown crime.
    17. Thrown upon criminal of other act, who regrets this other one.
    18. Remorse for adultery or betrayal, caused by the new memories.
20. Recovery of a lost one.
21. Loss of a loved one.
    1. Wittnessing the slaying of a kin, §powerless.
    2. Helping to bring misfortune upon ones people, through secrecy.
    3. Divining the death of a loved one.
    4. Relapse into primitive baseness.

 

[MetaLarsson]

Är det den ryska formalistskolan?

 

[Tell]

Inte den blekaste. Författaren var fransman (Georges Polti), och arbetade i traditionen av italienaren/Venetianen Carlo Gozzi.

 

[krank]

Den har framför allt kritiserats, vad jag vet, för att Polti liksom började med antagandet att det skulle finnas 36 och sedan såg till att hitta på så många. Mest byggt på ett lösryckt uttalande från Gozzi om att det fanns just 36.

Följden blir en hel del överlapp och upprepning.

Boken "the thirty-six dramatic situations" är för övrigt intressant men tyvärr är ju nästan alla hänvisningar till annan litteratur extremt daterad, så¨det är lite klurigt för en modern läsare att fatta riktigt vad han menar med en del av situationerna. Han bygger nämligen mycket av sina förklaringar på exemplen.

Jag påbörjade en artikelserie nångång i urtiden där jag tänkte försöka bygga ett eller ett par äventyrsfrön per situation och undervariant. Men den blev aldrig klar...

 

[Ram]

Jag tycker denna lista är jättebra. För mig så handlar mycket om att hitta "nya" intressanta vinklar för mina scenarion. Annorlunda drivkrafter, triggande händelser och liknande. Listor av den här typen och även diverse online-orakler etc. är jättebra för att snurra igång den egna kreativiteten.

Awesome helt enkelt.