Random Nørway

An OSR inspired romp to bring Nørway to your table.

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On a roll of 1d100:

Lutefisk is served. Aged stockfish and lye. It is gelatinous in texture. Its name literally means “lye fish”.
Social Democracy: hear it SQUEAK! Now you have to share. (Toll booth, taxes, guilds etc).
Winter Depression. Moods turn dark.
Hyggelig. Uncomitted pleasantries. A sparkling fireplace. Hot chocolate.
Saving throw vs. Fjord (or there will be a terrible avalanche & mini-tsunami this session).
We come in Peace! Next encounter, the characters must attempt dialogue/diplomacy before attacking.
Wellfare region: free healing @ the next temple. Taxpayer crowns pay any fee.
Snow falls slowly from above, succeed on a will saving throw. On a fail immediately leave your current situation, isolating yourself in a wooden mountain cabin for no good reason.
Troll attack! Real troll, not those skinny-ass Monstrous Manual bitches. Big as a mountain (it IS a mountain). Completely stupid.
You need skiing proficiency to traverse this area.
You hear a gleeful scream! 1D6 children on skis and sleds are coming right for you! Roll a reflex save.
Law of Jante: Anyone who excels or implies that they may excel compared to their peers loses one level. Per transgression.
Enjoy Norway: Unless you consume only Norwegian produce, you may neither regain hit points nor spell slots from resting.
Karma Shield: You may kill civilians, make deals with villains, or even further the world hurtling towards apocalypse, this will neither impact your alignment, self-image or standing in the world.
Peace Treaty: an unstable, patchwork and ridiculously unbalanced peace agreement reigns in the region, brokered by The Friendly Kingdom years ago. Characters may be hired as “peacekeepers”.
Jævla hyggelig.

Mandatory Sunday hike: parts of the second day of down time MUST be spent on a walking trip, either on foot or by ski. Roll a difficult Diplomacy to get out of it, otherwise roll a Con check against exhaustion. Tagline: “There’s no bad weather, only bad clothing!”
Your rations consist of only fish. Roll an endurance save against scurvy once every week of adventuring.
Brown cheese: Looks like soap, tastes like caramel and nothing like cheese. It’s illegal to not like it. It burns remarkably well.
Scandinavian Crime: A series of atrocious murders takes place in the most harmonious location of the campaign world. The local law enforcement turns out to be at best chaotic stupid, otherwise Lawful Evil. The players must solve this on their own. Anyone expressing disbelief loses a level.
The Kindly King opening a road (encounter). The King is bored, but friendly. Unarmed, low level.
Rogue Princess: You meet the Norwegian Princess. Each round she randomly casts a spell. Roll 1d6:
1: Speak With Dead.
2: Cure Light Wounds.
3: Prismatic Spray.
4-6: Uncontrollable Hideous Laughter.Whichever spell she casts, the party must pay her 100 gp appange per spell level, until they leave the encounter.
Zone of Credulity: belief in the supernatural, healing and hedge magic is particularly strong in this area. +1 modifier to all magic-related throws. +2 for healing spells.
Were You Raised In A Barn? You must leave your footwear by the door whenever you go indoors. Keep your socks on.
Tax Free! In any foreign country, you must buy alcohol whenever it is offered. This will lead to penalties, whether through encumbrance or inebriation. On the plus side, you paradoxically gain the number of gold pieces the beverage would have cost you. You may not, under any circumstance, abandon the booze, you must drink it all.
Gender quota: At least 40% of the party is now female. Roll randomly.
The Red Danger. You have a constant paranoia conserning invations from the Northeast.
Hallingkast: Unarmed Attacks against hats have Reach.
Government Grant: Government Grant: Provided you spend 4d6 hours formally organizing your party and writing applications, you may receive 100 gp per party member to supprt your next venture. You receive an additional 900 gp per party member under the age of 26*.
*If you have any party members under the age of 26, you may claim have a 100 times the number of sub-26 party members you actually have, and receive 1000 gp per claimed member. If you fail a Bookkeeping roll, you have to pay back the money, and your alignment is shifted one step towards Chaotic Evil.
Norwegian stiffness. Locals engaged in social conversation by the PCs have -1 penalty to AC due to stiffness. PCs suffers disadvange on persuade rolls. Consuming alcohol negates both effects.
Pant: All potions cost an extra 5 SP, which is reimbursed if the empty bottle is returned to the vendor.
Friday Night Firefight: everyone is drunk and want to fight, fuck or “just get to know you”.
Tight-lipped egalitarianism. Social advantages due to high social standing, (f.ex nobility, fame or a succsessful adventuring career) are lost if ever mentioned or referred to directly. They function as normal as long they remain unspoken or only indirectly mentioned.
Dugnad: the party is press-ganged into 4d6 hours of tedious, heavy labor, rewarded with a minor gift (worth 5 gp, usually in the shape of food or wine.) Attempts at exchanging the gift for money or demanding wages will be met by hostility. You don’t get a gift, but maybe “lapskaus” which is a kind of stew Uttrykksikonet smile
Dugnad.

Kidnapped by the Russ: It’s the first half of May. You are suddenly overwhelmed by 20 hammered 18-year olds dressed in red jumpsuits who takes you into their bus and drives you to a random location and leaves you there.
Bunad: this traditional costume is ridicoulusly expensive, and made of so thick, heavy fabrics that it offers a +1 AC. If worn with all possible silver jewellery, it gives an additional +1 AC, but the cost increases to “a metric f*ckton of cash”. Foreign-made bunads are available at 1/3 price, but they will give a severe disadvantage to social rolls with locals if discovered.
Predator policy: The livestock of local farmers is beset by setting-appropriate predators. Hunting, killing or otherwise harming these predators will result in harsh punishment from law enforcement.
Bunad

Nordic Social Awkwardness: You are unable to initiate dialogue with anyone unless they talk to you first. Intoxication removes the restriction. Other characters with the same trait will give you a -5 charisma reaction if they are sober, but a +5 reaction if they are intoxicated.
The List: The establishment the players are trying to enter is currently hosting a private event, and they are not on The List. (Ignore this condition if all players are human and/or females with Cha>12). Also ignore if the party’s barbarian belongs to the same tribe (“treningssenter”) as the bouncers.
Constitution Day: Everyone currently not hung over gains +1 bonus to every roll. Anyone drunk may ignore the penalty from being hung over, and gains an additional +1 to every roll. Anyone drunk and wearing a bunad gets +4 to every roll. On the down side There Are People And – Most Especially – Hordes of Kids Everywhere, which causes an Entangle effect. Your bonus from being drunk and/or wearing a bunad is reversed for the Entangle check. Being hung over also causes a -4 to this roll.
Norway’s one single remaining wolf.

Hellemyrsfolket: Any character reading this book must succeed on a Will save or suffer 1d4 Willpower damage due to depression.
Adventure NAV: You go to the office of unemployed adventurers seeking a quest. After waiting in line for 1d8 hours and filling out 1d4 forms roll a d20 and consult the tiltaks-table. On a roll of 18+ you get a quest. All other rolls result in 2d6 goldcoins of Trygd.
Western Weather: While travelling on the western coast, players must specify every day that they have packed waterproof clothing and/or umbrellas at the top of their packs, or be considered Drenched (Every 1d12 hours, they must make a Con DC12 roll, or contract Man-Flu).
Lucky Seafarers: Immune to sea-sickness, increases speed of sea-travel by 25% and decreases risk of sea-bound incidents by 25%. 25% chance per day of sea-travel to find a lucky barrel of valuable oil.
Situation aspect: Strange customs in small places. Leaving urban Norway, the party meet lots of weird people doing very peculiar things while speaking words in an almost dead language. The party could end up drunk in a barn, or chased up a mountain by aggressive degenerates.
Dialectical: You are able to speak several versions of the language, which may all be entirely illegible to other speakers of the same language. Roll d20 per person to see if two people happen to speak the same dialect (they must roll the same result).
Lovely weather in west-coast capital Bergen.

Pol-ferd. You arrive at the village seeking potions to heal your wounds after a dangerous quest. It turns out that only one shop in the village may sell potions. They have a long list of exotic (and heavily taxed) potions. Roll a d6. 1-2: Potionmonopolet is open! 3-4 it’s closed for the day. Come back tomorrow. 5-6: it’s closed because of a national holiday. Come back next week.
Double the price of any potion costing 300 gp or less. Halve the price of any potion costing 600 gp or more. (You should have bought potions on the tax-free store. Eventually take a Harry-trip to Sweden where potions are sold at 60% of Norwegian prizes.)
Snillisme: For the rest if the session, the GM lets everyone roll dice twice, and choose the result they like best.
We Do Not Sow: You gain a +4 to any roll to search for hidden treasure. If you find treasure under water, or gain treasure from sea monsters, roll normally on the treasure table, but increase any treasure found fivefold. This bonus if permanently lost if you share with foreigners, especially foreigners who live where you found the treasure. Whenever you attempt to spend the treasure, you must make a Will save or you will instead give it to The Elderly.
Hel ved: The orientation of the bark in stacks of firewood is taken deadly serious by the locals. An Easy Perception or Intelligence test will reveal the local preference.
Pacifist militia: While you may own arms, these must be constantly hidden or locked away in very secure circumstances to avoid accidents. You spend the first 1d4 rounds in combat finding your weapon, but you cannot fumble.
Lye fish. Yum-yum.

Snowdiver: If you spend at least 15 minutes in a very hot environment (such as a sauna), you gain 15 minutes of immunity to cold effects.
Conscription: All characters roll 1d6. If they roll a 6, they spend a year doing military service. While time consuming, this gives the characters proficiency with small arms and a +2 to any survival rolls. They also get a +4 Morality bonus on social checks with npcs who have also been in the armed services.
Not racist, just a an idiot: Gain a +2 bonus to any check where you try to shift blame to immigrants.
Religious Inscrutability: You may dismiss any questions about your religious views with the phrase “It’s a matter of personal conviction”. Doing so invalidates you from participating in any discussion or decision of a religious nature.
Beer prices in Norway.

Travel Fever: The night before the onset of an adventure, you break out in fever. -5 to all rolls the next two days.
You order a beer at a tavern – check for heartattack when you get the bill. Loose 100 GC (noen får sette en passende pris).
Navelgazing: For the remainder of the day you are unable to talk about anything but yourself. You lose all social interactions automatically.
Splinter-Eye-Beam: You project your biggest flaw onto someone you meet, criticising it loudly and maliciously.
Nostomania: Whenever you encounter a new person, you must make Will roll or do your best to get them to tell you Where They Are Really From. The DC is doubled if they are non-white or non-human. You are oblivious to any negative reaction to this behaviour. If you get them to reveal their lineage to you you get a +1 bonus to your next roll. If you can establish any relation or common point of origin both of you get a permanent +1 to rolls to aid one another.
Nordic Cuisine: Whenever eating foreign food, it will immediately become your favorite food. Eating your favorite food gives you +1 moral bonus on all die rolls with a 5% chance of diarrhea for the day.
Olympic Potion: This very secret potion gives you unlimited endurance and double hit points in cold weather, but your nose and mouth will produce a constant stream of slimy mucuous as long as the potion is in effect. If you ever admit to drinking the secret potion, you will be affected by 1d6 random curses.
Personal Space: Adjacent characters suffer penalties to all social interactions towards you. Sitting next to someone when there is room one seat over is not possible without gaining penalties yourself.
Everyone’s Related: When you meet the next stranger, no matter the circumstances, you are compelled to discuss their ancestry until you find a common relative. Roll against Will with -5 to be able to break away.
Peace Prize: Once per session, you can give a «Peace Prize» to a monster you encounter. This will make it too confused to attack anyone for 1d20 turns. You will receive the same amount of XP for defeating a monster in this way as if you had killed it in combat. (You are not allowed to attack the monster while it’s suffering from the effect of the Peace Prize)
Norwegian Eurovision contribution. True fact.

Greener Grass: You will never be satisfied with what you have, always craving something just beyond your grasp.
What’s the recipe? Whenever eating food in someones home, you must ask for the recipe. If you succeed a diplomacy check this increases your standing with the individual and you gain +2 to Profession (cooking) for 48 hours after which you forget the recipe.
Pølse i lompe: Hot dogs in Norway are served in a soft potato flatbread called “lompe” with ketchup and mustard.
Leave me alone: In order to make first contact with anyone you don’t know, you must first succeed on a will save.
In The World’s Richest Country. If you are in any way affiliated with the state (this includes having the benefits of a Government Grant or We Do Not Sow) people will never be satisified with what you do, rather whining about shortcomings, and any quest bonuses are voided.
Rake-Fish: A dangerous, putrid undead trout living in remote mountain lakes. If you manage to catch one of the Rake Fish, you can try to eat it, but that requires a saving throw against curses. If you successfully eat the Rake Fish, you get 500XP, if you fail, you get Botulism.
Raspeball: This ball of ground potato and flour has a local variant in every settlement of the land, usually with its own name.
Gutta på Skauen: If reduced to 0 HP during an encounter, you may immediately withdraw to the nearest wilderness area instead of being knocked unconscious. If your opponent is later defeated, either by your own allies or someone else, you may emerge from your hiding-place and declare victory as if you had been involved in the encounter all along – with a full share of XP and loot.
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Tåkeprat: You gain a +5 circumstance bonus to any bluff check made to avoid answering a question, by engaging in “tåkeprat” for an exceedingly long time talking tangent nonsense, making it seem as if you’ve answered the question. Other characters can neither react with hostility or friendliness as a result of the answer. Aka “Fogspeech”
The dungeon of Jante: In this dungeon all the monsters are level 2. The monsters ignore any adventurers of level 1 or 2 entering the cave. But anyone who claims to be level 3 or higher will be not be tolerated.
Birkebeiner: The stat effects of middle age are +1 Dex, Con, Cha; -1 Str, Int, Wis instead of the normal adjustments.
Trønder Rock! This rare artifact stone can only be used when you are reduced to 0 HP. Produce the Trønder Rock and howl «ÅÅÅÅ-ÅÅÅ-ÅÅ» as loudly as you can. For each party member that replies «Levvå Livet!», gain 1d4 HP (This can only be used once per session, and your character has to wear a leather vest and bolo tie for the rest of the session)
Inferiority issues. Don’t mind us, we’re just, here and… uhm, hope this wasn’t your seat.
Horrible pronunciation: Regardless of points spent, you will never be able to pronounce foreign languages correctly. This gives you a -2 charisma reaction speaking the language, however you only spend 1/2 the amount of required points and time to learn a new language.
Smalahove: A charred, smoked and boiled sheep’s head is served as a local celebratory dish. Enthusiasm is expected while eating this dish.
Once on the Eurovision Song Contest: a scruffy-looking bard seeks company. He offers vaguely racist tunes for entertainment.
The three part cooperation: All wages are agreed upon by the heroes union, the heroes employers association and the government once every second year. It’s useless and very unsocial to oppose this.
Trønder Rock

Lokalhistorie: Finding NPCs with proficiency in Knowledge (local history) is a trivial task, although this is at the expense of the availability of any other skilled NPCs.
Tur: When the party returns from a quest without finding any treasure or gold, they will claim that they were not on a quest, they were just out for a «Tur», instead. A lovely nature experience is just as rewarding as XP, and nobody ever lost any hitpoints from fresh air.
Hulderfolk: Nubile young women and attractive, bearded men encountered in the mountains should be checked for cow’s tails, otherwise the character risk being trapped within the mountain for at least nine years.
Bergtatt: (compulsion) [mind-affecting]. Whenever encountering a Troll, you have a % chance equal to your charisma to charming the Troll making him obsessed with kidnapping you away to his cave, inflicting no harm on you. Female only.
Cold? This isn’t cold!: You gain a +2 to your next save vs. cold or frost effects, by invoking that one time (probably back in ’86), when it was REALLY cold. Referencing an incident related to army service gives an additional +1, but only if you also make a point of showing how not cold it is (removing your hat or gloves, unzipping your jacket, etc).
Snowtanned: You are exceedingly white, giving you a +2 circumstance bonus on hide checks in snowy or otherwise white areas. However exposure to sun in temperatures above 25 degrees Celcius gives you a horrible sunburn after only 2 hours and a -4 dexterity adjustment. This will heal after 2d2 days if you remain out of the sun. After 3 sunburns you are immune to this effect for 1 month.
Karsk: Potion brewed by coffee and moonshine. -1 INT, +1 CON
You have outstayed your welcome. Not-very-subtle glares, silence and other social clues notify the party it’s time to leave. Failure to do so may result in ahem’s and throat claring unpleasantness. Better just leave.
No such thing as bad weather. Physique stunt. +2 to survive any weather hazard if dressed in good clothes.
Confiscated: all possesions worth more than 1000 GC will be confiscated on the border to pay for your wellfare services.
Drunk-at-arrival: When engaging in overland travel for more than 2 hours you must succeed a Will DC 18 save or arrive completely smashed at the scene. Traveling comfortably (i.e. not by your own effort) for more than 4 hours removes the saving throw completely.
Per Spelmann: You end up making a bad bargain while very drunk, trading your most valuable item for a cow.
Uføretrygded: If you choose not to heal and instead being permanently wounded you get 1000 gold pr. wound every session for the rest of your hero’s career.
Obnoxiously rich. Mild hindrance. -4 charisma when talking to people with less money than you.
Regional birthplace bonuses:Finnmark: +4 to ride skill when riding reindeer. +1 intimidate.
Nordland/Troms: +2 to perform joke. +2 to occupation fisherman.
Trøndelag: +2 on any alcohol related roll.
Namsos: +2 perform rock music.
Møre og Romsdal: +3 to barter related skills.
Oppland: +1 to attack and damage against trolls.
Sogn og Fjordane: +2 climb, +1 to charisma if lawful.
Hordaland: +20 feet range to sound related effects.
Hardanger: +2 perform hardingfele.
Telemark: +2 perform langeleik.
Stavanger: 10D6 extra starting money.
Jæren: +5 speed in flat terrain.
Agder: +2 knowledge religion.
Vestfold, coast: +2 navigate sailing boat
Vestfold, inland: +2 profession farmer
Østfold: +2 language: Swedish.
Hedmark: -2 intimidate, +2 to charm related skills and spells.
Oslo: Knowedge nobility and royalty +2. +2 gather information.
Svalbard: +2 saving throw against cold effects.
Kaare Berg asks to join your party as henchman. All is well. All manner of things are well.
Peer Pressure Vulnerability: Whenever 3 people or more agree on something you must succeed a DC 15 will save or state that you agree with them and comply with any requests or suggestions. You may later change your mind if no longer observed.
Reodor Felgen: Ancient wizard living on top of a cragged mountain. His minions are unholy hybrids of men and animals. Felgen is a master trapmaker and few adventurers survive the perilous climb to reach his lair. The only treasure there are his demented inventions and blueprints for doomsday devices.