Help me with "alien" flora & fauna


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Hi everyone!
I am running a campaign where my players have been caught in a shipwreck and the party is now trapped on an unexplored island. There is a total of 37 survivors (most of them are farmers and artisans) and the initial part of the campaign will be focused on them learning (most likely in a painful way) how to exploit the resources of the island in order to survive.

This island has a temperate weather and has an extension of more or less 300000 km^2. The eastern part of the island is mountainous and there are active volcanoes, from the mountains flows a very big river that cuts the island in half from east to west. Moving west from the mountains we have an hilly terrain rich in forests. the rest of the island is flat and is an alternation of grasslands and small woods. Where the river ends it forms a wide delta that turns into a swamp.

So, now I am looking for all sorts of strange things to populate this island! Trees, plants, animals, weird natural phenomena, everything that comes to your mind! To give you some examples I have a tree that produces fruits that once eaten will cover your flesh in pustules that will erupt in a cloud of spores (thats how the tree reproduces) and in reality the only edible part of the fruit is the seed, acid fog comes from the swamp and if you get caught inside it you will need heavy clothing or it will slowly burn your skin... Give me all your crazy ideas! :D
(also, sorry for my english, it's not my first language)


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Alien Plant Description Generator

Alien Plant Name Generator

You can probably come up with a hundred names and descriptions of plants in about an hour that do all kinds of fun things using these two generators.


Awesome! Theese two generators will surely help me a lot, thank you! It will be really amusing to see the party trying to figure out what they can do with theese random plants haha


Here's a thread that should help immensely:

1001 Inconseqential Flora and Fauna


Yeah there are lots of awesome ideas in that thread, thank you! I can easily make more than one island with all these creatures and plants.


You're welcome. Feel free to tell your players who got them in trouble later ;)

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I've also got a google docs form of that thread if you prefer to read it that way.

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