By Popular Demand: Random Cult Generator PDF

You can find it here.

Edit: Gender table provided by Chris Huth.  Go look at his stuff  now.  Also, he has a blog you should probably read.  I know Blair has talked about how awesome he is before, but he's awesome.

Random Cult Generator

I was looking through my new copy of Vornheim, and I became disappointed in the lack of a random cult* generator.**    So here is one I just made up:

The [Table A] of the [Table B] [Table C] -- Worships a [Table D]

Masculine terms are used whenever the word is gendered, but if the judge would prefer to have the cult worship a goddess or be an all female order he or she has only to change the gender of the noun.

Table A -- 1d20

1. Cult
2. People
3. Servants
4. Lovers
5. Friends
6. Followers
7. Faithful
8. Hearers
9. Mystes 
10. Masters
11. Teachers
12. Students
13. Slaves
14. Perfecti
15. Brotherhood
16. Cabal
17. Congregation
18. Temple
19. Order
20. Church

Table B -- 1d30

1. Blessed
2. Blood
3. Transcendent
4. Terrible
5. Silver
6. Gold
7. Electrum
8. Hateful
9. Glorious
10. Hidden
11. Burning
12. Sacred
13. Holy
14. Bloated
15. Fearful
16. Blinding
17. Unnamable
18. Voracious
19. Divine
20. Hideous
21. Blue
22. Red
23. Purple
24. Yellow
25. Green
26. Orange
27. Enlightened
28. Night
29. Omniscient
30. Unconquered 

Table C -- 1d20

1. God
2. Eye
3. Toad
4. Serpent
5. Worm
6. Maggot
7. Maw
8. Tongue
9. Phallus
10. Mask
11. Light
12. Fire
13. Dark
14. Idol
15. Star
16. Comet
17. Oyster
18. Hands
19. Angel
20. King

Table D -- 1d12

1. Strange aspect of a mainstream deity
2. Delusional NPC
3. Powerful undead entity (lich, vampire, crypt thing, etc.)
4. Non-sapient monster (carrion crawler, peryton, oozes, etc.)
5. Non-magical idol
6. Construct (golem, animated statue, crazy-frankenstein thing, etc.)
7. Demon/Devil (1d6: 1-4 - minor demonic entity 5-6: demon lord or prince)
8. Powerful intelligent monster (medusa, dragon, beholder, etc.)
9. Dungeon
10. Constellation or star sign
11. Lovecraftian entity (1d6: 1-4 -- Independent Race 5: Great Old One 6: Outer God)
12. Ephemeral concept (love, hate, death, etc.)

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* Technically a cult is any religion that venerates one god above others, making 99% of clerics cultists; however, this definition is really terrible when applied to how the word cult is used by most people.  For the purposes of these tables a cult is a religoin that does not actually worship a god of goddess but thinks it does. In some systems this definition would mean that the cult should not have clerics.  That's perfectly fine, if not desirable.  The upper echelons of the cult should be filled out with magic users or anti-clerics, whichever makes more since with your chosen system.

**Vornheim is otherwise an excellent product.  Cults are just something I shove in everywhere. 

Random (Men's) Names

Here are some names I've used in my campaigns due to their rough historical authenticity.  A quick scan will reveal some are spelled wrong and that others are anglicized versions of the actual names.  Still, they're close enough for me.

Male (Monotheist) Names (1d30)
1 -- Lothair
2 -- Bohemund
3 -- Tancred
4 -- Baldwin
5 -- Notker
6 -- Einhard
7 -- Willem
8 -- Robert
9 -- Roger
10 -- Richard
11 -- Drogo
12 -- Anselm
13 -- Harold
14 -- Jacob
15 -- Odo
16 -- Oderic
17 -- Carloman
18 -- Charles
19 -- Guy
20 -- Adhemar
21 -- Walter
22 -- Frederick
23 -- Pepin
24 -- Clovis
25 -- Gregory
26 -- Dominic
27 -- Urban
28 -- Leo
29 -- Henry
30 -- Stephen

Male (Pagan) Names 1d30
1 -- Clodivec
2 -- Ludivec
3 -- Randwulf
4 -- Hrothgar
5 -- Werwulf
6 -- Unfirth
7 -- Ragnarr
8 -- Halfdan
9 -- Cnut
10 -- Aleric
11 -- Ulfilas
12 -- Athalric
13 -- Eraric
14 -- Offa
15 -- Raedwald
16 -- Penda
17 -- Aella
18 -- Hildibad
19 -- Harald
20 -- Athaluf
21 -- Sigeric
22 -- Wamba
23 -- Ardo
24 -- Thorismund
25 -- Horsa
26 -- Aethelstan
27 -- Bjorn
28 -- Ivarr
29 -- Guthrum
30 -- Hengst

I'm still working on a list of female names, but it will likely be smaller.  Naming conventions for women in the Middle Ages were, sadly, a bit more boring.  A joking (but somewhat accurate one) is given below.

Female names 1d8
1 -- Anor
2 -- Eleanor
3 -- Constance
4 -- Heloise
5-8 -- Matilda

Obviously this would result in a lot of confusion, but thats for you to figure out.