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Weird and Wonderful Names

Here’s a list of item names taken from the card game Bodgers: Infernal Contraption & Sabotage. I have no idea what any of them could be, but they are inventive sounding terms. Perfect to spout preposterously during games with appropriately grandiose gestures.*

Power Sources:

Clockwork Apparatus
Pressure Cooker
Coil Springs
Steam Boiler
Hydro Crank
Steam Turbine
Hyperbaric Crucible
Storm Chamber
Impulse Pump
Voltaic Dynamo
Galvanic Charger
Geothermic Condenser
Omni Generator
Amphortic Multiplier
Phase Transducer

Contraptions:

Arcane Mill
Arcantric Funnel
Chthonic Grinder
Entropic Processor
Flux Inducer
Incantric Disposal
Inertial Neutralizer
Infinity Drive
Mekano Scales
Polarity Stabilizer
Quantum Vacuum
Radiometric Disruptor
Resurrection Well
Subharmonic Resonator
Viscous Siphon
Temporal Compactor
Redolent Remunerator

Upgrades:

Ionic Coil
Overdrive Widget
Overpower Samoflange
Positronic Crankshaft
Pneumatic Processor
Torque Sublimator
Cascade Valve
Wind-up Accumulator
Heat Sink

Consumables:

Alignment Regulator
Arcane Conveyor
Barometric Boomerang
Diabolic Devourer
Equalizer Engine
Improbability Matrix
Magneto Claw
Omega Laser
Paradox Converter
Pulse Conductor
Recycler Circuit
Ultrasonic Transmogrifier
Bifurcation Conduit
Polyphonic Lubricator
Autotronic Overhaul
Pneumatic Shredder
Redirection Junction

Sabotages:

Kinetic De-stabilizer
Matter Disintegrator
Exothermic Reactor
Aether Screw
Reflex Trigger
Gremlin Sphere
Hermetic Corrosive
Inductive Repeater

*”Behold cretins! my Hyperbaric Quantum Collapser”

Stuck-for-a-name? Generator:

Roll once or twice on the adjective column, then once on the device column. Finaly, either add the name of the inventor, a word describing the actual function of the device, or both.

d10 Adjective Device
1 Vulcanized Engine
2 Patent Apparatus
3 Steam-Driven Automaton
4 Reinforced Machine
5 Marvelous -vator
6 Perpetual Generator
7 Automated Assemblage
8 Clockwork Instrument
9 Repeating Contraption
10 Electrified -omatic

Also heres a link to a site dedicated to unusual terminology and scientific jargon: http://phrontistery.info/instrum.html

Article #664 by TT on September 15, 2010 @ 12:48 PM

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