Divine Fallacy [random table]

 

As the video shows [the video], I've decided to make a random table that better replicates actual creation.  When human beings attempt to play God, it usually goes awry.

We tend to think of things logically and from a top-down perspective.  What's the shortest route between two points?  But human beings, emblematic of creation, doesn't work like that.  We are not machines to be programed, hacked, and placed within the greater whole, nor are we beasts of flesh driven by desire, chemical reactions, and hormones.  

Not only would this go great with my eldritch, gonzo, science-fantasy, post-apocalypse, humor, sleaze, pop-culture, and grindhouse exploitation campaign setting CHA'ALT, but similar RPGs and settings.

Roll on the following table to determine just how things have gone pear-shaped...

Substitute Gods

1. Bureaucracy!  Whatever it is needs an extra layer of complication to circumvent.  
2. As it stands, the thing lacks a true connection to the divine.  It's missing God.
3. Too religious; it's just overly preachy or self-flagellating or superstitious.
4. Byzantine to the point where obscurity and labyrinthine misdirection become the point.
5. Humanoids are not islands, we are social creatures, as well.  It lacks any sense of community.
6. It's driven by social contagion.  Rather than performing its primary function, it has become merely a social outlet.
7. This thing fails to account for self-sabotage.  It's become an exercise in repeatedly kicking oneself in the nuts.
8. Three steps forward, one step back.  Constant progress is impossible.  If things are always "getting better" that usually means that somewhere, somehow things (big, important things) are actually getting worse.
9. Self-loathing.  It's easy to forget that we are sometimes our own worst enemy.  Most people fail to see that we hate ourselves and it shows.
10.  The Gods secretly hate us.  They never grant a benefit without taking something else away from us.
11. Everything comes down to sex.  If it can be used to fuel our lust and degeneracy, it will be.
12. Nature curves - eventually, ideas, concepts, and principles in favor of "A" will, one day, be ferociously against "A."
13. People are motivated by fear - whatever they're most afraid of will soon become their master.
14. High levels of intelligence and wisdom are rare.  It's more likely that a calculation error was made at the very beginning... making the entire thing erroneous. 
15. Betrayal!  Just as Jesus had Judas and Caesar had Brutus, so too will someone towards the top come along and betray the group or just the leader.  Either way, one person's actions will be the thing's undoing.
16. Progress moves too quickly creating a slippery slope... what seemed impossible at the beginning is now all too real.
17. It goes too far - the initial concept was good, but it managed to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
18. The old ways are best - but not always!  Sometimes, actual progress is at hand, yet conventional wisdom and/or conservative values simply get in the way.
19. Humanoids like to put their faith in false Gods; the idols of high-tech, science, artificial intelligence, or anything that tries to prove something one way or the other turns out to also be a bad idea more often than not.
20. Roll twice!

Well, there you have it, folks.  A random table that both replicates the divine and human attempts to mirror the divine.  Basically, it's a miracle the human race has survived at all.

Thanks for reading,

VS