Inspired by Fantasy Flight Games' Deathwatch Role-playing Game's Space Marine Chapter Creation Tables, these tables let you roll up (or otherwise generate) your very own Necron Army. In the absence of any role-playing game featuring Necron armies specifically, this table is more or less entirely for the purpose of generating fluff.
Obsessed with either returning to the sensations and freedom of the flesh or embracing the ultimate strength of metal, leading to a galaxy wide search for a perfect vessel and a way to escape their own.
2
Malfunction leaves them controlled or influenced by a particular C'Tan shard (Deceiver, Night Bringer, Dragon, Outsider, etc).
3
Insane god killers and iconoclasts that believe they are still fighting the War in Heaven. Obsessed with completely destroying all gods (C'Tan shards, Ruinous Powers, the God-Emperor, Khaine, even Gork & Mork)
4
Still believe self to be of flesh and blood and fighting the wars of secession. Still fear own death and those of your subjects and vary tactics accordingly.
5
No memory of past at all and believe self to be a perfect construct. Have a bitter hatred of all life and set about eradicating it as completely as possible.
6
No memory of past at all but still sentient. Struggle to come to terms with new identity.
7
Have the memories of a common peasant dumped into an Overlord’s body by some mishap. Don’t know what happened to the mind of the actual Overlord of the Dynasty, but no one seems to realize you aren’t who they think you are.
8
The Overlord himself is damaged and undergoing extensive repairs still and has not yet awakened. However his royal courtiers rule in his stead each with differing ideas of what their master would want and whether or not they should even try to awaken him.
9
By some miscalculation every single one of the Necron warriors and lower ranks have perfect recollections of their former lives and are completely sentient. On the one hand, Bob the Immortal doesn't despair about his wife being a mindless drone. On the other hand, little Timmy who was tossed in at 4 has a few choice words for his parents.
10
The final order of the Silent King, to rebuild the great Necrontyr Dynasties, has overwritten every other drive of the Overlord and now they are set about making things exactly the way they were. EXACTLY as they were.
Becoming meatbags again through esoteric means that require biomass. Now if only the proper vessel can be found.
6-10
Hunting down C'tan shards and collecting them so that they cannot be used by those who do not understand them.
11-15
Helping the fractured C'tan in achieving unfathomable and dangerous schemes, possibly freeing shards to fuse them into a complete C'tan.
16-20
Enlarging an AI host by reprogramming other Necrons. Free will is only a construct. There will be only one true lord.
21-25
Converting all sentient lifeforms into Necrons. Death is only the beginning.
26-30
Stealing artifacts and the great works of the fledgling races as trophies to adorn their palace (Pirate-Crons)
31-35
ADVENTURING! It's a whole new galaxy out there.
36-40
Preventing other races from killing each other. By killing them first. Let them know how fortunate they are to be able to die and escape the unending suffering of life.
41-45
Hatred for all life. Only the dead shall know peace.
46-50
Leeching life-force from mortals, stars, and worlds and collecting souls for greater power.
51-55
Revenge against the Young Races who have forgotten the true rulers of this galaxy.
56-60
Testing and Science for curiosity's sake.
61-65
Regaining a glorious empire.
66-70
Doing the incomprehensible for seemingly unknowable reasons. Things like re-aligning suns, carving out planets, draining nebulas, and exterminating all troublemakers in the process.
71-75
Cast aside what remains of mortality and embrace eternity. The Necrodermis is strong where the flesh is weak.
76-80
Immortality is the only object of any worth, and true immortality still escapes them. They will find a way to escape the end of the universe itself.
81-85
Through those races who understand and can manipulate the Warp they seek to understand it so that they can destroy it.
86-90
Through those races who understand and can manipulate the Warp they seek to understand it so that they can use it for themselves and control the very powers the Old Ones once used against them.
91-95
Death is release and they have lived for so long...
96-100
They have lived for untold millenia and have lost more than Man can remember. Now they are the stewards of the galaxy and it is their responsibility to guide the young children so that they cannot make the same mistakes. Forcibly, if necessary.
Human – They must have something going for them to have spread this much in so little time in such a hostile galaxy.
26-40
Astartes – Living weapons made from humans, with modifications they could not only be a species but the most resilient, powerful, and successful race to meet the universe.
41-50
Eldar – Psychically gifted and nearly immortal. How ironic that the potential key to Necron salvation lies in the biology of your hated enemy.
51-65
Tau – You yearn not for a powerful body, simply a familiar one: warp-resistant yet free of your race's ailments, they may be perfect.
66-72
Orks – The savage Orks possess possibly the most resiliant biology in the universe, immune to age, resistant to sickness, and capable of shrugging off grievous injury. Their bodies will find far better use as vessels for the new Necrontyr.
73-85
Tyranid – You see that the Silent King’s perspective on the Tyranid swarm is flawed. They are not the obstacle, but the gateway to Apotheosis. It lies waiting somewhere in the biology in one of the countless bioforms.
86-90
Other – You see potential where nobody else sees it, in one of the less prominent races of the galaxy (roll on the table below).
91-100
None – For one reason or another you don’t seek the return to flesh. Perhaps you see fit to simply work to repair the negative effects of your current body, perhaps you simply see no downside or that flesh is weak and unworthy, or you may think you still have your last one. Regardless, you have no interest in changing bodies.
