Oops, I Did It Again: Random PC Generator

[Tegyrius]

So there you are: waiting for the bus in the pouring rain after a long night of gaming during which you finally pushed your referee too far. In retrospect, the warning signs were there: shaking hands, a nervous tic at the corner of his eye, incoherent frothing rage every time a PC laughed off another 1d6 9mm round to the head. You knew he was tired of apparent PC immortality but you really didn't think he'd go as far as he did tonight. You never expected him to bribe Paul Mulcahy to stat up the RPC.

But it happened. Now you're cold, wet, slightly cranky, and trying to figure out what to roll up for your replacement character.

I'm here to help you.

Introducing the all*-new random Twilight: 2000 v2.2 player character generator. Select your preferences, click the button, and (assuming I debugged several thousand lines of code correctly) it will spew forth a complete player character, fully clothed and equipped and ready for post-nuclear adventuring. With at least 89,280 possible combinations, you'll never need to worry again about having a backup PC!

- C.

* Contains approximately 37.5% pre-used content from the starting equipment generator. Guaranteed gluten-free.

[The Zappster]

Another fantastic tool. Thank you

[Silent Hunter UK]

Great work. Please note this may not generate Britney Spears, even if that lady did once turn up in a campaign.

[Ursus Maior]

Thanks again for the inspiration work. I mean it. I have constructed many plots from random dots like these. It keeps me from repeating narrative patterns of my own to much.

[bash]

I received the following with the kit generator:

an insufficient 2d6 and a copy of Shadowrun 1st Edition

Solid. Gold.

[pmulcahy11b]

I generated a designated marksman wearing Luxembourger jungle fatigues. Not sure the Luxembourgers ever made those...and she has volumes 1 & 2 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Excellent!

[leonpoi]

As someone who is gluten free, I appreciate the consideration.

What a lovely thing you have made. Time to make some characters !

[Heffe]

This is really excellent. Thank you so much for this awesome resource!

[Tegyrius]

Thanks for all the kind words, gentlemen. I just posted some minor updates. Nothing major, just bug fixes and a few more noncombat role profiles.

Great work. Please note this may not generate Britney Spears, even if that lady did once turn up in a campaign.

She is, however, on the list of USO performers who may appear in my expanded encounter generator.

I received the following with the kit generator:

an insufficient 2d6 and a copy of Shadowrun 1st Edition

Solid. Gold.

Remember buying a Chessex brick of 36d6 for Shadowrun games Stuffer Shack remembers!

- C.

[bash]

Remember buying a Chessex brick of 36d6 for Shadowrun games Stuffer Shack remembers!

- C.

I had several bricks the Chessex mini D6s for Star Wars RPG, I think they were nominally for Warhammer, so I was well equipped for the random Shadowrun game. I still find those dice hidden at the bottom of boxes in my garage.

[Tegyrius]

Enhancements soft-launched over the last few weeks:

Expanded list of backgrounds.

Expanded lists of specialties for several combat and noncombat roles.

Added character appearance and personality traits.

Re-balanced attribute point allocations (work in progress).

Enhanced language allocation: native languages now appear in the stat block alongside all other skills and duplicate languages should no longer occur.

Generator now checks minimum allocations for certain key skills to reduce the likelihood of complete uselessness.

Added optional retro boot sequence.

- C.

[Tegyrius]

Some minor updates today:

• All Soviet characters now have some level of Language (Russian) proficiency.

• Incremental additions to both combat and noncombat role permutations.

• Added much more variety to American first name tables (female and male tables are each 200+ entries instead of about 20 each).

(Edit: If the generator is refusing to do anything when you click the "build and equip me" button, try clearing your browser cache. Thanks to Desert Mariner for a heads-up on an issue here.)

- C.

[Ckosacranoid]

...and the one thing everyone forgot on the list....everyone from mother Russia has great skill....but now no one can speak the language now.

Sorry, just had to leave something funny like that after you fixed some issues.

[Graebarde]

Good job....

[Tegyrius]

For all none of you who were asking for it, there's now a version of the generator for 4th edition PCs. The character history is a lot less verbose on this - more of sketchy notes or writing prompts than complete sentences. I got very tired of writing modular prose that my elementary (if not remedial) text parser could staple together.

- C.