Yeah, the results could be presented neatly in tables or on a sheet of sorts, but I figured this form makes more sense as much of the content (and much of the fun in this booklet) is in prose anyway. Childhood and formative events are of course tied to their respective kin and professions.Īfter that is done, it prints the results in prose so you can do what you will with the character. On d66 tables, the intended odds were preserved (so you have 4 chances out of 36 to become a druid for example). In the background all it does is to roll through all tables from pages 3-23 of the Legens & Adventurers booklet, and through typical nicknames, Pride, Dark Secret, Silver and Resource Dice from pages 23-30 of the Player’s Handbook. It’ll automagically roll up a random character, complete with the tale of its life, attributes, skills, talents, equipment and more. So I went a bit deeper and, long story short, I wrote my own random character generator script, the “simple” way: not coding a full-fledged app, but with an online table generator. Well, I’m on lockdown because of the virus outside. Then Fabiano Neme (of Old Dragon fame) told me about taking random tables online with tools like Chartopia. Twice I coded my own character generating apps for Épico RPG and Barbarian Prince, but even for a superhero like me, those could take weeks. “I wish I had a random Forbidden Lands player character generator” This time I’ll go with three! So exciting.īut then I realized that, being new to the system, I spent nearly as much time rolling up a party of characters as I did running a few sessions, even with the random tables from Legends & Adventurers at hand. So I game a bit with these two characters, run a little mission here, defeat some bandits there, things look good, now we go down a dungeon and bam, they’re both dead. Look at this mess: T wo Forbidden Lands characters scribbled on a tiny notebook, because why not. The first time I did it by pencil on my notebook. The process is easy to use, but time consuming, particularly if you want to copy all the stories. This method does however span over at least 20 pages. It’s very well written, and while the characters might not be super optimized, they feel very realistic. The Legends & Adventurers booklet has these magic tables that allow you to randomly make a character, complete with a fleshed out background and even plot hooks and equipment picked. That gets old quickly when you don’t own only one character (and in the difficulty level I like to play). In my efforts to run a little solo game of Forbidden Lands, after an early and unfortunate total party kill I faced the problem of rolling up all my characters again. In case you wanna skip the ramblings, go straight to the Forbidden Lands random player character generator thingy.
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