NPC Gen Engine
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Hi everyone,
Current status of NPC Generator
I wanted to create a quick way to flesh out a NPC. At this point it will Randomly pick Race, Name, Stats w/ Race stat bonus, Class, random equipment that belongs to class, Gold, Deity/Alignment, and background w/ traits,ideal,bond, and flaw. And only requires the PHB to function. I'm still currently typing in all human names and have about a third entered. Learning the tables so that the text is formatted in a useful way was fun to figure out. Something I learned is when FG starts working a table it will go down the whole row and first display the texts enter into each cell. Then it will return to the front and then work the tables in that row. So even if you put the text behind a table the result will be the text are displayed before the all tables.
The tables can do simple math. Which is how the random stat works. Ex. STR [1d6+1d6+1d6] DEX [1d6+1d6+1d6] CON [1d6+1d6+1d6] INT [1d6+1d6+1d6] WIS [1d6+1d6+1d6] CHA [1d6+1d6+1d6] will generate a basic random roll. I don't know how much more complicated the tables can do. If in the future FG adds variables to the tables you will be able to do some really sick stuff.
One of my favorite things right now are when a half-elf is picked the engine will randomly select names from either elf or human names. The same goes for half-orc. Also the only way I could figure out alignment was to have it select a deity first then just default the alignment to that god/goddess. But it can select no deity and still randomly pick an alignment.
I have seen some really funky NPC's pop out and I think it just makes them more colorful and memorable.
Current Version is "NPC Gen Engine 1.5"
To use:
Load up the current version of NPC Gen Engine.com
Ensure PHB is loaded
Bring up the tables and the top two tables are
001 NPC Female Gen Engine
001 NPC Male Gen Engine
Roll either of those tables and it will generate a NPC into a story window.
It was fun and I will be loading the rest of the human names through out the week. I will also be looking into other tables to create.
DeadSeaCow