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2024 Character Creation Challenge Day 2

31 DAY CHARACTER CREATION CHALLENGE

You can read more about the challenge here and here.

Dedicated to Niko whom once lamented “man you have SW in the scene for like 10 or more years and you cannot get a supplement with pregens.”

As mentioned in the first post, I plan to make 260 characters for Swords & Wizardry Complete. Since that's a lot of rolling, I'm writting scripts for Inspiration Pad Pro (IPP) and creating spreadsheets in LibreOffice Calc.

First step was to create a spreadsheet which rolls 20 attribute score sets, and lists their respective modifiers:

Next step will be to concatenate results to get output like:

STR: 14 (to-hit modifier: +1; damage modifier: 0; open doors: 1–2; carry modifier: +10 lbs)
DEX: 10 (missile to-hit modifier: 0; AC modifier: none)
CON: 11 (hp per hit die modifier: 0; raise dead survival: 75%)
INT: 13 (max additional languages: 3)
WIS: 13 (bonus xp: +5%)
CHA: 11 (max # of special hirelings: 4; retainer morale adjustment: 0; bonus xp: 0)

Having had enough of spredsheets, I turned to automating Arduin's Optional Character Appearance Chart with IPP.

“Regular” chart:

DIE ROLL HAIR EYES SCARS BIRTHMARKS PIGMENTATION EXOTIC THINGS
1 Light Brown Hazel None Crescent Light Tan None
2 Brown Light Brown 1” Star (5 point) Medium Tan Cyclopic Eye
3 Dark Brown Brown 1 1/2” Star (6 point) Dark Tan Six Fingered, Etc.
4 Auburn Dark Brown None Star (8 point) Milky White Double Thumbed
5 Red Grey 1/2” Triangle Caucasian Pointed Ears
6 Black Light Blue 1/4” “X” Amber Fang Mouthed
7 Blonde Blue None “Z” Pale Grey All Double Joints
8 Light Blonde Black 2” Snake Pale Blue Gills And Lungs
9 Dark Blonde Yellow 3” Bird Yellow White Webbed Toes, Etc.
10 Grey Light Green None Spider Pale Orange Two Hearts
11 Silver Green 4” Sword Pale Green Very Hairy
12 Golden Amber 5” Horns Pale Silver No Body Hair
13 Bald Aqua None Pentagram Pale Gold No Belly Button
14 Roan Violet 6” Circle Light Brown Hermaphrodite
15 Yellow Tan 7” Square Medium Brown Transparent Skin
16 Orange Gold None None Dark Brown Scaly Skin
17 White Silver 8” None Black Double Pupiled
18 2 Mixed ** Bronze 10” None Ochre Reptile Tongued
19 Grey / Mix ** Copper 1’ None Grey-Green Cat Clawed
20 * Special Special Special Special Special Tailed (d6’)

“Special” chart:

DIE ROLL HAIR EYES BIRTHMARKS PIGMENTATION
1 Purple Purple Wolf’s Head Metallic **
2 Green Orange Leaping Panther Half And Half **
3 Blue Pink Dragon Chequered **
4 Pink Scarlet Sun Disk Striped**
5 Scarlet Pupilless ** Ankh Fluorescent **
6 Saffron 2 Mixed ** Thunderbolt (d3) Chameleon Like
7 Maroon 3 Mixed ** Comet Pearlescent
8 Cyan Maroon Crown Purple
9 Magenta Cyan Heart Maroon
10 Lavender Magenta Griffon Cyan
11 Transparent Red Unicorn Scarlet
12 Tentacles White Pegasus Red
13 Quills Clear Lion Shiny Ebon
14 Feathers Metallic ** Raven Deep Blue
15 Crested Glowing ** Scythe Emerald Green
16 Horned No Eyes *** Hammer Gem Sparkled **
17 2 Mixed ** All Pupil ** Infinity Sigil Shifting Always **
18 3 Mixed ** Invisible **** Tree Lavender
19 Vipers Prismatic Flower (choice) Violet
20 Changeable ** Flaming ** Eye Prismatic

Footnotes:
* re-roll on the special chart
** roll for the colour(s)
*** born without eyes, sockets, and lids; 50' radar sense
**** eyes are present but it looks like empty sockets

Players are allowed to roll on however many columns they want. Although I want pregens to stand out a little bit (after all, they are supposed to be adventurers), I also don't want to create 260 freaks with exotic features.

Hence I made a small table to randomise number of appearance columns that get rolled on:

DIE ROLL HAIR EYES SCARS BIRTHMARKS PIGMENTATION EXOTIC THINGS
1–7 YES YES NO NO YES NO
8–12 YES YES YES NO YES NO
13–16 YES YES NO YES YES NO
17–18 YES YES YES YES YES NO
19–20 YES YES NO NO YES YES

Here are few test outputs:

Love the second roll. I imagine it as as guy with bald top of the head and then some small roan bushes to the side. GOld eyes and pale grey complexion for that slightly sickly look. Sounds like a perfect Magic-User.

Either way, enough for today.

#charactercreationchallenge

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