Re: Sermil and the Banter of Randomness: Random Banter #228
Originally Posted by sktarq
Y'all tried developing semi_random NPC generating tables to help with this? I highly recommend it. Can feed some really good creativity in making the random fit into the world (and off course the tables get tweaked as needed)
Excel with a random integer pull from list on separate sheet is a really good easy way to set these up. (so one sheet is your rack of options each of which pulls randomly from a list a second sheet is just a set of those ists) Can just drop new adjusted lists for things like ethnicity, gender balance (so have a list of 100 say, and the number of lines with "male" equals your chance of a male figure filling the roll...which may be 50 in some situations but more or less in others...plus you can toss in non-binaries and notes as suits your fancy), eye colour, hair, hair style...
To be fair, they didn't mind, it was just a habit I'd not really realized I'd fallen into, so that lead to some light teasing. I'm more conscientious about mixing things up now.
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