Random generic Fantasy background generator

[Grey Paladin]

When lacking a concept or seeking a challenge I've always liked to roll stats for my characters and then fiddle with the results to create something unique out of them, recently I figured out that doing the same for all of the character's general details might be fun- this thread contains the results.

Notice that these rules are meant to provide a general outline that the player is supposed to color and adjust to his needs.

Any additions are welcome and encouraged.


Gender:
1D12
Even: Male
Uneven: Female

Height:
Male: 1'20 +1D8x10 +1D10
Female: 1'20+1D6x10+1D10

Weight:
Male: 50 k''g + 2D4 x6.5
Female: 40 k''g +2D4 x5.5

Age:
10D4, minimum 15.

Eyes:
1D6

1: Blue
2: Green
3: Brown
4: Bright, Roll again
5: Deep, roll Again
6: Roll twice more- Hybrid.

Skin:
1D6

1: Sickly pale
2: Very White
3: White
4: Tanned
5: Black
6: Very black

Hair:
-Length
1D6
1: Very short/bald
2: Short
3: Normal
4: Shoulder length
5: Back-length
6: Floor length

-Style
1D4
1: Straight
2: Wavey
3: Curly
4: CHAOS

Hair color:
1D8
1: Brown
2: Black
3: Blond
4: Red
5: Grey
6: White
7: Unusually dyed.
8: Roll twice, Hybrid!

Background:

Note: Wealth is relative to social class.

-Money
1D6
1: Very Poor
2: Poor
3: Normal
4: Wealthy
5: Very wealthy
6: Super wealthy

-Social
1D8
1: Slave
2: Serf
3: Peasant
4: Merchant
5: Minor Nobility
6: Nobility
7: Major Nobility
8: Royalty

Family:
-Parents
1D4
1: Both dead
2: Father dead
3: Mother dead
4: Both alive

-Siblings
1D4
1: Both
2: Sisters only
3: Brothers only
4: None

1D4 of each, 1D8 if only one is possessed.

-Sibling Death-
1D100

1-10: 1D8
11-31: 1D4-1
32-100: None

-Tutelage
1D12
1: Profession Apprentice, Lowly
2: Warrior's Apprentice
3: Priest's Apprentice
4: Academic, Poor
5: Academic
6: None
7: Academic, Good
8: Profession Apprentice
9: Profession Apprentice, Specialist
10: Wizard's Apprentice
11: Agent's Apprentice
12: Roll Twice

-Spirituality
1D6
1: Atheist
2: Slightly Spiritual
3: Spiritual
4: Very Spiritual
5: Anti-theist
6: Ignorant

Alignment:
1D10
1: Lawful Good
2: Neutral Good
3: Chaotic good
4: Lawful Neutral
5: True Neutral
6: Chaotic Neutral
7: Lawful Evil
8: Neutral Evil
9: Chaotic Evil
10: Reroll

-Love
1D6
1: None
2: Yes, but lost
3: Yes
4: Multiple
5: Multiple, but lost
6: Multiple, one remains

Personality

Roll 6 times
2D20

2: Psychopath
3: Nice
4: Hot headed
5: Emotional
6: Lonely
7: Depressed
8: Passive-Aggressive
9: Sarcastic
10: Humorous
11: Funny
12: Scatter-brained
13: Perky
14: Optimist
15: Pessimist
16: Loyal
17: Treacherous
18: Deceitful
19: Honest
20: Uncaring
21: Empathic
22: Focused
23: Serious
24: Lacks a sense of humor
25: Shy
26: Proud
27: Confident
28: Cowardly
29: Brave
30: Unconfident
31: Calm
32: Rude
33: Obsessive
34: Jealous
35: Thinks side-ways
36: Pacifist
37: Creative
38: Bloodthirsty
39: Roll Twice
40: Roll Thrice

Reroll conflicting traits.

[sigurd]

Nice enough set of tables. My only comment would be do you really want everything equally wheighted?

sigurd

[Mando Knight]

Height:
Male: 1'20 +1D8x10 +1D10
Female: 1'20+1D6x10+1D10

Weight:
Male: 50 k''g + 2D4 x6.5
Female: 40 k''g +2D4 x5.5

Is the height in meters or feet? If it were 120cm + (10(1d8) + 1d10)cm, I would understand, as I would 2 ft 08 in + (1d8 x 10 + 1d10) in.
Not labeling your units is quite confusing. It ruined more than one US space probe.

Nitpicky: I've never seen kilograms abbreviated k"g...

Also, this seems to be only good for humans... elves, dwarves, and other fantasy races have different age, weight, and height spreads than humans.

[Grey Paladin]

Sigurd: Thanks, and could you please explain the 'equally weighted' comment? I fail to understand what you mean.

Mando Knight: Yeah, I'm using meters.

I could write charts for other races, but so far it seems no one around here would be interested in actually using them so I'd prefer to save myself the effort until someone in my group needs them.

[Ghal Marak]

I gave it a test drive here. To summerise, these are the results I got.

The character is Female. Stands 1'32cm tall. Weight is 62 kg. Is 28 years old. Her eyes are Brown. Her skin is Very Black. Her hair is Floor length, and it's style is wavey. Colored Grey. She is wealthy, and is Minor Noblility. Her mother is dead. No siblings. Despite being Nobility, she has little academic prowess. She is Anti-theist. Alignment Lawful Good. She has no great love. Her personality is: Shy, Humorous, Loyal, Confident, Focused, and Pessimist.

Hmm. It works pretty good. I like it. Randomness opens the way for very funny combinations.

[DracoDei]

There are random Height/Weight charts in the 3.X PHBs for the races in there.

[Zeta Kai]

Nice charts, GP. I actually came up with a similar set of tables for demons, so as to make them more randomized & varied.