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Last year, I worked on an old school random character generator. With my new found interest in B/X D&D and the Moldvay equipment list in particular, I found it necessary to differentiate between Basic D&D prices and Labyrinth Lord prices. The most important price difference is the price of plate armor. No first level character can afford it when using Labyrinth Lord rules: starting gold is 240 at most and plate armor costs 450.
on an old school random character generator
Here’s how to generate those characters (note that Moldvay is the default):
statistics on the characters generated
And here’s the same thing using Labyrinth Lord prices:
statistics on the characters generated
Don’t forget, the source code for the random character generator is available as well (Perl 5).
The names are picked from the list of given names from the city of Zürich, Switzerland, 2012. If you’re generating 50 compact characters they come with random age, random gender and two random traits (German alternative).
list of given names from the city of Zürich, Switzerland, 2012
#RPG #Old School #Character Sheet Generator
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The generator now also computes the reaction bonus correctly.
– Alex Schroeder 2013-02-22 17:44 UTC
