Rabbit Holes

So I've been doing some soloplay in the City State of the Invincible Overlord - and I came to a place where I need to generate a number of NPCs travelling together.  This got me wondering about the make up of the human population of the City State.  Which lead me down this rabbit hole.

In addition to the information scattered and repeated in the classic City State booklets, I found a pdf about the languages of the City State of more recent origin.  I thought at the time that it was a preview of the updated Players Handbook - now I'm not so sure, so I'm not going to link directly to it.  I did use it create a list of human languages commonly spoken in the City State, which forms the Culture/Primary Language column of my Backgrounds table.  I added an Abbreviation column for cross referencing the culture to the Hair, Skin and Eye color tables.

Besides that I wanted to add color by having each culture have their own naming style.  There are lots of random name generators on the web,  I even wrote my own for a previous campaign that I'll use for the Altanian, Viridistan and Amazon names.  For the others, I usually go to Fantasy Name Generators.

Height and Weight Adjustments refer to some character generation tables out of Chivalry & Sorcery that I use when fleshing out physical descriptions.  The adjustments don't change the range of the results, just the probabilities of a character being short, fat, tall, skinny etc.

Backgrounds

Roll	Culture/ Primary Language	Abrv	Naming Style	Height Adjust	Weight Adjust
01-36	Common	C	English Renaissance	0	0
37-61	Tharbrian	T	French Renaissance	0	-1
62-74	Altanian	Alt	Early German	+1	+1
75-83	Skandik	S	Norse	+2	+2
84-90	Duneal	D	Celtic	-1	-1
91-94	Viridian	V	Latin	-1	+1
95-97	Antillian	Ant	Spanish Renaissance	0	-1
98-99	Amazon	Am	Classical Greek	0	-1
100	Orichalan	O	Amerind	-2	-2

Hair, Eye & Skin Colors – the Ready Ref Sheets supplement has a set of tables for creating descriptions of females.   I would say is that Bob Bledsaw had a target market in mind when he wrote them up.  Inspirational, rather than something I would use out of the box.

I expanded them to apply to all humans, not just the girls and weighted them so that people with the same cultural background will tend to have similar tones - but individuals from any group can, in the end, have any combination. 

Hair

Color	C	T	Alt	S	D	V	Ant	Am	O
Black	01-14	01-20	01-10	01-05	01-12	01-10	01-25	01-20	01-50
Brunette	15-29	21-40	11-25	06-10	13-17	11-20	26-45	21-25	51-65
Brown	30-45	41-60	26-40	11-15	18-22	21-35	46-65	26-30	66-75
Chestnut	46-59	61-69	41-60	16-20	23-27	36-50	66-75	31-33	76-80
Auburn	60-65	70-72	61-65	21-30	28-30	51-60	76-79	34-35	81-85
Red	66-68	73-75	66-68	31-40	31-32	61-65	80-82	36-45	86-87
Strawberry Blonde	69-73	76-78	69-73	41-50	33-44	66-70	83-85	46-55	88-89
Blonde	74-83	79-84	74-93	51-75	45-56	71-75	86-89	56-75	90-92
Platinum Blonde	84-87	85-87	94-96	76-85	57-68	76-80	90-92	76-85	93-94
White/ Gray	88-90	88-90	97-99	86-95	69-80	81-85	93-95	86-90	95-99
Exotic	91-00	91-00	00	96-00	81-00	86-00	96-00	91-00	00

Skin

Color	C	T	Alt	S	D	V	Ant	Am	O
Pale White	01-10	01-05	01-05	01-10	01-20	01-20	01-05	01-05	01-05
Fair	11-25	06-25	06-10	11-30	21-60	21-40	06-10	06-15	06-10
Bronze	26-37	26-45	11-19	31-50	61-80	41-45	11-30	16-25	11-15
Olive	38-52	46-65	20-39	51-60	81-82	46-50	31-50	26-45	16-35
Yellow	53-57	66-70	40-44	61-68	83	51-55	51-55	46-50	36-40
Light Brown	58-67	71-75	45-64	69-73	84-85	56-60	56-65	51-60	41-49
Red	68-77	76-80	65-84	74-80	86	61-65	66-70	51-65	50-54
Brown	78-82	81-85	85-89	81-85	87	66-70	71-75	66-70	55-59
Dark Brown	83-86	86-88	90-94	86-90	88	71-75	76-85	71-80	60-79
Ebony	87-90	89-90	95-99	91-95	89-90	76-80	86-95	81-90	80-99
Exotic	91-00	91-00	00	96-00	91-00	81-00	96-00	91-00	00

Eyes

Color	C	T	Alt	S	D	V	Ant	Am	O
Light Blue	01-06	01-08	01-10	01-20	01-12	01-02	01-05	01-12	01-05
Blue	07-16	09-20	11-25	21-40	13-24	03-07	06-10	13-24	06-11
Gray	17-26	21-30	26-40	41-60	25-36	08-10	11-15	25-36	12-16
Gray-Green	27-32	31-38	41-48	61-63	37-43	11-13	16-25	37-44	17-22
Green	33-42	39-50	49-63	64-68	44-55	14-18	26-40	45-56	23-29
Green-Brown	43-53	51-62	64-71	69-78	56-65	19-33	41-55	57-63	30-49
Hazel	54-70	63-74	72-86	79-83	66-70	34-53	56-70	64-68	50-69
Dark Brown	71-82	75-86	87-91	84-88	71-76	54-73	71-85	69-73	70-90
Red	83-85	87-88	92-93	89-93	77-83	74-78	86-90	74-75	91-96
Hetero- chromia *	86-87	89-90	94-95	94-95	84-88	79-80	91-95	76-80	97-99
Exotic	88-00	91-00	96-00	96-00	89-00	81-00	96-00	81-00	00

* Heterochromia is the condition where each eye is a different color

Exotic Colors etc

Roll	Hair	Skin	Eyes
01-10	Light Blue	Pale Blue	Purple
11-20	Blue	Blue	Orange
21-30	Dark Blue	Lilac	Lilac
31-40	Olive Grab	Purple	Black
41-50	Green	Orange	Gold
51-60	Lilac	Green	Silver
61-70	Purple	Fur (Roll for color)*	Copper
71-80	Striped (Roll Twice)	Feathers (Roll twice for colors)**	Dead white, including iris and pupil
81-90	Plumes (Roll for colors)	Scales (Roll for color)***	Cat's Eye Pupils (Roll for color)
91-00	Bald	Transparent	Faceted (Roll for color)

*Has a feline tail
**Has wings
***Part mermaid

Common – the primary trade language of the City State of the Invincible Overlord and the surrounding region. Characters with this background are a plurality within the City State and receive no special bonuses.

Tharbian – one of the three languages that Common developed out of. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Tharbian speakers tend to be thinner than most.

Altanian – one of the three languages that Common developed out of. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Altanian speakers tend to be taller and larger than average.

Skandik – the native language of the Invincible Overlord himself and the pirate people he springs from. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Skandik speakers tend to be much taller and heavier than most.

Duneal– the language of the foresters of Dearthwood. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Duneal speakers tend to be smaller and thinner than most.

Viridian– one of the three languages that Common developed out of and the language of the City State of the World Emperor. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Viridian speakers tend to be shorter and heavier than average.

Antillian– the trade language of the south seas. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Antillian speakers tend to be thinner than most.

Amazon– the language of the southern Amazon tribes. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Amazon speakers tend to be thinner than most.

Orichalan – the language of the people of the Moonraker Moors. People with this background receive Common as a free language, although if they have an intelligence penalty they really speak a horrible mishmash patois of the two. Orichalan speakers tend to be much smaller and thinner than most.