Starting the challenge as I described earlier with the original. Truth be told I never played using the Little Brown Books, they were out of stock in the game shop in Superior Wisconsin, so I bought Chivalry & Sorcery instead. I picked up PDFs of them a couple of years ago, legally I think. Anyway, from page 10 of Men & Magic the DM - not the player rolls the stats and and additional 3d6*10 roll for starting money. Pretty simple.
I'm using a variation my friend Jim Parker uses in his games, roll 3d6 in order, but do it three times and select the best roll for each stat. Yes, I'm going to run a spreadsheet for character generation.
In order to round out the characters backgrounds, I'm going place them with in my version of the City State of the Invincible Overlord. Here goes:
On my City State background table, I roll a 98 and get an Amazon!
Name: Kresida Class: Fighter
Strength: 18 Intelligence: 14 Wisdom: 14
Constitution: 10 Dexterity: 7 Charisma: 13
Gold Pieces: 130 Experience: Nil
She has blonde hair, pale white skin and amber eyes. She speaks Amazon, an language descended from Slyvan and Elvish as well as Common. With her background as an Amazon, no further rolls need to be made to place her within the society of the Wilderlands.
With her good roll for starting gold, she buys "Chain-type Mail", a Composite Long Bow, Quiver of Arrows and Sword to handle combat, then a backpack, 50 feet of rope, 3 stakes and a mallet, 6 torches and a week's worth of Iron Rations. Spending 124 of her 130 gold.
She has one d6 + 1 hit points, rolled a 5 so HP = 6.
Final stats are
Name: Kresida Class: Fighter
Strength: 18 Intelligence: 14 Wisdom: 14
Constitution: 10 Dexterity: 7 Charisma: 13
Gold Pieces: 6 Experience: Nil
Hit Points: 6 Armor Class: 4
She hits Armor Class 9 (no armor) on a throw of 10 and all of her weapons do 1d6 damage.
Excellent! I am doing D&D 0 this weekend.
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