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Sunday, June 9, 2019

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.

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