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GMs, are you pressed for time or struggling with burnout? The Medieval Character Generator provides a lot of information at the push of a button. Learn about a character's personal strength and weakness, reputation, influence, health, wealth, profession, and more - and then explain how the results fit together, skip entries you don't care about, or change whatever you'd like!
It doesn't take long to learn how to use these files and get the most out of RPGChartmaker. You can add entries, delete lists, change colors, and a lot more!
Here's a quick preview of what results look like.
Authors, are you trying to make a tertiary character come to life but drawing a blank? The Character Background Generator (Updated 12/27/2024!) swiftly generates:
where a character was raised
who raised them
if they had siblings (and how many)
their family's wealth and lifestyle
their family's reputation
major events for early life stages (childhood, teen years, and young adult)
how they got along with their parents, siblings, extended family, and friends
If you'd like to learn a character's romantic history, I have a generator for that, too.
Need quick details for a fictional gang, cult, or other organization? Writers and GMs, my NPC Group Generator is here for you! Spin up information like a group's size, age, type, reputation, influence, public and private goals, then adjust the results to suit your needs.
Let's look at a character I rolled up:
Age: Young Adult, Strength: Gregarious, Weakness: Envious
Reputation: Legendary, Power: Modest, Influence: A City
Health: Incredible, Hygiene: Pleasant, Impression: Belligerent
Wealth: Wealthy, Profession: Swineherd, Hobby: Inventing
Religious Attitude: Judgmental, Recent Event: Stole A Little Money, Desires: Higher Status
This character is a friendly young swineherd in his early twenties who yearns for more. He invents contraptions in his spare time, and one of them recently brought him fame and wealth when it won first place in a competition in the nearest big city. Now that he's making more money than ever before you'd think he'd be content, but he doesn't have a steady patron or connections yet. He envies others who have the social standing he believes he deserves, and he judges them harshly for their failings.
I can give him a name (or use the name lists and generators elsewhere on this site) and pop him into a game or story just like this, if I want to. But let's learn more about this character through the Background Generator:
He was raised in a poor praised family by calm foster parents.
He lived poorly in various places without siblings.
He had no contact with extended family and no friends.
As a child, he developed deep faith.
As a teen, he went into major debt.
Since he's currently a young adult, I ignored the result in that category.
Let's say his parents abandoned him and he doesn't know why. His foster parents found him when he was left as a toddler outside their wagon and couldn't track down his kin. They're poor and move often in search of better prospects, but they've done the best they can for him. His foster parents don't know that he went into serious debt with local gangs to finance his tinkering, but he paid it off with the prize money and gave his foster parents the rest. He follows a god of creativity and little else really matters as much to him, so he's putting every spare coin into his inventions. He'll be able to rebuild his wealth again soon with regular commissions, but in the meantime, he's stealing small amounts from clients who don't seem like they'll miss it and rub him the wrong way.
Perhaps the player characters in your D&D game will commission him to build something for them, and maybe they'll catch him pocketing something he shouldn't be.
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