bobcat_grad
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Hi all.
Attached to this post is a NPC personality and background generator I put together. I'm putting together a campaign that's starting in a week, and the last thing I had on my plate was bringing some of locations to life with some NPCs. I looked around for a while for NPC generators, but didn't find anything I really liked. I came across Ash’s Guide to RPG Personality & Background (found at Ash Guide to RPG Personality & Background :: The Guide) and realized that was the framework I wanted for my NPCs. So, I put together this app to take a good portion of his approach (along with a few extra things I put in). The result is the ability to create a full NPC background and personality framework in 1 click:
[FONT="]Name:[/FONT][FONT="] Geoffrey[/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT][FONT="]Occupation:[/FONT][FONT="] Armorer Birthplace: Large Coastal Port
Socioeconomic Class: Upper Middle Class Reputation: Unknown
Primary Motivator: Discovery/Adventure - To explore, uncover mysteries, and pioneer
Emotional Disposition: Apathetic Moodiness: Ever Changing
Quirks: Eavesdropping, Hair pulling, Sleeping in odd places
Hobbies: Horse riding, Invention, Storytelling, Boating/Sailing[/FONT][FONT="]
Core Traits:
Affinity: Cold - self absorbed, needy, greedy, stingy, uncaring
Boldness: Cautious - timid, paranoid, vigilant
Comportment: Discordant - gruff, critical, arrogant, crude, defensive, sanctimonious
Conformity: Conventional - orthodox, formal, down-to-earth, mainstream, traditional
Disclosure: Secretive - closed, mysterious, evasive, cryptic
Flexibility: Flexible - nonchalant, tolerant, forgiving, open-minded, adaptable
Impulsiveness: Spontaneous - capricious, flighty, hyperactive, rash
Integrity: Unscrupulous - lazy, deceitful, unreliable, manipulative, slipshod, impractical
Interactivity: Extrovert - engaging, talkative, listener, entertaining, touchy
Outlook: Pessimistic - cynical, bleak, distrustful, foreboding, resigned
Religious Details:
Association: Church - Generally an established, hierarchical organization
Adherence: Orthodox Adherent
Expression Of Beliefs: Constant
Tolerance: Tolerant[/FONT]
Some of the features include:
Attached to this post is a NPC personality and background generator I put together. I'm putting together a campaign that's starting in a week, and the last thing I had on my plate was bringing some of locations to life with some NPCs. I looked around for a while for NPC generators, but didn't find anything I really liked. I came across Ash’s Guide to RPG Personality & Background (found at Ash Guide to RPG Personality & Background :: The Guide) and realized that was the framework I wanted for my NPCs. So, I put together this app to take a good portion of his approach (along with a few extra things I put in). The result is the ability to create a full NPC background and personality framework in 1 click:
[FONT="]Name:[/FONT][FONT="] Geoffrey[/FONT][FONT="]
[/FONT][FONT="]Occupation:[/FONT][FONT="] Armorer Birthplace: Large Coastal Port
Socioeconomic Class: Upper Middle Class Reputation: Unknown
Primary Motivator: Discovery/Adventure - To explore, uncover mysteries, and pioneer
Emotional Disposition: Apathetic Moodiness: Ever Changing
Quirks: Eavesdropping, Hair pulling, Sleeping in odd places
Hobbies: Horse riding, Invention, Storytelling, Boating/Sailing[/FONT][FONT="]
Core Traits:
Affinity: Cold - self absorbed, needy, greedy, stingy, uncaring
Boldness: Cautious - timid, paranoid, vigilant
Comportment: Discordant - gruff, critical, arrogant, crude, defensive, sanctimonious
Conformity: Conventional - orthodox, formal, down-to-earth, mainstream, traditional
Disclosure: Secretive - closed, mysterious, evasive, cryptic
Flexibility: Flexible - nonchalant, tolerant, forgiving, open-minded, adaptable
Impulsiveness: Spontaneous - capricious, flighty, hyperactive, rash
Integrity: Unscrupulous - lazy, deceitful, unreliable, manipulative, slipshod, impractical
Interactivity: Extrovert - engaging, talkative, listener, entertaining, touchy
Outlook: Pessimistic - cynical, bleak, distrustful, foreboding, resigned
Religious Details:
Association: Church - Generally an established, hierarchical organization
Adherence: Orthodox Adherent
Expression Of Beliefs: Constant
Tolerance: Tolerant[/FONT]
Some of the features include:
- Picking origin of name like Dwarf, Evil Elf, Arthurian, High Elf, Egyptian, etc.
- Opting to keep certain values you like, so when you 'Generate' again, those values are not re-randomized.
- Picking how many Quirks you want to be generated
- Picking how many Hobbies you want to be generated
- A separate window to allow you to copy and past your generated NPC.
- Added random age along with the ability to choose lifespan based on type.
- Added the ability to generate up to 99 NPCs at once. There's a new button that takes in the number you input and will create that many NPCs and output it to the window that opens. If you hit Cntl-G on the window, all NPCs are coppied to your clipboard and you can paste them anywhere. Now you can generate a whole section of town in a few seconds if you wanted to.
- Added two options for displaying NPCs on the print out. You can now choose to see the Core Traits and/or Religion section or not.
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