A silly little character generator thing
Dec. 7th, 2018 05:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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A while ago I started working on a little widget to generate random first level Pathfinder characters - not fully mechanically elaborated, but with enough to get you started, and with a little biography that’s supposed to both cohere with the character’s stats and with itself. I never completed it, never ironed out the kinks, and you’ll find that there's a lot of repetition and red-text placeholders. Still, I think it has value greater than zero, and in ways that aren’t covered by existing random character generators, and I don’t know when I’ll get around to actually going back and completing it (maybe never? maybe when I get back to wanting to focus on JavaScript? maybe if y’all’re inexplicably enthusiastic?) so I'm posting it here.
If I were to revisit it in a major way, I'd want to expand any of (1) the range of backgrounds and overall sorts of characters it creates, (2) the mechanical depth into which it goes, and/or (3) the options for what kinds of characters it generates (random civilian NPC, PC of class tier X and point budget Y, maybe even choosing a canonical world or two to fit the lore to); since these compound on one another I'd probably be most likely to focus on (1), although (3) is tempting. Anyway, let me know if you have any thoughts, or simply if you find one of these stupid characters amusing. :)
A while ago I started working on a little widget to generate random first level Pathfinder characters - not fully mechanically elaborated, but with enough to get you started, and with a little biography that’s supposed to both cohere with the character’s stats and with itself. I never completed it, never ironed out the kinks, and you’ll find that there's a lot of repetition and red-text placeholders. Still, I think it has value greater than zero, and in ways that aren’t covered by existing random character generators, and I don’t know when I’ll get around to actually going back and completing it (maybe never? maybe when I get back to wanting to focus on JavaScript? maybe if y’all’re inexplicably enthusiastic?) so I'm posting it here.
If I were to revisit it in a major way, I'd want to expand any of (1) the range of backgrounds and overall sorts of characters it creates, (2) the mechanical depth into which it goes, and/or (3) the options for what kinds of characters it generates (random civilian NPC, PC of class tier X and point budget Y, maybe even choosing a canonical world or two to fit the lore to); since these compound on one another I'd probably be most likely to focus on (1), although (3) is tempting. Anyway, let me know if you have any thoughts, or simply if you find one of these stupid characters amusing. :)
