I need random tables for character background/destiny/story
Why don't we make one? We'll post simple backgrounds to fill a D100 table.
1: Apprenticed to a blacksmith.
2: Cursed by a witch.
3: Grew up on the streets.
4: Ran away and joined the circus.
5: Raised by the clergy.
6: Born into a family of merchants.
7: Grew up on the farm.
8: Kidnapped by goblins.
9: Orphaned by war.
10: Created by a mad scientist.
Once you've got enough you should be able to fill in a table and trim out the ones you dislike.
>>49530474
>>49530871
Love it
11. Born into a family of guards
12. Traded to fae by family
13. Twelfth child of a monarch
14. Raised in a tinker shop
15. Trap enthusiast
16. Child of an undertaker
17. Believes they came from the sky
18. Grew up near the sea
19. Descendant of a legendary hero
20. Found a moonlit stone in a forest
>>49530871
Destiny could be a separate table, though it might be more interesting to put it all together and simply roll two/three times for results.
1: Destined for greatness.
2: Born under a cursed sign.
3: Doomed to die a violent death.
4: Followed by a dark shadow.
5: Will attain all they desire, but always at the cost of something dear.
6: Chosen by the gods.
7: Favored by the trickster.
8: Harbinger of misfortune.
9: Their blood or their deeds will usher forth a new era.
10: Their fortune is obscured by the fates and unreadable.
>>49530999
21. Knows something they shouldn't
22. Grew up as the heir to a noble house
23. Hunted to survive
24. Child of a knight
25. Raised by race other than own
26. Raised by band of theives
27. Subject to arcane experimentation
28. Took to fighting at a young age
29. Alchemist prodigy
30. Raised in port town
>>49531069
31: Shanghaied by pirates.
32: Raised by wolves.
33: Escaped from slavery.
34: Apprenticed to a mage.
35: Washed ashore with no memory.
36: Fled an abusive household.
37: Sought refuge from crimes in a foreign land.
38: Child of a disgraced noble family.
39: Press-ganged into the military.
40: Found in a fallen comet.
>>49531168
41. Family burned in a mysterious fire
42. Was a member of a choir
43. Apprentice to a wizard
44. Found an ancient book once
45. Raised by single loving mother
46. Raised by single spiteful mother
47. Raised in a hippie commune
48. Found under an oak tree
49. Bred to be the perfect soldier
50. Grew up in a haunted house
>>49531325
51: Bedridden by illness for most of their childhood.
52: Unwitting accomplice to career grifters.
53: Escaped from prison.
54: Ostracized after a werewolf bite.
55: Repented their past crimes and joined the church after seeking asylum.
56: Hard of hearing housemaid mistakenly apprenticed them to evil cultists instead of aviculturalists (birdkeepers).
57: Adopted by the warrior who slew their parents.
58: Cared for by magical constructs atop an inaccessible tower until they day they found the courage to leap from the top.
59: Outcast from their family.
60: Stowed away in a merchant ship in hopes of seeing the world.
>>49531542
61: Fled an arranged marriage.
62: Disowned for dabbling in forbidden magic.
63: Died and was resurrected by a traveling priest.
64: Refugee from a destroyed frontier town.
65: Born with the mark of the dragon.
66: Illegitimate child of rival noble families.
67: Left their tribe and set off on a journey as part of their coming of age ceremony.
68: Is a woodland animal forced into their current form by fae trickery.
69: Branded for betrayal.
70: Is just really, really angry, all the time.
>>49532030
71. Promised to a demon
72. Parents murder by common thugs
73. Told they are a golem by caretaker
74. Raised as a pet by ogers
75. Blessed by a god
76. Worked as a stable-hand/kennelsman
77. Born during an eclipse
78. Attended the most prestigious school in the land
79. Fell in love with a member from a rival family
80. Left their temple on a pilgrimage to seek enlightenment
>>49532332
81: Was raised as the opposite gender and only recently told the truth.
82: As a child, swiped a treasure map that fell at their feet during a fight between bandit groups and has kept it hidden all these years.
83: Madly claims to be the ancient Emperor of a lost kingdom reborn. In truth they do have a distant claim to the bloodline and may only be feigning madness.
84: Spent most of their childhood imprisoned after being accused of a crime by a distinguished nobleman. Recent changes in attitude towards the treatment of child criminals has lead to their release.
85: Was secretly purchased by a noble family to take on the role of their recently deceased child, who the character bore a striking resemblance to.
86: Fled the destruction of their childhood home many years ago, but has since learned the dead rose as zombies and now seeks the strength to put them to rest.
87: Was apprenticed to a stage magician, but he became overcome with jealousy and cast them out when he discovered they had a talent for true magic.
88: Apprenticed to a renowned painter and sculptor, but found they had no artistic talent whatsoever.
89: Fell in love with a mermaid during a fishing trip, and sought training in magic in hopes of finding her once more.
90: Spins elaborate tales about the tragedy that befell their hometown; in truth they left because their tall tales kept getting them in trouble.
>>49533106
91. Abandoned in the Temple of [insert deity here] as an infant.
92. Adopted by fae beings after death of parents.
93. Reincarnation of a BBEG. Some scattered memories remain.
94. Was made into a phylactery of a lich.
95. Natural talent of enchanting items.
96. Only survivor of a town raided by hobgoblins.
97. Lived on the streets in a gang.
98. Ages backwards.
99. Child of peasantry that wishes to become noble.
100. Raised by a dragon.
>>49530474
Well ok
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