filed under mechanics on 29 Oct 2016 tagged random chart, one roll, backstory, character, and python
Here’s a random table to see who your rogue (or starship mechanic or fighter or desperate client) owes and why and what’ll happen if they don’t pay up.
“Who Do I Owe”
Riffing on the idea of a “one roll” from Stars Without Number, roll a d4, a d6, a d8, a d10, a d12, and a d20 to see who you owe, why, what they’ll do about it, and when.
You owe the money to…
You owe the money because…
If you don’t pay up they’ll…
You have…
You know that one path to freedom is to…
Finally, there’s a wrinkle.
Finally, figure out how much you owe. If your system already has rules for this, use them. For a quick version, take the highest value from all of the dice you just rolled and multiply it by 100 or 1000.
If you’d like a little more flavor, or your wrinkle suggests you owe more than money, or if you’d like to owe something instead of money, add together the two lowest numbers you rolled and apply that number to the next chart. You still owe the value you already figured out; this just indicates what the person you owe is upset about.
You owe something more difficult to repay than mere money. You owe…
Now my rogues – who always owe somebody something – will have something more interesting in their backstories than “you owe d10x100 gold coins to Jabba the Hutt”.
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