Dreamlands: Random Character Backgrounds

Following on from my recent post on B/X character backgrounds, I thought I'd share the one-page PDF I've made for players in my upcoming dreamlands campaign.

One of the concepts of the campaign is that adventurers from virtually any possible world can enter the dreamlands -- thus there is essentially no "campaign setting". The point of this is two-fold:

1. To give players complete free reign over the character they create, with no limitations imposed by the DM's preconceived notions of a campaign world.
2. To encourage an odd mashup of characters. Just for fun.

So, we could have a cleric of St Cuthbert, straight out of Greyhawk, teaming up with a star-faring barbarian and a clockwork dwarf from a steampunk maze-world.

To this end I thought it'd be helpful to produce some random tables for players who like random character generation to roll on. So we have tables for the following:

• Sex
• Sexuality
• Skin colour
• Cultural origin
• Religion

These are, obviously, heavily influenced by Jeff's What Went Wrong.


Here's the PDF.

Recommended for use with JB's B/X Headgear and 100 Reasons tables.