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Fish · 09-01-2009, 03:22 PM

I only listed those items in the order that they occurred to me, not in any particular order of preference.

As for hair color and eye color, that's really based on ethnicity, which is not the same as nationality. That might a little trickier; I could generate a few basic hair/eye tables like "Mediterranean complexion," "African complexion," "Caucasian," "Germanic," "Slavic," and so forth, and let the user figure out when to apply each.

I suppose if someone were feeling really ambitious they could convert the randomizer into an Excel-compatible spreadsheet with lookup tables and probabilities; that would make it easier to build a bunch of interrelated tables.

09-01-2009, 03:22 PM	#24
Fish Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: NPC random statistics roll chart? I only listed those items in the order that they occurred to me, not in any particular order of preference. As for hair color and eye color, that's really based on ethnicity, which is not the same as nationality. That might a little trickier; I could generate a few basic hair/eye tables like "Mediterranean complexion," "African complexion," "Caucasian," "Germanic," "Slavic," and so forth, and let the user figure out when to apply each. I suppose if someone were feeling really ambitious they could convert the randomizer into an Excel-compatible spreadsheet with lookup tables and probabilities; that would make it easier to build a bunch of interrelated tables.