Campaign Setting

[Hel]

I once played a campaign setting where every aspect of character creation was dice rolled.
your race, class, looks, history, flaws, and such. everything.

Does anyone know what it is?

It was great, one guy ended up some red headed step child abused by aunt and uncle. He ended up a cook, on a ship, yet suffered from a fear of water. One guy ended up a yeoman, which i guess was like a fighter...
It was like 6-7 years ago, so I cant remember what it was.

I'm pretty sure it was a D&D based campaign, I think we used the normal D&D char sheets and all.

[gdmcbride]

I once played a campaign setting where every aspect of character creation was dice rolled.
your race, class, looks, history, flaws, and such. everything.

Does anyone know what it is?

It was great, one guy ended up some red headed step child abused by aunt and uncle. He ended up a cook, on a ship, yet suffered from a fear of water. One guy ended up a yeoman, which i guess was like a fighter...
It was like 6-7 years ago, so I cant remember what it was.

I'm pretty sure it was a D&D based campaign, I think we used the normal D&D char sheets and all.

Sounds homebrew.

Warhammer has you roll for careers. Cyberpunk and Traveller have extensive lifepath systems for char gen (but they're not fantasy per se). Famously, in Traveller, you can even die before the game begins. You can't die in Cyberpunk, you can just end up maimed, wanted and despised by most of the population. Death ... that comes later.

If I recall, there have been a number of 3rd party supplements through out the years that have taken a Traveller-esque life path system and applied it to D&D with varying degrees of success. But the name of those products are eluding me at this moment.

Gary

[Hel]

Thats what I figured. I've been looknig for ever, and never found anything.

[Farcaster]

Sounds wild, whatever it is. And, I seem to remember being able to die during character generation in an early edition of Cyberpunk. I could have sworn that I remembered seeing that on a chart somewhere in that game.

[PhishStyx]

Sounds wild, whatever it is. And, I seem to remember being able to die during character generation in an early edition of Cyberpunk. I could have sworn that I remembered seeing that on a chart somewhere in that game.


I know that in the DC Universe RPG, you can die (technically it's becoming "One" with the Speed Force, but SSDD) if you end up with Speed Manipulation at a high enough level.

[Hel]

Sounds wild, whatever it is. And, I seem to remember being able to die during character generation in an early edition of Cyberpunk. I could have sworn that I remembered seeing that on a chart somewhere in that game.

Yeah, in cyberpunk, you could die in creation. This version that I played you couldn't but it had pretty much everything else in it. You could be retarded, or your whole family could be, or you could have been sold as a baby, or any other crazy idea you can think of. You had a list of phobias, and you could roll on it ten times and be scared of just about everything...

[MortonStromgal]

Warhammer FRP 2e and Hackmaster both fit a good chunk of that bill

[Moritz]

In Marvel Super Heroes RPG, you can roll up every aspect of your character. Skills, Flaws (in some supplement), Powers, Personality, Contacts, etc.