NPC Description Tables
- October 25th, 2011
- By Mockingbard
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It was my birthday recently and my awesome wife made me some NPC Description Tables! <3
They’re some handy tables for generating various physical characteristics and behavioural traits of NPCs on the fly or during prep all contained on a single page. Choose results or roll once for each column. She didn’t design it to make coherent NPCs by reading across the rows, but I think you can get some pretty interesting ones by doing that too.
When rolling, for the large table roll a d6 twice and check the results in order, or roll two different coloured d6s. For the d8 tables, if you happen to have only a d6 handy you can just use that, as the results that a 7 or 8 would bring can easily be ignored as they are the least common.
Also, some results have a few choices, sometimes as opposites or alternatives (hairy/hairless) and sometimes to just give a little more choice (bandaged/stitched). When you get a result like this, choose whichever you like best or whatever seems most appropriate.
If you don’t like a result or it doesn’t make sense with something else you’ve already rolled, simply re-roll or choose something else.
I hope you enjoy this gift as much as I have.





