Tinkering with this for some reason over the last couple days. No plans to use it in the near future.
From Voyageurs National Park on FB:
From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
This seems like a good method for creating pregens when anydice.com isn't an option.
ReplyDeleteThe idea was Greg Gorgonmilk's originally I think.
ReplyDeleteI, too, got this clear reference to Human Occupied Landfill.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad someone got the HoL joke, N. Phillip Cole.
ReplyDeleteAlec Henry a few years ago I ran a game where each player took turns rolling 3d6 and everyone at the table had to record that score. I let 'em pick where to put it but if I did it again they do it in order but everyone would first roll their stat order randomly.
ReplyDeleteMake it Sudoku and you have a fair way of giving everybody equal (but diverse) stats.
ReplyDelete(and by "Sudoku" I mean "the sum is always the same", which isn't what sudoku is, but...)
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