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The Ultimate Character Creation System and RoleplayAid for All Heroic Fantasy Roleplaying Games!A detailed, stand-alone system for creating thoroughly individualized, involved and invigoratingbackgrounds, personalities, motivations, and skills for both player characters and nonplayer characters.DESIGN CREDITSHeroes of Legend, First EditionHeroes of Legend, Second EditionAuthor, Cover Artist, IllustratorPaul JaquaysEditorRuta JaquaysLogotype DesignDarleneSpecial ThanksMike Stackpole & Mark O'GreenAdditional ReviewRandy Cox, Bob Leake,Tamara Wieland, Jennifer Matthies & Heather Matthies.New Material, Fiction, Layout, EditingRobert L. SassonePublisherJohn Olsen, Task Force GamesEditing, ProductionTimothy D. OlsenAdditional ReviewJamie SassoneLogo ArtistDavid MartinCover ArtistJohn MatsonInterior ArtistDarla Hallmark"This book is lovingly dedicated to my wife Ruta, whohas seen it develop over the last seven years and who hashad more than a little to say on its final content and form."–Paul Jaquays, 1988"Thanks to my family and to John and Tim for makingthis Second Edition possible, but also thanks to you, thediscriminating gamer who recognizes the quality and valueof this book,"–Robert L. Sassone, 1995
So, What's theDifference?Make a differencewith CentralCasting: Heroes ofLegend!Other Uses andAbusesPlayer One: Hey, Bill, you gonna' be there for th' campaign tonight? Didyou decide which character you're gonna' take in?Player Two: Are you kidding? We hit the Gambling Pit tonight! I wouldn'tmiss it for anything! . . Oh, and I decided to bring in Gorg the Warrior.Player One: Really? What happened to Gruk the Strong?Player Two: Well, Gruk's strong, but I decided to go with Gorg's extraendurance.Player One: True . . . not that it makes a difference. If you've seen onewarrior, you've seen them all. Right?Perhaps the most important componentsof any gaming world are the characters whoinhabit it. The effective combination of variety,depth and, most of all, creativity in players'characters and members of the game master's"supporting cast" will determine the success orfailure of the role-playing campaign. More thansimply spark interest, characters must come tolife.Enter Central Casting: Heroes of Legend.The Central Casting series of role-playingproducts helps you, the role-play gamer, createdetailed, exciting, and even mysterious roleplaying campaigns. Heroes of Legend, the firstbook in the Central Casting series (now re leased in its revised, expanded and improvedsecond edition format), generates fantasy back grounds for player and non-player charactersalike, determining details such as unusual birthand childhood events, family histories, occupa tional experiences, social standing, and even"dark-side" traits and hidden, unsavory secrets.Heroes of Legend creates unusual charactersthat break out of the mundane norm.As Paul Jaquays stated in the opening toHeroes of Legend first edition, "If your charac ters end up seeming like heroes (or antiheroes)out of melodramatic fiction, then Heroes ofLegend has done its job. The desired goal hereis good, fun role-playing, not the creation ofsuperhuman beings." This new, second editionof the original Central Casting character back ground generator contains new, revised andexpanded material, but the goal for its creationof character histories remains the same.Game masters and players alike will find inHeroes of Legend an invaluable role-playingaid. With Heroes of Legend, characters comealive in colorful detail of epic caliber. Dozensof tables guide every move, leading from eachcharacter's genesis to his or her first steps downthe road to adventure. On the way, characterslearn occupational skills, pick up personalitytraits, gain unusual pets, experience lost loves,and much, much more."If you've seen one warrior, you've seenthem all. Right?" Not anymore! Not withCentral Casting: Heroes of Legend!Central Casting: Heroes of Legend is notlimited to just creating character histories. Aclever (or desperate) CM can use this book todouble for a vast array of other role-playing aids.It can be used as a combat system for battlesbetween armies. It can form the basis foradventure scenarios. It can also fill the timebetween adventures with interesting happen ings, create businesses for a town, predict thefuture, or set up random street encounters. Allit takes is a little imagination.Wars and Rumors of Wars: Use section633 Combat! to fight wars quickly. Always letthe player character's side (or a side whichfavors the player characters) roll a d20 first, thenroll a d20 for the enemy, adding or subtractingas appropriate to account for the size of theopposing forces. The side with the highestresult wins, but additional effects for the charac-ters and the extent of victory will be determinedby table 633 Battle Events.Between Adventures: Between each ad venture, choose one character to be the subject(or victim) of an event. Select the event withsection 419 Significant Events of Adulthood, andmodify the event to work with the character'scurrent circumstances. Be sure to involve otherplayer characters in some way, and have theevent affect subsequent campaign play.Who's Minding the Store: Need to selectbusinesses for a town? First, decide the town'sCultural Level. For civilized towns, also deter mine the Social Level of the neighborhood youare creating. Then use the Occupation Tableappropriate for the Culture and Social Level(see sections 310 through 313) to randomlyselect businesses in that area. You may wish tomodify the table to include residences, public
buildings and religious edifices. You can alsouse table 107b Items of Note to help define theshop's proprietor.Soothsaying: Use Heroes of Legend topredict a character's future. Often a characterwill want to know things like, "When and howwill I die?" or "Whom will I marry?" Section 643Death Situations can be used to describe thetype of death that awaits the character shouldhe choose to stop adventuring. 640 Ah, Love!can be used to tell about a future love affair.Use 419 Significant Events of Adulthood to givea brief glimpse of the near future. Timing is upto the CM, but offer these futures as possiblefutures, generally assuming the character doesnot die on the next adventure.Random Street Encounters: Use section745 Others to determine randomly encoun tered people on the street or to fill a bar, inn orbrothel with clientele.Non-Fantasy Games: Additional CentralCasting products, Heroes for Tomorrow andHeroes Now! will help you create detailedcharacter backgrounds for your science fiction,modern day and near future game systems. Ina pinch, though, you can create a characterbackground for those games by using Heroes ofLegend and converting elements of fantasy andmagic to something more appropriate to yourrequired era. For example, in a science fictiongame, you may decide that your "barbarianhorsemaster" is actually a primitive authority ontransports powered by internal combustionengines. If you determine that the same charac ter suffers under a curse that sends a ghost orevil spirit to attack him every so often, perhapsthe "ghost" could actually be an extra-dimen sional being or an alien bent on controlling thecharacter's mind.No Limits! Let your mind wander, andtake Heroes of Legend with you! This hugeresource of fantasy gaming information willprove useful in any number of situations whichare only limited by your own imagination. It isyour book, so use it however you wish, and becreative! (This is your book, right?)Central Casting : Heroes of Legend 2ndEdition is written and published byTask Force GamesP. O. Box 50145Amarillo,TX 79159-0145Send the following correspondence to TaskForce Games: requests for catalogs, orders forspare parts, replacement of defective or miss ing parts, submissions of art (photocopies only,please), rules questions, and inquiries into therelease schedule of various products. The TFGmail order service accepts Visa, Mastercard,and Discover. All consumer correspondence(other than mail orders) requires a stamped,self-addressed envelope. Our phone number is(806) 372-1266, and our fax number is (806)372-1361.Players can contact Task Force Games viathe GEnie computer network at the GEmailaddress TFG, via lntemetatTFG@genie.geis.com.,via CompuServe at 76443,3031, or via Ameri ca Online at TFG1. For more information aboutthe GEnie network, please call them direct at 1 800-638-9636 (voice only). For more informa tion about CompuServe, call them at 1-800-848 8990 in the US; 0800 289458 in the UK.On America Online, look for Task ForceGames in the Gaming Company Support area(keyword; GCS).Central Casting : Heroes of Legend 2ndEdition and all contents thereof are copyright 1995 by Task Force Games. All rights arereserved under the Pan-American, Berne, andInternational Copyright Conventions. No ma terial which is based on, for use with, incorpo rates elements of, or is designed for use withCentral Casting can be published by any partywithout the advanced written permission ofTask Force Games.Central Casting is Task Force Games' trade mark for its game aids dealing with characterand adventure creation."You've seen those ads for magic growth pills that flesh out 90 pound weaklings into 280pound behemoths who never get sand kicked into their faces again? Heroes of Legend does thatfor characters."—Author of Superb Fantasy Role-Playing Supplements"I hates flat char'cterz, I duz. They're alwayz so tasteless, they iz. Like crackerz."—Brubnub, Goblin Guard, 2nd o' the WatchPublisher'sInformationCopyright andTrademarkInformationShamelessEndorsements
Table of ContentsInstructionsCharacterCreation SectionsCreating a CharacterBefore StartingGetting StartedTable NumbersDice ExplanationsCharacter History WorksheetUsing the Tables (Or Not)Problems and ConflictsFinishing Touches666667888Heroes of Legend Races and AgeRangesSuccess or Failure?Bonuses and Penalties to Skill andAttribute RanksBonus Point Conversion TableSurvival SkillsLiteracyStarting Money10111112121212Skills and AttributesRules and Terms and StuffHeroes of Legend Rank SystemGeneral AttributesAge Effects9991010Character MotivationJustify Your Character's LifeSelect Character MotivationsMotivation Descriptions13131313Using This Book's Pages15Heritage and Origins101 Race and Ancestry102 Cultural Background103 Social Status104 Birth and Family105 Place & Time of Birth106 Unusual Births107 Parents & NPCs1617202428303235Childhood & Adolescence38628 Dwarven Events629 Halfling Events630 Monster Events631 Underworld Events632 Military Events633 Combat!634 Military Duties635 Military Skills636 Military Rank637 Enslaved!638 Imprisoned639 Religious Experience640 Ah, Love!641 In the Service of.642 Exotic Events643 Death Situations208 Significant Events of Youth39Occupations & Hobbies309 Apprenticed310 Primitive Occupations311 Nomad Occupations312 Barbarian Occupations313 Civilized Occupations314 Merchants315 Government Jobs316 Crafts317 Occupation Performance318 Hobbies4445474849505456575960Events of Adulthood419 Significant Events of Adulthood6263Personality Development520 Values521 Alignment & Attitude522 Personality Traits523 Exotic Personality Traits6768707376Miscellaneous Events624 Tragedies625 Something Wonderful626 Horror Events627 Elven Events8283868891644 Death of a Loved OneContacts & Acquaintances745 Others746 Other Groups747 22124126127129130748 urersNonhumansUnusual 136137139141143145147Special Miscellaneous148858 Gifts & Legacies859 Colors149151
860 Birthmarks861 Body Locations862 Exotic Features863 Serious Wounds864 Psychic Powers865 Crimes152153154158160162866 Unusual Skills867 AppearanceGame Masters Only968 GM's Specials969 GM's Additional Specials164166168169172Appendix A: NPCsCreate Those Special NPCsNPC Special FeaturesGeneral Types of NPCsNPC Archetypes1761761 76177177Appendix B: Linking EventsPut It All Together!Writing the HistoryTricks & HintsAppendix C: ExampleGet Rolling180180180180182182Heritage and BirthEvents of YouthOccupations & HobbiesEvents of AdulthoodPersonality DevelopmentFinishing TouchesXulcandra's Life StoryThe GM's AdditionsXulcandra's Character HistoryWorksheetCharacter History Etcetera
Creating a CharacterBefore StartingGetting StartedTable NumbersDiceExplanationsLet's do it! Grab your favorite bag of dice,and we'll start creating super-exciting, dynamiccharacters that look, feel, and act like they justwalked out of the pages of an epic fantasy.In addition to this book, make sure youhave the following items:A Variety of Dice: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 andd20—if you don't know what these are, seeDice Explanations, below.A Copy of the Character Worksheet: TaskForce Games grants permission to photo-copy the worksheet on pages 191-192 forpersonal use only. Make sure you have atleast one copy for each character you wishto make.A Pencil.An Eraser.Numbered Bookmarks: These record yourprogress as you jump from place to place.Creating character histories is fun, but ittakes time. Plan on spending as much as a halfhour per character. However, there are short cuts you can take. For a quick NPC (or playercharacter) history, go to Appendix A: NPCs onpage 176. If you just want to get going, jumpahead to section 101 Race and Ancestry andstart rolling dice. On the other hand, if you wantto know what to do when you get there. readon.You have probably noticed that most sec tions and tables in Heroes of Legend start withthree-digit codes like 101 or 625. There arereasons for this.Initially, you will consult these sections andtables in sequence. After 101 Race and Ances try you will go to 102 Cultural Background, thento 103 Social Status and so on. When youcomplete section 521 Alignment & Attitude,you will be done (mostly).However, you might ask, if the history endsat section 521, why do section numbers go ashigh as 969? Good question.The rest of the sections in this book are likedata banks in a computer or reference books ina library. The section numbers divide the tablesinto nine general categories. As you generateyour character background, you will be jump-ing around from section to section, grabbing abit of data here, some information there, untilyou finally complete your character history.To use Heroes of Legend, you must have aset of polyhedron dice: 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20 sided. You should have at least two 10 or 20 siders of different colors (to create percentileresults), but one each of the others will besufficient. In all likelihood, the place where youbought this book can supply you with the diceas well.Throughout Heroes of Legend, abbrevia tions are used to refer to the different die types.The fetter " d " preceding a number indicates adie. The number following the "d" is thenumber of sides on the die and usually indicatesthe highest number that die can roll. A numberpreceding the "d" indicates the number of diceof that kind to be rolled. Still other "dice" 00's:900's:Table CategoriesCategoryHeritage and BirthEvents of YouthOccupations and HobbiesEvents of AdulthoodPersonality DevelopmentMiscellaneous EventsContacts and AcquaintancesSpecial MiscellaneousGM's ONLY (players not allowed)—Do not read this unless you are told toby the book. Do not read ahead andspoil the surprise for later characters!
be created by combining or modifying die rolls(see below).Examples: If a "d6" is called for, roll asingle six-sided die. For "2d4," roll two foursided dice and add the results together. If a dietype is shown with a plus ( ) sign and a secondnumber after the die type, such as "1d4 3,"then add the number after the plus sign to thedie roll. If a minus sign follows the die type, thensubtract any following number from the die roll,as in "2d10-1." Heroes of Legend uses thefollowing real and simulated dice:Die TypeExplanationd2 or Hi/Lo Technically, this is not a die.When indicated, it means that asix-sided die should be rolled. Ifthe result is 1, 2, or 3, the roll islow (Lo) or 1. If the result is 4, 5or 6, the roll is high (Hi) or 2.d3This is not a true die. Obtain a d3result by rolling a six-sided die. Aresult of 1 or 2 means 1. A resultof 3 or 4 means 2. A result of 5or 6 means 3.d4A four-sided die: This generatesa number from 1 to 4.d5This is not a true die. Obtain a d5result by rolling a 10-sided die. Aresult of 1 or 2 means 1. A resultof 3 or 4 means 2. A result of 5or 6 means 3. A result of 7 or 8means 4, and a result of 9 or 10means 5.d6A six-sided die (probably the mostfamiliar type): This generates anumber from 1 to 6.d8An eight-sided die: This gener ates a number from 1 to 8.d10A 10-sided die: This generates anumber from 1 to 10. However,it is often marked 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,7, 8, 9. When used as a d10, thezero means 10. A 20-sided dieeasily simulates a d10 if it is markedfrom 0-9 twice (and not 1-20).A 12-sided die: This generates anumber from 1 to 12.d20A 20-sided die: This generates anumber from 1 to 20. However,many d20s are marked 0 to 9 likea d10, but repeated twice. In thiscase, you need to indicate whichset of 0 to 9 represents 1 to 10and which set represents 11 to20. Try coloring each set ofnumbers with differently coloredpens or crayons. Alternatively,use a d10 and a d6 to simulatethe result of a d20. Roll the d10for a number from 1 to 10, andthe d6 to obtain a "Hi/Lo" value.If the d6 is Lo, the d10 value is 1to 10. If the d6 is Hi, add 10 tothe d10 roll to get a number from11 to 20.d100A 100-sided die: This generatesa number from 1 to 100. If youdo not have a true 100-sided die,a d100 can easily be simulatedwith two different colored d10s.Choose one d10 to representthe 10's digit (multiply the dieresult by 10 for 0 through 90)and the other to represent theone's digit (0 through 9). Addthe results. Example: results of40 (4 x 10) and 6 added togetherbecome a result of 46. The onlyexception is a roll of 0 and 0,which yields the result of 100.Percentiles Often, Heroes of Legend will statethat there is a percentage chancethat some circumstance will oc cur, such as, "There is a 15%chance the character will be lefthanded." To obtain a percentileresult, roll a d100 (see above). Ifthe result is less than or equal tothe given percentage chance, thecircumstance occurs. Otherwise,the circumstance does not oc cur.The form on pages 191-192 is the Heroesof Legend Character History Worksheet, onwhich you will be recording character back ground information as you generate it on thetables in this book. You have permission fromTask Force Games to copy that form for yourpersonal use, so make as many as you need.Several lines of the Character HistoryWorksheet correspond to table numbers else where in the Heroes of Legend book. Informa tion for those lines will come from the matchingtables. In the future, after familiarizing yourselfwith the Heroes of Legend system, you may findit convenient to skip these instructions andsimply follow the order of tables on theworksheet. Until then, read on.Dice in Heroes of Legendd12CharacterHistoryWorksheet"Welcome! Welcome to Salty's Tavern! How much coin do you bring?"-Salty
Using the Tables(Or Not)Problems andConflictsFinishingTouchesTake a copy of the worksheet in the backof this book and write down your character'sname, your character's sex, and anything elseyou or your game master (GM) have alreadydecided about your character. For example, ifyou want to play a human barbarian, thensimply record this information rather than usingthe tables for Race and Cultural Background.If you have not chosen a race (human, elf,dwarf, orc, etc.) for your character, then startwith table 101a: Character Race under section101 Race and Ancestry on page 17 and followthe instructions you find there. Chances are,however, that you have already picked outracial information on your own. In that
Heroes of Legend creates unusual characters that break out of the mundane norm. Central Casting: Heroes of Legend is not limited to just creating character histories. A clever (or desperate) CM can use this book to double for a vast array of other role-playing aids. It can be used as a combat system for battles between armies.
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