Evey Lockhart created a bleak and weird setting while answering the classic set of 20 questions from Jeff Rients. There is something that I like in how raw her setting is and I created a background generator for it, just in case that someone want to use it to flailsnail.
Evey's original post:
Background generator for the Fog-bound province
Your character come from (d20):
- a small village near the Desart Strange.
- a tribe of Desart nomads
- a tribe of amazons
- a small village near the acid caves
- Lawn Town
- West town
- Furthest Farthing Town
- Hog-Scratch Town
- Laugh Town
- a small village in the Dreaming mountains
- a small village near the Canals
- a small village near the Mushroom forest
- a small village near the Smiling God Forest
- a small village near the Ruinous Wood
- a small river village
- a coastal village
- inner Xephir
- outer Xephir
- the Xephir stretches
- beyond the Fog
What ruined your family (and made you a adventurer)?
A important family member…
(d100)
- moved to... (roll on the previous table)
- made a bad marriage with someone from… (roll on the previous table)
- made a serious crime against someone from…(roll on the previous table)
- made a very bad investment or deal with someone from… (roll on the previous table)
- wronged the Church of the God-most-Censorious
- was forced to reach a state of divine censorship
- became a (1.member, 2.speakers, 3.Seekers, 4.Sister, 5.Monk, 6.Inquisitors) of the Church of the God-most-Censorious
- joined the cult of the God that Laughs
- wronged the cult of the God that Laughs
- vanished in the scarcely visible spirit world
- dealled with the scarcely visible spirit world
- became a Cultist of Isog
- wronged the Cult of Isog
- dreamed of Isog
- became a ostentatious merchant
- was murdered by countryside scavengers
- left to become a countryside scavenger
- left to become a accomplished blacksmith
- became a craftswomen of Isog
- left to seek the Coleopteric Brother
- became obsessed by the founding and the pre diaspora era
- was murdered by zealots of the Coleopteric Brother
- left to seek the Beetle of Truth
- wronged the Supreme Inquisitor's nephew, Jogg George the Mighty.
- left to serve the Supreme Inquisitor's nephew, Jogg George the Mighty.
- left to work for the merchants of the Eastern Coast
- wronged the merchants of the Eastern Coast
- left to work for merchant lord the Callister
- wronged the merchant lord Callister
- became obsessed by the Sky Port
- left with the Sky-Folk
- wronged the Sky-Folk
- Left in vain to search for magical healing
- Needed magical healing but none existed
- became a Witch
- wronged a Witch
- wronged the Aelfs
- left to find the Aelfs
- was infected with Lycanthropy
- became a lycanthrope hunter
- was polymorphed into a object, animal or monster.
- left to become a hunter who hunt polymorphed people
- was killed by a undead serving a elementalist
- became a elementalist
- was raised as a undead by a elementalist
- lost against Dead in paramortal combat.
- started to bet on paramortal combats...
- joined a secret cabal
- wronged a secret cabal
- left to become a expert in Xephir
- consulted a expert from Xephir
- became a Church mercenary
- was murdered by Church mercenaries
- became a low-life cheap mercenary
- was murdered by low-life cheap mercenaries
- was accused of stabbing
- was stabbed by a stranger (AKA a adventurer)
- left to become a adventurer
- was rightly accused of magic
- was wrongly accused of magic
- left to learn magic
- became a applejack drunkard
- became a applejack smuggler
- opened a public house
- was murdered in a public house
- opened a private tavern
- was murdered in a private tavern
- left to find the black-glass scales dragon
- joined the cult of the black-glass scales dragon
- left to serve one of these powerful men who lose dividends because of the dragon.
- left to become a shepherd
- was drafted in the holy war beyond the Ocean Fog.
- was murdered by crusader from the holy war beyond the Ocean Fog
- became a pit fighter
- was drafted to become a pit fighter
- was murdered by a pit fighter
- joined a cult led by goblin-spirits
- was the victim of a cult let by goblin-spirits
- was polymorphed by goblin-spirit (with a animal head)
- left to become a egg merchant
- choked on a bad stew of salted pork
- was murdered with a wooden trencher
- left to try to find the Naiad Treasury
- was murdered after acquiring a piece of the Naid Treasury
- was murdered by the amazons
- left to join the amazons
- left to explore the acid caves
- vanished in the Dreaming mountains
- vanished in the the Canals
- vanished in the Mushroom forest
- vanished in the Smiling God Forest
- became obsessed with the Smiling God
- vanished in the Ruinous Wood
- left to explore the ruins in the Desart Strange
- became obsessed with the Desart Strange
- was captured by a tribe from the Desart Strange
- Was murdered or taken by a creature from beyond the Fog
- became a hunter who hunt creatures from beyond the Fog
- became obsessed with the Fog
- Ventured past the Fog…
Random important family member (d20)
- grandfather
- grandmother
- father
- mother
- aunt or uncle
- cousin
- little brother
- little sister
- big brother
- big sister
- spouse or lover
- daughter
- son
- step father
- step mother
- step brother
- step sister
- ancestor
- best friend
- twin
PRE-GEN characters or hirelings
- Verone Helton from Laugh Town, her mother became a applejack drunkard [cleric]
- Misty Clifton from Furthest Farthing Town, her father vanished in the Mushroom forest [fighter]
- Emmy Hornsby from beyond the Fog, her big brother started to bet on paramortal combats… [magic-user]
- Leone Smithers from the Smiling God Forest village, her father was drafted in the holy war beyond the Ocean Fog [fighter]
- Mathilda Stanford from West Town, her little brother wronged the Supreme Inquisitor's nephew, Jogg George the Mighty [thief]
- Eppo Barney from inner Xephir, his mother became a Witch [fighter]
- Noell Ramsey from a small river village, his uncle wronged a Witch [fighter]
- Hurl of the Desart tribes, his daughter left with the Sky-Folk [magic-user]
- Medwin the amazone, their big sister wronged the merchant lord Callister [thief]
- Jessie Rudges from a small river village, his wife left to find the black-glass scales dragon [fighter]