I once wrote a handy character creation process for Dark Sun, however, as the editions keep changing, I find it tiresome to update it. So here I am now going to post some ideas and tables that generally may aid with character creation. As you may have noticed - I love random tables!!
MUTATION
| 1 | Teeth: 1 sharp, 2 occasional sharp ones, 3 dark, 4 powerful jaws. |
| 2 | Nose: 1 animal, 2 sensitive, 3 sensitive to particular smells, 4 insensitive. |
| 3 | Legs/Arms/Wings: 1 (other) animal, 2 longer, 3 double jointed, 4 deformed. |
| 4 | Feet/Hand/Claws: 1 (other) animal, 2 more dextrous, 3 ambidextrous, 4 nails thicker/different colour. |
| 5 | Skin: 1 scales/chitinous, 2 freckles, 3 darker, 4 lighter, 5 different colour, 6 insensitive,
7 sensitive, 8 more resistant, 9 furry, 10 feathery. |
| 6 | Eyes: 1 no whites, 2 different colour, 3 can see in the dark, 4 blind, 5 see aura,
6 improved vision, 7 other animal-characteristic. 8 other. |
| 7 | Ears: 1 pointy, 2 animal-like, 3 weird, 4 keen hearing, 5 deaf, 6 can be moved around. |
| 8 | Characteristic of other race: 1 aarakocra, 2 elf, 3 dwarf, 4 mul,
5 human (if human already, then villichi), 6 halfling, 7 genasi, 8 other mutant, 9 half-giant, 10 giant, 11 thri-kreen, 12 pyreen. |
| 9 | Empathy |
| 10 | Hair: 1 no hair, but scales or something, 2 no hair, 3 different texture,
4 different colour, 5 multi-coloured, 6 extremely curly, 7 sparkly, 8 chameleon. |
| 11 | Wild Talent: see psionics handbook |
| 12 | Internal: 1 breathing-related, 2 metabolism-related, 3 digestion-related,
4 bone-related, 5 blood-related, 6 reproductive-related. 7 nerve-related (e.g. nervousness, pain-sensitivity), 8 other internal. |
| 13 | Characteristic of Animal: see animal table & roll again to see what is affected. |
| 14 | Other power-related mutation: 1 extreme power, 2 power-vampirism,
3 no power, 4 new kind of power, 5 different kind of power to parents, 6 different kind of power regeneration, 7 power accompanied with specific sensory experience (smell, light), 8 other. |
| 15 | Sensitivity: 1 light, 2 heat, 3 allergy, 4 smells, 5 sound, 6 touch. |
| 16 | Tolerance/Immunity: 1 poison, 2 strong constitution, 3 alcohol, 4 medicines/drugs,
5 poison immunity, 6 disease immunity, 7 magic immunity, 8 psionics immunity, 9 cannot be teleported, 10 cannot be located, 11 immunity against undead & undead attacks, 12 immunity against heat or cold. |
| 17 | 17. Exceptional characteristic: 1 strength, 2 dexterity, 3 intelligence,
4 wisdom, 5 consitution, 6 charisma. |
| 18 | Aging/Longevity: 1 ages more quickly, 2 ages more slowly, 3 ages differently,
4 near immortality. |
| 19 | Magic-exposure related: roll on Ivory Tower mutation table
(in Dregoth Ascending Part 3) |
| 20 | Illness: 1 born with an illness that develops as a child, 2 born with
an illness that develops later in life, 3 born with a mutation that develops later in life, 4 born with an illness, but one that also protects against something else, 5 born with a mental illness, 6 extremely hyperactive, 7 born with a mental illness, but one that also protects against something else, 8 attracts diseases that normally only manifest in certain animals. |
PARENTAL RESEMBLANCE
| 1 | like mother |
| 2 | more like mother |
| 3 | like maternal grandmother |
| 4 | like maternal grandfather |
| 5 | like other member of the maternal family |
| 6 | like neither |
| 7 | both parents equally represented |
| 8 | like other member of the paternal family |
| 9 | like paternal grandmother |
| 10 | like paternal grandfather |
| 11 | more like father |
| 12 | like father |