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Slightly New, Semi-Improved Thug-O-Matic

So, more instantly generated NPCs:

NPC 1
ST 15; DX 9; IQ 9; HT 13
Thrusting Broadsword damage 2d+2 cut; 1d+3 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.5, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 11; Block 9 (Medium Shield)
Thrusting Broadsword-12
Shield-9

NPC 2
ST 15; DX 12; IQ 11; HT 9
Shortsword damage 2d+1 cut; 1d+1 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.25, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 10; Block 11 (Small Shield)
Shortsword-13
Shield-15

NPC 3
ST 15; DX 12; IQ 10; HT 12
Throwing Axe damage 2d+3 cut
Mail DR 4
Speed 6.0, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 10
Throwing Axe-14

NPC 4
ST 14; DX 10; IQ 13; HT 14
Nunchaku damage 2d+1 cr
Mail DR 4
Speed 6.0, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 8
Nunchaku-10

NPC 5
ST 19; DX 9; IQ 8; HT 14
Javelin damage 2d imp
Plate DR 6
Speed 5.75, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 11; Block 11 (Large Shield)
Shield-10
Javelin-11

NPC 6
ST 14; DX 13; IQ 13; HT 13
Mace damage 2d+3 cr
Plate DR 6
Speed 6.5, Dodge 7, Move 3
Parry 10
Mace-14

NPC 7
ST 19; DX 9; IQ 11; HT 14
Broadsword damage 3d+2 cut; 2d cr
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.75, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 9
Broadsword-12

NPC 8
ST 14; DX 12; IQ 12; HT 10
Nunchaku damage 2d+1 cr
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.5, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 11; Block 11 (Medium Shield)
Shield-12
Nunchaku-12

NPC 9
ST 14; DX 14; IQ 12; HT 11
Mace damage 2d+3 cr
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.25, Dodge 9, Move 6
Parry 10
Mace-14

NPC 10
ST 15; DX 13; IQ 12; HT 12
Broadsword damage 2d+2 cut; 1d+2 cr
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.25, Dodge 9, Move 6
Parry 13; Block 12 (Medium Shield)
Shield-14
Broadsword-16

NPC 11
ST 19; DX 12; IQ 10; HT 10
Spear damage 2d+1 imp; 2d+2 imp
Mail DR 4
Speed 5.5, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 11; Block 11 (Medium Shield)
Spear-12
Shield-12

NPC 12
ST 14; DX 11; IQ 11; HT 11
Small Mace damage 2d+2 cr
Light Scale DR 3
Speed 5.5, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 10
Small Mace-14

NPC 13
ST 19; DX 10; IQ 8; HT 14
Shortsword damage 3d+1 cut; 2d-1 imp
Mail DR 4
Speed 6.0, Dodge 9, Move 6
Parry 9
Shortsword-13

NPC 14
ST 14; DX 10; IQ 13; HT 11
Small Mace damage 2d+2 cr
Mail DR 4
Speed 5.25, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 11; Block 11 (Medium Shield)
Small Mace-13
Shield-13

NPC 15
ST 15; DX 12; IQ 9; HT 11
Broadsword damage 2d+2 cut; 1d+2 cr
Plate DR 6
Speed 5.75, Dodge 6, Move 3
Parry 13; Block 13 (Large Shield)
Shield-14
Broadsword-15

NPC 1
ST 11; DX 13; IQ 12; HT 12
Long Spear damage 1d+1 imp; 1d+2 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.25, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 10
Long Spear-15

NPC 2
ST 14; DX 13; IQ 12; HT 13
Throwing Axe damage 2d+2 cut
Mail DR 4
Speed 6.5, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 10
Throwing Axe-14

NPC 3
ST 11; DX 10; IQ 13; HT 10
Spear damage 1d+1 imp; 1d+2 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.0, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 8
Spear-10

NPC 4
ST 13; DX 10; IQ 11; HT 14
Nunchaku damage 2d cr
Cloth Armor DR 1
Speed 6.0, Dodge 9, Move 6
Parry 9; Block 9 (Small Shield)
Shield-11
Nunchaku-11

NPC 5
ST 11; DX 14; IQ 10; HT 12
Spear damage 1d+1 imp; 1d+2 imp
Steel Laminate DR 5
Speed 6.5, Dodge 7, Move 3
Parry 11
Spear-17

NPC 6
ST 14; DX 10; IQ 8; HT 12
Broadsword damage 2d+1 cut; 1d+1 cr
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 5.5, Dodge 8, Move 5
Parry 8
Broadsword-10

NPC 7
ST 14; DX 14; IQ 13; HT 9
Thrusting Broadsword damage 2d+1 cut; 1d+2 imp
Light Scale DR 3
Speed 5.75, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 10
Thrusting Broadsword-14

NPC 8
ST 11; DX 14; IQ 9; HT 10
Javelin damage 1d imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.0, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 13; Block 13 (Large Shield)
Shield-14
Javelin-14

NPC 9
ST 11; DX 10; IQ 10; HT 11
Katana damage 1d+2 cut; 1d imp
Cloth Armor DR 1
Speed 5.25, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 11; Block 12 (Large Shield)
Shield-12
Katana-11

NPC 10
ST 11; DX 10; IQ 12; HT 11
Katana damage 1d+2 cut; 1d imp
Mail DR 4
Speed 5.25, Dodge 6, Move 3
Parry 9
Katana-13

NPC 11
ST 14; DX 12; IQ 12; HT 9
Throwing Axe damage 2d+2 cut
Cloth Armor DR 1
Speed 5.25, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 12; Block 13 (Large Shield)
Shield-15
Throwing Axe-13

NPC 12
ST 14; DX 13; IQ 11; HT 14
Hatchet damage 2d cut
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.75, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 13; Block 12 (Large Shield)
Hatchet-14
Shield-13

NPC 13
ST 11; DX 14; IQ 8; HT 11
Pick damage 1d+2 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.25, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 12; Block 11 (Small Shield)
Pick-17
Shield-14

NPC 14
ST 11; DX 11; IQ 13; HT 11
Long Spear damage 1d+1 imp; 1d+2 imp
Cloth Armor DR 1
Speed 5.5, Dodge 7, Move 4
Parry 12; Block 11 (Medium Shield)
Shield-13
Long Spear-14

NPC 15
ST 11; DX 12; IQ 10; HT 13
Long Spear damage 1d+1 imp; 1d+2 imp
Leather Armor DR 2
Speed 6.25, Dodge 8, Move 4
Parry 10; Block 11 (Small Shield)
Shield-15
Long Spear-12

What's different this time? I've wrapped up the NPC-making machinery in some more machinery which ensures that on average they'll do at least [some] points of damage to opponents through [a certain amount of] DR. The first batch does at least 2 points through DR 5. The second batch does at least 3 points through DR 3. It takes desired average injury and average opponent DR as inputs, backtracks through a very crude algorithm to get an approximate ST necessary to generate that damage (several different STs, actually, since it's different depending on whether you're doing sw/thr and cr/cut/imp), and picks a weapon which on average will do at least that much damage through that much DR with an appropriate ST, which is thereupon assigned to the NPC. The algorithm needs a lot of work, and it doesn't pay the slightest attention to how likely the NPCs are to actually hit, but it seems to be moving in the appropriate direction.


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Douglas Cole said…
That's a lot of fun. I can see some real utility here in terms of generating rag-tag groups of bandits. Dress 'em up a tiny bit differently (or just allow dial-a-race with a template) and you've got enough variety here to make for distinctive encounters.

Does it output to a spreadsheet? I wonder if it could be used to (say) import to Roll20 or something, for the VTT set.
January 22, 2014 at 7:23 PM
Peter D said…
Nice. Although I'd personally use the actual skill names, so I don't need to remember if Nunchaku is Flail or not, say.
January 22, 2014 at 7:57 PM
Iron Llama said…
The next bit I'm thinking about is, in fact, to come up with a way of reading in templates, so one could pre-build races, professions, and so on and generate a handful of orcs/warriors/trolls/accountants.

At the moment, it just spits out text from a command line. However, it could easily output to any text-ish format, which is a short hop from a spreadsheet. I could just as easily turn into, say, an Android app for tablet use. Alas, SJ Games's on-line policies don't permit that.
January 22, 2014 at 8:01 PM
GreyKnight said…
If it's just writing to stdout you can easily write a CSV file, which can be read by the spreadsheet application of your choice. :-)
January 23, 2014 at 1:33 PM
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