'Sup /tg/In this thread, we shall be making a character using the unusual and intricate system in Central Casting - Heroes of Legend. Through the use of many dice rolls we shall be working out the history of a character all the way from before their birth to the start of their adventuring career. The system is prone to bizarre and unusual quirks, and it's almost certain that the results will be far from boring. Remember everyone that dice rolls can be done by writing 'dice+XdY+Z' in the email field. The first post will be used.So, first things first. A d2 roll to find out the gender of our character. 1 for male, 2 for female.
rolled 1 + 0 = 1Ok then.
Go on then!
Righto, we have a male character. Now, what race is he?Roll a d20. On a 1-14, he's human. On a 15-16, he's an elf. On a 17, he's 17, he's a dwarf. On an 18, he's a halfling. On a 19, he's a half-elf. And on a 20 he's something more interesting.
rolled 4 = 4Lets roll some race. I want Dorf!
>>12958091or maybe he's just a dwarf on 17, not a 17, he's a dwarf. My bad.
rolled 14 = 14>>12958091...I haven't rolled on /tg/ in such a long time...
>>12958108>>12958102Double human. :/
We appear to be a double human.
>>12958102Unfortunately, he's ended up human.Now, what society does this character come from? Roll a d10.
rolled 4 = 4>>12958116
rolled 10 = 10>>12958116Damn. Oh well.
If multiple people roll will you be taking the first one, or the most interesting one?
>>12958122The character is from a barbarian civilization, but what is his families social standing in this civilization?roll a d100 to find out. (this all starts out rather simple, the cool stuff comes later)
>>12958138I'll be taking the first one in all but the most awesome of circumstances or when the first one isn't fun enough.
rolled 73 = 73>>12958142
>>12958142Out of curiousity, what would 10 have been?
rolled 18 = 18>>12958146Huh. If you noko as well, it doesn't actually show what you rolled.Cheating, ho!
>>12958146The family has a comfortable social status, we'll see what his parents do to gain this later, but for now we know that they do it well enough that running out of food e.t.c. is at the very back of their minds.But, does this family accept him? Roll a d10, on a 10 he is an illegitimate child..
>>12958116>Unfortunately>implying Humans are not the most awesome choice in there
>>12958170
>>1295815610 would have been a Decadent society.
rolled 4 = 4>>12958170>Fingers crossed for bastardom.
rolled 10 = 10>>12958170Lets be bastards!>>12958171We're a double human, and don't you forget it.
>>12958182Afraid not.Now, what is the structure of our family? is it a standard nuclear family, or is it something more unusual? roll a d20 to find out.
By the way, different results sometimes give modifiers to different tables, so if we had come from royalty in a decadent civilization, we would have had a 50% chance of being a bastard.
rolled 6, 6, 15, 7, 8, 11, 20, 15, 13, 11, 20, 8, 11, 7, 4, 7, 16, 18, 12, 4 = 219>>12958195I REGRET ROLLING EVERYTHING
rolled 13 = 13>>12958195Polygamy go!
>>12958205WHAT HAS SCIENCE DONE?In any case, taking the first result. we come from a standard nuclear family with a mother and a father.Now since this bit is a little boring (and nothing to exciting has happened yet), I'm going to roll up our siblings quickly.
>>12958218Ok, we are the second born of 4 children. 2 males and 2 females.But, what were the circumstances for our birth? Where were we born? Roll a d20 to find out.
rolled 9 = 9>>12958233Born under a certain sign!
I'm pretty sure nuclear families don't happen in tribal or nomadic societies; there's too much interdependence required to keep the tribe together.
>>12958237As I was saying, we get different modifiers for different things, we we just got very unluckily boring there>>12958241And here as well! We were born in a healer's tent. But was the birth itself totally normal? roll a d100 to find out
>>12958237To uncertain parents!>which adennews
rolled 2 = 2>>12958251I want extra fingers.
>>12958265You'll get a lot more than just extra fingers with a roll like that! we get not one, not two, not three, but FOUR unusual circumstances in our birth. Looks like things just took a turn for the weird right here, chaps.Roll 4d100 (or less than that if you want to share the rolls around) to find out what crazy shit goes on.
>>12958282Watch one of the roles make us blind.
rolled 30 = 30>>12958282
>>12958296We have an identical twin! on the roll of a 6 on d6 the character will be opposite in personality (our evil twin, or perhaps our good one? we'll find out later)By the way, on max rolls we get to be the son of a god, here's hoping, guys!
>>12958282
rolled 4 = 4>>12958307We must be the evil twin.
rolled 10 = 10Rolling for birth defects
>>12958313Afraid not, but there's still 3 more unusual circumstances in this birth! get a'rolling guys!
rolled 59 = 59Rollan'
rolled 30 = 30Rolling for birth rejects
>>12958331Ouch! the character was left to die at birth on a hillside, and was found and raised by foster parents instead!We can assume that twins are considered evil in this barbarian society, and our twin was raised by our maternal parents while we were cast out.
>>12958335We've already had a 30, so this one is to be re-rolled.
rolled 23 = 23Rerolling!
rolled 64 = 64>>12958282
>>12958341On the moment of our birth, all glassware in the vicinity suddenly shattered! Maybe our parents had good cause to cast us out!One more left.
>>12958346Our birth was soon after a terrible tragedy in the village. It's beginning to look like we maybe are the spawn of satan!Roll a d20 to find out what the tragedy was.
rolled 1 = 1Rolling for Hellspawn
rolled 9 + 0 = 9>>12958372
rolled 17 = 17>>12958372Attacked by Facehugging Xenomorphs!
rolled 8 = 8>>12958372
>>12958386... a one? Seriously? I was looking at this and thinking how awesome it would be if we got it.Ok then. This needs a little retconning on interpretations, but "Wild carnivorous beasts attack. The character receives a severe injury but survives. He is forced to watch as the animals tear apart his whole family."I'm going to assume that the rest of the tribe found him later and cast him out.Now, what manly injury did we receive? Roll a d20 to find out.
rolled 12 = 12More ones?
rolled 9 = 9>>12958420
rolled 17 = 17>>12958420How did we recieve an injury before being born? Twas our mother's stomach ripped open whilst we twins were carried? If so, we're a fucking awesome baby.
>>12958426What a wimpy roll. We suffer a foot injury and have a slight limp for the rest of our lives.OK then guys, we were born and it was AWESOME. Now we need to find out what job our new adopted family has. Roll a d20
>>12958433And we strangled a carnivorous beast to death and then beat the others to death with it. All this while technically not even being born yet.
rolled 4 = 4Limpy job roll go!
>>12958433I'm assuming that it happened just after we were born.
>>12958420>>12958433Lets take that was still in womb, Family, mother, and unborn twin all killed by animals. We are pulled from her corpse clutching our dead twin as glass shatters to our grieved wail.
rolled 3 = 3>>12958436
>>12958443Our adopted father is the sole breadwinner and he is a farmer he is also from a barbarian society.Now, does this new adopted family have and deep and terrible secrets and quirks? Apparently so, d3 of them to be precise!
rolled 2 = 2>>12958466
>>129584762 things about our family. Roll 2d20 to find out what they are.With each one I'm going to be rolling to find out if it regards out adopted mother or father.
rolled 7 = 7>>12958489
>>12958495Our mother tells of a lost treasure that he heard of long ago, along with suspiciously intricate detail of how one might go about finding it.Good story maa.One more d20 to find out what else in going on in our family.
rolled 10 = 10>>12958505Re-rolling
>>12958505disregarding this.
>>12958512Our father is in service to a patron. Roll a d10 to find out who this patron is.
rolled 9 = 9Patronizing
>>12958534Patronized farmers?
>>12958542Our father is in service to a non-human! Are they just bros? is the family enslaved by these creatures? We'll work that out in a bit, after we find out what type of non-human it is. Roll a d20 to find out.
rolled 4 = 4>>12958559oh boy oh boy
rolled 6 = 6roll roll!
rolled 1 = 1>>12958559
rolled 15 = 15>>12958559
rolled 19 = 19>>12958559
Ok then guys, we just had two elf rolls, which are really boring. So i'm going to retcon it to one of the two other rolls. Either Dwarfs... Or Lizard people.I think it's safe to assume what kind of lizard people we'll be wanting.Make your choice now!
>>12958578And let's not forget little mister half-ork here.
>>12958595Lizard people obviously. Either that or I didn't understand the question.
>>12958595Lizards!
>>12958605You understood it just fine. I'm asking people to choose whether they want to be patrons of dwarfs or kobolds, since the other option was elves who are boring.
KOBOLDS
>>12958595lizards, they run the real world you know
Righto, We have the birth of our Character,Born in a horrific maelstrom of chaos, the character was found and raised by a farming family who live in service to kobolds (judging by how kobolds normally behave, we are to assume that the service is somewhat enforced. Kobolds however tend to be incompetent and cute enough to mean that you grew up as a child among kobold peers. Causing trouble for the old kobolds and e.t.c.) Your mother also shows signs of being an adventurer once, so you wonder why she puts up with it all.Now, that we've been born, what events happened during our childhood? Roll a d3 to find out how many occur.
rolled 3 = 3Rolling trouble for kobolds
>>12958697three events! These events happen at the ages 4, 9, and 10. (we'll move into adolescent events after these finish).Ok then, 3d20 to find out what events happen when we are young. Starting with age 4.
rolled 20 = 20Age 4
rolled 1 = 1>>12958713
rolled 18 = 18Age 9
rolled 16 = 16come on I just want 1 choice!!!
>>12958720Usually this would be a boring roll, but with kobolds everything is suddenly brilliant.You grow expensive tastes, wanting more shiny things than all of your friends. Kobolds catch you rummaging around in their treasure troves and running around in golden necklaces e.t.c.
>>12958721You magnificent bastard.Character's friends involve him in illegal activities.Roll a d6 to find out what illegal stuff your friends are doing with you.
rolled 1 = 1Child drug dealer roll!
rolled 1 = 1>>12958754Murder at age 9!
>>12958764Petty Theft.Every now and again you and your kobold friends journey out and steal pretty trinkets from the tribe where you were born.But does everything go smoothly? roll a d3 to find out how many criminal events occur.
>>12958771>>12958764Ideally, double murder.
rolled 2 = 2Damn. I was really hoping for double murder.
>>12958787Ok then, 2d20 to find out what japes, victories, or catastrophes happen.
>>12958795I love this because it would make no sense whatsoever usually for a character so young to be doing criminal activities, but with kobolds he's probably the best fighter on the team.
rolled 16, 3 = 19>>12958795
rolled 18, 12 = 30murder?
>>1295880916 - The character's friends get caught in a raid by a single vigilante. The character is the only one to escape alive.3 - The character receives a serious wound.How appropriate!1d20 to find out what this new manly wound is (and how it suits the last one)
rolled 16 = 16
rolled 4 = 4Rolling for other foot wound.
>>12958837The passage goes on to say that the character's team not only dies, but in brutal and unnessecary gory ways. One thinks that this vigilante is a great nemesis. (and prehaps our twin didn't die as much as we thought? :o)
>>12958860Wild animals can't stop our brother from being a total cockwaffle, apparently.
>>12958848... fuck you and your rolling.The character receives a serious genital injury, and will never be able to have sex.
>>12958875>imsad.jpg
>>12958875NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
>>12958875God damn you
>>12958741>>12958729Our last event during childhood at age 10, and something good happens! Roll a d20 to find out what
rolled 13 = 13I'm assuming you actually mean tragic.
HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAAHA!/tg/ made a dickless wonder.
>>12958921Ponies?>>12958925Not appropriate I'm afraid, reroll.
rolled 4 = 4I'm assuming you still mean tragic.
Hey OP you got this in PDF? I would very much like to look over this.
>>12958933What would it have been? Would that be the roll for getting laid?
rolled 18 = 18>>12958933
rolled 2 = 2
>>12958925FUUKA, OH WOW.Oh shit nigga, I thought you died from a hormonal problem or got stabbed to death by some redneck.
>>12958941The character gets adopted by a very wealthy family. In this case the family would see a boy covered in mud playing with kobolds, assume that he's feral and an orphan, and chase off the kobolds and adopt him. We have lost our kobold bros!>>12958944nothing that intresting, it was that the character becomes famous for his job, and we don't have a job. (I'm not counting our brief time as a petty thief a job, and I'm pretty sure he won't be trying it again any time soon!)
>>12958973Only in our dreams, anon. Only in our dreams.
>>12958875i am sad, can we reroll? there must be KOBOLD SEX
>>12958992Double adopted?
>>12958992But at what cost? Apparently our character is a eunuch at age 10. At least our voice might be pretty.
>>12959009EVERYONE KEEPS ADOPTING OUR CHARACTER. WHYYY.
So we went from hellspawn who killed wild animals as a fetus and clawed his way out of his mother's womb, releasing a glass-shattering wail with his first gasp of life, to dickless wonder?
>>12959000>>12959000trips, this must be destiny
>>12959018His quest: new genitals
>>12959018>>12959012We're bound for the choir.
So, our character's childhood has been alongside kobolds. While he did have a human family to teach him how to speak common and such, he's been very influenced by his kobold friends and is now a ruffian. With best interests he was practically kidnapped by a rich city family and is now reluctantly being taught how to be a young gentleman.Now however, he reaches puberty... or at least he would do if it wasn't for his terrible affliction. Roll 1d3 to find out how many events happen in 'adolescence'.
rolled 3 = 3>>12959042regrow cock!
rolled 2 = 2Rolling for tragic adolescent events. Probably gets re-readopted by Satan.
>>12958943There should be a couple of torrents around, the title is 'Central Casting - Heroes of Legend'.
rolled 15 = 15>>12959052First event!
>>12959018Hey now, there have been a lot of badass dickless wonders.Like, uhm... Jack Shaftoe! And robots! The ones that don't come from Japan, at least.
>>129590523 events, happening at ages 14, 15, and 17.Rolling 3d20 for adolescent events! one d20 at a time please because they can be a little long.
rolled 5 = 5Adopted parents killed by kobolds.
rolled 20 = 20>>12959081Age 14
rolled 15 = 15>>12959081
rolled 2 = 2Rolling for events
>>12958973>I THOUGHT YOU DIEDI've been hanging around as Stately Buff, brony.
>>12959092That's got to be worth "regrow cock".
rolled 3 = 3>>12959081You gbisse.
Are high or low numbers generally more interesting, or are the tables all over?Getting a fantasy race or being a bastard required higher rolls, but a 1 on the crime roll was just petty theft.
>>12959120The amount of tables in this book is staggering, so they flip and flop all over the place as they please. Some things give influences though. The table that I'm looking at here is affected by the characters amount of wealth, so poor events are low and rich events are high.
WAIT, SHIT.Right, no genitals? No balls means no getting all masculine. You guys rolled a TRAP. Good going.
>>12959091Whether rightfully or wrongfully, you don't know, your new family is accused evildoings and outlawed.Suddenly, the character is all alone in the streets of this huge city, forced to fend for himself.
>>12959149A eunich. Yes feminine in appearance, but the lack of anatomy makes trap not the right word.
rolled 5 = 5>>12959185Oh god, I hope it doesn't get squicky. Next event, as apparently we're now an effeminate street urchin.
wow, /tg/. We are fucking this guy's life up hard. He needs a name. Let's call him Timmy.
>>12959092Oh god, guys. This could be it!The character is Blessed!Roll a d20 to see what we are blessed with!
>>12959188Oooh.. I dunno anon.By the way things are CURRENTLY rolling, you might end up being a trap anyway.>as apparently we're now an effeminate street urchin.My money is on rolling up EMPLOYED IN BROTHEL at some point.
rolled 12 = 12>>12959212BLESSED WITH COCK, TIMMY!
>>12959212God bless us, every one.
>>12959212Hopefully a new penis.
>>12959217The character feels a sudden swell in his groin as...The character grows psychic powers!But what kind of psychic powers? roll a d20 to find out.
>>12959235Psychic penis?
rolled 11 = 11>>12959235PSYCHIC COCK?
rolled 7 = 7>>12959235Psicock?
>>12959243Umm... I honestly don't know guys."Body control, With this power the character gets to temporarily increase an attribute by 1d4 points".... I can't believe that actually happened... Temporary penis.
>>12959240>>12959243>>12959246Triple psychic cock mind. We've opened our brains to the world's psychic maelstrom, and it has spoken.
let it be known that what /tg/ taketh, /tg/ giveth.
>>12959260So we can temporarily grow a 1d4 inch penis. Better than nothing.
>>12959246>>12959243>>12959240psidick mind
>>12959260What's the duration?Hopefully it's measured in hours, or at least minutes. 1d4 rounds of temporary penis may just be an even more terrible curse.
Righto, on that bombshell we're on our last event during adolescence, at age 17. 1d20 please.
>>12959287Really doesn't say. One would assume enough to last a combat though.See, it's stuff like that which makes this the best damn system known to man.
rolled 14 = 14>>12959288So, do you actually have the paper version of this? Otherwise you are OBLIGATED to upload this to /rs/.
>>12959306see>>12959065
>>12959306This roll means that we get to roll on a special adolescent table. So I need another d20.I'll try my darnedest. I believe that there are already a couple of torrents out there though. "Central Casting - Heroes of Legend"
rolled 1 = 1>>12959331
>>12959331let's roll
rolled 13 = 13>>12959344lol retard
>>12959306http://extratorrent.com/torrent_download/1290562/Paul+Jacquays+Central+Casting+(DnD,+Dungeons+%26+Dragons).torrent
>>12959340Running around with the other street orphans gives us decent experience with dagger. We soon become one of the best in the gutter with a weapon.
I've found a torrent, and if it's the real thing I'll upload it to MF in about a minute or two (plus upload time).
>>12959306http://www.general-search.net/go/103087062032 seconds on google. Come on anon, how hard is it?
So, our adolescence is over, and it's been a blast. Being abandoned by our adopted family really didn't hit us that hard, as we were pretty survival savvy from our time with the kobolds. Most importantly, we were visited by a god of some sort who helped up out with our... situation, and also gave us a really cool power in general. It certainly seems important that in the future we try to work out who that god was and try to repay him for his kindness.Now, we are an adult. Roll a d20 for what happens to us on the brink of adulthood.
rolled 15 = 15>>12959392
rolled 20 = 20>>12959392Psychic harem
rolled 11 = 11Rolling for even more terrible genital trauma
>>12959373I love you anon.
>>12959403>>12959401Read that wrong, I actually wanted a 2d20, so I'll just add these together.The character is accused of a crime that he didn't commit! In punishment, something happens. Roll a d6 to find out what.
>>12959424They castrate him.Oh, wait.
rolled 4 = 4>>12959424Crotch burning
rolled 1 = 1>>12959424Lose both feet!
>>12959424They already took his cock. What could be worse?
>>12959373Central Casting - Heroes of Legendhttp://www.mediafire.com/?npqhocytcyh7icbThey apparently have a sci-fi one and a dungeon generator, too.
>>12959475A thousand crotchless wonders to you sir!
>>12959475They also have a 20th century one. I downloaded all of them, checking them out now.
(sorry for the delay!)>>12959435At the last second, the character is rescued! He flees from the town and personally I think that it's the perfect time for his adventuring to begin.One glaring plot hole remains... who was he rescued by?Roll a d3.On a one, the character is rescued by his twin.On a two, the town is raided by kobolds who want their friends back!On a three, his undercity friends rise up and rescue him!Make your roll! First answer to 3!
Either what happened to us is so horrible it has melted OP's mind, or he's trapped in an endless chain of self-referential table indices.
>>12959534I lol'd
rolled 1 = 1>>12959528
rolled 3 = 3>>12959528
>>12959528I guess we're ending up with an effeminate rogue with limited psychic powers.
>>12959552...twin promptly stabs his freak brother in the neck.
rolled 3 = 3>>12959534It's so possible. We're talking about a character creation system so complex that your character can die in it. I skimmed over a lot of the detail in this one.Also rollan'
>>12959552>>12959528Anyone think its weird that now his twin is manly, and Timmy is not. They don't look like twins anymore.
>>12959552So.. the actual grown masculine twin saves the effeminate twin?
>>12959475Here's the rest of them, while I'm at it.Central Casting - Dungeons!http://www.mediafire.com/?webxtdi1b0ebkb3Central Casting - Heroes for Tomorrowhttp://www.mediafire.com/?kballns8jdatajaCentral Casting - Heroes Now!http://www.mediafire.com/?kd2kdpe46th9rrh
>>12959609And mistakes Timmy for a girl, as well as not recognizing him as his twin. Awkwardness ensues
>>12959528Well at least now Timmy's twin has a romantic interest!
>>12959609He probably thought he was rescuing a beautiful maiden or something. Joke's on him, it's his twin e castrated at age 9!
>>12959614You are bro-tier
>>12959626This sounds like an Oglaf comic.
>>12959663If it isn't, it should be.
>mfw we're not going to get to three in any of those options.Ahh well, I guess it's up to anon to decide what happened. I hope that everyone had fun.For people who are downloading the system now, I find that it works best with the runequest rules base, it's very easy to transfer across, and runequest is brilliant anyway.
>>12959626Well, the same power we can use to grow a penis for 1d4 turns, can also be used to grow a Vagina... Just saying...
>>12959626>>12959638>>12959656It's entirely possible. Lowly street urchins can't afford HAIRCUTS.
>>12959657Only because people are apparently superstitious and fearful of BitTorrent. It's not like these are my scans or anything.I also have no idea how long those links last, since I didn't want to actually bother making a MF account. I should probably get around to that, actually, if only so I can permanently re-up stuff.
>>12959673What? No! Come on, let's do it again.
>>12959674It wasn't 1d4 turns. That's the increase to the stat. It's unclear about how long it lasts, remember? Presumably a whole combat, the OP said. Or maybe as long as we want. But yes. It could be used to grow a vagina.
>>12959697You really want me to do another one?
>>12959734Go for it!
>>12959699So... About that romacing the twin brother part...
Could anyone archive this thread? It would increase my ego several-fold
>>12959734Do the future one next maybe?>>12959739I prefer to think of it as him killing his twin brother for mutilating his junk.
>>12959793With his Vagina?Scary...
ATTENTION!Thread continued with new character here>>12959829
Writefags, get in here! We need the story of Tim!
