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2013-02-21 Character Generator and Price Differences

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Last year, I worked on an old school random character generator. With my new found interest in B/X D&D and the Moldvay equipment list in particular, I found it necessary to differentiate between Basic D&D prices and Labyrinth Lord prices. The most important price difference is the price of plate armor. No first level character can afford it when using Labyrinth Lord rules: starting gold is 240 at most and plate armor costs 450.

Here’s how to generate those characters (note that Moldvay is the default):

  1. a random character
  2. 50 compact characters
  3. statistics on the characters generated

And here’s the same thing using Labyrinth Lord prices:

  1. a random character
  2. 50 compact characters
  3. statistics on the characters generated

Don’t forget, the source code for the random character generator is available as well (Perl 5).

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Comments on 2013-02-21 Character Generator and Price Differences


AlexSchroeder
The generator now also computes the reaction bonus correctly.

AlexSchroeder 2013-02-22 17:44 UTC

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