I found another good one (just need to remove some minor goblinoid encounters and fix the random encounter table: The halls of Tizun Thane (White Dwarf 18) by Albie Fiore. Planning to run this soon.

I found a mistake in my excel sheet; the first letter of the names of the classes were capitalized and, as such, not recognized by the generator. So I fixed it (same link). I added a second stat-block that is straight 3d6 (as it should be ;) )

This is awesome thanks! I created a little excel sheet so you can generate random statblock to copy into the statbox of your site (download the excel, go to tab character and hit F9 to generate new stat block):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8oOfWjCCZfY2eOy-qD9QPCKujhRP_cP/view?usp=sharing

 

So see if this works for you:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yzCzmJaq9XmqFtB934qwDtYkpiNs5rcN/view

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yzCzmJaq9XmqFtB934qwDtYkpiNs5rcN/view

sheet 1 has the race kits, sheet 2 the class kits, sheet 3 some calculations and randomizer functions, the charactersheet will show the resulting character, pressing F9 will generate a new one. The fastest way to generate a group of characters is to press f9, select all, copy and <paste special>, values only in another tab or file and repeat.

It's pretty low tech and crude but it works great. I could of course change the sheet to use the original height, weight and age tables in stead of picking results from the samples from "Waifs" but that's for another time maybe.

Feel free to request additions or changes and thanks for giving me such a great set of sample character characteristics to start with !
 

Just got this from ebay; art by Jason Thompson. The drawing have a 90s indy comic look to me. It seems a straight adaption of the same story by C.A.S. but it does capture the vibe of ASSH. I would definately bring it to my assh games for new players to read and draw inspiration from.

ETA. I just realised that the artist that did the drawings also did those awesome walk-through maps of old-school D&D modules.

My stat rolling method of choice (and what I want to introduce in my game is) 4d6, drop lowest, down the line, swap 1 score if that will let you qualify for a specific class. Most players I play with have only done point buy and or stat array and part of what I want to introduce (together with the other old school elements of AS&SH) is the departure of character builds. Roll and interpret what you rolled; have scores in places because you roliled them, not because you chose them or dumped that stat. I want that character creation part of the game.

I know from experience how a character creation session can be tedious when we share one copy of the book (I'm sure there will be more if the campaign takes off). Also in the case of someone needing to make a new character mid-session being able to do the basics by themselves and fill in the details at the end (especially when I use my copy to run the game)

I'll create what I had in mind and post it here so you'll know what I wanted when I started the thread (not to say that there wasn't a lot of helpful info from all of you)

I'm planning a game at my local FLGS with mostly newer edition d&d players (that all seem very interesting in the game). Do any of you have any player aid docs that could help with introducing the setting (what would the characters know) and some quick ref sheet for the base choices during character creation. As of now I'm the only one with the book which can make character creation take a long time so I'm looking for hand outs for players to digest (classes with prerequisits and 1st level abilities etc.) While they wait for the book to fill out the details on their sheets (I have the tables and gm sheets from the AS&S website)

Thanks!

Hi, my name is Arjen, originally from the Netherlands but I moved to USA, Connecticut a few years ago. I started with red box D&D (Dutch translation ) in the late 80s, moved to 1st ed, 2nd edition, 3rd ,4th, 5th and since this year original white box. I still DM and play 5th and try to run oD&D when possible. I also played and ran CoC and Vampire.

I attended this years Shirecon and was able to play my first game of AS&SoH at Jeff's table. Since then I ordered the book and I'm trying to round up some players at my local gameshop (Elm City, New Haven) to start a campaign.

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Thanks for all the replies. I think I'll have to work on some descriptions of people from the R.E.Howard African Hyborian nations of Punt and Zembabwe and Shem.