HYPERBOREA / 82,944 Premade Starting Characters for AS&SH

**Posted by Blackadder23** 7/07/2014 10:33 am

It's not quite as insane as it sounds. What I've done is create 288 race kits (12 for each gender of each of the 12 races in the game) and 288 class kits (12 for each class, including cryomancers and purloiners). Any race kit can be combined with any class kit - hence, 82,944 unique characters are possible with no additional effort at all. These race and class kits were hand-rolled by me, using the many helpful random tables created by Colin Chapman. In addition, I used the "Holmesian Random Names" document from the Zenopus Archives blog to generate random epithets and the names of familiars. A complete, detailed, ready-to-play starting character of any race and class combination can be generated in less than a minute with this document. Give it a try and see for yourself!

http://www.mediafire.com/view/27evfbqyik8c1t8/Waifs_of_the_Boreas.pdf

**Posted by Ghul** 7/07/2014 7:37 pm

This is going to be very useful in my campaign. Thank you, BA23!

**Posted by Chainsaw** 7/07/2014 8:07 pm

Looks good, BA23. Thanks man!

**Posted by Benoist** 7/07/2014 9:39 pm

Very cool. Definitely useful!

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 7/08/2014 7:38 am

Wow, thanks, BA23! This is fantastic.

**Posted by Ghul** 7/08/2014 8:41 am

This is false advertising. I actually counted 82,942.

**Posted by Blackadder23** 7/08/2014 8:42 am

You're welcome guys. Hope you get some use out of them.

Ghul wrote:
This is false advertising. I actually counted 82,942.

Oops.

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**Posted by Benoist** 7/08/2014 12:35 pm

That's it! I demand an official (c)(tm) erratum!

**Posted by Chainsaw** 7/08/2014 12:54 pm

I want my money back.

Things I Worked On · **Posted by Ynas Midgard** 7/23/2014 11:12 pm

Very useful resource, thank you!

**Posted by Blackadder23** 7/24/2014 9:26 am

You're welcome!

**Posted by Rastus_Burne** 2/13/2015 4:11 pm

Wow! This is going to be invaluable. Thanks.

**Posted by Handy Haversack** 2/13/2015 4:22 pm

Jeff or Chainsaw, can you sticky this thread? It's a bear to find.

**Posted by Rastus_Burne** 2/13/2015 4:29 pm

Handy Haversack wrote:
Jeff or Chainsaw, can you sticky this thread? It's a bear to find.

+1 to that.

**Posted by SavageGM** 2/13/2015 8:56 pm

It's a great supplement and many thanks for making it. I took the liberty of making myself a print version of it on lulu. Cover is dark but I found a brighter version of the art and have another one on the way. That's how much I enjoy it.

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**Posted by Blackadder23** 2/15/2015 12:01 am

Ha ha that's awesome. Nice art too.

**Posted by Crisippo** 2/16/2015 6:06 am

Really cool Blackadder! I feel like i'm out of it (this forum) for a little while and suddenly there is this huge treasure waiting for me when i come back. Thanks! (Now i have to try and get a ASSH game together again).

Robert E. Howard · **Posted by Brule Spear-Slayer** 1/06/2017 5:39 pm

Very useful resource - thank you!

Things I Worked On · **Posted by Ynas Midgard** 2/27/2017 1:58 pm

It's such an amazing resource that I'm afraid to mention the slight error I found perusing it. The layout of p10 and p68 seems slightly off (the text proper starts lower than elsewhere).

Also, will it get updated once 2E hits the electronic shelves?

**Posted by Blackadder23** 4/17/2017 10:50 am

Ynas Midgard wrote:
It's such an amazing resource that I'm afraid to mention the slight error I found perusing it. The layout of p10 and p68 seems slightly off (the text proper starts lower than elsewhere).

Thanks for mentioning it. That's an artifact of me foolishly using columns (instead of tables, as I should have) and Word being a piece of %!&*. It wouldn't let me readily fix it, and I eventually gave up.

Ynas Midgard wrote:
Also, will it get updated once 2E hits the electronic shelves?

Possibly. I have something else I'm going to release (and later update for 2E) first.