AD&D Version1 Characters

These are the stats I got from randomly rolling 11 characters on the online random character generation system on the Dragonsfoot website.

	Sex	Class	Align	Str	Int	Wis	Dex	Con	Cha	Age	Height	Weight
1	Male	Ranger	NG	16	13	15	12	14	15	21	5'10"	175lbs
2	Male	Fighter	CN	16	9	15	12	15	15	17	6'2"	182lbs
3	Male	Fighter	CG	16	11	13	11	14	9	17	6'3.5"	197lbs
4	Male	Fighter	CG	17	8	10	13	14	15	17	6'11"	218lbs
5	Male	Thief	CN	13	14	10	16	11	13	20	5'0"	127lbs
6	Male	Cleric	NG	13	14	17	12	13	8	21	6'6"	175lbs
7	Male	Magic User	CG	12	15	14	13	6	15	31	5'7"	175lbs
8	Female	Fighter	NG	15	13	11	11	13	13	16	5'1.5"	135lbs
9	Female	Thief	CN	12	12	14	15	10	11	20	5'6"	125lbs
10	Female	Cleric	NG	10	14	15	13	15	12	22	5'1.5"	132lbs
11	Female	Magic User	CG	10	15	12	14	13	10	29	4'9"	168lbs

These stats give me quite a bit to work with, and from the stat lines alone I can see some real characters in there; for example, the female mage who is 4'9" tall and weighs in at 168lbs, or the male fighter at 6'11" and 218lbs. I can see the interactions between these two already. The leader of the band was a specially rolled Ranger (I had visions of Strider with this one) and I rolled up a mixture from the four major classes. I will undoubtedly roll some other rarer classes in future once party attrition has set in, but I was aiming for an initial eight characters to start with. These will be a mixture of pbm characters for my online gaming chums and the rest will be NPCs that I will control. I will be using these in my forthcoming Village of Hommlet campaign. All will have maximum HP at 1st level, have minimal equipment (just the clothes they stand up in, specific class tools and a weapon each), and they will each have a pouch of silver to buy further equipment and to pay for their board and lodgings. The rest of their kit will have to be scavenged, stolen or acquired in some other way.

The Village of Hommlet module is actually quite a tough one (I ran it when I first started out playing D&D many moons ago), so that is why all the characters will start off with maximum HPs. I am hoping it will last for a year or two play time, utilising a variety of playing styles (PBM, face-to-face etc.) and come to a reasonable conclusion.

The map is ready, I now need to go back and re-read the module and plan how to introduce the players to each other. There are several sub-plots and I have to create a back-story/quest for each character too that needs to be accomplished some time during the campaign.

I will work on this from time to time over the next few weeks and publish any new info as I finalise it. I may also need to try to find some miniatures for these and their adversaries too.