Character creation in Cyberpunk 2020 includes rolling up a “lifepath” or series of events that has happened to your character before he started adventuring. Unless they’re very unlucky, players will usually get at least one ally, sometimes as many as 5 but normally around 3.
So, to save myself some time and effort, I’m using a couple of online tools, to generate some allies I can have ready with a few jobs available for the PCs. An online random number generator is key so I’m not tossing dice all night but it doesn’t really matter. What does is the GURPS NPC Generator.
I roll 1d100 for relative power then click “Random Random” to generate a GURPS NPC. While some things on the generated sheet are pretty system-specific, alot of it isn’t and makes for great people in a world. See this example (the formatting sucks, so does life), with the really key bits in red :
Human Archer: Barry Pfister 36.5 points
sex: male age: 28 nationality: Human
hair: red height: 6’0″ tech-level: 4
eyes: brown weight: 172lbs. genre: fantasySTATS _______________________ SECONDARY STATS ______________________________
strength: 11 hit-points: 10 will: 10
dexterity: 11 fatigue: 11 vision: 10
intelligence: 9 speed: 5.25 hearing: 8
health: 10 move [enc]: 5[5] taste-smell: 9ADVANTAGES __________________ DISADVANTAGES _______________ QUIRKS __________
combat-reflexes blood-lust abhors monastaries
legal-enforcement: 1 dreamer attracted to pranksters
toughness: 1 enemy: 1 nauseated by bad parenting
motion-sickness
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