A little Basic D&D character Generator.

[OldMoses]

Ah, role playing. One of those hobbies that life has put on a back burner, but I still find myself using as an excuse to code.

I used to play D&D and I probably tried writing a character generator in Applesoft Basic, but I don't know whatever became of such a thing if I had done it. I pretty quickly went to Chaosium's Runequest game system and never looked back. I wrote several character generators for that system, one for each edition that I went to. RQ characters are VERY data driven and there are lots of tables and modifiers to deal with, so a generator is a must have for me. RQ is a lethal system, so characters die in droves and it takes a great deal of time to create them. The latest one is written in QB64 and is both a generator and database system that handles multiple characters at once. I once posted it on the old forum.

I also GM'ed Traveller, which is the inspiration for my starship combat utility. I have yet to try a character generator for that one. Traveller is a strange one where a character can "die" during chargen.