Universal Triangle Agency NPC Generator
I was reading through the archive of Chris McDowall's Bastionland blog this evening, and I stumbled across three great articles about using an ordered set of dice to quickly generate different elements of the campaign world. I have here shamelessly ripped off the procedure to be useful for my Triangle Agency games! I may also do something similar for other setting elements; this was a fun exercise!
The questions/scales that I developed are my own, inspired by the suggested characteristics in the GM section of Triangle Agency as well as what I've needed in past sessions. The d6 results are directly quoted from Chris.
Procedure
Roll 6d6, drop the highest, then read each die in order as:
Luck: How lucky are there? Observant: How observant are they? Easygoing: How chill are they? Official: How official are they? Influence: How influential are they?
1=1: A Bit
2=2: Some
3=3: Lots
4=N: Null, actively none, perhaps by design
5=H: Hazardous, not through lack or excess but the nature of the thing
6=S: Super, off the scale. Think big then go bigger.
Examples
S111S: This person leads a charmed life but basically stumbles into everything they've ever gotten. They are an incredibly influential mukbang streamer with a huge audience and are always worried about how that's going and fussing with making everything right.
S1131: The mayor's aide got this job through being the mayor's daughter in a bit of nepotism. She's very uptight about this, but also focuses on all the wrong things, like color coordination of office memos. In practice, most people don't listen to her despite her position.
N122H: This is a person who is fleeing the law due to a crime they didn't commit. They themselves are constantly alert, but not to what the Agents are doing, due to this, but they easily attract official attention in a negative way.
NN22H: Failson of a local billionaire manages to get in all the wrong places at all the wrong times, and private security is always looking for him. He is almost never paying attention to what he's doing nor is he particularly malicious, but he does seem supernaturally attracted to "the wrong sorts."