Randomized Races and Classes

Sometimes you want to carefully craft a character according to a pre-existing vision; and sometimes you want to, as they say, roll 3d6 in order and play what you get.  On a whim, I decided to come up with percentile randomization tables for races and classes that you can use if you want to generate completely random characters.  Why not?  Heck, I may play around with it and generate a couple dozen pregen iconics using completely randomized chargen, just to see what the heck I get.

For races, I've detailed a lot of races and many of them came up during the star system data sheets that I came up with.  Some of them aren't really meant to be PC races, like Death Sages or Dhangetans, but I'll include them anyway, with simply a less 1% chance of being selected. (Only select if you roll 00 0, or 100, and then pick which of the three by using a d3.) If I (or you) roll one up, you'll have to figure out, using the race building rules in the chargen section, how to best represent them, since I haven't done so and don't plan on doing it any time soon.

The color coding is to separate the races into three rough groups: green for the common races, yellow for the uncommon races, and red for the extremely rare races.

d% Roll	Name	Description
1-6	Altairans	Blue-skinned xenohumans
7-11	Cepheids	Reptile from Mortal Kombat X
12-15	Cilindareans	Nordic warrior culture
16-30	Earth humans	From various worlds
31-33	Idacharians	Pale, occultist xenohumans
34-40	Jaffans	"Rainbow" xenohumans
41-43	Janissaries	Dark-haired Nordic allies of the Cilindareans
44-50	Kusans	Small, humanoid cockroach-like aliens
51-55	Oerkenites	Mixed race xenohumans
56-58	Oerks	Killer Croc; big strong reptile men
59-65	Psarians	Red-skinned xenohumans
66-70	Robots	Artificial humanoids
71-75	Seraeans	Pale, Imperial xenohumans
76-77	Arcturans	Furry, spine-headed hulks
78-79	Carinan hulks	Space ogres
80-81	Cetians	Deep Ones in space
82-83	Chimps	Planet of the Apes-style chimpanzees
84-85	Gors	Planet of the Apes-style gorillas
86-87	Grays	Area 51 and Roswell style aliens
88	Orangs	Planet of the Apes-style orangutans
89-90	Reavers	Furry, predator humanoids
91-92	Sirian reptoids	Small, quick reptile people
93-94	Skiffers	Horned, scuted and spiky allies of the Dhangetans
95	Syrans	Naked mole-rat people
96	Tearaxian hulks	Red-skinned native cyborg hulks
97	Thanatites	Decadent natives of Thanatos
98-99	Ubrai	Green-skinned, photosynthesizing xenohumans
100, d3 = 1	Death Sages	Cyborg-liches
100, d3 = 2	Dhangetans	Baggy, alien Jabba-gug hybrids
100, d3 = 3	Mattixes	Glowing "angels" or "elfs"

The class situation is a bit easier; a d6 (with a couple of contingent rolls) will suffice.  You have to roll it twice, since classes are made up of two class abilities.  Other than affinity and skill bonus, you normally can't take the same class ability twice.  If you get it twice, roll the second one again until you have a different result.

1. Take the Combat bonus class ability
2. Take the skill bonus class ability.  If you want to randomize your skill roll, roll a d4
1. Communication
2. Physical
3. Subterfuge
4. Knowledge
3. Take the Sneak Attack Class ability
4. Take an Affinity (there's 15 listed.  I'm not going to try and come up with any kind of "d15"—just pick one.)
5. Take the Psionic abilities class ability.
6. Take the Psionic weapons class ability.

The last two results are a little unusual.  If you roll a 5, roll an additional d4.  On a result of 1-2, your other ability will be psionic weapons (even if you already rolled something else) on a roll of 3-4, you will keep a normally rolled second ability.

There is a similar process for rolling a 6; on a roll of 1-3 on a d4, switch your other ability to psionics abilities.  On a roll of 4, you keep your other roll.