So I thought I'd knock up a quick Random Wizard Generator for use with Mages: the Awakening because why not? Also I needed to briefly rest my brain from paid work.
How it works:
- First, roll 1d6 to determine the Puissance of the Wizard. This has no particular mechanical effect but may guide the GM in portraying the Wizard.
- Roll 1d6 and read horizontally across the columns to determine the Tradition from which the Wizard comes. Each Tradition has its own thematic titles and names.
- All future rolls are read vertically down the same column.
- Roll 1d6 to determine the Title of the Wizard. Not all Traditions bestow Titles.
- Roll 1d12 to determine the Name of the Wizard. These are of course only a sample of suitable names.
- Roll 1d6 to determine the Epithet of the Wizard. Where a Tradition has two columns of Epithets, roll twice and combine the results into a single Epithet.
Names alternate as traditionally masculine and traditionally feminine in each table, but wizards do just as they please.
Tradition | |||||||
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Imperial Order of Wizardry | Conclave of the High | Guild of Truth Seekers | Adepts of the Sign | Thaumaturgical Cabal | New Wave Sorcerers | Title | |
the auspicious... | Ascendant | Crazy | |||||
the eminent... | Questor | Slim | |||||
the marvellous... | Inquisitor | Dead | |||||
the venerable... | Magister | Bad | |||||
the perspicacious... | Annunciator | Smoking | |||||
the ineffable... | Rubricator | Weird | Name | ||||
Peregrine | Actulf | Geraint | Guillaume | Amadeus | Jimmy | ||
Andromeda | Ermengaud | Angharad | Annabelle | Cecilia | Alice | ||
Tobermory | Frodwin | Hywel | Pascal | Tiberius | Fred | ||
Desdemona | Osthryth | Branwen | Noemie | Paloma | Sue | ||
Marmaduke | Hrodegang | Osian | Raoul | Valerian | Phil | ||
Esmerelda | Gudrun | Myfanwy | Gabrielle | Cornelia | Zoe | ||
Hildegard | Coenwulf | Caradog | Hilaire | Octavius | Ralph | ||
Leonara | Osburh | Nerys | Yvonne | Aurea | Tina | ||
Caspian | Walpurgis | Islwyn | Blanchard | Gnaeus | Ted | ||
Jezebel | Linveig | Tegan | Lucienne | Marcella | May | ||
Quasimodo | Aelfric | Tristan | Sylvestre | Agrippa | Neil | ||
Serafina | Wynflaed | Eluned | Marceline | Eliana | Terri | Epithet | |
Eagle | Rider | of the Ninth Eye | Midnight | Lightning | Haze | ||
Dragon | Whisperer | of the Four Gates | Scarlet | Flame | Susurrus | ||
Tiger | Caller | of the Thousand Stars | Emerald | Tempest | Fractal | ||
Serpent | Hunter | of the Fifth Wind | Silver | Blade | Vortex | ||
Phoenix | Master | of the Seven Syllables | Diamond | Anthem | Quasar | ||
Griffon | Slayer | of the Eight Secrets | Dusk | Wrath | Flux |
For example, you might roll up the mighty archmage (Puissance 6) of the Imperial Tradition (1), The Perspicacious (5) Caspian (9), or the middling sorcerer (Puissance 3) of the Thaumaturgical Cabal (5), Questor (5) Eliana (12), or the feeble apprentice (Puissance 1) of the Conclave of the High, Osburh (8) Dragon (2) Slayer (6). Bit of an overreach there, Osburh...
If I get time I will write up a code snippet to handle this, but right now I can't spare the time.
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