Sunday, March 23, 2014

Colonial Marines Background Tables & YOU






During this month’s blog challenge, the topic of Aliens has come up, especially on how appealing the setting is despite how bad the old RPG and recent PS3 games were. I’m itching to run or play a game in that universe soon as I have free time again, so with that in mind I’ve made up some tables based on US Census info to flesh out characters. I figure using a stripped version of d20 Aliens: Game Over with these tables would be a blast.

I’d also like to ask for contributions. For the table PARAMETER B = DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERISTICS, I’ve created 20 results, but I’d like to flesh out the table to a full 100. If you could add some futuristic, 1980s technopunk, or advanced savage characteristics I’d appreciate it. They can be clothing, body modifications, implants, whatever, just as long as they provide no game bonus (unless player’s use their imagination to think of one) and would fit the world of Aliens.

Cheers & enjoy!


PARAMETER A1 = ETHNICITY (Roll d12)
1-2 Asian and Pacific Islander
3-4 Black
5-7 Hispanic
8 American Indian and Alaskan Native
9 Two or More Races
10-11 White
12 Other

PARAMETER A2 = NAMES
Asian & Pacific Islander (Roll d20)

Rank
Name
1
NGUYEN
2
LEE
3
KIM
4
PATEL
5
TRAN
6
CHEN
7
WONG
8
LE
9
YANG
10
WANG
11
CHANG
12
CHAN
13
PHAM
14
LI
15
PARK
16
SINGH
17
LIN
18
LIU
19
WU
20
HUANG


Black (Roll d20)

Rank
Name
1
WILLIAMS
2
JOHNSON
3
SMITH
4
JONES
5
BROWN
6
JACKSON
7
DAVIS
8
THOMAS
9
HARRIS
10
ROBINSON
11
TAYLOR
12
WILSON
13
MOORE
14
WHITE
15
LEWIS
16
WALKER
17
GREEN
18
WASHINGTON
19
THOMPSON
20
ANDERSON


Hispanic  (Roll d20)

Rank
Name
1
GARCIA
2
RODRIGUEZ
3
MARTINEZ
4
HERNANDEZ
5
LOPEZ
6
GONZALEZ
7
PEREZ
8
SANCHEZ
9
RAMIREZ
10
TORRES
11
FLORES
12
RIVERA
13
GOMEZ
14
DIAZ
15
REYES
16
MORALES
17
CRUZ
18
ORTIZ
19
GUTIERREZ
20
CHAVEZ


American Indian & Alaskan Native  (Roll d20)

Rank
Name
1
SMITH
2
JOHNSON
3
BEGAY
4
YAZZIE
5
LOCKLEAR
6
JONES
7
WILLIAMS
8
BROWN
9
DAVIS
10
WILSON
11
THOMPSON
12
THOMAS
13
MILLER
14
JACKSON
15
WHITE
16
MARTIN
17
LEE
18
HUNT
19
JAMES
20
LEWIS


Two or More Races
Choose two other tables, roll two names then hyphenate them.

White (Roll d20)

Rank
Name
1
SMITH
2
JOHNSON
3
MILLER
4
BROWN
5
JONES
6
WILLIAMS
7
DAVIS
8
ANDERSON
9
WILSON
10
MARTIN
11
TAYLOR
12
MOORE
13
THOMPSON
14
WHITE
15
CLARK
16
THOMAS
17
HALL
18
BAKER
19
NELSON
20
ALLEN


Other

Rank
Name
1
Spivak
2
Silva
3
Smirnov
4
Ibrahim
5
Muler
6
Wachowski
7
Angelopolis
8
Langston
9
Du Bois
10
Witts


PARAMETER B = DISTINGUISHING CHARACTRISTICS (Roll d20)

Rank
Item
1
NOTHING
2
TRIBAL TATTOOS
3
KANJI TATTOOS
4
PRISON TATTOOS
5
DAY GLO TATTOOS
6
HOLO TATTOOS
7
SHAVED HEAD
8
MOHAWK
9
AFRO
10
ANIME SPIKY HAIR
11
TURBAN
12
NATIVE HEADDRESS
13
BOWLER HAT
14
FACIAL PIERCINGS
15
NECK RINGS
16
RITUAL SCARRING
17
EXTRA FINGER
18
NERVOUS TIC
19
HELLO KITTY PAINTJOB
20
SUBDERMAL BOOMBOX



PARAMETER C = PERSONAL POSSESSION

Rank
Item
1
SHOTGUN
2
WHISKY FLASK
3
TWIN 6 SHOOTERS
4
FLARE GUN
5
RIFLE
6
CONDOMS
7
KATANA
8
STASH OF CASH
9
TOMAHAWK
10
LOCKPICKS
11
BULLWHIP
12
GRAPPLING GUN
13
THROW KNIVES
14
REBREATHER
15
SHURIKEN
16
FLASHBANGS
17
CUTLASS
18
RC DRONE
19
NELSON
20
MINI BOOMBOX

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