Origins
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Roll d66 twice on either of the two origin tables. For each roll, you may choose whether to roll on Table A or Table B. For each result, write a Fact with this formula: “Because I [was (a)…], I learned [lesson].” You can play with the phrasing so long as the background & lesson are both included.
Table A
| d66 | I was (a)… |
|---|
| 11 | Secretly responsible for the disappearance of my parents |
| 12 | Incompetent tyrant of a small domain |
| 13 | Wanton (1d6: 1–2 drunkard / 3–4 casanova / 5–6 addict; say how) |
| 14 | Catastrophically failed (1d6: 1–2 poet / 3–4 banker / 5–6 businessman) |
| 15 | Ruthless duelist |
| 16 | Spendthrifty administrator of other people’s money |
| 21 | Tax collector in a district that hated me |
| 22 | Census-taker so thorough the powers that be grew afraid of me |
| 23 | Clerk with proof my superior was (1d6: 1–3 embezzling / 4–6 a spy) |
| 24 | Prosecutor of a case I knew was unjust |
| 25 | Disgraced by a scandal (1d6: 1–2 real / 3–4 fabricated / 5–6 someone else’s) |
| 26 | Ghostwriter to an illiterate Lord |
| 31 | Guild master’s (1d6: 1–2 outgrown apprentice / 3–4 robbed apprentice / 5–6 unwanted son-in-law) |
| 32 | Raised behind a counter, eavesdropping on everyone’s business |
| 33 | Trader ruined by (1d6: 1–3 bandits / 4–6 a vengeful Lord) |
| 34 | Festival organizer (& protection racket operator) |
| 35 | Framed for a crime I actually did commit |
| 36 | Moneylender’s muscle enforcer & debt-collector |
| 41 | Survivor of a knives-out trade war |
| 42 | Child of a former (& executed) monopolist |
| 43 | Innumerate lord’s bookkeeper |
| 44 | Professional (1d6: 1–2 regicide / 3–4 traitor’s mark / 5–6 deserter) |
| 45 | Amateur bandit from childhood onward |
| 46 | Arena fighter — (1d6: 1–2 killed the wrong man / 3–4 turned revolutionary / 5–6 freed by a patron) |
| 51 | Freed from debt-slavery only to find my home destroyed |
| 52 | Hunter of escalating prey, latterly people |
| 53 | Celebrated tyrant-killer, trapped by the fame |
| 54 | Mathematician & (1d6: 1–2 card sharp / 3–4 book-cooker / 5–6 extortionist) |
| 55 | Orphaned (1d6: 1–2 con artist / 3–4 petty pickpocket / 5–6 fence) |
| 56 | Indebted wrestler, throwing fights |
| 61 | Openly a criminal & beloved by the commons |
| 62 | Forger of pedigrees, land claims, & official documents |
| 63 | Unforgiving (1d6: 1–2 serial killer / 3–4 assassin / 5–6 lawyer) |
| 64 | Adjudicator of disputes in a region where everyone was armed |
| 65 | Spy for an illiterate master |
| 66 | Punished reformer |
Table B
| d66 | I was (a)… |
|---|
| 11 | Driven from home by an uprising |
| 12 | Scheming courtier in someone else’s court |
| 13 | A powerful man’s leg-breaker |
| 14 | Veteran of a (1d6: 1–3 foreign war / 4–6 failed revolt) with nowhere left to go |
| 15 | Betrayed by family & driven to crime to survive |
| 16 | Crooked accountant |
| 21 | Legitimate businessman ruined by a rival & out for blood |
| 22 | Decadent beyond decadent, every vice exhausted |
| 23 | Cursed after spiting a spirit |
| 24 | Always starving, looking for the next meal |
| 25 | Oathbreaker, serving out a punishment I can’t escape |
| 26 | Sold to an institution by my family to settle a debt |
| 31 | Possessed by something & thrown out of my home |
| 32 | Debt-bonded slave drawn to a dangerous calling |
| 33 | Apprenticed after being caught robbing the master |
| 34 | Poisoner in uncomfortably high demand |
| 35 | Smuggler of (1d6: 1–2 windguns / 3–4 people / 5–6 sacred relics) |
| 36 | Riot-starter, long gone before the swords came out |
| 41 | False prophet with true believers |
| 42 | Grave-robber with a find I can’t get rid of |
| 43 | Funeral racketeer, gouging the bereaved of easy money |
| 44 | Horse thief promoted to cavalry in a desperate army |
| 45 | Sold my family’s land to pay (1d6: 1–2 gambling debts / 3–4 a failing venture / 5–6 someone else’s ransom) |
| 46 | Accused by everybody of causing the (1d6: 1–2 plague / 3–4 famine / 5–6 fire) |
| 51 | Briefly & disastrously a slaver |
| 52 | Informant against a cause I once believed in |
| 53 | Taught the wrong person to fight & lived to regret it |
| 54 | Midwife keeping many family secrets to leave |
| 55 | Kept someone in my basement for (1d6: 1–3 ransom / 4–6 personal reasons) longer than was decent |
| 56 | Tax fraud architect, scheme bigger than my ability to hide it |
| 61 | Double-dealing translator, selling both sides’ secrets to each other |
| 62 | Never caught, but everyone knows it was me |
| 63 | Abandoned a (1d6: 1–2 spouse / 3–4 child / 5–6 partner) to chase something I never found |
| 64 | Inherited a debt so enormous it ate my entire former life |
| 65 | Last-surviving bodyguard to a dead household |
| 66 | Incurable pyromaniac |
