World Without Number: Specific NPCS (d12)

Specific Nobility
Specific Criminals
Specific Villagers
Specific Merchants
Specific Tribals
Specific Warriors

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Specific Nobility (d12)

d12 Result

1

Royal scion judged unfit for responsibility

2

Merchant-noble who bought their title

3

Head of a minor but very respected house

4

Heir to a major local noble title

5

Fallen foreign noble in safe exile here

6

Scheming lesser noble with grand ideas

7

Noble on their way down from bad choices

8

Court favorite with greater ambitions

9

Treacherous but trusted noble plotter

10

Idealistic and well-meaning young ruler

11

Grizzled noble who earned their title in war

12

House leader who’s getting too old for this

Specific Criminals (d12)

d12 Result

1

Decadent noble turned crime boss for fun

2

Obsessively driven underclass-turned-capo

3

Psychopathically indifferent assassin

4

Notorious cat burglar

5

Infamously slippery con man

6

Wealthy madame with vast blackmail files

7

Terrifyingly brutal gang boss

8

Local protector of the poor for a profit

9

Smuggler dealing in very illegal wares

10

Renegade mage meddling with dark powers

11

Noble official robbing under color of law

12

Master spy for hire by the wealthy

Specific Villagers (d12)

d12 Result

1

Biggest and cleverest bully in the village

2

Maiden or boy of known easy virtue

3

Restless youth who yearns to roam afar

4

Best farmer in all the hundred

5

Half-feral shepherd or swineherd

6

Village priest of phlegmatic temperament

7

Local artisan of considerable talent

8

Urban gentry resenting forced rustication

9

Local wise woman or cunning man

10

Canny local headman or mayor

11

Reeve serving the village’s lord

12

Traveler stuck here for some reason

Specific Merchants (d12)

d12 Result

1

Grasping usurer with a long list of debts

2

Trader in exotic and potentially illegal wares

3

Ambitious young merchant on their way up

4

Major landlord in the area

5

Monopolist with a royal patent for it

6

Brutally competitive merchant-thug

7

Cartel boss with plenty of enforcers

8

Supplier of arms or goods to the government

9

Wandering peddler or roaming merchant

10

Ship-owner or trader with far lands

11

Plantation owner or sharecropper master

12

Desperate oligarch with crumbling assets

Specific Tribals (d12)

d12 Result

1

Zealous shaman of an obscure god

2

The most fearsome warrior of the tribe

3

The tribe’s most eligible maiden or bachelor

4

Outsider who’s gone native with them

5

Missionary trying to convert the tribe

6

Ambitious tribal war leader

7

Merchant trying to cut a deal with the tribe

8

Xenophobic tribal elder of great influence

9

Keeper of occult tribal secrets

10

Fabulously talented tribal artisan

11

Tribal who spent some years out in the world

12

Sage tribal lorekeeper or historian

Specific Warriors (d12)

d12 Specific Warriors

1

Bronze-thewed barbarian giant

2

Coldly pragmatic bandit chief

3

Hard-bitten and cynical mercenary sword

4

Skulking archer-sniper favoring stealth

5

Determinedly foppish duelist

6

Philosophical-minded village militiaman

7

Proudly skilled longbowman

8

Consecrated temple defender or crusader

9

Cunning thug or hired enforcer

10

Foreigner bearing a strange weapon

11

Nondescript hired killer

12

Serial killer under thin societal justification