Dungeon Dozen Tables compiled and organized for your handy reference from the blog by Jason Sholtis http://roll1d12.blogspot.com/ Adventurers: Barbarians Call it "Style" 1. Crude tattoo of totem monster covering at least 25% of available canvas, may only wear armor on remaining 75% 2. Sleeveless half-shirt of passably gleaming mail, snake skin G-string, leather strap straining under weight of lethal ironmongery 3. Thick mammoth-leather armor that covers everything but the naughty bits 4. Human hair & scalp full-body jumpsuit, hair greased to stand on end 5. Necklace made of mummified paws of giant snow-cat, inward pointing claws, tightened before battle 6. Codpiece crafted from pelvic bone of Deinonychus, broad-brimmed straw hat 7. All R&D efforts of tribe seemingly expended upon advanced footwear, stone-age equivalent of high end cross-trainers in all the colors of the rainbow, position/rank in tribe easily determined by degree of splendor 8. Hauberk made from layers of petrified teeth of the woolly land-shark, hair smeared w/reeking fat, shaped in tribute to dorsal fin 9. Outlandishly wide/thick leather belt laden w/death-dealing implements, that's it 10. Cave bear fangs installed in mouth via magical dentistry, tight-fitting bearskin pants 11. Tall black leather helmets festooned w/multitude of small dried pterodactyl wings 12. Unsavory symbiotic arrangement achieved with blood-drinking creeping vine, produces attractive, leafy covering w/some protective value, flowers when spritzed w/blood of enemies which must be provided regularly else the barbarian host be drained Adventurers: Before First Level: Clerics 1. Indulged in habitual heresy and blasphemy until sudden divine visitation inspired terrified vows of fealty 2. Sold to local temple by destitute parents, granted entrance to order following lengthy period of servitude 3. Orphaned at tender age, sought shelter among esoteric brotherhood, fell under sway 4. Found (this particular) god at the bottom of continuously drained and replenished mug of grog 5. Harrowing psychedelic incident after consumption of moldy bread leads to cosmic revelation and subsequent total dedication to grooviest deity in pantheon 6. Healed by kindly cleric after near-fatal childhood injury 7. Took up with the holy ones to spite rationalist humanist parents 8. Sudden apoplexy while consulting temple scrolls, awoke to awed veneration of clergy: used by divinity to issue several important new revelations while comatose 9. Flirted with several deities and indulged in secular philosophy until sudden realization made lifelong service to Thor seem irrefutably imperative 10. You see, there was this vestal virgin... 11. Fate sealed at age 6 by ritual gift exchange on the High Holy Day: received toy mace and holy symbol, spent rest of holiday attempting to turn siblings 12. Above average wisdom score: in a world where the capricious influence of the gods is beyond debate or reasonable doubt, joining them is pure pragmatism 1 Adventurers: Before First Level: Dwarves 1. Served mandatory 20 yrs. repairing/refining subterranean vaults w/dwarvish conservation corps 2. Dropped out of jewelry-making school in white-hot rage after public rebuke of works 3. Has finally gathered enough gems to buy family heirloom war axe from father 4. Fascinated by study of humans and their folkways, considers them amusing weirdoes, cannot wait to join forces 5. Threw off yoke of cultural dourness while exhausting entertainment value of wine and song, wasted too much time to get rich by the standard means 6. Painstakingly hand crafted own tomb in the Hall of Fathers, performed ritual auto-funeral, ready for adventure 7. Spent youth in traditional crafting of personal tool kit (including arms and armor) for lifetime use in all endeavors, now fully fledged adult and ready for action 8. Driven by adolescent gold-lust, committed the unforgivable offense of hoard-theft to outfit self for adventure: caught, beaten, shaved of beard, permanently exiled 9. Retired from several careers, now looking for thrills, resume includes: militia, stone cutting, masonry, metal fabrication, food and hospitality service, 10. First dwarf to attempt to popularize notion of collective bargaining for workers, barely escaped series of assassination attempts, has had it w/his kind 11. Impoverished petty noble w/dwarvish enemies galore, 17th in line for throne, didn't like chances in high society 12. Content to grow beard and hammer rocks until afflicted w/permanent viral infection, manifests as low grade fever and severe wanderlust Adventurers: Before First Level: Elves 1. Prolonged dreamy-eyed adolescence thinking cosmic thoughts, laughing and singing in enchanted forest, then tedium 2. Spent a century or so afflicted by a hereditary curse, now temporarily held at bay by dark sorcery 3. Bitter struggle for survival in harried enclave in contested territory: gaunt, humorless, talks like Christian Bale as Batman 4. Morally outraged by elfin politics-as-usual, abandoned elf-life for self-imposed exile among the lesser folk 5. Literary study in the library citadel grew wearisome after a couple of hundred years 6. As close to suicide as an elf gets before epiphany: discovered inner avarice, suppressed blood lust 7. Left homeland in disgust after failing to gain admittance to exclusive social order, self-esteem buoyed by slumming with humans 8. Adventuring career just the latest in series of light-hearted larks 9. Emotionally unstable (for an elf), more at ease among the easily rattled humans and Halflings 10. Protracted secret indoctrination, now embarked upon clandestine mission for elf supremacists 11. Accrued massive gambling debts during extended period of heavy partying 12. Shamed, humiliated by ruinous love triangle, seething with pent-up rage, spoiling for displaced vengeance, thirsting for riches Adventurers: Before First Level: Fighters 1. Local militia offered little but the occasional drill, scampered off w/gear to go freelance 2. Born into war clan, scattered following rout against occupying forces, now incognito 2 3. Farmer turned to banditry at height of famine, found calling 4. Freed from domestic slavery in noble house after heroic acts in defense of city-state 5. Slipped mickey by army recruiters, survived campaign to wipe out otherwise irrepressible tribe for local lord 6. From tender age always erecting practice dummies and fashioning weapons from found materials 7. One of those jerks forever getting into fights for no reason, decided to make career of it 8. Stint as galley slave really built up the old arms, not to mention the total disregard for the sanctity of life 9. Brutality of early life in wilderness settlement mandated expertise in the hacking and slashing 10. Prodigy: slayin' came easy and early as bereaved parents of childhood acquaintances can attest 11. Deserted from imperial army after seeing too much: will never again fight for a cause, only money 12. Thrown out of family trade, barred from magic academy, cast out of seminary, thieves' guild apprenticeship revoked, lute lessons went nowhere, disqualified from druid camp, humiliated after failed bid for local election, sacked from local guard, broke down and just bought a sword Adventurers: Before First Level: Magic Users 1. Thrown out of several reputable academies, killed last headmaster to cross path and made off with spellbook 2. Woke up to find self fully vested member of arcane secret society after lengthy black lotus bender 3. Snuck into sorcerer's tower, captured and imprisoned in library until mastered first spell: took ten years 4. Well-connected parents employed graft and bribery to gain admission into exclusive training facility 5. Tormented in dreams from childhood by terrible outer being who trades nocturnal peace for pursuit of the mystic arts 6. Unquenchable lust for power from early age, long list of enemies to one day blast to smithereens 7. Turned wholeheartedly to sorcery after late-childhood revelation of secret lineage: witch-doctors, magi, necromancers, psychics, diabolists and even a vampire thrown in for good measure 8. Kidnapped and trained by hermit-mage after handily winning math competition at village fete 9. After witnessing injustices of the world, hates the gods and will devote researches to finding the magic bullet needed to dispense with them once and for all 10. Strong innate sense of the fullness of reality combined with major social inhibitions, threw self into studies and never came out 11. Vision following blow to head partially revealed cosmic mysteries, triggered lifelong pursuit of knowledge 12. Sole survivor of barbarian village destroyed by snake cult but far too congenitally feeble to even entertain revenge by the sword Adventurers: Before First Level: Thieves 1. Enthralled by the seedy underbelly of human life, enjoys vice of every kind, considers honest folk suckers 2. Kleptomaniac rich kid w/defiant streak a mile wide 3. Fell in with the wrong crowd, must steal to support habit 4. It started with stealing pies as child, rapidly became addicted to thrill, has since branched out 5. Trained by expert thief father: frequently chained to various objects and commanded to escape, sent to market w/long list and no cash, abandoned at bottom of sheer cliffs, etc. 6. Magpie-like affinity for shiny objects, obsession managed (poorly) by heavy drinking 7. Schooled in the evils of private property at heavily tattooed grandmother's knee 8. Found native culture stultifying and oppressive, turned to life of crime for kicks 9. Figured it was the only way a poor kid could retire before age thirty 3 10. Sincerely enjoys being sneaky 11. Comes from a long line of straight-up sociopaths 12. Mistakenly stolen by thieves as baby, reared by trio of doting yet dastardly "uncles" Adventurers: Drunken Jerks With Swords 1. Sweaty, brutish lout fresh from the wilderness in owlbear-skin suit, giant moustache, smells like beef jerky, utters continuous hate speech against demihumans/savages/foreigners 2.