fatal

Ogre
Slave
and
Peasant
Roll Birthplac
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01-90Hamlet 91-100Village Siblings
Siblings are brothers and sisters of a character.
To determine a character’s siblings, observe
the character’s race, roll 1d100, and consult the following
tables:
Sibling
Modifiers
AnakimDonothavesiblings Bugbear-10 Dwarf-25 Elf-25 Human- Kobold+ 5
Ogre-20 Troll-15 Roll Siblings
01-10Onlychild 11-301d6brothers 31-651d6sisters 66-861d4brothersand1d4sisters 87-951d6brothersand1d6sisters 96-1001d8brothersand1d8sisters Birth Rank
Consult the result for Siblings, determined
above. If a character is an only-child, then their
Birth Rank is 1 of 1. Otherwise add 1 to the number
of Siblings. Obtain a die with a number of sides
equal to or more than the modified number of Siblings.
Discard any result that is too large.
For example, if a character has 4 brothers,
then roll 1d6, rerolling a 6. If the result is 1, then
the character is born 1 st of 5. If the result is 4, then
the character is born 4 th of 5.
Characters who are born first are likely to
be more driven and successful than those born later.
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Marital Status
Marriage 1 is the union of an adult male and
female for life. Not all races value marriage; kobolds,
ogres, and trolls do not recognize matrimony. For
those who do, most characters marry during puberty.
The following odds apply to both newly created
characters as well as other characters in general.
Roll 1d100 and consult the following table to
determine a character’s marital status:
Roll Marital
Status
01Divorced 02-03Separated 04-43UnhappilyMarried 44-83Single 8 4-100
Happily
Married
( reroll
if
homosexual)
Most characters marry young. By law, a human
bride must be 12 and a human groom must be
14. Bugbears have no law concerning age, but females
are usually at least 14 and males at least 20.
For dwarves and elves, marriage is legal once the
female is in puberty and the male in young adulthood
(see Chap. 2: Body). In less than 15% of human
cases, the husband is younger than the wife.
Marriage is recognized between slaves and
all social classes. However, no culture condones an
inter-racial marriage. Nonetheless, some inter-racial
couples have fallen in love and pledged their
lives to each other, and some have found or coerced
a priest into legally marrying them.
The marriage of noble females is very different
from peasants. With peasant females, personal
choice and attraction are factors, and marriage
commonly follows pregnancy. The marriages of
noble females are too important to be left to predilection.
Females should not be disparaged, meaning
married to a character of lower social class.
Across cultures, the norm is that a marriage
is arranged by the parents, though consent is emphasized.
Bugbear culture, however, does not care
about the consent of the bride. A bugbear wife
often serves only to relieve sexual tension for her
husband and produce offspring that is recognized
legally.
1. Information on marriage has been referenced from Life in a Medieval Castle, Life in a Medieval City, Life in a Medieval
Village, Medieval Prostitution, and Reign of the Phallus. For more information, see the References section at the end of this
book.
Chapter 6: Sociality