D60 fun jobs for kids from an early modern urban fantasy setting, and a quick mechanic for running a gauntlet with child PCs in Shadowdark
D60 Child backgrounds
I wanted a background table modified to fit my home setting, for use with a gauntlet (funnel, meatgrinder) I'm writing. Longer than the usual d20 because I'd rather not have a lot of duplicates with 24 level-0 PCs.
1. Acolyte
2. Alley Guide
3. Assassin's Page
4. Babysitter
5. Barber's Apprentice
6. Basket Weaver
7. Baker's Helper
8. Beggar
9. Blower's Dog
10. Bookbinder's Apprentice
11. Burgler's Protegé
12. Butcher's Apprentice
13. Candle Dipper
14. Coal Breaker
15. Clock Tower Winder
16. Cordwain's Apprentice
17. Crossing Sweep
18. Cult Chorister
19. Cutpurse
20. Egg Collector
21. Evestrough Sweep
22. Factory Sweep
23. Familiar Keeper
24. Fence's Courier
25. Flower Seller
26. Flue Climber
27. Gong-Scourer
28. Guild Lookout
29. Gutter Snipe
30. Highwayman's Squire
31. Kiln Tender
32. Knocker-Up
33. Lint Picker
34. Messenger
35. Mudlark
36. Needle Grinder
37. Night Soil Collector
38. Newsie
39. Pamphleteer's Apprentice
40. Pinsetter
41. Pickpocket
42. Potion Mule
43. Powder Monkey
44. Rag Picker
45. Rat-Catcher
46. Rope-Walker
47. Runaway Scion
48. Sacrificial Offering
49. Silversmith's Apprentice
50. Slaughterhouse Drover
51. Stage Actor
52. Stablehand
53. Stool Pigeon
54. Taper-Bearer
55. Temple Virgin
56. Tinker's Apprentice
57. Torchbearer
58. Tosher
59. Tour Guide
60. Water Carrier
Running a Gauntlet with Child PCs (NSFL?)
I think to run a gauntlet as a sort of dark, Oliver Twist inspired heist or escape the only modification I would make to the normal rules would be to roll 2d6 down the line for the stats on all the level-zero characters. I'd also allow players to control all four of their level-0 characters at once right from the start, I want the kids to be able to overcome obstacles by sheer force of numbers. When they grow up during the time skip, roll and add an extra d6 to each stat.
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