Meeting Your Diver
Choose your character’s name.
Roll every die (1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 1d100, 1d12, 1d20) to meet your diver.
Age (d4)
- Teenaged or elderly
- Young adult
- Mature prime
- Middle-aged
Your Role (d6)
- Heavy: muscle, mercenary, enforcer
- Wrench: mechanic, pilot, teamster
- Sawbones: medic, barber, surgeon
- Labcoat: scientist, researcher, specialist
- Synth: android, robot, cyborg
- Skulk: thief, investigator, hacker
Reputation (d8)
- Ambitious
- Boor
- Dangerous
- Entertainer
- Honest
- Loafer
- Oddball
- Respected
Trinket (d100)
- Novelty Snuffbox (Shaped like an alligator, filled with the ashes of a loved one)
- Three ID cards (Same picture, different names)
- Perpetual Fidget Spinner
- Bottle Opener (Made from the metal of a decommissioned starship you once lived on)
- Cigar, Uncut (Gifted by your best friend before they disappeared the night before their wedding)
- Bandana (Purchased at a theme park you visited as a child, decorated with a cartoon)
- Dog Tags (Taken off the first person who died in your arms)
- Religious Book (Family heirloom, hollowed out)
- Rubber Duck (Quacks when squeezed)
- Two Glass Cups (Decorated with a strawberry print, replacements for your ex-roommate’s glasses which you broke)
- Loose Papers (Covered in sketches and notes of an alien you once saw at a distance)
- Spool of Thread (Purchased to repair a coat the buttons of which always go missing)
- Floppy Disk (Handwritten label, “Do not forget”)
- Ring (From a happy marriage, given willingly)
- Packet of Seeds (Your favorite fruit)
- Car Keys (To your first car)
- Shot Glass (From a bar that no longer exists)
- Conch Shell (From a beach that no longer exists)
- Undeveloped Camera Film (Photos of your last vacation)
- Glow in the Dark Watch (Calculator function)
- Sticker Book (Most of the stickers are gone)
- Concert Tickets (Past date, you meant to go to it with your dad)
- Candle (Gold-foiled, burned-down)
- Dried Flowers (Preserved in resin)
- Hospital ID Bracelet (You don’t remember what you went for)
- Antique Coin (From a nation-state that no longer exists)
- Ocarina (Poorly-made, permanently out of tune)
- Academic Achievement Medal
- Bookmark (Made of bamboo)
- Deck of Divination Cards
- Figurine of a God (Long forgotten)
- A Single Chess Piece (From a game you lost)
- Pack of Gum (Discontinued)
- Pack of Cigarettes (Lucky one sticking out)
- DigiQual Player with 1 Cartridge (Audio player that plays low-quality 1 minute clips of songs on cartridges)
- Lock of Hair (From a missing loved one)
- Jar of Teeth (Yours, mostly)
- Lucky Rabbit Foot
- Marble (Taken from a kid you bullied when you were young)
- Hand mirror (Heirloom)
- Empty glass bottle (From the bar you used to go to with your mentor)
- Prism (Refracts rainbows from light, but it’s missing blue)
- Dice Set (Loaded)
- Trumpet (Borrowed from a sibling who stopped playing)
- Bundle of Incense (Pungent)
- Fossilized Shell (From Earth)
- Friendship Bracelet (From a friend whose face you’ve long since forgotten)
- License Plate (From your first vehicle)
- Restaurant Reward Card (One more punch until you get a free sandwich)
- Keychain Digital Pet (Still alive)
- Keytar (Sized for a child, but still playable)
- Chewing Tobacco (You promised to quit)
- Binoculars (Found in a crashed spaceship)
- Secret Agency ID (Caked in blood, belonged to a parent)
- Miner’s Gloves (Worn on the last honest job you had)
- Single Glove (Embroidered or stamped with a distinctive mark, given by a lover before they disappeared from your life)
- Comb (Used to brush your child’s hair)
- Treasure Map (Stolen off a pair of corpses who died entwined in a struggle)
- Pomade (Purchased for when you had to attend a fancy party)
- Perfume (Purchased for when you had to attend a fancy date)
- Shaving Kit (Stolen secretly from a barbershop)
- Fishing Rod (Found)
- Herbalist Kit (Assembled over years, includes random herbs)
- Weeping Statuette (Weeps crystals every full moon)
- Golden Disc (Etched with an arcane symbol you’ve not been able to interpret)
- Pouch of Sand (Recovered from a graveyard)
- Golden Spurs (Cherished)
- Magnifying Glass (Formerly paired with a massive tome)
- Photo (Photo of an alien, blurry)
- Photo (Photo of a ghost, blurry)
- Brass knuckles (Bloodied)
- Bundle of Dead Letters (Found in a ransacked office building)
- Mortar and Pestle (Owned by a mentor)
- Wolfsbane
- String of Garlic
- Oversized Crucifix (Silver, valuable, gifted by a kind monastic who gave you refuge)
- Teapot
- Flowers Pressed in a Book (Found in the empty home of an elderly person who once gave you refuge)
- Digital camera (With memory card of your last vacation)
- Heavy Steel Orb (Found in a crater)
- Quilt Square (Torn off your cousin’s quilt)
- Corn Cob Pipe (Hand-made by you)
- Egg Timer (Shaped like a big)
- Incandescent Light Bulb
- Potted Cactus (Name it. It is your faithful companion)
- Security Blanket
- Bundle of Pencils
- Jar of Pickled Limes
- Jar of Face Paint
- Pair of Bunny Slippers
- Empty Picture Frame (Shattered, no picture, inscription to you from a loved one written inside)
- Silver Spoon (Made for an infant)
- Toy Soldier
- Etiquette Manual (Filled with your notes)
- Scorched Doorknob (Only remaining piece of your previous home, destroyed in a fire)
- Cameo (White on pink)
- Case of Buttons (Different sizes)
- Diary (Written in a foreign language you don’t recognize)
- Mummified Hand (In a pine box, stolen from an abbey)
- Dragon Scale (Iridescent)
Job Before Spacefaring (d12)
- Newspaper Intern
- Cashier at Fuel Depot
- Fast Food Cook
- Executive Assistant
- Space Station Attendant
- Overnight Security
- Bellhop
- Waiter
- Sewage Excavator
- Reality Show Intern
- Storage Facility Attendant
- Party Clown
Connection to the Character on my Left (d20)
- Blood relation
- In-law
- Childhood friends
- Carousing / drinking buddies
- Colleagues / Fellow enthusiasts
- Retrieved something for me I wanted
- Stopped me from doing something foolish
- Helped me escape
- Saved my life
- Helped me save face
- Kept a secret for me
- I owe them
- Defended a friend of mine
- We fought alongside each other
- I admire them for their skills
- Caught me committing a crime
- Former rivals
- We fought on opposite sides of a conflict
- Former customer
- I lost a bet to them