This is a Ruby module for generating D&D characters. There's a little backstory behind why they're short of some things---they were designed for a Dungeons & Debauchery party, not a long-term, technically-complete D&D campaign. And they suit their purpose well.
To get started, just clone the repo. There are no external dependencies.
For four characters, run
$ ./dnd.rb chars 4
Sample output:
Name: India Kinkings
Race: Halfling
Class: Thief
Alignment: Lawful good
Weapon: Shuriken (5) 1d2
Armor: Scale mail
Proficiencies: Feign/Detect Sleep; Heat Protection; Origami
Trait: Family killed by goblins
Item: Four oxen
Stats: 9 7 14 13 11 14
HP: 19
GP: 402
Name: Ferdinand Danders
Race: Jungle Elf
Class: Wizard
Alignment: Neutral evil
Weapon: Longspear 1d8
Armor: Studded leather
Spells: Disguise Self; Detect Thoughts
Proficiencies: Weather Sense; Planar Survival; Fire-Building
Trait: Asthma
Item: Quilt
Stats: 18 6 17 17 13 17
HP: 16
GP: 389
Name: Ray McBastard
Race: Wood Elf
Class: Sorcerer
Alignment: True neutral
Weapon: Light Mace 1d6
Armor: Leather
Spells: Bear's Endurance; Daze
Proficiencies: Undead Lore; Smelting; Cartography
Trait: Necrophiliac
Item: Magical globe
Stats: 9 16 13 15 18 13
HP: 13
GP: 385
Name: Henri Mudussu
Race: High Elf
Class: Thief
Alignment: Lawful evil
Weapon: Bastard Sword 1d10
Armor: Hide
Proficiencies: Dyer; Basket Making; Camouflage
Trait: Collects tea cups
Item: Leg of turkey
Stats: 11 10 7 9 7 18
HP: 15
GP: 428
To cherrypick four characters:
$ ./dnd.rb chars -c 4
To get a sheet of four characters, run
$ ./dnd.rb sheet 1
and you'll get an HTML file named sheets/char-sheets-1.html, which will look like this. You can then print that file to a PDF, print that PDF to paper, chop that paper up, and you'll be good to go.
The module can also read characters from a file shaped like the above output:
$ ./dnd.rb file chars-list.txt
And it will return an HTML file containing those characters.
One: it won't check for existing files in sheets/ before writing over them, so if you generate a sheet you want to keep, rename it.
Two: there are some simple rules for allowing a character race- and class-specific proficiencies and spells, but the rules pretty much stop there. There are no restrictions on classes for races, bonuses or limitations based on stats, no THAC0 or Saving Throws, etc. The module could easily be expanded to conform fully with official rules but I have little motivation to do that right now.