The Fantasy Character Kit

Your character has a class. Now give them a story.

The Fantasy Character Kit is a tabletop RPG character-building toolkit packed with random tables for creating memorable backstories, personality traits, equipment, and all the strange little details that turn a character into your character.

Inside you'll find 14 chapters—one for every D&D character class—filled with prompts and possibilities for everyone from bold Barbarians to wonderfully complicated Wizards.

Roll for inspiration. Pick the answer you like. Ignore the one you don't.

It's your character, after all.

More Than a Character Sheet

You know your armor class.

You know your proficiency bonus.

But what does your character always carry even though it's completely useless?

Who taught them the thing they're best at?

What happened before they joined this particular group of adventurers?

And why, exactly, are they so weird about goats?

The Fantasy Character Kit helps answer the questions that make characters feel like people, using random tables and creative prompts to get ideas moving without dictating exactly who your character should be.

14 Classes. A Lot of Possibilities.

Each of the book's 14 class-specific chapters offers inspiration tailored to a different kind of adventurer.

Use the tables to develop:

Character backstories

Personality traits & quirks

Distinctive gear

History & motivations

Role-playing inspiration

Those oddly specific details that somehow become the most important part of the character

Roll randomly and accept fate, choose the result that sparks something, or combine several ideas into something entirely your own.

There are no character-creation police.

For Players & Game Masters

Players can use The Fantasy Character Kit to develop a new character, flesh out an existing one, or escape the dreaded blank stare that happens when somebody asks:

“So… what's your backstory?”

Game Masters can put the same tables to work generating NPCs, allies, rivals, villains, and unexpected characters whenever the campaign needs someone interesting.

Which is particularly useful when your players become deeply fascinated by the shopkeeper you invented twelve seconds ago.

Why We Love It

It gets you past the blank page. You don't need a complete character concept before you begin.

It's useful for players and GMs. Build your own adventurer or populate an entire campaign.

Random doesn't have to mean arbitrary. A surprising result can send a character in a direction you never would have considered yourself.

You don't have to obey the dice. Sometimes the best thing a random table can do is give you an answer that makes you immediately think, No—but I know what it should be.

That's inspiration too.

Book Details

Title: The Fantasy Character Kit
Type: Fantasy RPG character creation & inspiration toolkit
Designed for: Players & Game Masters
Chapters: 14 class-specific chapters
Includes: Random tables, backstory prompts, character traits & gear inspiration
Primary use: Creating player characters & NPCs
Compatible with: D&D and fantasy tabletop RPG play
Great for: Character creation, backstory development, role-playing inspiration & NPC generation

About Roll & Play Press

Roll & Play Press creates practical, imaginative tabletop resources designed to make planning and playing RPGs easier. Their books combine prompts, random tables, adventures, and worldbuilding tools into approachable resources made to be used—not just admired—at the game table.

Roll something unexpected. See who your character becomes.