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type: Article
title: DandD Character Generator
description: Simon Cox built a D&D character generator in Basic, gradually improving it over the years to enhance gameplay and support his evolving tabletop adventures.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2023-02-04-dandd-character-generator/
tags: [Shorticles, Misc]
timestamp: 2023-02-04
---

Many many years ago I owned a Spectrum +3 computer. For some nostalgia the [Spectrum +3 operating manual is online](https://zxspectrumvault.github.io/Manuals/Hardware/SpectrumPlus3Manual.html#introduction). My friend Nick and I programmed a D&D Character generator in Basic on these. Took us months to do and then we added and added to it. Did it just for our own games. I then developed a font for use on our dot matrix printers for the output too! We also created a weather generator for our games so we could factor that into the game campaigns. At the time D&D was sneered at as being childish so we never told anyone what we had built. How times have changed.

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