Original illustration: a neon sign of a pair of dice over a city street at night

RP character generator

Stuck on who to play? Generate a character with a name, a street nickname, a past, a job, a quirk, a goal and a secret. Every character has its own link, so you can share it with friends or your server's whitelist team.

Your character · Car salesperson

Rocco "Sunburn" Harlow

Age: 55
Job: sells used cars with a smile and a dozen excuses
Personality: the funniest person in any room
Goal: to become the most trusted person in town

Rocco Harlow, known on the street as "Sunburn", is 55 and left a small inland farming town after a very public scandal. These days Rocco sells used cars with a smile and a dozen excuses. Friends call them the funniest person in any room, and everyone notices that they refuse to drive under the speed limit. What Rocco wants most is to become the most trusted person in town. What nobody knows: they once testified against their own cousin.

Every character gets a 1200 × 630 card to share or keep for your server application.

Your character week

Each day you roll a new character lights up here. Build one a day and you will have a whole cast by launch.

My characters

Characters you roll appear here, so you can come back to them.

About the character card

The portrait is drawn in your browser from simple shapes: a face shape, a skin tone, hair, facial hair, eyewear, headwear, an outfit for each RP role and a background from one of the six regions of Leonida. It is stylised and generic, so it never looks like a real person or any character from the game. The card is a fan character sheet, not a document: it has no seals, numbers, barcodes or badges, so nobody can mistake it for an ID. Download it as a square for Discord, a wide share card or a tall phone story, or copy it as text to paste into a server application.

Four extra outfits, four accessories and four frames unlock as you play: Leather jacket (reach level 2), Island shirt (collect 5 album cards), Tracksuit (3-day daily streak), Tuxedo (finish any rp quiz), Gold chain (reach level 4), Earrings (collect 15 album cards), Scarf (7-day daily streak), Flower pin (finish 3 rp quizzes), Gold (reach level 3), Holo (collect 10 album cards), Street (5-day daily streak), Quiz master (finish 2 rp quizzes). Your first download or share adds the legendary Card Carrier card to your RP Codex.

Craft tip of the day · Whitelist backstory

Whitelist backstory: three or four paragraphs

Keep it short, three or four paragraphs: who your character was, why they came to the city, what they want now and one flaw.

Read it on this page

One piece of the character advice below each day: press "Got it" to light up today. Your character week above keeps counting the characters you roll.

How to use your character

A generated character is a starting point, not a script. Keep the parts that spark an idea and change the rest. The best RP characters have one clear want (the goal), one thing they hide (the secret) and one habit people remember (the quirk). Those three give other players something to discover and play against.

Name and nickname: most servers want a realistic first and last name. The nickname is what the street calls you; let other players give you a new one.
Age and origin: shape how your character talks and what they know. A newcomer to the city asks questions a local would never ask.
Job: a reason to be out in the world and meet people. It does not have to be the role you apply for later.
Goal and secret: your long-term story. Reveal the secret slowly, or never.

Writing a whitelist backstory

Many serious servers ask for a backstory with your application. Keep it short, three or four paragraphs: who your character was, why they came to the city, what they want now and one flaw. Avoid being the best at everything, a famous criminal or a relative of a well-known character. Staff look for characters that create stories for others. Our guide to rules and etiquette explains the rules most servers enforce.

Is it original?

Yes. The word lists were written for this site and combine into millions of characters. The generator runs in your browser; nothing is stored or sent. Not sure which job to give your character? Take the RP role quiz.