Carcosa: Character Backgrounds Chart

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An Into the Odd-style backgrounds chart for Carcosa characters. Reference your starting HP (x-axis) and highest ability score (y-axis) to find your background. Or, choose your background first, thus setting your starting HP and putting a cap on your ability scores.

Note that these numbers are based on the assumption of 3 stats, as in ItO or Maze Rats. If you are using 6 stats, then the table will be weighted more heavily toward the lower half.

Ability score vs hit points	1	2-3	4-5	6
3-10	Moon Witch chakram spell lotus powder	Masked Assassin mask knife blowgun Akashic power	Mutant bone club cloak mutation	Alien Android wooden club inhuman strength secret identity
11	Tribal Shaman fetish staff flash powder spell	Dinosaur Tamer whip dinosaur musk loyal gallimimus (3hp, 1d6dmg)	Ruin Raider Iron axe Rope weird tech	Medieval Adventurer Longsword scale mail (1 armour) 10' pole
12	Outcast Esper knife lantern psionic power	Sorceror's Apprentice ceremonial knife hooded robe spell	Desert Nomad spear filtration mask compass that points to Lake Hali	Wasteland Hunter flint spear bow and arrows
13	19th Century Occultist derringer psionic power pocketwatch	Alchemist iron ladle bad lungs smoke bomb	Fish-Human Hybrid bone trident net amphibious	Amnesiac spear torch mysterious jale stone
14	Delta Green Operative 9mm pistol dossier on a random elder god	Fungus Farmer Hoe oil lamp hallucinogenic mushroom	Carcosa City Dweller black iron sword yellow sign madness	Cave Dweller stone club ADV in darkness DISADV in sunlight
15	Deposed Chieftain scimitar orichalcum necklace 1d6 loyal flunkies (2hp)	Cultist flail blasphemous idol heterodox beliefs (DISADV on reactions from other cultists)	Alien Test Subject ray gun (1d6 charges) vivisection scars madness	Slave wooden staff chain hunted by master
16-18	Lotus Eater silver needle jale lotus powder addiction to jale lotus powder	Scavenger knife rope missing limb	Escaped Sacrifice Iridium sickle noxious herbs flesh is desirable to eldritch horrors	Cannibal club garotte reviled by all