A Character Background and Swag Generator for the Weird Dark Ages

NOTE: Magically, you can make a Dangerous Time Adventurer here, courtesy of Save Vs. Total Party Kill.

ALSO NOTE: The Adventurer Generator doubles as a NPC, Hireling or mysterious unlooted Corpse generator. 

Roll on the background table. (2D6 will do the trick, one for the tens and one for the ones.)  

D66	You were a:	You've got:
11	Poulticer	Mortar and pestle, dagger, mystery potion (you know what it doesn't do), oil flask, chalk
12	Slaughterer	cleaver, half-chain apron, a string of fine sausage, twine
13	Fungus-picker	Two different kinds of mushrooms, club, sling, rabbuck-hide gloves, lamp, oil flask
14	Pickler	A cumbersome pickle cask with delicious pickles, spice-bag, trident, wading boots
15	Sweeper	Iron-banded broom, knife, sooty rags, mastic, crampons
16	Purloiner	Hammer and spike, off-hand daggers, 50' rope, clothes with hidden pockets, a golden ring (stolen)
21	Hunter	Crossbow OR shortbow, quiver, skinning-knife, leather jack, axe, brace of smoked frog
22	Noble	Sword and shield and full chain OR pistolet and powderhorn and chain shirt, off-hand dagger, map to “inheritance”, a fine cape and mantle, laudanum OR signet ring
23	Mendicant	Begging bowl, smart pet, reed flute, staff OR club
24	Scribe	Mace, robes, runestones, oil-lamp, lard-pot, vellum, brush and ink
25	Porter	Fists, club, auroch-hide armour, a porter's basket
26	Timberfeller	Great-axe, knife, cloudberry wine, sling, 50' rope
31	Plumber	Gluepot, throwing hammer, weather-proof overalls
32	Hayseed	Axe OR pitchfork OR threshing flail, dirk, harmonium OR great-kazoo, chewing weed, three torches
33	Guard-at-Arms	Shield, spear, misericorde, half-chain, club, 50' rope
34	Fisher	Fishing pole and hook, gutting knife, 2 throwing spears, eel-hide armour, 3 torches, a smoked eel
35	Barber	Bonesaw, steggar, clamps, bloody rags, leechjar OR pendulum
36	Scroll-runner	Running shoes, jerky, 50' rope, emberhorn, dagger, news-scroll, signalling glass
41	Paramour	Woodblock erotica OR book of poems, sword, perfume (as lamp-oil), locket OR prophylactics, bow and quiver
42	Guild-partisan	Great-weapon OR mancatcher, dagger, hauberk with matching party armband, guild news-scroll, a set of trade tools (dyer, tanner, weaver, napier, builder, etc.)
43	Bondsman	Waraxe OR crossbow and quiver and club, mail shirt, shield, saexe, gift-ring
44	Apiarist	Chainmail, goggles, club, bellows, smokebomb, honeycomb
45	Sailor	Axe OR cat, off-hand marlinspike, scrimshaw, shield OR leather armour, lodestone
46	Bellman	Hookspear, chainmail shirt, shield, handbell, truncheon, 3 torches
51	Smith	Hammer, chainmail OR leather armour and shield, anvil, crucible
52	Janissary	Harquebus, powderhorn, chainmail shirt, sword, shield, contract
53	Seer	Silver dagger, cage of finches, brazier
54	Ursar or Handler	Man-(or Beast)catcher, 20' chain, club, hide armour, hand drum
55	Merchant	Fine clothes, guilder's chain, mace, a servant with a bale of trade goods
56	Wolfs-head	Waraxe, caltrops, leather armour, crossbow, quiver, writ of blood price
61	Therapist	Flail, shield, pendulum, meditation cushion, oil-lamp, oil-pot
62	Skald	Harp OR scroll of epic poetry, off-hand dagger, sword OR bow and quiver, collection plate
63	Drover	Studded leather, whip, club, brand, firehorn, heavy gloves, throwing axe
64	Judicial Functionary	Great-weapon, leather jack, hooded cloak, hanging rope OR tongs, manacles and keys
65	Wildling	Fists, moss and furs, “lucky” stone, shillelagh
66	Mercenary	Great-weapon OR waraxe and shield, dirk, ringed leathers, bow and quiver, totem

To this you may choose, or roll if you like on the following table. 

D6	You've also got a set of clothes, an adventurer's bag and:
1	Fists, a half-empty bottle, a turnip, D6 silver
2	Nullwater, a white conch, 3D6 silver
3	3 flasks of oil, a hammer, iron spikes
4	Quill and ink, incense, D6x10 silver
5	A hex scroll and a pine sprig
6	Sword and scabbard OR waraxe OR warhammer