To follow up on my System Generation Sheet, here is a more in-depth generation procedure on sprites and binomes. These charts are a little different from the System Generation Sheet in that they use dice to help decide things like skin color, hair color, eye color, etc.

A note on dice: Most of us only have access to the six-sided dice (d6), which can be found almost anywhere cards and games are sold. Some of us are lucky enough to have dice with fewer or more than six sides. These can be found in hobby shops, toy stores, book stores, and anywhere that role-playing games are sold. These dice are: Four-sided (d4); Eight-sided (d8); Ten-sided (d10); Tweleve-sided (d12); and Twenty-sided (d20). There are rare ones that have Twenty-four sides (d24) and One Hundred sides (d100). The d100 sided are percentile dice (d%). But you don't need the d100 die to role d%. Two different color d10 will do. Just have one die be the first number, and the other be the second number. Example: Say that you have two d10, one red and one white. The red die is the first number, and the white is the second number. Roll them seperately or together. The red die shows an eight and the white die shows a five. The d% roll is 85. A roll of two zeros (00) is a roll of 100. The best d% I have found is two ten-sided dice, one with 00-90, the other, with 0-9. The 00-90 is clearly the ten's place numbers, while the 0-9 is the one's place numbers. With this arrangement, both dice can be the same color. (Mine are white.) The longer lists will require the other types of dice, although I will include simular lists to for use with the the standard six-sided dice.

a) Name and gender: Names are, strangely, the hardest part to fill, especialy if you are trying to name the characters like they do in ReBoot, and use computer terms (As in Dot Matrix and Mouse). Regular names (like Bob) can also be used. Your two best sources for ReBoot names are baby name books (there are a lot of good ones out there; look around) and computer terms books (a good one --the one I have-- is DDC Quick Reference Guide to Computer Terms by Susan Davis Sherwin). Unless you already have a name in mind, the name can be left for last.

Table 1

Gender. (Roll 1d6)
1-3	Female
4-6	Male

Table 2. Binomes.

Type (Binomes) (Roll 1d6)
1-2	0 Binome
3-4	1 Binome
5-6	Other number. (Roll again or choose.)

Table 3a. Skin/Hair/Eye Color

b) Skin Color; c) Hair Color; d) Eye Color
01-05	Red
06-10	Orange
11-15	Yellow
16-20	Green
21-25	Blue
26-30	Purple
31-35	Black
36-40	White
41-45	Brown
46-50	Silver
51-55	Gold
56-60	Metalic (Roll again,)
61-65	Lighter (Roll again)
66-70	Darker (Roll again)
71-75	Neon (Roll again)
76-80	Pearlized (Roll again)
81-85	Glow-in-the-dark (Roll again)
86-90	Patterned (Roll again)
91-95	Glitter (Roll again)
96-00	Other

Table 3b. With d6:

# Rolled	Color
1	Red /Black
2	Orange/White
3	Yellow/Brown
4	Green/Silver
5	Blue/Gold
6	Purple/Other(Roll once for color duo, again for final color)

Table 3c.

Special/Other: (Roll d6)
1	Metalic
2	Lighter/Darker
3	Neon/Glow-in-the-dark
4	Pearlized
5	Patterned
6	Glitter

(Note: Skin color is usually lighter than hair color. (i.e. Dot and Enzo Matrix)

e) Speech pattern: How does your sprite or binome sound? Mouse talks like a Southern Belle, Mr. Pearson speaks with a Scottish accent, Turbo talks like a cowboy. Speech patterns help designate character personality. Beside each pattern type, if possible, is a name in parenthases of a known character with that speech pattern.

f) Function (also called "Format"): What does your sprite or binome do? Guardian? Business? Multitasking? Or, like Little Enzo, has his/her function/format yet to be established?

Note on Guardians: More then one Guardian in any given system is a rare occurance. Usually, there is only one in the system. If there is more then one Guardian in the system, roll 1d6. This will give you the number of Guardians. Two or more Guardians in a system are always acting as a team --no loner Guardians. One Guardian will act as leader. Example: Mainframe's Guardians now total four: Bob, Matrix, Wild Card, and Jo Ann. Bob is our leader.

The other Rare formats (Search Engine, Game Sprite, COMMAND.COM, and No format.) are to be used with caution. There should be only one of each in any given system, especially the COMMAND.COM. The No format should be only be used with extreme caution. Normally, only child sprites would have no funtion (they have not been programed with one, yet), but their formats would be "Child". Little Enzo is introdused as Dot's little brother format, but until he was made a Cadet Guardian (first Enzo), he had no formal function.

There is really no way to put this in a six-die chart, so you'll have to choose on this one.

g) Other: This is information you fill in with. No chart can really help you with this, but I'll give you a few suggestions to help you think of something:

• Icons (gold/black, white/black, green/black (viral), etc.)
• Clothes (Guardian uniform, armor, Websuit, uniform of any type, biker clothes, etc.)
• Uniquie facial features (scars, false eye, one eye different color than the other, etc.) (Matrix has both a scar and a false eye)
• Other features on other parts (scar up the chest, six fingers on one hand, skin of one spot is different color than the skin on the rest of the character, false limbs, etc.) (Captain Capacitor has both a hook hand and a peg leg.)
• Weapons (Keytool, swords, guns, martial arts weapons, etc.)
• Other gear (Orginizers, laptop computers,
• Vechiles (Cars, motorcycles, zipboards, etc.)

Note: Virues can also be generated using this system. For function/format, subsitute Virus or Viral. Viral sprites and binomes are colored the same as the virus that infected them. Megabyte was metalic blue, with neon green trim and neon green-eyes with red pupils. His virals were also metalic blue and neon-green, with neon-green eyes and red pupils. Their icons were green and black ReBoot icons.

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