Birth Table	-	Parents' Marital Status Table	-	Racial Modifiers
-	-	-	-	Unearthed Arcana

By the nature of the topic, not much can be offered in the way of
“rules” for ascertaining the origin && background of characters in
the campaign milieu. Virtually all such decisions must be made by the
individual DM, so that the results fit smoothly into the adventuring
environment that he or she has designed. As a starting
point, however, the following tables will suffice for those who wish to
determine what role fate has played with regard to when and how a
character came into the world.

Birth Table
 

Dice Roll	Order of Birth
01-05	Only child
06-10	1st child
11-20	2nd child
21-35	3rd child
36-50	4th child
51-65	5th child
66-80	6th child
81-85	7th child
86-90	8th child
91-94	9th child
95-97	10th child
98-99	11th child
00	12th child

Parents' Marital Status Table
 

Dice Roll	Marital Status
01-80	Parents legally married
81-00	Parents unmarried*

* The child of unmarried parents is typically one social class lower
than the social class of the father.

Racial Modifiers
 

Dwarves, all	-15 to dice rolls on both tables
Elves	Modify dice rolls on both tables as follows:
Drow	-15
Gray	-30
High	-20
Wood	-10
All others	-15
Gnomes, all	-20 to dice rolls on both tables
Half-elves	-10 to dice rolls on both tables
Halflings, all	-10 to dice rolls on both tables
Half-orcs	+10 to dice rolls on Birth Table,      +75 to dice rolls on Marital Status Table
Humans	no modifiers to dice rolls