I realize with horror that the fulfilled request I have personally been using the most is also my most neglected. Sorry for not posting this up sooner, Chris Felling!
I realized in writing this that my reference point for famous people is like way out of date but I hope it works for you!
Chris
NPC Personality Generator
Roll 1d4, 1d6 and 1d8 at the same time
Replace results rolled for ever-expanding cast of celebrities and weirdos.
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1d4
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| Sanguine: The character is defined by their happy and active engagement with the world around them. Optimism and courage as their best traits. They may be playful, carefree, imaginative, artistic, friendly, flexible and warm.
Roll
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Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)
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Personality Quirk (1d8)
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| BRIAN BLESSED | Lazy. 1 in 6 chance of goofing off when it counts: not showing up to a meeting, wandering away from the party mid-dungeon crawl, etc. |
2
| Lightnin' Hopkins | Amateur slam poet. |
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| Gilbert Gottfried | Dilettante. Knows a little bit about everything, but not enough to put any of it to use. |
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| Ken Nordine | Flirty, with highly ambiguous sexual orientation. |
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| Natalie Portman (as inGarden State) | Huggy. |
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| Audrey Hepburn | Avid teller and re-teller of dad jokes. |
7
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| Manic Pixie Dream NPC. |
8
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| Best wingman you could ask for. Take them carousing and max out your spending; if bad stuff happens roll twice and pick the result. |
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2
| Choleric: The character is defined by being aggressive and ambitious, being both capable and passionate. Their personalities are restless, impulsive and prickly. They direct their energies outward, making them practical, proud, commanding and leaderly.
Roll
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Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)
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Personality Quirk (1d8)
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| Cary Elwes (in his youth, not in Saw) | Paranoid. Never shares wealth, never shares a watch, eagerly backstabs friends because it was all a plan to take them down from within.Always roll at -1 for their reaction/morale checks. |
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| Alex Jones | Works overtime, well into the night, every night. |
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| Bruce Willis | Way into local equivalent of Crossfit. |
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| Vincent Price | Leader by example only – talent and work ethic admired and emulated; sullen, workaholic friendlessness not so much. |
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| Sigourney Weaver | Fedora-wearing libertarian MRA. |
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| Katherine Isabelle | Always overdressed for the occasion. |
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| Rarefied taste in books, art, food and drink. |
8
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| Itchy trigger finger. Gets +2 to initiative at the start of a fight. |
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3
| Phlegmatic: The character is defined by inwardness. They are a steady, reasonable person. They may be quiet, contented, peaceful, meditative, fixed in habits or rituals.
Roll
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Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)
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Personality Quirk (1d8)
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1
| Morgan Freeman | Pacifist. Opposed to violence in all its forms. Actively tries to break up fights for 1d4 rounds regardless of how they begin. |
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| David Carradine | Motherly or dadly. Affectionate to their juniors. |
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| Christopher Walken | Dutiful retainer. Treats superiors with reverence, precise in their work, speaks only if spoken to. |
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| Bob Ross | Giver of gifts. Friends have dozens of tokens to show for their friendship. |
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| Uma Thurman | Keeper of a very charming, very elaborate personal garden, monument or koi pond. |
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| Anni-Frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Fältskog from ABBA. | In adorable long-term relationship with first and only lover, who they've known since childhood. |
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| Graceful under fire, never loses their cool. |
8
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| Eidetic memory. |
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4
| Melancholic: The character is defined by their seriousness and moodiness. Their best qualities are their conscientiousness, caution and analytical minds. More noticeable traits are their pessimism, sympathy, solitude, perfectionism or introversion.
Roll
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Voice and Mannerisms of... (1d6)
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Personality Quirk (1d8)
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1
| Dr. Stephen Hawking, except their voice is their real voice and not a robot's voice. | Fatalistic. Automatically fails saving throws. |
2
| James Earl Jones | Avid collector, buyer and trader of stamps, bugs, coins or other bric-a-brac. Few other interests. |
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| Keanu Reeves | Religious, with particular reverence for the sad and bad parts of their good and joyous faith. |
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| Alfred Hitchcock | Once widowed, once divorced, & once widowed again as an alternative to being twice divorced. |
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| Kathy Bates (as playing Annie Wilkes in the latter half of Misery) | Bureaucratic, even if – if notespecially if – they are not employed as a bureaucrat. |
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| Louise Fletcher | Always answers “yes,” “no,” “maybe” or “fine” if at all possible to do so. Little else to say. |
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| Home full of rescued animals. |
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| Pessimistic, but a pretty good judge of odds. 1 in 6 chance that any prediction of impending doom and danger is accurate, nearly prophetic. |
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