Data driven Appendix P: 3xd100 NPC party generation tables

tl;dr: NPC party generation tables to match what people are actually playing as PCs

Inspired by Appendix P of the AD&D Dungeon Masters Guide - for “Creating a Party on the Spur of the Moment” - as discussed by the Mystical Trash Heap just recently. This is a deep dive back to the question that started this blog in the first place - what if randomly encountered NPC parties reflected what players actually play, not what you can generate from the DMG.

So the following are some tables if you want to roll up a party of NPCs that reflect what you might expect to encounter, assuming a group of classed NPCs (reflecting the typical game table). If you want to roll up your own the following tables have 'Core' derived from D&D Beyond and 'Alternative' based on forum surveys. Typical table size is five.

For race/class combinations reflective of what is typically played roll d100:

NPC Class/Race	Core	Alternate
Human Fighter	1 to 5	1 to 5
Elf Ranger	6 to 8	6 to 7
Human Wizard	9 to 11	8 to 11
Human Rogue	12 to 14	12 to 14
Elf Rogue	15 to 17	15 to 16
Elf Wizard	18 to 19	17 to 19
Human Cleric	20 to 21	20 to 23
Human Paladin	22 to 23	24 to 27
Human Warlock	24 to 25	28 to 29
Tiefling Warlock	26 to 27	30 to 31
Human Monk	28 to 29	32 to 33
Human Ranger	30 to 31	34 to 36
Half-Elf Bard	32 to 33	37 to 39
Elf Druid	34 to 35	40 to 41
Half-Elf Warlock	36 to 37	42
Dwarf Cleric	38 to 39	43 to 44
Human Sorcerer	40 to 41	45 to 46
Elf Fighter	42 to 43	47
Half-Orc Barbarian	44 to 45	48
Goliath Barbarian	46 to 47
Halfling Rogue	48 to 49	49 to 51
Human Barbarian	50 to 51	52 to 53
Human Bard	52 to 53	54 to 55
Half-Elf Sorcerer	54 to 55	56 to 57
Dwarf Fighter	56 to 57	58 to 59
Half-Elf Rogue	58 to 59	60 to 61
Elf Monk	60	62 to 63
Dragonborn Paladin	61	64
Tiefling Sorcerer	62	65 to 66
Dragonborn Fighter	63	67
Gnome Wizard	64	68
Elf Cleric	65	69
Half-Orc Fighter	66	70
Dwarf Barbarian	67	71
Human Druid	68	72
Elf Sorcerer	69
Elf Warlock	70	73
Aasimar Paladin	71
Half-Elf Fighter	72
Tiefling Rogue	73
Half-Elf Paladin	74	74
Dragonborn Barbarian	75	75
Tiefling Bard	76	76
Dragonborn Sorcerer	77	77
Half-Elf Ranger	78
Goliath Fighter	79
Aasimar Warlock	80
Aasimar Cleric	81	78
Half-Elf Cleric	82	79
Elf Bard	83	80
Halfling Bard	84	81
Half-Elf Wizard	85
Dwarf Paladin	86
Half-Elf Druid	87	82
Genasi Monk	88
Aarakocra Monk	89
Tiefling Wizard	90
Aasimar Sorcerer	91
Dragonborn Warlock	92
Genasi Sorcerer	93
Genasi Fighter	94
Elf Paladin	95
Halfling Ranger	96	83
Tiefling Paladin	97	84
Tiefling Fighter	98	85
Halfling Fighter	99	86
Gnome Rogue	100	87
Half-Orc Paladin		88
Tiefling Cleric		89
Halfling Monk		90
Dwarf Wizard		91
Halfling Wizard		92
Dwarf Druid		93
Halfling Warlock		94
Halfling Cleric		95
Tiefling Monk		96
Dragonborn Bard		97
Halfling Druid		98
Gnome Fighter		99
Aasimar Monk		100

If you want to roll up class or race seperately then d100 on the following:

	Core	Alternate
Wizard	1 to 8	1 to 11
Warlock	9 to 17	12 to 21
Rogue	18 to 28	22 to 31
Fighter	29 to 41	32 to 40
Cleric	42 to 49	41 to 50
Paladin	50 to 56	51 to 58
Bard	57 to 63	59 to 65
Sorcerer	64 to 70	66 to 72
Druid	71 to 76	73 to 78
Ranger	77 to 84	79 to 84
Monk	85 to 91	85 to 90
Barbarian	99	91 to 95
Artificer	100	96 to 100

For Race:

Race	Core	Alternate
Human	1 to 22	1 to 18
Elf	23 to 36	19 to 31
Half-Elf	37 to 46	32 to 41
Dwarf	47 to 53	42 to 47
Tiefling	54 to 60	48 to 54
Dragonborn	61 to 67	55 to 59
Halfling	68 to 72	60 to 65
Genasi	73 to 76	66 to 67
Half-Orc	77 to 81	68 to 71
Gnome	82 to 85	72 to 75
Goliath	86 to 88	76 to 77
Aasimar	89 to 92	80
Aarakocra	93 to 95	81
Tabaxi	-	82
Warforged	96	84
Firbolg	-	85
Tortle	97	86
Kenku	-	87
Changeling	-	88
Lizardfolk	98	89
Other (DM Choice)	99 to 100	90 to 100

Sources include:

AideD&D
FiveThirtyEight
Oganm
Reddit Subclass survey
D&D Beyond (via Bell of Lost Souls)
Giant in the Playground Forum subclass survey
Kirith
RPG.net
2014 D&D Survey
2019 D&D Survey