auto generating new characters?

[cedes]

Basically, I want there to be a group of random npcs, each with differences also created by random.

So I want to generate a few at a time, so basically they have a range of age, health, abilities, etc.
So can I generate npc2 if I have a npc1, and so on and so forth. Is there than an easier way than this?
Like "generate new npc" and it'd more onto npc3 from two and all.
Also, I'm very bad with python and coding!

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label group_start:
    
    call npc_name
    call count_npc
    
    call npc_name
    call count_npc
    
    call npc_name
    call count_npc
    
    call npc_name
    call count_npc
    
    call npc_name
    call count_npc
    
    return
       
label count_npc:
    if npc_count == 4:
        $ npc5_first_name, npc5_last_name = npc_first_name,npc_last_name
        $npc_count += 1
        
    elif npc_count == 3:
        $ npc4_first_name, npc4_last_name = npc_first_name,npc_last_name
        $npc_count += 1

    elif npc_count == 2:
        $ npc3_first_name, npc3_last_name = npc_first_name,npc_last_name
        $npc_count += 1
        
    elif npc_count == 1:
        $ npc2_first_name, npc2_last_name = npc_first_name,npc_last_name
        $npc_count += 1
        
    elif npc_count == 0:
        $ npc1_first_name, npc1_last_name = npc_first_name,npc_last_name
        $npc_count += 1

[kivik]

Do you have a list of different names for them? Or are they all supposed to have the same name? Or are they meant to be random?

Do you have the class code for your characters? I'm conscious you said you're bad with coding so I don't want to give you example codes that doesn't fit your requirements and further confuse you. Also, your mentioned random abilities, we need to see how the abilities work.

Instead I'll give you pseudo code for now (pseudo code isn't real code and cannot be used, it's just to demonstrate the concept):

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init python:
    def make_new_npc():
        npc = cNPC(
            renpy.random.choice(npc_names)["firstname"],
            renpy.random.choice(npc_names)["surname"],
            renpy.random.choice(range(16,60)),
            renpy.random.choice(range(100,200)))
            return npc

label group_start:
    npcs = []
    for i in range(0,5):
        npcs.append(make_new_npc())
    return