One of the things I disliked immensely in previous gaming groups was that some people would put together characters with backgrounds and personalities and other people would try to juke the stats and buy the perfect feats, bonuses and flaws to make their character into a combat machine. I know the appeal of playing a character that can kick the shit out of anyone but for this game I'm hoping to have a bit more of the "everyone is creating a semi-improvised story together" and a little less of the DESTROY ALL RIVALS in it.
To that end, I've got a list of twenty questions that players are advised to look over and think of answers to. There are no right and wrong responses. It's just a way to get your head into the character's mentality and to accrete some details that will help you with performing them in the game. If you decide later on that an answer that was given to this post is wrong or needs to be rewritten, that's just what is going to happen. I'm the storyteller; it's my job to fit things into the game. Provided that it doesn't break the fiction, I should be able to do that with any new answers to old questions.
Future players: If you feel like it, please copy and paste the questions in a comment and leave your answers there.
Without further ado:
01) Where is your character from?
02) Where did they get their training or learn their skills?
03) What is / was their family background?
04) What is their view of magic use and magic users?
05) What is their view of the six major powers occupying the continental United States (the USA, the CSA, the 500 Nations, Peachtree, La Republica de Tejas and Deseret?)
06) Have they been to another planet yet? Do they want to go some day?
07) Your character finds $500 on the ground (a windfall equal to a three months' wages for a working class laborer). There's no way to tell who it belongs to. What do they do with the money? Does this answer change if they find it by themselves or in the group?
08) What religion (if any) does your character follow, and how fervently?
09) What's one of their bad habits? How about a good habit?
10) What does your character do with their leisure time?
11) What would your character order at a restaurant? Does this answer change if someone else is paying for the meal?
12) Does your character have any bias against the Skaven, the Red or Green Lizardmen, against Tripod Martians (or against humans, if they're a nonhuman character)? Does your character have any prejudices against other humans if they are a human?
13) Where do they live when not adventuring? Is it just a rented room somewhere or an actual home?
14) How does your character tend to dress when out in the field having adventures? Are their "town clothes" different from this?
15) How does your character pack for travel or for going out into the field for adventuring?
16) What is your character's education level? (It is presumed that all PCs will be literate in English without a reason for that in the back story.)
17) What is your character afraid of?
18) Does your character owe a significant favor to anyone? Does anyone owe them a significant favor?
19) What does your character want to get out of adventuring? What to they expect to get out if it? What are they afraid could happen while out on adventures?
20) What, if anything, does your character consider to be a cause worth dying for? What would they see as a good death?
Bonus question #21: What advice would you give your character if you could?
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