Saturday, 1 October 2022

New Campaign Character Background guidelines

 

What I am looking for is a little drama.  I am looking for something to invigorate your Roleplaying.  I need your help.  Give me something.  You can steal from your childhood, steal from your life, steal from the last book you read.  You can write a paragraph, but preferably more than one.  You can write point form notes. Three points for each part of your life.

·         Family, parents, siblings, cousins, uncles etc.

o   A funny story about your life with them eg when I was five I fell out of a tree and broke my leg, my cousins ran to the healer’s but my older brother, Jethro (6), thought he was going to get into trouble and tried to make me walk home.

o   A sibling/cousin/etc you felt closest to and why eg older cousin Filipina (+2years) took me everywhere with her and showed my the right way to do things.

o   A sibling/cousin/etc you are estranged from/hate/etc and why? Eg your cousin Constantine is your spitting image and he often did things and you got blamed

·         Village, friends, locals, the ruler

o   A funny story eg you were caught trying to steal sticky buns when you were 7, the general store owner always called you sticky buns afterwards you thought they were shaming you but when you left for the big city, they gave you a basket of sticky buns for your trip

o   Your best friend, why?

o   Your biggest rival why?

·         Big city, your apprenticeship, your Background, which class you are choosing, which subclass, are you multi classing?

§  What I am asking for is the reason you are an Urchin, an Outlander, a hermit, or an adept.

o   Why did you move to the big city/wilderness/forest?  Eg you went to a famous Bardic College.  OR you were headed to the market with your cousins and convoy you were part of was attacked by goblins you were thrown from your horse and hit your head.  A ranger found you and helped you until you remembered who you were; it took years.  OR Your Village was attacked and those that survived were sold into slavery, you were thrown into a pit and told to fight or die.

o   Who were your friends? Why?

o   Who were your Rivals, Why?

·         Why are you on the run?—you are on the run.  Are you guilty—wait no one cares.

o   What crime were you accused of/who did you cross

o   Who profited from you being in jail?

o   Who cried when you were sentenced?

 

I don’t expect some people to fill out any of this.  Who ever does fill out this outline, expect to be involved in the plot I will make.  If you don’t fill out anything, then I assume that you are okay with being  minor players in the world.  All people who answer all the questions will get a bonus feat.  If you answer at least some of the questions, you will get a special stat array, but anyone that answers nothing, will get the standard array for stats (15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8).

 

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