Choose your answer from the options listedSitting around a table with your friends, rolling dice and cross-checking charts, slaying monsters and looting treasure hoards, you know the fun, the creative joy, of playing role-playing games. You may have slain your first goblin while playing Dungeons & Dragons (D&D), but these days there are dozens of RPGs in a variety of settings.
Whether your player character (PC) is prowling around a moldy dungeon in search of gold or battling a crowd of orcs on a bridge that spans a bottomless abyss, a lot of the fun of RPGs comes from how your character reacts to any given challenge. This book will help you explore this dimension of gaming.
How your PC handles a problem depends on what shaped the character into who she or he is. In these pages you’ll find exercises that will challenge you to create a richer past for the hero you’ve brought to life.
You can complete most of these exercises on your own. Others might be more fun to do with your gaming buddies. Some exercises are crafted with specific character types in mind. (For example, Orphan Details is geared toward characters who are orphans.) There is no particular order to these activities, and you should feel free to hop around the book to find the activities best suited to your character. To make hunting a little easier, this book is divided into three sections for low-, middle-, and high-level characters.
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Many of the exercises in this book will address your character as “you” the way a game master might. Whenever the book is asking about physical qualities or background details, we’re talking about characters and not you, the reader. So get started! You’ve got a character to create and worlds to explore!