Post by cinnamon on Mar 8, 2016 20:51:24 GMT -5
Questionnaire for Characters
- Cinnamon
Introduction Questions
1. What is your full birth name? Keely Etain Cavanagh
2. Do you have any nicknames, street names, titles, nom de plume? Cinnamon, Cin, Fairest
3. Give a two or three word description of yourself. (Describes your concept.)
4. Where do you live? Chicago, IL
a. Why? Because I thought it was a busy enough city that I could stay hidden from politics. I was wrong.
5. What is your citizenship status? Forged citizen
6. What is your most obvious blessing or strength? Beauty
7. What do you perceive as your greatest strength? I can talk my way out of things.
8. What is your most obvious flaw or weakness? Don't think before I speak
9. What do you perceive as your greatest weakness?
10. Was there any event or cause of these weaknesses?
Physical Traits
1. What is your most distinguishing feature? thick eyebrows
2. Do you have any scars, tattoos, or birthmarks? Yes
a. If so, how did you acquire them? I went looking for a demon
b. What do these distinguishing marks look like? burn-scar handprint
c. Do they have any special significance? I was touched by an angel
d. Where are they located? Right shoulder
3. Lefty, Righty, Ambi? Righty
a. Born or learned? Born
4. Do you resemble some currently known person (In real life if there is such a thing.)? Cara Delevingne
5. Do you need glasses? No
a. Do you wear any? Sometimes because fashion
6. What sort of vocal tone do you have? Feminine with a deep, husky tone
7. Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others?
a. If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them?
b. How do you react if made fun of for any of these things?
8. Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms, such as when talking, thinking, afraid, under stress, or when embarrassed?
a. If so, are there any reasons behind them from your past?
9. Do you have an unusual gait or accent? Unusually gracefully...usually.
a. If so, where did you acquire them? I'm a fucking fairy.
b. Are there any circumstances where they become more (or less) evident?
c. How do you feel and react if made fun of for any of these things?
10. Do you have any allergies? Iron
11. Do you get sick? Not very often
a. Maybe you catch the flu twice a year and that's it?
b. Or maybe you have a weak immune system and catch anything that goes around?
History
1. Where is your homeland? 'Murica
a. What are its people like? Depends what part of the country you're in.
b. Are you aware of its history? I guess. I never really studied it.
c. What is your opinion of home? Meh.
d. Where is your home town? Mass.
e. What is your home town's name? Boston
f. What was the area like and how did it affect you? It was cold.
2. Are you patriotic or a social outcast? Outcast.
3. Have you witnessed any historical events? Nope.
a. If so, how did that event impact you?
4. Are your real reasons for becoming an adventurer different from what you tell others? Nope.
a. If so, how might such secrets be revealed?
b. What do you fear would occur if the truth became known?
c. How far would you go to keep such secrets from being revealed? What would you do if the truth became known?
5. Are any high or low ability scores a result of you past? Well, if I hadn't been Snatched, I wouldn't be a Changeling.
a. How have these scores affected your life so far?
b. Did this affect you in your chosen profession? Yes.
6. How do you feel about other races? I'm not racist, I just don't really like anyone.
a. Do you have any justification from your past experience for holding such views?
7. Were there any traumatic experiences in your early years (death of a family member, abandonment, orphaned at an early age, etc.)?
8. What was childhood like for you?
a. Was it calm and peaceful or turbulent and traumatic?
b. Briefly describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life. Did you have any childhood friends?
c. If so, who and where are they now?
d. Are you still close to them or have you grown apart?
9. What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
10. Which toys from your childhood have you kept?
a. Why? What do they mean to you?
b. If you didn't keep any, why not?
c. What did you do to them all?
11. Do you have any deep, dark secrets in the past that may come back to haunt you? Such as a criminal record?
12. What conflicts might arise from your past?
13. Are you who you claim to be?
14. How do you view the heroes/legends of your country?
Family
1. Who were your parents?
a. What is your father's full name?
b. What is your mother's full name?
c. What did your parents and/or foster parents do for a living?
d. What was their standing in the community?
2. Were you raised by them? Until I was snatched
a. If not, then why didn't they and who did raise you?
3. Did your family stay in one area or move around a lot?
4. How did you get along with their parents?
5. How would your parents describe you? Answer this in the voice of your mother, then in your father's.
6. Do you have any siblings?
a. If so how many and what were their names?
b. How did you get along with each of their siblings?
c. What was your birth position in the family (i.e.-1st born, and child, rd, etc.)?
7. What was your family life like?
8. Current Knowledge: (note known and unknown in reference to your character)
a. Locations or general geography of relatives’ whereabouts.
b. Spouses of relatives
c. Children of relatives
d. Birth dates of relatives
e. Schooling (just the important or stand out things, i.e. Didn’t go, home schooled, private school, tutors, raised by wolves etc.)
f. Any important incidents that only you and they might remember.
g. Are any or all of your family still alive?
h. If so, where are they now?
i. Do you stay in touch with them or have you become estranged?
9. Draw out your family tree, including living and dead relatives.
10. Do you love or hate one member of the family in particular?
11. Is any member of the family special to you in any way (perhaps, as a confidant, mentor, or arch-rival)?
12. Are there any black (or white) sheep in the family (including you)?
a. If so, who are they and how did they "gain" the position?
b. If this person is not you, then how do you feel about them?
13. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor?
a. If so, what did this person do to become famous or infamous?
b. What do people assume about you once your ancestry is revealed?
c. Do you try to live up to the reputation of their ancestor, try to live it down, or ignore it?
14. Have you begun your own family? No
a. If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
b. If so, with who or what type of person?
15. What type of person would be your ideal mate?
16. What would you be willing to do to protect such a person?
a. Is there anything you wouldn't do to protect such a person and if so what?
b. Would anything change your mind on this issue and if so, what?
Relationships
1. Do you have any close friends?
a. If so, who and what are they like?
b. What is the history of their relationship(s) with you?
c. Do you currently have a best friend whom you would protect with your reputation or your life?
d. If so, who are they and what caused you to feel so close to them? What would have to happen for you to end this relationship?
e. How close are you to your friends?
f. What do they know about you?
g. What do they not know about you?
2. What is the worst thing someone has done to you? Please give a brief description.
3. What is the worst thing you have done to someone? Please give a brief description.
4. Do you have any bitter enemies?
a. If so, who are they, what are they like, and what is the history of their feud with you?
b. Have you defeated them before?
c. How might these enemies seek to discomfit you in the future?
5. How can you be blackmailed, beaten, and tricked (by PCs or NPCs)?
6. Name seven things you hate in others.
7. If someone crossed your path, what would you do?
8. Trust:
a. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
b. Who is your most trusted ally?
c. Who do you trust, in general?
d. Who do you serve, in general?
e. Who do you despise and why?
f. Who might protect you?
g. Who might be convinced to sell you out?
h. Who do you turn to when you're in trouble?
9. What valuable or important contacts do you have?
a. How did you come to know them?
b. What do you know and not know about them?
10. Persona &Perception:
a. How do you think others generally perceive you?
b. Is your persona (outward image to others) consistent?
c. Do people see you in similar ways?
d. Do you deliberately present yourself differently in different situations, and how?
11. Who would miss you, should you go missing?
12. Do you live with anyone (housemates, roommates, relatives, friends, near-strangers, family friend, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover)?
13. What is your general reaction to an attractive member of the opposite sex who lets you know they are available?
14. List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s).
15. Have you lost any loves?
a. How did you handle the situation (short & long term)?
Personality/Beliefs
1. If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
2. Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
3. Do you prefer to tear down or build up?
4. Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
5. Do you prefer the town or the country?
6. If made to decide, would you rather be deaf or blind? Why?
7. Do you remember your dreams?
a. Describe a typical dream you might have.
b. Describe your worst nightmares.
8. Do you, or did you, have any role models?
9. Do you have any heroes or idols, either contemporary or from legend?
a. If so, have you ever met them?
b. Did you ever become disillusioned with former heroes or idols?
c. If so, why and what were the circumstances?
10. Goals:
a. What are your short term goals (what would you like to be doing within a year)
b. What are your long term goals (what would you like to be doing twenty years from now)?
c. If these goals seem at odds with each other or with your dreams, how do you reconcile the differences?
d. How do you seek to fulfill these dreams, goals, & ambitions?
11. Fears:
a. Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias? If so, what are the origins of or reasons behind them?
b. What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this?
c. How do you react when this fear manifests itself?
d. Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation?
12. Money:
a. Are you greedy or generous?
b. What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
c. Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
d. Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
13. Humility:
a. Is there anything that enrages you?
b. Is there anything which embarrasses you?
c. How do you react to being teased about it?
d. Are you a humble soul or blusteringly proud?
e. How do you generally treat others?
f. Are you introverted (shy and withdrawn) or extroverted (outgoing)?
g. Do you act differently than you feel (concealing your true thoughts)?
h. Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily) or not?
i. How do others typically react to you?
j. Why, in your opinion, do they act that way?
14. Foods:
a. What is your favorite treat (desert)?
b. What is your favorite drink?
c. What is your favorite food?
d. Do you favor a particular cuisine?
e. Do you savor the tastes when eating or "wolf down" your food?
f. Do you like food mild or heavily spiced?
g. Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
h. Are you allergic to any food?
15. Likes and Dislikes:
a. Is there any race, creed, alignment, religion, class, profession, political viewpoint, or the like against which you is strongly prejudiced, and why?
b. What habits would you find most annoying in friends?
c. What are your most annoying habits?
d. What annoys you the most?
e. What are your favorite color(s)?
f. Is there any color that you dislike?
g. Do you have a favorite (or hated) song, type of music, or instrument?
● What is your favorite bard song?
● If you have a favorite scent, what is it?
● Do you enjoy "roughing it", or do you prefer your creature comforts?
● How do you feel about magic, myth, and the supernatural?
● How do you feel about technology, automation and artificial intelligence?
● What place would you most like to visit?
● What (if any) are your favorite forms of art?
● What is your most treasured possession?
● What things could he/ she not live without?
● Do you have a good luck charm?
16. Animals:
a. Do you have an animal totem or affinity, and if so for what?
b. What is your favorite type of animal?
c. Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear?
d. Are you allergic to any kinds of animals?
17. Gods & Goddess (Faith in the Divine):
a. Do you believe in the gods or not?
b. Do you have a patron Deity?
c. Are you devout or impious?
d. Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service?
e. What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
f. Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
g. Do you belong to the Orthodox Church or a fringe element thereof (and is the group accepted, frowned upon, or considered heretics)?
● How has this impacted your faith and life?
h. Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret?
i. How did this affect your faith and life?
j. Have you ever been persecuted for your faith?
● If so, when and how did you handle it?
k. Are you a member of any non-religious group, cause, order, or organization?
● If so describe it, its goals, and membership.
● How loyal are you to this group and why?
● How did you become a member?
● If you are a former member, did you leave voluntarily or involuntarily and why?
● Was it under good (amicable) conditions or bad?
● Are you being sought or hunted by the organization?
● If so, by whom and with what intent (to murder you, to force your return through blackmail or coercion, to spy on you and make sure they do not reveal any of the groups secrets)?
18. Morals:
a. Can you kill?
b. When did you decide (or learn) that you could?
● What happened and how did you handle it?
c. When do you consider it okay to kill (under what circumstances)?
d. When do you consider it wrong to kill (under what circumstances)?
e. What would you do if someone else attempted to (or successfully did) kill under their "wrong" circumstances, what would be your reaction?
● What if it were your enemy?
● What if it were your friend?
● What if it were an innocent?
● What if the opponent were not in control of their own actions (i.e.-under duress, charmed, dominated, possessed, etc.)?
f. What would you do if someone shot at (attacked) you?
g. What would you do if something were stolen from you?
h. What would you do if you were badly insulted publicly?
i. What would you do if a good friend or relative were killed by means other than natural death?
j. What is the one task you would absolutely refuse to do?
k. For what would you die for?
l. For whom would you go to extremes for (For Good or Bad)?
m. What do you consider to be the worst crime someone could commit and why?
19. Love My Country, Fear my Government?
a. What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy) and why?
b. How do you feel about government (rulers) in general?
● Why do you feel that way?
c. Do you support the current government of your homeland?
● If so, how far are you willing to go to defend the government? If not, do you actively oppose it?
d. Do you belong to an anti-government organization?
● If so, describe the group and its aims.
e. Are you a member of any special interest groups?
● What is your level of involvement?
f. What is your current status with local law-enforcement?
● Do you have a record of cooperation or non-cooperation with authorities?
● Do you have a file with local, national or international law enforcement?
● Have you ever been persecuted for their political stance? If so, describe the occurrence and how it affected you?
Career/Training
1. How do you get along with others in the same field and/or work environment?
2. Do you have any dreams or ambitions?
a. If not, why?
b. How does adventuring fit into this dream, or does it at all?
3. What are your long-term goals in work?
4. Heroics:
a. When did you decide to become an adventurer?
● Why have you chosen to risk your life as a career?
● What do you expect to get out of being an adventurer (satisfaction, glory, money, redemption, etc.)?
● What, if anything, would make them stop adventuring (death of a loved one, marriage, mutilation, money, position, old age, etc.)?
b. How do you function in combat (maneuvers, weaknesses)?
c. How would you best be defeated?
d. Have you ever received any awards or honors?
5. Mundane Hum drum:
a. What is your Profession (Other than Adventuring)
b. Where and how were you educated?
● Were you a prize student or did you just barely pass?
● Who trained you in your class or job?
● What was your relationship with your teacher(s)/mentor(s)?
● How did you happen across this teacher or mentor?
● Was your mentor kind, stern, cruel, indifferent?
● Is this person or institution still in existence?
c. Were you forced into your profession by parents or peers?
d. Did circumstances dictate your choice of profession?
e. What have you done that was considered "outstanding" in your occupation by others in your field?
f. Have you ever done anything else for a living?
g. Have you ever received any awards or honors?
h. Describe any traumatic experiences in your present occupation that has affected you deeply in some way.
i. How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
j. Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could
k. Are you envious of others who can do such things in a good-natured way or are they sullen and morose about it?
6. Look at your skills. How did you acquire them (especially the unusual ones)?
Miscellaneous
1. What would you like to be remembered for after your death?
2. What kind of threat do you present to public?
3. If your features were to be destroyed beyond recognition, is there any other way of identifying your body?
4. As a player, if you could, what advice would you give you? Speak as if he/she were sitting right here in front of you. Use proper tone so they might heed your advice...
- Cinnamon
Introduction Questions
1. What is your full birth name? Keely Etain Cavanagh
2. Do you have any nicknames, street names, titles, nom de plume? Cinnamon, Cin, Fairest
3. Give a two or three word description of yourself. (Describes your concept.)
4. Where do you live? Chicago, IL
a. Why? Because I thought it was a busy enough city that I could stay hidden from politics. I was wrong.
5. What is your citizenship status? Forged citizen
6. What is your most obvious blessing or strength? Beauty
7. What do you perceive as your greatest strength? I can talk my way out of things.
8. What is your most obvious flaw or weakness? Don't think before I speak
9. What do you perceive as your greatest weakness?
10. Was there any event or cause of these weaknesses?
Physical Traits
1. What is your most distinguishing feature? thick eyebrows
2. Do you have any scars, tattoos, or birthmarks? Yes
a. If so, how did you acquire them? I went looking for a demon
b. What do these distinguishing marks look like? burn-scar handprint
c. Do they have any special significance? I was touched by an angel
d. Where are they located? Right shoulder
3. Lefty, Righty, Ambi? Righty
a. Born or learned? Born
4. Do you resemble some currently known person (In real life if there is such a thing.)? Cara Delevingne
5. Do you need glasses? No
a. Do you wear any? Sometimes because fashion
6. What sort of vocal tone do you have? Feminine with a deep, husky tone
7. Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others?
a. If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them?
b. How do you react if made fun of for any of these things?
8. Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms, such as when talking, thinking, afraid, under stress, or when embarrassed?
a. If so, are there any reasons behind them from your past?
9. Do you have an unusual gait or accent? Unusually gracefully...usually.
a. If so, where did you acquire them? I'm a fucking fairy.
b. Are there any circumstances where they become more (or less) evident?
c. How do you feel and react if made fun of for any of these things?
10. Do you have any allergies? Iron
11. Do you get sick? Not very often
a. Maybe you catch the flu twice a year and that's it?
b. Or maybe you have a weak immune system and catch anything that goes around?
History
1. Where is your homeland? 'Murica
a. What are its people like? Depends what part of the country you're in.
b. Are you aware of its history? I guess. I never really studied it.
c. What is your opinion of home? Meh.
d. Where is your home town? Mass.
e. What is your home town's name? Boston
f. What was the area like and how did it affect you? It was cold.
2. Are you patriotic or a social outcast? Outcast.
3. Have you witnessed any historical events? Nope.
a. If so, how did that event impact you?
4. Are your real reasons for becoming an adventurer different from what you tell others? Nope.
a. If so, how might such secrets be revealed?
b. What do you fear would occur if the truth became known?
c. How far would you go to keep such secrets from being revealed? What would you do if the truth became known?
5. Are any high or low ability scores a result of you past? Well, if I hadn't been Snatched, I wouldn't be a Changeling.
a. How have these scores affected your life so far?
b. Did this affect you in your chosen profession? Yes.
6. How do you feel about other races? I'm not racist, I just don't really like anyone.
a. Do you have any justification from your past experience for holding such views?
7. Were there any traumatic experiences in your early years (death of a family member, abandonment, orphaned at an early age, etc.)?
8. What was childhood like for you?
a. Was it calm and peaceful or turbulent and traumatic?
b. Briefly describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life. Did you have any childhood friends?
c. If so, who and where are they now?
d. Are you still close to them or have you grown apart?
9. What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
10. Which toys from your childhood have you kept?
a. Why? What do they mean to you?
b. If you didn't keep any, why not?
c. What did you do to them all?
11. Do you have any deep, dark secrets in the past that may come back to haunt you? Such as a criminal record?
12. What conflicts might arise from your past?
13. Are you who you claim to be?
14. How do you view the heroes/legends of your country?
Family
1. Who were your parents?
a. What is your father's full name?
b. What is your mother's full name?
c. What did your parents and/or foster parents do for a living?
d. What was their standing in the community?
2. Were you raised by them? Until I was snatched
a. If not, then why didn't they and who did raise you?
3. Did your family stay in one area or move around a lot?
4. How did you get along with their parents?
5. How would your parents describe you? Answer this in the voice of your mother, then in your father's.
6. Do you have any siblings?
a. If so how many and what were their names?
b. How did you get along with each of their siblings?
c. What was your birth position in the family (i.e.-1st born, and child, rd, etc.)?
7. What was your family life like?
8. Current Knowledge: (note known and unknown in reference to your character)
a. Locations or general geography of relatives’ whereabouts.
b. Spouses of relatives
c. Children of relatives
d. Birth dates of relatives
e. Schooling (just the important or stand out things, i.e. Didn’t go, home schooled, private school, tutors, raised by wolves etc.)
f. Any important incidents that only you and they might remember.
g. Are any or all of your family still alive?
h. If so, where are they now?
i. Do you stay in touch with them or have you become estranged?
9. Draw out your family tree, including living and dead relatives.
10. Do you love or hate one member of the family in particular?
11. Is any member of the family special to you in any way (perhaps, as a confidant, mentor, or arch-rival)?
12. Are there any black (or white) sheep in the family (including you)?
a. If so, who are they and how did they "gain" the position?
b. If this person is not you, then how do you feel about them?
13. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor?
a. If so, what did this person do to become famous or infamous?
b. What do people assume about you once your ancestry is revealed?
c. Do you try to live up to the reputation of their ancestor, try to live it down, or ignore it?
14. Have you begun your own family? No
a. If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
b. If so, with who or what type of person?
15. What type of person would be your ideal mate?
16. What would you be willing to do to protect such a person?
a. Is there anything you wouldn't do to protect such a person and if so what?
b. Would anything change your mind on this issue and if so, what?
Relationships
1. Do you have any close friends?
a. If so, who and what are they like?
b. What is the history of their relationship(s) with you?
c. Do you currently have a best friend whom you would protect with your reputation or your life?
d. If so, who are they and what caused you to feel so close to them? What would have to happen for you to end this relationship?
e. How close are you to your friends?
f. What do they know about you?
g. What do they not know about you?
2. What is the worst thing someone has done to you? Please give a brief description.
3. What is the worst thing you have done to someone? Please give a brief description.
4. Do you have any bitter enemies?
a. If so, who are they, what are they like, and what is the history of their feud with you?
b. Have you defeated them before?
c. How might these enemies seek to discomfit you in the future?
5. How can you be blackmailed, beaten, and tricked (by PCs or NPCs)?
6. Name seven things you hate in others.
7. If someone crossed your path, what would you do?
8. Trust:
a. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
b. Who is your most trusted ally?
c. Who do you trust, in general?
d. Who do you serve, in general?
e. Who do you despise and why?
f. Who might protect you?
g. Who might be convinced to sell you out?
h. Who do you turn to when you're in trouble?
9. What valuable or important contacts do you have?
a. How did you come to know them?
b. What do you know and not know about them?
10. Persona &Perception:
a. How do you think others generally perceive you?
b. Is your persona (outward image to others) consistent?
c. Do people see you in similar ways?
d. Do you deliberately present yourself differently in different situations, and how?
11. Who would miss you, should you go missing?
12. Do you live with anyone (housemates, roommates, relatives, friends, near-strangers, family friend, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover)?
13. What is your general reaction to an attractive member of the opposite sex who lets you know they are available?
14. List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s).
15. Have you lost any loves?
a. How did you handle the situation (short & long term)?
Personality/Beliefs
1. If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
2. Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
3. Do you prefer to tear down or build up?
4. Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
5. Do you prefer the town or the country?
6. If made to decide, would you rather be deaf or blind? Why?
7. Do you remember your dreams?
a. Describe a typical dream you might have.
b. Describe your worst nightmares.
8. Do you, or did you, have any role models?
9. Do you have any heroes or idols, either contemporary or from legend?
a. If so, have you ever met them?
b. Did you ever become disillusioned with former heroes or idols?
c. If so, why and what were the circumstances?
10. Goals:
a. What are your short term goals (what would you like to be doing within a year)
b. What are your long term goals (what would you like to be doing twenty years from now)?
c. If these goals seem at odds with each other or with your dreams, how do you reconcile the differences?
d. How do you seek to fulfill these dreams, goals, & ambitions?
11. Fears:
a. Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias? If so, what are the origins of or reasons behind them?
b. What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this?
c. How do you react when this fear manifests itself?
d. Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation?
12. Money:
a. Are you greedy or generous?
b. What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
c. Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
d. Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
13. Humility:
a. Is there anything that enrages you?
b. Is there anything which embarrasses you?
c. How do you react to being teased about it?
d. Are you a humble soul or blusteringly proud?
e. How do you generally treat others?
f. Are you introverted (shy and withdrawn) or extroverted (outgoing)?
g. Do you act differently than you feel (concealing your true thoughts)?
h. Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily) or not?
i. How do others typically react to you?
j. Why, in your opinion, do they act that way?
14. Foods:
a. What is your favorite treat (desert)?
b. What is your favorite drink?
c. What is your favorite food?
d. Do you favor a particular cuisine?
e. Do you savor the tastes when eating or "wolf down" your food?
f. Do you like food mild or heavily spiced?
g. Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
h. Are you allergic to any food?
15. Likes and Dislikes:
a. Is there any race, creed, alignment, religion, class, profession, political viewpoint, or the like against which you is strongly prejudiced, and why?
b. What habits would you find most annoying in friends?
c. What are your most annoying habits?
d. What annoys you the most?
e. What are your favorite color(s)?
f. Is there any color that you dislike?
g. Do you have a favorite (or hated) song, type of music, or instrument?
● What is your favorite bard song?
● If you have a favorite scent, what is it?
● Do you enjoy "roughing it", or do you prefer your creature comforts?
● How do you feel about magic, myth, and the supernatural?
● How do you feel about technology, automation and artificial intelligence?
● What place would you most like to visit?
● What (if any) are your favorite forms of art?
● What is your most treasured possession?
● What things could he/ she not live without?
● Do you have a good luck charm?
16. Animals:
a. Do you have an animal totem or affinity, and if so for what?
b. What is your favorite type of animal?
c. Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear?
d. Are you allergic to any kinds of animals?
17. Gods & Goddess (Faith in the Divine):
a. Do you believe in the gods or not?
b. Do you have a patron Deity?
c. Are you devout or impious?
d. Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service?
e. What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
f. Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
g. Do you belong to the Orthodox Church or a fringe element thereof (and is the group accepted, frowned upon, or considered heretics)?
● How has this impacted your faith and life?
h. Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret?
i. How did this affect your faith and life?
j. Have you ever been persecuted for your faith?
● If so, when and how did you handle it?
k. Are you a member of any non-religious group, cause, order, or organization?
● If so describe it, its goals, and membership.
● How loyal are you to this group and why?
● How did you become a member?
● If you are a former member, did you leave voluntarily or involuntarily and why?
● Was it under good (amicable) conditions or bad?
● Are you being sought or hunted by the organization?
● If so, by whom and with what intent (to murder you, to force your return through blackmail or coercion, to spy on you and make sure they do not reveal any of the groups secrets)?
18. Morals:
a. Can you kill?
b. When did you decide (or learn) that you could?
● What happened and how did you handle it?
c. When do you consider it okay to kill (under what circumstances)?
d. When do you consider it wrong to kill (under what circumstances)?
e. What would you do if someone else attempted to (or successfully did) kill under their "wrong" circumstances, what would be your reaction?
● What if it were your enemy?
● What if it were your friend?
● What if it were an innocent?
● What if the opponent were not in control of their own actions (i.e.-under duress, charmed, dominated, possessed, etc.)?
f. What would you do if someone shot at (attacked) you?
g. What would you do if something were stolen from you?
h. What would you do if you were badly insulted publicly?
i. What would you do if a good friend or relative were killed by means other than natural death?
j. What is the one task you would absolutely refuse to do?
k. For what would you die for?
l. For whom would you go to extremes for (For Good or Bad)?
m. What do you consider to be the worst crime someone could commit and why?
19. Love My Country, Fear my Government?
a. What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy) and why?
b. How do you feel about government (rulers) in general?
● Why do you feel that way?
c. Do you support the current government of your homeland?
● If so, how far are you willing to go to defend the government? If not, do you actively oppose it?
d. Do you belong to an anti-government organization?
● If so, describe the group and its aims.
e. Are you a member of any special interest groups?
● What is your level of involvement?
f. What is your current status with local law-enforcement?
● Do you have a record of cooperation or non-cooperation with authorities?
● Do you have a file with local, national or international law enforcement?
● Have you ever been persecuted for their political stance? If so, describe the occurrence and how it affected you?
Career/Training
1. How do you get along with others in the same field and/or work environment?
2. Do you have any dreams or ambitions?
a. If not, why?
b. How does adventuring fit into this dream, or does it at all?
3. What are your long-term goals in work?
4. Heroics:
a. When did you decide to become an adventurer?
● Why have you chosen to risk your life as a career?
● What do you expect to get out of being an adventurer (satisfaction, glory, money, redemption, etc.)?
● What, if anything, would make them stop adventuring (death of a loved one, marriage, mutilation, money, position, old age, etc.)?
b. How do you function in combat (maneuvers, weaknesses)?
c. How would you best be defeated?
d. Have you ever received any awards or honors?
5. Mundane Hum drum:
a. What is your Profession (Other than Adventuring)
b. Where and how were you educated?
● Were you a prize student or did you just barely pass?
● Who trained you in your class or job?
● What was your relationship with your teacher(s)/mentor(s)?
● How did you happen across this teacher or mentor?
● Was your mentor kind, stern, cruel, indifferent?
● Is this person or institution still in existence?
c. Were you forced into your profession by parents or peers?
d. Did circumstances dictate your choice of profession?
e. What have you done that was considered "outstanding" in your occupation by others in your field?
f. Have you ever done anything else for a living?
g. Have you ever received any awards or honors?
h. Describe any traumatic experiences in your present occupation that has affected you deeply in some way.
i. How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
j. Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could
k. Are you envious of others who can do such things in a good-natured way or are they sullen and morose about it?
6. Look at your skills. How did you acquire them (especially the unusual ones)?
Miscellaneous
1. What would you like to be remembered for after your death?
2. What kind of threat do you present to public?
3. If your features were to be destroyed beyond recognition, is there any other way of identifying your body?
4. As a player, if you could, what advice would you give you? Speak as if he/she were sitting right here in front of you. Use proper tone so they might heed your advice...