Step 3: Integrating your Backstory

The final step for engaging in a campaign is to work out your character's backstory and personality. Now that you have the environmental, occupational path, adventuring path, ancestry and other factors determining their life- the rest can easily fall in place with these roots. Rooting out the causal factors in the life of an adventurer is a great way to practice improvisation and is a fantastic way to gain a new perspective. The life of an adventurer is exciting, dangerous and sometimes- incredibly fufilling. What kind of person would leave their life behind to embrace this lifestyle?   Being a new adventurer, do not write in too much experience as to imply they are a higher level than what they are starting. A town guard who has a problem with bandits and experience with dispatching outlaws is a fine background that can incorporate into Background and Class easily. A Semhinteran Barbarian who hunts barbecues dragons for sport implies a capability much higher than the standard starting character can commit to.   It is also incredibly important to place a seed of adventure into your backstory- some reason or rationale for the adventurer to go exploring, trading, or committing heinous acts of (ad)venture capitalism. A person who has a comfortable life would have to be influenced heavily in order to undergo something extreme like raiding crypts , exploring dangerous foreign worlds or fighting on behalf of a wizard king halfway across the cosmos.