(Tragic) Character Backstory Creator

General Questions

1. Is your character typical for his/her/its race? Why (not)?
2. Is your character typical for his/her/its class? Why (not)?
3. Where does you character come from?
4. Does your character have a family? How are his/her/its family connections?
5. Does your character have a romantic relationship with someone or an unanswered love?
6. Has your character experienced any traumatic experiences?
7. Are there any moments of pure joy in your characters life?
8. How have other people treated your character in the past? Do you hold any grudges or have a fondness towards certain people(s)?
9. Does your character have any enemies (or maybe even a nemesis…)?
10. Does your character have a pet? Did he/she/it have a pet in the past?
11. What is the vilest thing your character has ever done?
12. What is the nicest thing your character has ever done?
13. Does your character have a home he/she/it can return to or a place he/she/it is welcomed with open arms?
14. Does your character have any regrets?
15. Does your character do drugs? (if yes, tell DM) Or has your character done drugs?
16. How important is religion for your character?
17. What attitude does your character have towards dumb people (aka your fellow players)?
18. What is your character’s attitude towards fighting?
19. How does your character generally treat other people?
20. What brings a tear to your character’s eye?
21. Does your character like travelling?
22. What is your character’s darkest secret?
23. What is your character’s greatest pride?
24. What is your character’s biggest fear?
25. What is your character’s fondest memory?
26. Does your character hold any prejudices towards certain races or classes?
27. Is your character shy in meeting new people or very outgoing?
28. If someone crossed your character, how much would that person regret it (on a scale of to Gollum after he grabbed the Ring from Frodo in Mount Doom)?
29. What is your character’s favourite weapon/spell/item?
30. What can’t your character do without?
31. Does your character drink alcohol? Which types?
32. Does your character enjoy being in the city or being in nature most? What parts of nature or the city?
33. Does your character have any obsessions or addictions?
34. Are there things your character absolutely, positively loathes/hates?
35. What is your character’s opinion of heroes? Does your character consider him/her/itself a hero?
36. Does you character have secrets (that your most terrific DM can (ab)use)?
37. What does your character consider beautiful?
38. Does your character have any physical deformities, marks, etc?
39. Is your character considered intelligent?
40. What does your character think is funny?
41. Does your character follow the rules/laws or are they more of a suggestion?
42. Describe your character's worst nightmare.
43. What does your character do (to you) if you wake her/him/it up at am in the morning with a megaphone?
44. What is the one thing you can wake your character up for at am in the morning (with or without a megaphone)?
45. Write down six rumours about your character: two that are true, two that are false and two that are as far from the truth as can be.
46. Does your character have any catch phrases, signature moves or favourite dramatic poses/actions?
47. Which actor would play your character or which (fictional) person resembles your character?
48. What does your character like finding best behind a locked door and what least?
49. What are his/her/its goals and ambitions?
50. Where do you see your character in five levels?

Expert questions

1. Would your character listen to Christmas music in the summer?
2. What is the weirdest encounter your character ever had?
3. What would your character do with a book?
4. Which things would your character lick? Which things not?
5. Which Disney princess would your character be?
6. Which superhero would your character like to be?
7. Which profession did your character want to become as a kid?
8. Has your character ever kissed a non-living thing?
9. What is the one thing that that triggers your character?
10. Does your character believe in any conspiracy theories?
11. Wed, bed, behead: A zombie, a merfolk, a dragon?
12. What would your character rather do: cover him/her/itself in peanut butter and have a unicorn lick him/her/it clean or wrestle an angry owlbear while wearing only a loincloth?
13. Does your character sing along to Nirvana’s Smells Like Teen Spirit? Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody? Toto’s Africa? Justin Bieber’s Baby?
14. As your character, write a love poem.
15. Would your character be able to catch a thrown peanut in his/her/its mouth?
16. Would your character love or kill Captain Jack Sparrow? What about Captain America? Or Elmo from Sesame Street?
17. What does your character (or you) think a Pergola is?
18. What is your character’s favourite dinosaur?
19. What does you character smell like?
20. Is mayonnaise an instrument?