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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nytmare" data-source="post: 5799505" data-attributes="member: 55178">We don't do secrets, per se, but we borrow very heavily from the Burning Wheel character creation process and use something close to what they use called "beliefs" for all of our characters.What I have started to describe them as to people are "side quest wish lists." It's a way for my players to let me know how they'd like to showcase their characters fitting into the world.  We prefer these over just plain secrets or historical tidbits because it gives us a way to work them into the game.It's not just that you have a wife and kids, it's that you've have a wife and kids and you want the DM to put them in danger, or use them against you in some way.  You and your family moved away from the city because your life as an adventurer was over, the bad guys are holding your children to force you to do something, your father in law blames you for his daughter's death and he's the magistrate in the city you were just arrested in...For us, it has to be something more than another lost piece of information that doesn't impact the game.  If it never matters that you're five foot ten, that you have piercing green eyes, or that your parents were killed and you were raised by bunnies, then why bother writing it down?It's not so much that your character has a past, it's that you want to come up with ways for your actions and the decisions that you make to reflect that past, or cast a shadow of it. The Abberation Hunter - I hear a tale about a creature with 100 eyes that stood taller than the trees that attacked a caravan in the Hornsaw Forest. Adrenaline Junkie "Acquirer of Misplaced Items" - The last time I was in this city, I left owing a particularly unpleasant gambler a significant amount of money.  I need to pay particular attention to not being recognized while we're here. Falling Paladin - The Bishop eventually notices the affair I'm having with the Dutchess... </blockquote>

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