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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ccs" data-source="post: 6994048" data-attributes="member: 6803664">Wether I'm a player or a DM, character details are important to me.  Really important.As a player I'll give you details.  And I'll incorporate  & share them in play.As a DM?  I expect you to give me some detail prior to play:  The minimum is: Name/class/race/gender/physical appearance/apparent age/real age/place of origin/reason why you're character is doing x, god(s)/patrons served.More is appreciated, but how much more I leave to you as it varies by character.  I will almost certainly ask for more details later, so be prepared or be able to improvise....  Just remember, the bards don't tell stories about boring people.    Now I'm going to answer these questions from the PoV of my current CoS character: Food & lots of it.  Especially dessert.  She eats as much as she can (about 3x her own bodyweight) & the dream ends as she dozes off in her favorite chair by the fireplace.Source: Ongoing play.Spiders.  Specifically ones that are bigger than she is.  Source: This fear stems from one of her earliest encounters prior to CoS. 1) To find her older sister & return home.  Source: From use in previous campaigns.2) $.  Especially magic items.  So she can pay her pseudo-dragon patron for the magic he teaches her.  Source: Initial backstory.Nope.  Was initially scarred of orcs as she'd heard that more & more of them were being seen this side of the mountains.  But she ended up leaving home before that became a real problem.  And though she's still worried about orc raiders back home she's far away & can't do anything about it.  Individually, now having faced far worse, she's not scarred of orcs.    Source: Initial details of an earlier campaign.She's not all fond of Satyrs as they kidnapped her older sister....  Source: Initial campaign.  She says her prayers every night before going to sleep.  But she's a long way from home & doesn't know if her gods can hear her....  Her patron can though, & the dwarfs can hear him, so hers probably can too.  They're probably responsible for making sure she always has good travelling/adventuring companions. Source: Ongoing playOf course I'm one of those players who will happily tell you a very great amount of detail about my characters.  And, unlike AaronOfBarbaria, to me the answers to these (and more) questions ARE important.  Really important.  They detail how I want my character to act/react & why.  They also provide the DM with any # of hooks & details to play with - if they choose.Knowing (and sharing) the details about your character is what separates them from just being a collection of stats & a mini on the table. This is a ROLE playing game.  Not a Roll playing game.  Not a computer game that's misappropriated the term (unless they meant for that R to = Roll....).  That means that the details you give your character are important.  And, IMO, more so than your stats.</blockquote>

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