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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 5559844" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>I like my character creation quick and dirty --- 3d6 in order, pick your class --- so I've had to devise methods to keep lists of background details equally concise, so that the players can dash off something interesting and then get right to the role-playing. Here's what I did for my last two campaigns</p><p></p><p>PERSONALITY - Define your character's personality, <em>as other characters might see you</em>, in terms of one virtue and one vice. What's one really positive (or quirky) thing about your character, and one major flaw not easily overcome?</p><p></p><p>BACKGROUND - Give your profession and your problem. What did you do before becoming an adventurer? And what's the big problem in your life, the personal quest that will take an entire campaign's worth of adventures to solve?</p><p></p><p>CONNECTIONS - Describe your family situation and give at least one organization, institution, or entity that your character feels a strong obligation/duty/allegiance towards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 5559844, member: 694"] I like my character creation quick and dirty --- 3d6 in order, pick your class --- so I've had to devise methods to keep lists of background details equally concise, so that the players can dash off something interesting and then get right to the role-playing. Here's what I did for my last two campaigns PERSONALITY - Define your character's personality, [i]as other characters might see you[/i], in terms of one virtue and one vice. What's one really positive (or quirky) thing about your character, and one major flaw not easily overcome? BACKGROUND - Give your profession and your problem. What did you do before becoming an adventurer? And what's the big problem in your life, the personal quest that will take an entire campaign's worth of adventures to solve? CONNECTIONS - Describe your family situation and give at least one organization, institution, or entity that your character feels a strong obligation/duty/allegiance towards. [/QUOTE]
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