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Creating and Playing Characters

Character Creation

The Personal Codeplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Personal Code

The Personal Code (c) Alesia Chamness, 1992 All rights reserved throughout the world. Permission to reproduce this for personal use only is hereby granted by the author.

Character Name: Birthplace: Age: Group Affiliation:

1) Give a brief description of player character's childhood, including emotional and economic status:

2) How does this character deal with h…
: A character personality questionnaire by Alesia Chamness.

The Mother Of All Character Questionnairesplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Mother Of All Character Questionnaires

From . Reformatted to fit the style of this web site.

Use this list of questions to construct or add to your own characrer questionnaire. The questions cover different genres and types of details, so feel free to exclude or modify to suit your group.
: A huge list of questions that will help you create a character, from Role-playing Tips.

Ideas for Character Backgroundsplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigIdeas for Character Backgrounds

This was taken from . Take a look at that site. There's a lot of good stuff, including a couple of campaigns in prose form.

The following are a series of questions to try to help prompt players when they are writing character backgrounds. None of these questions represent required info, I just find such a list helpful to anyone writing a character's history.
: Another useful character questionnaire, from hurva.org.

Guide to Character Personality and Background, by Ash. A clear and simple step-by-step guide to developing a character's personality. This process leaves you with a sort of role-playing character sheet that you can bring to a game as a reference.

The 100 Most Important Things To Know About Your Character, by Beth Kinderman and Nikki Walker.

Character Types

The Wizard's Apprenticeplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigThe Wizard's Apprentice

This has been pared down from the original.

From: J. Hawke Date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 00:20:11 GMT

In my campaign, it is assumed that apprentices can cast a few minor cantrips after spending many years in study and apprenticeship. These are short-lived cantrips with no lasting effect and they can't do anything to anyone that really impacts them in an even minorly lasting manner. Things like creating a quick
: The life of an apprentice. Useful for a wizard's character background.

Palladin Murderersplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigPalladin Murderers

My God Says to Kill Children, So I'll Kill Children

A post on the wizards.com Character Development board by The Great Alchemist, on May 28, 2003 02:02 AM.

I've always thought that the religious aspects of Alignment are often overlooked, particuarly when it comes to paladins. I have always thought that a Paladin's moral code should be more strongly based on his religion than it is commonly assumed.
: Creating a less stereotypical palladin.

Builds

5e Character Builds from a variety of sources.

Roleplaying

Getting in Characterplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigGetting in Character

Question

From Zioth, on 08-12-03

For the past seven years, I've been DMing a PBeM. The remainder of my RPG experience has been with a free-form game I made up, where the characters don't come with built-in personalities (so you're basically role-playing yourself).
: I was having trouble playing a new character, so I asked for advice.

Errant Dreams: This site has articles on character creation and world building.

Roleplaying Tips: A free online weekly magazine about roleplaying.

Character Sheets

Character Sheet: 3E Wizard: A super-dense, three-page D&D 3E character sheet in MS-Word format especially for wizards, by me. Includes standard 0th level spells and a polymorph section. The most confusing parts have been filled in with example values.

Character Sheet: 3E Finesse Fighter: A super-dense, one-page D&D 3E character sheet in MS-Word format especially for finesse fighters, by me. This can be used for any non-casting class, but the armor section is reduced for finesse fighters. The most confusing parts have been filled in with example values.

Character Sheet: 2E: A super-dense, super-ugly AD&D 2E character sheet in RTF format, by me.

Official D&D 3.5 character sheet, distributed by Wizards of the Coast.

Pathfinder Character Sheets