Character Background - Up to 250 xp Create a convincing character background, including interesting ideas, amusing incidents and potential adventure hooks. Character Appearance - 100 xp A written description of your character is worth 50 xp. A picture, either hand-drawn or photocopied from another source, is worth an additional 50 xp. Create an NPC - Up to 100 xp. Create a description of somebody your character has very strong feelings about. Perhaps an enemy, a long lost love, a family member, etc. Questionnaire - up to 250 xp Complete a questionnaire on behalf of your character. Give as short or long an answer as you wish, but more complete answers earn slightly more XP. (0 to 4 XP per Q, plus ten extra if you do the whole thing. Questions listed as x.1 x.2 and so on are subquestions to the main Q and not worth XP in and of themselves) 1.0 * Give a short description of your character's concept. (Diplomancer with a horror for combat, for example) 2.0 * What is your full birth name, and your nicknames? 3.0 * How old are you? When is your birthday? (This is the year 1372) 4.0 * What would others perceive as your greatest strength? 5.0 * What would others perceive as your greatest weakness? 6.0 * What do -you- perceive as your greatest strength? 7.0 * What do -you- perceive as your greatest weakness? 8.0 * Explain how your stats and your background are related. 9.0 * Where is your homeland? 10.0 * What is your home town's name? 11.0 * What are your opinions of home? 12.0 * What are its people like? 13.0 * Briefly describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life. 14.0 * Do you have any deep, dark secrets in the past that may come back to haunt you? 14.1 * If so, how might such secrets be revealed? 14.2 * What would you do if the truth became known? 14.3 * How far would you go to keep such secrets from being revealed? 14.4 * What do you fear would occur if the truth became known? 15.0 * How do you feel about other races? 15.1 * Do you have any justification from your past experience for holding such views? 16.0 * Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to? 17.0 * List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s). 18.0 * Name seven things you hate in others. 19.0 * What is the worst thing someone has done to you? 20.0 * What would you die for? 21.0 * What would you live for? 22.0 * Who are your role models? 23.0 * Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias? 23.1 * What are the origins of, or reasons behind them? 23.2 * How do you react when this fear manifests itself? 23.3 * What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this? 23.4 * Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation? 24.0 There is no question 24 (Thanks to those who pointed this out) 25.0 * What are your attitudes regarding material wealth? 25.1 * Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely? 25.2 * Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end? 25.3 * Are you greedy or generous? 26.0 * Do you enjoy "roughing it", or do you prefer your creature comforts? 27.0 * How do you generally treat others? 28.0 * Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily?) or not? 29.0 * Are you introverted or extroverted? 30.0 * What are your most annoying habits? 31.0 * Is there anything which embarrasses you? 32.0 * Is there anything that enrages you? 33.0 * What is your favourite food? 34.0 * What is your favourite drink? 35.0 * What is your favourite treat (desert)? 36.0 * What are your favourite colour(s)? 37.0 * Is there any colour that you dislike? 38.0 * If you have a favourite scent, what is it? 39.0 * Do you like food mild or heavily spiced? 40.0 * What is your favourite type of animal? 41.0 * Do you savor the tastes when eating or "wolf down" your food? 42.0 * Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear? 43.0 * Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat? 44.0 * Do you have an animal totem or affinity, and if so for what? 45.0 * What is your religious nature? 45.1 * Who is your patron deity? 45.2 * Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service? 45.3 * Are you devout or impious? 45.4 * What lengths would you go to defend your faith? 45.5 * Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special? 46.0 * Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret? 47.0 * Have you ever been persecuted for your faith? 47.1 * If so, when and how did you handle it? 48.0 * What would you do if someone attacked you? 49.0 * What would you do if you were badly insulted publicly? 50.0 * What would you do if something were stolen from you? 51.0 * When do you consider it okay to kill? 52.0 * When do you consider it wrong to kill? 53.0 * What would you do if a good friend or relative were killed by means other than natural death? 54.0 * What is the one task you would absolutely refuse to do? 55.0 * What do you consider to be the worst crime someone could commit and why? 56.0 * How do you feel about government (rulers) in general? Why? 57.0 * What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy) and why? 58.0 * Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others? 58.1 * If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them. 59.0 * How do you feel about magic, myth, and the supernatural? 60.0 * Do you have a good luck charm? Recent History - 150 xp There is only one limitation on your recent history - it ends with you just graduating from the Guildhouse in Evvenstahd, after two years of intensive class and field training, and being assigned with a group of fellow graduates to the chapterhouse in Darrowmar, the capitol city of Tethyr. Write about your character's thoughts of the two months leading up to this event. You should describe his/her feelings of the current situation and what positive and negative things have happened to him/her, and how she/he feels about being stationed in this new, possibly exotic, location. (You've been told that while you're being based out of Darrowmar, you'll spend most of your one year 'tour of duty' out in the field) Goals - 100 XP What does your character want? For each long-term goal list 2 short-term goals that will progress the character closer to achieving the longterm goal. Party Relationship - up to 100 xp. This task can only be completed after the first session. Describe how your character feels about each of the other individuals in the group.