A “Who am I?” Quicksheet for memorable & unique characters
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Jun 212016
So I was hanging out over at Guild Master Gaming, and I saw that Daniel had posted “A Tip to Help Create Player Characters and Non-Player Characters.” I liked the idea and whipped up a quick character trait sheet for my own games You can hand this to players and tell them to fill it out as they desire, or you can use it for quick NPC creation.
I like it for both uses for obvious reasons, but for NPCs especially. NPCs can really solidify a setting, and I think a lot of players get a lot of appreciation from running into recognizable, memorable, and unique NPCs from time to time.
Click here to download the PDF.
Thanks go to Dan Yocom.
Chris Stevens
In Chris's opinion, the very best vices are dirt bikes, rock music, and gaming, while the very best medicine is fatherhood. If he could just learn to balance them all, he'd live forever. He's much more creative than intelligent, often wakes up belligerent, and ponders many things insignificant. Lastly, in an effort to transform his well-fed body, P90X, Roller Blades, and Food are all laughing at him. And the pain continues.
Reminds me a bit of the character traits in Pendragon (not meant to diminish your work: I adapted that for an old program to ranfomly generating modern-world NPCs myself).
I’ll have to check that out…
You can get a quick idea of how it worked on Wikipedia – basically there were a bunch of character traits scaled on a 1-20 range (e.g. if you were very brave you would have Bravery 19/ Cowardice 1) – DM could require rolls against the appropriate vice/virtue pair when your character had to take hard decisions like resist seduction, refrain from taking vengeance and so on.
Some found this a bit too mechanical for role playing but I thought it was a great idea for NPCs.
Saw the link from your site.
Thanks for the support.
Dan Yocom
Guild Master Gaming
Seems like something that would be super useful just for keeping track of your characters in fiction as well.
Damn, we need a Like button.