Rules > Character Creation
Character-Building Questions
The following were application questions for characters being built for the original LARP run; they're presented here as useful character-building prompts to give you a good idea of what makes a character that fits into the setting well, and what you might want to know about how the character fits in to the setting.
- What are your character’s most valued Norms? What shocks or offends your character?
- What is your character’s goal in life?
- What is your character’s day-to-day life like? Do they have any hobbies? What do they do to make money? How do they have fun?
- Describe your character’s personal life. What’s their relationship like with their parents? Do they have any close friends? Romantic relationships? Children or siblings?
- What are your character’s religious/spiritual views?
- How does your character deal with hardship and stress?
- What is one memory your character has of the unexplainable? Why has it stuck with them?
- What is your character most afraid of?
- What does your character consider to be the worst thing they have ever done?
- Has your character had any traumatic experiences? Describe the one that affected them the most.
- What does your character think makes someone or something a monster?
- If you are a supernatural creature, how did you become one? Was it your choice? How has it changed your life? How do you hide your unnatural state?
Optional Questions (we asked players to answer 5 out of 9)
- Has your character ever left Nulpert County, or Winnemac? If so why? Why did they return to Osthigwanegon?
- How has life been unfair to your character? Why does your character believe they haven’t gotten further in life?
- What is your character hiding from the people around them? What is their most closely kept secret?
- What does loss mean to your character? What is a noteworthy loss they have experienced?
- What is one thing your character believes about themselves, that isn’t actually true?
- What does your character believe makes for a successful life?
- Under what circumstances would your character kill another human being?
- What does your character like about their life?
- What is your character’s proudest achievement?