The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

by James D'Amato
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

by James D'Amato

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Overview

Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play.

You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games.

This latest guide from One Shot creator and RPG expert James D’Amato helps you build out an existing character or create a new one, with these activities that provide plenty of RPG fun before you even hit the gaming table. With activities to help you flesh out characters for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, x-punk, superhero and western campaigns (with an extra chapter of neutral exercises you can use whenever you like), this book has everything you need, whether you’re looking to start a new character, build out an existing character you’re currently playing, or explore new character ideas and genres.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781507217924
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 02/13/2024
Series: Ultimate Role Playing Game Series
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 332
Sales rank: 748,437
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

James D’Amato is the author of The Ultimate RPG Series, cofounder of the One Shot Podcast Network, and host of the One Shot and Campaign: Skyjacks podcasts. He trained at Second City and iO in Chicago in the art of improvisational comedy: he now uses that education to introduce new people to role-playing, and incorporates improvisational storytelling techniques to create compelling and entertaining stories for RPG campaigns and one-shot adventures.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 Getting Started 11

Chapter 2 Fantasy 23

Fantasy d20 Questions 24

My Culture Is Less Weird When You Get to Know Me 25

Your Order's Banner 30

A Code of Honor 34

Five Victories 41

Special Titles 47

Keeping Up Appearances 53

Fantasy Companion Statements 59

Chapter 3 Sci-Fi 63

Sci-Fi d20 Questions 64

Identify Five Contacts 65

A Career in Science 70

Forming an Ideology 74

Create a Social Code 79

Generational Divides 87

Bond, Bleep, Blast 94

Futuristic Gadgets 96

A, Robot 103

Science Fiction Companion Statements 107

Chapter 4 Horror 111

Horror d20 Questions 112

Tables of Terror 113

Picture of a Dead Person 119

Five Reasons to Stay 123

Scars and Lines 127

Five Habits 131

Curses! 135

Horror Companion Statements 139

Chapter 5 X-Punk 143

X-Punk d20 Questions 144

Criminal Record 145

Passing Through 151

Something Still Sacred 158

Old Colors 163

Last Will 167

Five Masks 172

X-Punk Companion Statements 178

Chapter 6 Superhero 183

Superhero d20 Questions 184

Five Obligations 185

Well Suited 191

Five Accidents 195

Your Nemesis 200

No More 204

Daring Escapes 210

Superhero Companion Statements 216

Chapter 7 Western 221

Western d20 Questions 222

There's No Place Like the Homestead 225

Worthless and Priceless 227

Stand Out in a Crowd 233

Trusty Steed 244

Quilt 248

Nothing Left to Lose 252

Western Companion Statements 258

Chapter 8 All Genres 263

I Have Never 264

My Character Would Never 268

Five Regrets 270

What Are You Wearing? 276

Better with You 278

Five Gifts Given 282

It's Complicated 290

Unread 293

Five Gifts of Culture 300

Juicy Secrets 306

Confessions 309

We Have a History 314

Time Jump 319

Sticking the Time Landing 325

Index 330

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