Character Concept Help

Truly stepping into someone else’s shoes can be difficult. If this is your first time roleplaying, the easiest character you can be is yourself. Draw from your own interests and beliefs to make a fantasy hero version of yourself. This way, you can get used to roleplaying games and know exactly how your character would respond. In future games you can gradually expand outward, making characters more foreign to you and experience what it’s like to be someone else.

**Just Here to Have Fun**

If you just want to hang out with your friends and don’t want to learn more about the rules than you have to, avoid mages and tinkers, since their rules are more complicated than martial characters like warriors and rogues.

**Being Creative**

The most open-ended characters are mages and tinkers. These types require a more in-depth knowledge of the rules, but pay out in the ability to stretch your imagination for truly personal abilities.

**Challenge**

You’re an RPG expert. You’ve played Vennt before and you’ve beaten every encounter your GM has thrown at you, and you want to play a tough game that will make you search the rules for synergies and rely on good roleplaying for most of your power. Pick No Gift, but be aware that this choice will make you significantly less powerful than the rest of your allies.

### **30 Concept Questions to Define Your Character**

In this section, “you” will refer to the character, not the player. But, really, you are both.

These questions will help you develop your character concept. The questions are roughly ordered from general to specific, so reading the questions in order will be easier than jumping around. However, if you can’t think of an answer, skip it and come back to it later or not at all. Your GM should be able to help you with this process if you need assistance.

1. Approximately how old are you? The most common answer here is “young adult.”
2. Are you smart?
3. Are you sociable?
4. Do you have a gift for magic? Does it come naturally to you? If not, do you study magic? If you do study magic, why do you study magic?
5. Which is sharpest: your wit, your senses, or your blade?
6. You are attacked by a bear. Do you hide, fight it, or take another approach? If you can, try to describe your tactic in one sentence.
7. What is your favorite thing to do?
8. What facet of your life is most meaningful to you? This could be your profession, family, friends, education, identity, social status, history, relationships, or something else entirely.
9. Who is the most important person in your life? Why?
10. Who raised you?
11. Was your childhood difficult?
12. What was the worst day of your life? Why? Did you have a best day ever?
13. What is your favorite possession?
14. Have you been trained? If so, by whom, and why?
15. What was your education like?
16. In what way(s) have you been a failure? What is your greatest weakness?
17. Are you already on the path of adventure? If so, describe how your adventure started. If not, what will drive you toward adventure? You can ask the GM for help here.
18. Why do you adventure, or desire to adventure? What is its ultimate purpose? This could be a search for wealth, or knowledge, or even a personal quest.
19. How has your failure hindered your progress in life, or in your adventure? How has it impeded your long-term goals and desires?
20. What is your greatest strength?
21. What do you regret? What do you fear?
22. Where do you find your morals?
23. Have you ever committed a crime?
24. Do you care about religion or politics? Do you hold particular beliefs?
25. What is something you believe for which you also believe something contradictory? For example, “killing is wrong except killing criminals is justified.” Or, “no man should hold ultimate power unless he is close to the gods.” Being able to name several of these will better define your character.
26. What’s in your pockets?
27. Do you have any quirks or mannerisms?
28. In three words, how would you describe your personality? How would others?
29. What do you look like, both in body and clothing?
30. What’s your name?