Part 1: The Basics
What is your full name?
"Lady Olivia Penelope Warrick."
Where and when were you born?
Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)
Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?
Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.
What is your occupation?
Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height, weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.
To which social class do you belong?
Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?
Are you right- or left-handed?
What does your voice sound like?
What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?
What do you have in your pockets?
Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?
Part 2: Growing Up
How would you describe your childhood in general?
What is your earliest memory?
How much schooling have you had?
Did you enjoy school?
Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?
While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them.
While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?
As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?
As a child, what were your favorite activities?
As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?
As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like?
When and with whom was your first kiss?
Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?
If you are a supernatural being (i.e. mage, werewolf, vampire), tell the story of how you became what you are or first learned of your own abilities. If you are just a normal human, describe any influences in your past that led you to do the things you do today.
Part 3: Past Influences
What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?
Who has had the most influence on you?
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
What is your greatest regret?
What is the most evil thing you have ever done?
Do you have a criminal record of any kind?
When was the time you were the most frightened?
What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?
If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?
What is your best memory?
What is your worst memory?
Part 4: Beliefs And Opinions
Are you basically optimistic or pessimistic?
What is your greatest fear?
What are your religious views?
What are your political views?
What are your views on sex?
Are you able to kill? Under what circumstances do you find killing to be acceptable or unacceptable?
In your opinion, what is the most evil thing any human being could do?
Do you believe in the existence of soul mates and/or true love?
What do you believe makes a successful life?
How honest are you about your thoughts and feelings (i.e. do you hide your true self from others, and in what way)?
Do you have any biases or prejudices?
Is there anything you absolutely refuse to do under any circumstances? Why do you refuse to do it?
Who or what, if anything, would you die for (or otherwise go to extremes for)?
Part 5: Relationships With Others
In general, how do you treat others (politely, rudely, by keeping them at a distance, etc.)? Does your treatment of them change depending on how well you know them, and if so, how?
Who is the most important person in your life, and why?
Who is the person you respect the most, and why?
Who are your friends? Do you have a best friend? Describe these people.
Do you have a spouse or significant other? If so, describe this person.
Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened.
What do you look for in a potential lover?
How close are you to your family?
Have you started your own family? If so, describe them. If not, do you want to? Why or why not?
Who would you turn to if you were in desperate need of help?
Do you trust anyone to protect you? Who, and why?
If you died or went missing, who would miss you?
Who is the person you despise the most, and why?
Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?
Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?
Do you like interacting with large groups of people? Why or why not?
Do you care what others think of you?
Part 6: Likes And Dislikes
What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?
What is your most treasured possession?
What is your favorite color?
What is your favorite food?
What, if anything, do you like to read?
What is your idea of good entertainment (consider music, movies, art, etc.)?
Do you smoke, drink, or use drugs? If so, why? Do you want to quit?
How do you spend a typical Saturday night?
What makes you laugh?
What, if anything, shocks or offends you?
What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?
How do you deal with stress?
Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?
What are your pet peeves?
Part 7: Self Images And Etc.
Describe the routine of a normal day for you. How do you feel when this routine is disrupted?
What is your greatest strength as a person?
What is your greatest weakness?
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Are you generally introverted or extroverted?
Are you generally organized or messy?
Name three things you consider yourself to be very good at, and three things you consider yourself to be very bad at.
Do you like yourself?
What are your reasons for being an adventurer (or doing the strange and heroic things that RPG characters do)? Are your real reasons for doing this different than the ones you tell people in public? (If so, detail both sets of reasons...)
What goal do you most want to accomplish in your lifetime?
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
If you could choose, how would you want to die?
If you knew you were going to die in 24 hours, name three things you would do in the time you had left.
What is the one thing for which you would most like to be remembered after your death?
What three words best describe your personality?
What three words would others probably use to describe you?
If you could, what advice would you, the player, give to your character? (You might even want to speak as if he or she were sitting right here in front of you, and use proper tone so he or she might heed your advice...)
1. How does your character think of their father? What do they hate and love about him? What influence - literal or imagined - did the father have?
2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?
3. Brothers, sisters? Who do they like? Why? What do they despise about their siblings?
4. What type of discipline was your character subjected to at home? Strict? Lenient?
5. Were they overprotected as a child? Sheltered?
6. Did they feel rejection or affection as a child?
7. What was the economic status of their family?
8. How does your character feel about religion?
9. What about political beliefs?
10. Is your character street-smart, book-smart, intelligent, intellectual, slow-witted?
11. How do they see themselves: as smart, as intelligent, uneducated?
12. How does their education and intelligence – or lack thereof - reflect in their speech pattern, vocabulary, and pronunciations?
13. Did they like school? Teachers? Schoolmates?
14. Were they involved at school? Sports? Clubs? Debate? Were they unconnected?
15. Did they graduate? High-School? College? Do they have a PHD? A GED?
16. What does your character do for a living? How do they see their profession? What do they like about it? Dislike?
17. Did they travel? Where? Why? When?
18. What did they find abroad, and what did they remember?
19. What were your character's deepest disillusions? In life? What are they now?
20. What were the most deeply impressive political or social, national or international, events that they experienced?
21. What are your character's manners like? What is their type of hero? Whom do they hate?
22. Who are their friends? Lovers? 'Type' or 'ideal' partner?
23. What do they want from a partner? What do they think and feel of sex?
24. What social groups and activities does your character attend? What role do they like to play? What role do they actually play, usually?
25. What are their hobbies and interests?
26. What does your character's home look like? Personal taste? Clothing? Hair? Appearance?
27. How do they relate to their appearance? How do they wear their clothing? Style? Quality?
28. Who is your character's mate? How do they relate to him or her? How did they make their choice?
29. What is your character's weaknesses? Hubris? Pride? Controlling?
30. Are they holding on to something in the past? Can he or she forgive?
31. Does your character have children? How do they feel about their parental role? About the children? How do the children relate?
32. How does your character react to stress situations? Defensively? Aggressively? Evasively?
33. Do they drink? Take drugs? What about their health?
34. Does your character feel self-righteous? Revengeful? Contemptuous?
35. Do they always rationalize errors? How do they accept disasters and failures?
36. Do they like to suffer? Like to see other people suffering?
37. How is your character's imagination? Daydreaming a lot? Worried most of the time? Living in memories?
38. Are they basically negative when facing new things? Suspicious? Hostile? Scared? Enthusiastic?
39. What do they like to ridicule? What do they find stupid?
40. How is their sense of humor? Do they have one?
41. Is your character aware of who they are? Strengths? Weaknesses? Idiosyncrasies? Capable of self-irony?
42. What does your character want most? What do they need really badly, compulsively? What are they willing to do, to sacrifice, to obtain?
43. Does your character have any secrets? If so, are they holding them back?
44. How badly do they want to obtain their life objectives? How do they pursue them?
45. Is your character pragmatic? Think first? Responsible? All action? A visionary? Passionate? Quixotic?
46. Is your character tall? Short? What about size? Weight? Posture? How do they feel about their physical body?
47. Do they want to project an image of a younger, older, more important person? Does they want to be visible or invisible?
48. How are your character's gestures? Vigorous? Weak? Controlled? Compulsive? Energetic? Sluggish?
49. What about voice? Pitch? Strength? Tempo and rhythm of speech? Pronunciation? Accent?
50. What are the prevailing facial expressions? Sour? Cheerful? Dominating?
Mandatory Questions
What about you is heroic?
What about you is social? What do you like about people?
Of what benefit could you be to the current group, if you're in one?
Why would you choose to join the current group, if you're in one?
Personal Questions
What is your real, birth name? What name do you use?
Do you have a nickname? What is it, and where did you get it?
What do you look like? (Include height, weight, hair, eyes, skin, apparent age, and distinguishing features)
How do you dress most of the time?
How do you "dress up?"
How do you "dress down?"
What do you wear when you go to sleep?
Do you wear any jewelry?
In your opinion, what is your best feature?
What's your real birth date?
Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse, etc.?
What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much?
What one word best describes you?
Familial Questions
What was/is your family like?
Who was your father, and what was he like?
Who was your mother, and what was she like?
What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they remain married?
What were your siblings names? What were they like?
What's the worst thing one of your siblings ever did to you? What's the worst thing you've done to one of your siblings?
When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they now?
Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did you think of them?
Childhood Questions
What is your first memory?
What was your favorite toy?
What was your favorite game?
Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? Who were they, and how did you know them? Why do they stick out?
Who was your best friend when you were growing up?
What is your fondest, childhood memory?
What is your worst childhood memory?
Adolescent Questions
How old were you when you went on your first date?
What were you like in school? What "clique" did you best fit in with? Did you go to school?
Did you have educational goals?
Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize about in your life?
What is your favorite memory from adolescence?
What is your worst memory from adolescence?
Occupational Questions
Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? If no job, where does your money come from?
What is your employer like?
What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't you get along with?
What is something you had to learn that you hated?
Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why?
Likes & Dislikes Questions
What hobbies do you have?
Who is your closest mundane friend? Describe them and how you relate to them.
Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get along.
Read any good books? What were they?
When it comes to mundane politics, do you care? If so, what are your opinions? If not, why don't you care?
What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends?
What type of places do you hang out in with your normal friends?
What annoys you more than anything else?
What would be the perfect gift for you?
What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
What time of day is your favorite?
What kind of weather is your favorite?
What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food?
What is your favorite drink?
What's your favorite animal? Why?
Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind?
What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as something that actually calms you down.)
What habit that others have annoys you most?
What kind of things embarrass you? Why?
What don't you like about yourself?
How would you like to look?
Sex & Intimacy Questions
Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why?
Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it go?
Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go?
What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it?
What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen?
Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-standard? Why do you like it?
Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do?
Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are they like? Why are you attracted to them?
What is the perfect romantic date?
Describe the perfect romantic partner for you.
Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening?
What is more important – sex or intimacy? Why?
What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual, merely romantic.)
What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved?
Drug & Alcohol Questions
How old were you when you first got drunk? What was the experience like?
Did anything good come out of it? Did anything bad come out of it?
Do you drink on any kind of regular basis?
What kind of alcohol do you prefer?
Have you ever tried any other kind of "mood altering" substance? Which one(s)? What did you think of each?
What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not do? Why or why not?
Morality Questions
What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your past are you most proud of?
Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who won?
Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and who won?
What do you feel most strongly about?
What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people?
What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it?
Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are they? Why do they disturb you?
What is your religious view of things? What religion, if any, do you call your own?
Do you think the future is hopeful? Why?
What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why?
What's the worst thing you could actually do to someone you hated?
Are you a better leader or follower? Why do you think that? If you think the whole leader-follower archetype is a crock of shit, say so, and explain why?
What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that?
Do you think redemption is possible? If so, can anyone be redeemed, or are there only certain circumstances that can be? If not, why do you think nothing can redeem itself?
Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried?
What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall?
Miscellaneous Questions
What is the thing that has frightened you most? Do you think there is anything out there that's scarier than that? What do you think that would be?
Has anyone or anything you've ever cared about died? How did you feel about it? What happened?
What was the worst injury you've ever received? How did it happen?
How ticklish are you? Where are you ticklish?
What is your current long term goal?
What is your current short term goal?
Do you have any bad habits? If so, what are they, and do you plan to get rid of them?
If you were a mundane person, what would you do with your life? What occupation would you want, and how would you spend all your time?
How private of a person are you? Why?
If you were to gain an obscenely large sum of money what would you do with it?
What do you do when you are bored?
What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement you can conceive of? What makes it so frightening?