|
| 1 person marked this as a favorite. |
Hello all! It's been a while since I posted here, my apologies for it's been very very hectic around here.
So, I come to you as I am in need of assistance from my fellow GMs. Since I started my Kingmaker game, I have asked my players each week on my campaign's forums a question for them to answer in character. I do this in order to help them further develop their character as well as to pluck and develop hooks to help immerse their characters in game. This Player Participation, an idea that my friend Robert Brambley inspired me to do with my campaigns, is totally optional. I add incentives by offering in-game bonuses to their character that are effective for the next session only, plus an extra boon for the entire party should everyone complete it before the beginning of the next session.
I have been fairly consistent in posing questions, however I am running out of things to ask!! I turn to you, my fellow GMs, for assistance in questions that have eluded me thus far. Below I will share the questions I have already posed to my party so please feel free to use them for your games if you are doing something similar or would like to start.
Questions:
Who or what do you fight or fight for?
What are your character's limitations?
What mysteries surround your character?
What triggered your desire to go adventuring? How did you happen to take up a sword, lockpick, or spell book and go looking for trouble?
Which god do you worship and why? Come up with a short phrase, prayer, poem etc in the gods honor or describe some sort of daily ritual that your character performs in your gods honor. How often do you pray and is there a specific time of day that you do so?
Describe a 'tic' that your character has.
What item do you carry with you at all times that is very special to you? What does it look like? Why is it unique? and Why is it so important to you?
Describe your birthplace. Were you born in a population center such as a city, town or village or were you born into a nomadic family that traveled to many places? Did you grow up there or did you move away? What is the culture like there? What deities in the pantheon are favored the most? Is there industry there? What's the local government and/or nobility like? What's the geography and weather like? What was it like for you personally to grow up there, or if you didn't, what was it like growing up never having a stationary place to live?
Who is your nemesis? Someone you consider either a rival, or enemy. What is the reason behind this? How did you come to feel this way about this individual? Were you friends or allies before and then had a falling out? Tell me a little about this person. From where does he/she hail? What do they do?
In a morally grey situation, which side would your character fall on when the time for tough decisions had to be made? How would he/she react?
Create an idea for a Law for the Kingdom and a suitable punishment for breaking said law. It will then be voted on by the ruling council to determine if it will be written into law. You may come up with multiple ideas.
As a leader in the kingdom you are building, what are some goals that you would like to see achieved for your Capital City and nation as a whole?
What are some activities that you'd like to have at the Founder's Day Festival and why??
Eulogize someone who has died in the Carnival of Tears massacre.
Create two NPCs; the first will be related to your character in some way. Could be a relative, a friend, someone from your past, a business associate, an enemy, guardian, lover, whatever. It must be a NEW NPC (ie, not someone mentioned in your background already). The second NPC is one of the 3,750 people living in Crimsondale, a normal citizen.
Was there anyone you looked up to growing up as a child? A hero or role model that you knew of, or someone in your life that affected you in such a way that you wanted to take after them? Who was this person and what were they like? If you didn't have anyone like this, why not?
Why did you choose the deity you currently call your Patron? What events if any led you to this spiritual calling? Were you born into the faith or was it something else?
As a player, if you could, what advice would you give your character? Speak as if he/she were sitting right here in front of you. Use proper tone so they might heed your advice...
What do you do for relaxation? What things do they do for enjoyment? What interests do you have?
Describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life.
If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
What should Falconcrest's flag look like?? What colors, symbols and patterns would you include? What do they represent?
List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s). And just in case your answer is a clever 'none', there's another interrogatory!! Name seven things you hate in others.
This one was structured as an interview by the NPC in charge of the kingdom's newspaper:
Growing up were you in the majority or a minority of races where you lived?
How were you treated by other nearby races?
Were you persecuted for your race?
Did this impact your outlook in any way?
Did it affect your personality?
How do you feel about other races?
Do you have any justification from your past experience for holding such views?
When was the first moment you realized you lived in a world with monsters living outside your door? Describe how this realization came to be.
Describe the first time you killed another sentient being. How did it make you feel? Do you regret it, or does the decision haunt you to this day?
Do you have a good luck charm? Describe it, how you came to get it and why you think it brings you good luck? If you don't have one, why not? Do you not believe in luck? Why or why not?
Do you have any sort of criminal record? Elaborate if so. If not, were there any close calls?
Tell us what your favorite food and drink is, whether it is hard to make or contains rare ingredients, or if it's made by someone special. Is it a food or drink made In only one tavern, or can it be found everywhere?
Name one trait your character would possibly change about themselves, physically or otherwise, and explain the reasoning behind it.
If you could change one thing about the world, what would it be? What is your reasoning behind this and why?
What do you think awaits you in the afterlife?
Does your character wear any jewelry? If so, what kind? (bracelet, non magical rings, crowns, necklaces, earrings? What are they made of? If not, explain why your character chooses not to wear jewelry.
Does your character frequent a town tavern? Do you have a "reserved" seat at the local restaurant? Are you a frequent visitor to the Brothel? If so, tell us about it! What days you frequent the establishment, what you do there, any other pertinent information.
Tell us about your character's education. Do the have any formal schooling? Who taught them how to read or write, if they can do so? Is there a favorite teacher or mentor that your character had? If so, where are they?
Introduce me to your first born child; imagine your progeny, if you will, as you envision them at their twentieth birthday. Describe what they look like, tell me their names, tell me who you think their other parent could be, tell me what their hopes and dreams may be. Tell me if they followed you down the path of the adventurer, and if so, what kind of adventurer would they be? If for some reason you can't have kids or don't fathom any reason why you would, then this progeny could be adopted, a ward, or disciple you take up in the future.
Tell me one location your character has never been to and would like to visit once before they die. Why do you wish to go there? How did you come to know about this lace? Does the journey/destination have any special meaning to you?
Cheers,
DoomCrow
ask a few review questions every now and then to see how well they were paying attention and how well they remember their actions.
have some organically generated NPCs interact with the characters and have the PCs interact with them, and have questions on these NPCs and other NPCs in the game.
RPG Superstar Season 9 Top 16, RPG Superstar 2015 Top 32
|
Asking the same question a second time might result in different answers. Characters change, and so will the answers.
That said, I honestly can't look through all of your questions. My attention span doesn't last that long.
You could ask questions about specific events and NPCs in the game. For example:
"What do you think about Oleg?"
or
"How did you feel when you came across the clearing full of bones?"
This will not only help develop characters, but give you feedback on how well you are running the game and give you ideas on how to handle future events.
My family name, my faith and for the chance to distinguish myself and advance beyond my station in Brevoy.
Questions:Who or what do you fight or fight for?
A fixation on appearances, specifically his own and a dislike of bloodshed.
What are your character's limitations?
Cairne is a fairly open book, probably how ambitious he really is. However even that is not out of control.
What mysteries surround your character?
Being a noble's beloved bastard I had every educational opportunity and few responsibilities. This enabled Cairne to learn magic and become invoulved in the worship of Shelyn. The opportunity to shape the construction of a settlement was his central motive however.
What triggered your desire to go adventuring? How did you happen to take up a sword, lockpick, or spell book and go looking for trouble?
Shelyn, Cairne for all his learning is an artist and a patron of artists, he feels his position as a noble scion is to lead those with smaller visions into a finer more beautiful world and to lionize those that make the world better by making it more attractive and livable.
Which god do you worship and why? Come up with a short phrase, prayer, poem etc in the gods honor or describe some sort of daily ritual that your character performs in your gods honor. How often do you pray and is there a specific time of day that you do so?
Cairne is obsessively clean, he also makes it a point to draw out any luxury he gets a hold of, but is capable of "roughing it".
Describe a 'tic' that your character has.
A fine utility knife (his bonded object), a holy symbol and a wooden tankard he whittled with his object.
What item do you carry with you at all times that is very special to you? What does it look like? Why is it unique? and Why is it so important to you?
Describe your birthplace. Were you born in a population center such as a city, town or village or were you born into a nomadic...
Cairne is a Garess, he has lived most of his life in a mountain castle in the heart of Brevoy's mining country. While he traveled all over Brevoy attending universities and visiting noble's estates. Cairne was also tutored by many of the dwarves in the Garess household who taught him much about craftsmanship and the nobility of skilled craftsmen.
|
|
Rat, my intent with posting these questions was to help inspire DMs who may be doing the same thing to ask similar questions in case they were in a creative slump like me. I'm not quite sure why you're answering them in character but if it helps you in your game as a GM or PC then more power to you!
As for the previous posts, asking the same questions again every week as a review just seems like an easy way out for me. I think I'll do it once or twice regarding key morality and ideology based questions but other than that I think that'll be it.