The Original 100+ Questions Essay

Test for Character Development

by
Rich Taylor
I am hosting this for Rich Taylor. He is the creator of the this torturous
device, designed to aid the GM in screwing - er - involving the players into a
game and getting the players to really get a feel for the character that they
will be playing. While this questionaire was designed for White Wolf games
(like Mage, Vampire, Werewolf and Changling), I have discovered that it is a
good basis for creating a character in most any Role Playing Game. If you
have any comments, questions or suggestions, please direct them at the
creater/author/minion of Evil: Rich Taylor. Thank you.

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THE 100+ QUESTIONS

Welcome to over one hundred of the dumbest questions about your

character. These are things that, if someone were to ask you in real life, you
could answer without giving it any thought whatsoever. Most player
characters, however, can't answer this because players never think about it
- it's unimportant. Well, these things are going to help you define you
character more.

Some tips: Answer these in character, but only in a situation where your
character would be 100% honest with themselves and with the person asking
the question. Otherwise, answer as a player, and still be 100% honest.

Mandatory Questions

If you can not give positive answers to all of these questions, you may be
bored or even unable to participate. At the very least, you will probably need
a second character to participate when this one doesn't.
1. What about you is heroic?
2. What about you is social? What do you like about people?
3. Of what benefit could you be to the current group?
4. Why would you choose to join the current group?
5. Invent an adventure/plot that your character would actively undertake (as
opposed to just tagging along)?

Personal Questions

1. What is your real, birth name? What name do you use? (Note: It is
common among all ages and werewolves to use either a Shadow Name (in the
case of mages) or Garou name to represent the change in their lives. Figure
out what yours is.)
2. Do you have a nickname? What is it, and where did you get it?
3. What do you look like? (Include height, weight, hair, eyes, skin, apparent
age, and distinguishing features)
4. How do you dress most of the time?
5. How do you "dress up?"
6. How do you "dress down?"
7. What do you wear when you go to sleep?
8. Do you wear any jewelry?
9. In your opinion, what is your best feature?
10. What's your real birth date?
11. Where do you live? Describe it: Is it messy, neat, avant-garde, sparse,
etc.?
12. Do you own a car? Describe it.
13. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so
much?
14. What one word best describes you?

Familial Questions

1. What was your family like?

2. Who was your father, and what was he like?
3. Who was your mother, and what was she like?
4. What was your parents marriage like? Were they married? Did they
remain married?
5. What were your siblings names? What were they like?
6. 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?
7. When's the last time you saw any member of your family? Where are they
now?
8. Did you ever meet any other family members? Who were they? What did
you think of them?

Childhood Questions

1. What is your first memory?

2. What was your favorite toy?
3. What was your favorite game?
4. Any non-family member adults stick out in your mind? Who were they, and
how did you know them? Why do they stick out?
5. Who was your best friend when you were growing up?
6. What is your fondest, childhood memory?
7. What is your worst childhood memory?

Adolescent Questions

1. How old were you when you went on your first date?
2. It is common for one's view of authority to develop in their adolescent
years. What is your view of authority, and what event most affected it?
3. What were you like in high school? What "clique" did you best fit in with?
4. What were your high school goals?
5. Who was your idol when you were growing up? Who did you first fantasize
about in your life?
6. What is your favorite memory from adolescence?
7. What is your worst memory from adolescence?

Occupational Questions

1. Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? If no job, where does your
money come from?
2. What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.)
3. What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in
particular? Which ones don't you get along with?
4. What is something you had to learn that you hated?
5. Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why?
Likes & Dislikes Questions

1. What hobbies do you have?

2. Who is your closest mundane friend? Describe them and how you relate to
them.
3. Who is your worst mundane enemy? Describe them and why you don't get
along.
4. What bands do you like? Do you even pay attention?
5. What tape or CD hasn't left your player since your purchased it? Why?
6. What song is "your song?" Why?
7. What's been your favorite movie of all time?
8. Read any good books? What were they?
9. What do you watch on the Television?
10. When it comes to mundane politics, do you care? If so, which way do you
tend to vote? If not, why don't you care?
11. What type of places do you hang out in with your mundane friends?
12. What type of places do you hang out in with your normal friends?
13. What annoys you more than anything else?
14. What would be the perfect gift for you?
15. What's the most beautiful thing you've ever seen?
16. What time of day is your favorite?
17. What kind of weather is your favorite?
18. What is your favorite food? What is your least favorite food?
19. What is your favorite drink? (Coffee, Coke, Juice, Beer, Wine, etc.)
20. What's your favorite animal? Why?
21. Do you have any pets? Do you want any pets? What kind?
22. What do you find most relaxing? (Not as in stress relief, but as
something that actually calms you down.)
23. What habit that others have annoys you most?
24. What kind of things embarrass you? Why?
25. What don't you like about yourself?
26. How would you like to look?

Sex & Intimacy Questions

1. Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else? Why?
2. Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What
was it like? How well did it go?
3. Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and
how did it go?
4. What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever
try it?
5. What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with
and when did it happen?
6. Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that
can be considered non-standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you
like it?
7. Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances,
do?
8. 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?
9. What is the perfect romantic date?
10. Describe the perfect romantic partner for you.
11. Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this
happening?
12. What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why?
13. What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not
need to be sexual, merely romantic.)
14. What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved?

Drug & Alcohol Questions

1. 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?
2. Do you drink on any kind of regular basis?
3. What kind of alcohol do you prefer?
4. Have you ever tried any other kind of "mood altering" substance? Which
one(s)? What did you think of each?
5. What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not
do? Why or why not?

Morality Questions

1. What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your
past are you most proud of?
2. Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who
won?
3. Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and
who won?
4. What do you feel most strongly about?
5. What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people?
6. What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it?
7. Is there anything you think should not be incorporated into the media or
art (sex, violence, greed, etc.,)? If so, what and why, and if not, why not?
8. Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are
they? Why do they disturb you?
9. What is your religious view of things? What religion, if any, do you call
your own?
10. Do you think the future is hopeful? Why?
11. Is an ounce of prevention really worth a pound of cure? Which is more
valuable? Why do you feel this way?
12. What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why?
13. What's the worst thing you could actually do to someone you hated?
14. 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?
15. What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that?
16. 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?
17. Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried?
18. What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall?

Post-Supernatural Awareness Questions

1. When did you go through whatever made you supernatural? What was it
like (in your opinion)?
2. What do you think now of being supernatural? Is it cool, or have you been
screwed?
3. Do you have a mentor? Who are they? How did you become their student?
4. Do you have any magical items? Where did you get them?
5. What do you think of the other denizens of the World of Darkness? Why
for each? (If you haven't met something, do you think it exists, and if it
does, is that bad or good?)
6. Think of a major event that happened during your training/initiation.
What was it?
7. What is something you had to learn during your training that you hated?
Why did you hate it?

Miscellaneous Questions

1. 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?
2. Has anyone or anything you've ever cared about died? How did you feel
about it? What happened?
3. What was the worst injury you've ever received? How did it happen?
4. How ticklish are you? Where are you ticklish?
5. What is your current long term goal?
6. What is your current short term goal?
7. Do you have any bad habits? If so, what are they, and do you plan to get
rid of them?
8. 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?
9. What time period do you wish you had lived in? Why? (Looking at this as
an attempt to change history doesn't count.) What appeals to you about this
era?
10. How private of a person are you? Why?
11. If you were to gain an obscenely large sum of money (via an inhertiance, a
lawsuit, a lottery, or anything else) what would you do with it?
12. What would you wish for if you found a genie?
13. What do you do when you are bored?
14. What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement you can
conceive of? What makes it so frightening?

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MAGE QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about your tradition?

2. How do you feel about Sleepers?
3. What tradition, outside of your own, do you feel the biggest connection
with? Why?
4. What tradition do you dislike the most, and why?
5. What is a bigger curse to Mages, Paradox or Hubris, and why?
6. Have you ever been in Quiet before? What was it like?
7. What's a bigger threat to reality right now, the Technocracy or the
Nephandi? Why?
8. Is it better to destroy your enemies or convert them? Why?
9. Should Ascension be personal or social, and why?
10. Define Magick, in your own terms. What is it? How does it work? Are
Foci tools or crutches, and why?
11. Describe your avatar in detail, both in appearance and personality.
12. Do you think the Traditions can win the Ascension War? Why?

GAROU QUESTIONS

1. How do you feel about your tribe?

2. How do you feel about humans? Are any of them worth a damn?
3. What Tribe, outside your own, do you feel the biggest connection with?
Why?
4. What Tribe do you dislike the most, and why? (Other than Black Spiral
Dancers and Skin Dancers)
5. Is the Delirium a Curse or a Blessing? Why do you think that?
6. What is a bigger threat to reality - the Weaver or the Wyrm? Why?
7. How do you feel about your Auspice?
8. How do you feel about the other four Auspices? Go into detail - how
important is their role in the protection of Gaia? (Don't be specific - treat
the Auspices based on what their duty is supposed to be.)
9. What do you think of the Umbra?
10. What do you think of the Litany? Is there any problem you have with it?
Why do you have that problem? Do you feel other Garou ignore an aspect of
it? Which aspect? How about those in your pack - do they follow it? Which
part do they need work on?
11. What is your relation with your Totem like?
12. What do you think the Apocalypse is really about? (Data for the
uninformed: there's a Garou Heresy that says the Apocalypse represents a
time of change as opposed to the end of all things. Do you support the
Heresy, or do you take the mainstream view?) Why?

CHANGELING QUESTIONS
1. How do you feel about your Kith? How about your House (if you have one)?
2. Are there any houses/kiths you feel a special bond to? Which ones, and
why?
3. Are there any houses/kiths you especially dislike? Which ones and why?
4. Do you owe anything to humans? If so, what and why? If not, why not?
5. What do you think of ravaging? Should it ever be done, never be done, or
are their special circumstances? Go into detail .
6. What are your views on the Escheat? Why do you think that way?
7. Is it really better to have loved and lost than to never have loved before?
Why?
8. How do you feel about the Shadow Court? Why?
9. How about Dauntain and the Autumn People? Do you hate them, fear them,
or pity them? Why?
10. Do you think the approaching Winter is really the end? Explain.
11. High King David, the "Commoner King," has made major steps towards
empowering the commoner kiths. Is this good or bad? Why?
12. If you could change current Changeling Society in any one way, what
would you do and why?