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Instructions: Fill in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done.

Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon


these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
Below are big-picture details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
this section. Try to be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Race
Class
Background
Age
Alignment
Home

Appearance
Hair Color and Style
Eyes
Skin
Clothing
Posture
Favorite Feature
Self-Conscious Feature

Relationships

Parents or Guardians
Siblings
Other Notable Family
Romantic Relationships
Enemies
Friends
Mentors
Alliances
Rivals
Deity
Personality
Diet
Likes
Dislikes
Vices
Virtues
Moral compass
Habits
Trinkets and Mementos
Flaws
Strengths

Skills
Trades
Hobbies
Handwriting Quality
Achievements
Failures
Sociability
Source of Power or Magic

Motivations

You may wish to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.

Fears
Hopes
Regrets

Other Details

Example: I emotionally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want t
be able to open myself up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enoug
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.

IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
The following questions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Why did your character
leave the comfort of home to
What was their call to
adventure?
What does your character
adventure?
hope to accomplish by
adventuring?

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

List a Fond Memory


From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Tragic Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Regretful Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?

Describe a time when your


character experienced
Describe
kindness:a time when your
character experienced pain:

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.

My descriptors
eager, easy-going, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
important, inquisitive,
disrespectful, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
abandoned,
humiliated, alienated,
hurt, ignored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
indifferent, impulsive, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptica
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

The following questions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.
parents meet? Was their
union happy? Under what
duties did your did
circumstances character
they
What is your character's
have growing up? How did
level of education? Their
standing in their community?
parents?
What
What makes yourparents'
about their character
happy? Are there any
temperment?
memories tiedAre they easily
to this?
provoked? How are
believe about themselves they
and
Doeshowyourdid they come
character to
have
an active imagination?
personality result? Or
instead,
What are approximate
is the they introvertedIQ
What
of yourischaracter?
your character's
attitude toward life (hopeful,
character? Are they
defeatist, ambivilent)?
What makes
hesitant? Do your character
they need to be
self-conscious?
How religious is yourWhat makes
your character
character? Howfeeldo strong?
these
beliefs affect their actions?
in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done. Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon
these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
e details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
o be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Example: Elf
Example: Druid
Example: Hermit
Example: 102
Example: Neutral Good
Example: Cormyr Forest in Faerun

Appearance
Example: Blonde with long braids
Example: Orange like fiery fall leaves
Example: Pale in complexion
Example: Hand-sewn natural fibers from leaves of my home forest
Example: Relaxed to slightly slumped
Example: Strong nose and slender eyes
Example: I do not like the way my shoulders clench up when I'm relaxed (which causes me to
un-relax when I notice).

Relationships

Example: Orphaned at age 15, lived with a great aunt and her children until adulthood.
Example: None that survived.
Example: Dozens of cousins, children of my great aunt. They often crowded my space while I
lived in their house.
Example: A few flings here and there, nothing stuck.
Example: I ran with a bad crowd in my youth. I made a terrible impression with the rival gang
leader,
Example: Barthow.
I was close to one member of my gang, Brie, but we have drifted since I left the
gang. I likeIntothe
Example: beCormyr
alone now, soIImet
forest, haven't made
an old friends
sage since leaving.
who taught me how to better connect with the
earth magically. He taught me how to be a Druid.
Example: The Druid order my mentor started will take me in whenever I need help.
Example: One Druid pupil never liked me and even went out of her way to spite me, especially
to my mentor.
Example: General fealty to Seldarine but not a staunch worshipper.
Personality
Example: Mostly vegetarian.
Example: Roasted acorns; the way the sun makes leaves transparent and reveals the veins; a
friendly kiss on the forehead
Example: Mushrooms; too much noise at once; being called pet names
Example: I indulge in spirits a bit too much when around others.
Example: I will always help an injured animal or child. I lend an ear to those who need to speak
their problems
Example: aloud.I try to do what's morally good, but I recognize that what I think is good
Generally
might not be
Example: what's
I rub best for
my fingers oneveryone.
my palms when I'm stressed. I tug on my braid when I'm
annoyed.
Example: A bronzed feather necklace that belonged to my mother.
Example: I'm a bit abrasive toward extroverted busybodies. I fear letting people in emotionally. I
am hesitant
Example: to use
I am powerful
decisive undermagic.
pressure. I have great hope for love and connection and safety. I
stay out of unnecessary trouble. I am careful with my magic.

Skills
Example: I carve wood trinkets and totems to sell at festivals and markets.
Example: I enjoy drawing maps of thick forests I explore.
Example: Exceptional, related to my cartography skills.
Example: I finished my Druid schooling with top marks.
Example: I accidentally set a small patch of the forest on fire when practicing magic. From this,
IExample:
learned that I needed
Highly greater
introverted andcontrol
preferor I would but
isolation, hurtI what I love.
hold my own in conversation. I'm very
straight
Example: to Ithe point.how to connect with the earth, which helped me understand how to weave
learned
the magic around me.

Motivations

to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.
Example: Letting someone into my life just to lose them. Being abused by a person in power
Example: To find
while helpless people myself.
to defend I can trust to be strong enough to defend themselves so that I can let
them into my heart. To establish the forest as a sanctuary in which I can live with the people I
love most.Misusing my magic foolishly, resulting in the partial destruction of the forest I love.
Example:

Other Details

ally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want to
self up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enough
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.

IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
ions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Example: I was not particularly skilled, I did not have a family trade (as my parents died), and I
needed
gained atolittle
escape the madness
knowledge thatbut
of magic, was my great
really honedaunt's
it whenhouse.
I apprenticed at the Druid school. I
Example:toI've
decided never
utilize myfitnewfound
in anywhere
magicexcept
skillsthe forest. I'm
to protect the comfortable by myself,
lands that I love butpowers
from the I reallythat
hope to secure the land for my own enjoyment and develop a tight-knit group of individuals who
can enjoy the land with me.

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

Example: Wrestling with my parents and being tickled by them. Feeling close to them, feeling
their love.
Example: Finding more people to love and losing them.
Example: The ability to hope for and recognize love when I find it.
Example: I am distanced from people. I fear letting them in, even though that's what I desire.
Example: People need to prove themselves both capable and earn my affection before I will let
them in on my desires to start a community in the Cormyr forests.

Example: At 15-years old, I learned that my parents had perished at the hands of an orc
warlord. I was helpless and powerless and confused.
Example: Leadership with too much power that nobody will publicly challenge.
Example: Caution to not look for or get into trouble.
Example: I cut myself off emotionally from others unless they are strong enough to protect
themselves.
Example: I just want to find a place where I feel safe to love again. I will do anything to make
my forest that space, and I will find people I can open up to.

Example: I regret my overconfidence in my magic when I didn't know what I was dealing with. I
burned down
Example: part
I fear of the
using forest
magic I dearly
I am love.
not experienced in. I fear other people using magic to prevent
my goals. i have learned to be cautious. I have learned that there are kind people willing to
Example:
help.
Example: I am hesitant to use magic wantonly. I might even reserve myself in a scenario that
would benefit from magic I am scared of.
Example: I will do everything in my power to protect the forest.

a kind Furbolg helped me put it out and then tended to my wounds without a word. I realized
from thispushed
of them that there
my will
head always
into abe kind
cold people
water pailinwhile
the world and itstood
the others is myby.
duty to add
I didn't to that
understand
why at the time, but I recognize now that those who abuse their power often fight their own

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.

My descriptors
, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
sitive, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
ated,
nored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
e, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptical,
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

estions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.
Instructions: Fill in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done. Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon
these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
Below are big-picture details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
this section. Try to be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Race
Class
Background
Age
Alignment
Home

Appearance
Hair Color and Style
Eyes
Skin
Clothing
Posture
Favorite Feature
Self-Conscious Feature

Relationships

Parents or Guardians
Siblings
Other Notable Family
Romantic Relationships
Enemies
Friends
Mentors
Alliances
Rivals
Deity
Personality
Diet
Likes
Dislikes
Vices
Virtues
Moral compass
Habits
Trinkets and Mementos
Flaws
Strengths

Skills
Trades
Hobbies
Handwriting Quality
Achievements
Failures
Sociability
Source of Power or Magic

Motivations

You may wish to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.

Fears
Hopes
Regrets

Other Details

Example: I emotionally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want t
be able to open myself up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enoug
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.

IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
The following questions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Why did your character
leave the comfort of home to
What was their call to
adventure?
What does your character
adventure?
hope to accomplish by
adventuring?

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

List a Fond Memory


From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Tragic Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Regretful Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?

Describe a time when your


character experienced
Describe
kindness:a time when your
character experienced pain:

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.

My descriptors
eager, easy-going, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
important, inquisitive,
disrespectful, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
abandoned,
humiliated, alienated,
hurt, ignored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
indifferent, impulsive, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptica
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

The following questions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.
parents meet? Was their
union happy? Under what
duties did your did
circumstances character
they
What is your character's
have growing up? How did
level of education? Their
standing in their community?
parents?
What
What makes yourparents'
about their character
happy? Are there any
temperment?
memories tiedAre they easily
to this?
provoked? How are
believe about themselves they
and
Doeshowyourdid they come
character to
have
an active imagination?
personality result? Or
instead,
What are approximate
is the they introvertedIQ
What
of yourischaracter?
your character's
attitude toward life (hopeful,
character? Are they
defeatist, ambivilent)?
What makes
hesitant? Do your character
they need to be
self-conscious?
How religious is yourWhat makes
your character
character? Howfeeldo strong?
these
beliefs affect their actions?
in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done. Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon
these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
e details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
o be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Example: Elf
Example: Druid
Example: Hermit
Example: 102
Example: Neutral Good
Example: Cormyr Forest in Faerun

Appearance
Example: Blonde with long braids
Example: Orange like fiery fall leaves
Example: Pale in complexion
Example: Hand-sewn natural fibers from leaves of my home forest
Example: Relaxed to slightly slumped
Example: Strong nose and slender eyes
Example: I do not like the way my shoulders clench up when I'm relaxed (which causes me to
un-relax when I notice).

Relationships

Example: Orphaned at age 15, lived with a great aunt and her children until adulthood.
Example: None that survived.
Example: Dozens of cousins, children of my great aunt. They often crowded my space while I
lived in their house.
Example: A few flings here and there, nothing stuck.
Example: I ran with a bad crowd in my youth. I made a terrible impression with the rival gang
leader,
Example: Barthow.
I was close to one member of my gang, Brie, but we have drifted since I left the
gang. I likeIntothe
Example: beCormyr
alone now, soIImet
forest, haven't made
an old friends
sage since leaving.
who taught me how to better connect with the
earth magically. He taught me how to be a Druid.
Example: The Druid order my mentor started will take me in whenever I need help.
Example: One Druid pupil never liked me and even went out of her way to spite me, especially
to my mentor.
Example: General fealty to Seldarine but not a staunch worshipper.
Personality
Example: Mostly vegetarian.
Example: Roasted acorns; the way the sun makes leaves transparent and reveals the veins; a
friendly kiss on the forehead
Example: Mushrooms; too much noise at once; being called pet names
Example: I indulge in spirits a bit too much when around others.
Example: I will always help an injured animal or child. I lend an ear to those who need to speak
their problems
Example: aloud.I try to do what's morally good, but I recognize that what I think is good
Generally
might not be
Example: what's
I rub best for
my fingers oneveryone.
my palms when I'm stressed. I tug on my braid when I'm
annoyed.
Example: A bronzed feather necklace that belonged to my mother.
Example: I'm a bit abrasive toward extroverted busybodies. I fear letting people in emotionally. I
am hesitant
Example: to use
I am powerful
decisive undermagic.
pressure. I have great hope for love and connection and safety. I
stay out of unnecessary trouble. I am careful with my magic.

Skills
Example: I carve wood trinkets and totems to sell at festivals and markets.
Example: I enjoy drawing maps of thick forests I explore.
Example: Exceptional, related to my cartography skills.
Example: I finished my Druid schooling with top marks.
Example: I accidentally set a small patch of the forest on fire when practicing magic. From this,
IExample:
learned that I needed
Highly greater
introverted andcontrol
preferor I would but
isolation, hurtI what I love.
hold my own in conversation. I'm very
straight
Example: to Ithe point.how to connect with the earth, which helped me understand how to weave
learned
the magic around me.

Motivations

to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.
Example: Letting someone into my life just to lose them. Being abused by a person in power
Example: To find
while helpless people myself.
to defend I can trust to be strong enough to defend themselves so that I can let
them into my heart. To establish the forest as a sanctuary in which I can live with the people I
love most.Misusing my magic foolishly, resulting in the partial destruction of the forest I love.
Example:

Other Details

ally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want to
self up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enough
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.

IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
ions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Example: I was not particularly skilled, I did not have a family trade (as my parents died), and I
needed
gained atolittle
escape the madness
knowledge thatbut
of magic, was my great
really honedaunt's
it whenhouse.
I apprenticed at the Druid school. I
Example:toI've
decided never
utilize myfitnewfound
in anywhere
magicexcept
skillsthe forest. I'm
to protect the comfortable by myself,
lands that I love butpowers
from the I reallythat
hope to secure the land for my own enjoyment and develop a tight-knit group of individuals who
can enjoy the land with me.

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

Example: Wrestling with my parents and being tickled by them. Feeling close to them, feeling
their love.
Example: Finding more people to love and losing them.
Example: The ability to hope for and recognize love when I find it.
Example: I am distanced from people. I fear letting them in, even though that's what I desire.
Example: People need to prove themselves both capable and earn my affection before I will let
them in on my desires to start a community in the Cormyr forests.

Example: At 15-years old, I learned that my parents had perished at the hands of an orc
warlord. I was helpless and powerless and confused.
Example: Leadership with too much power that nobody will publicly challenge.
Example: Caution to not look for or get into trouble.
Example: I cut myself off emotionally from others unless they are strong enough to protect
themselves.
Example: I just want to find a place where I feel safe to love again. I will do anything to make
my forest that space, and I will find people I can open up to.

Example: I regret my overconfidence in my magic when I didn't know what I was dealing with. I
burned down
Example: part
I fear of the
using forest
magic I dearly
I am love.
not experienced in. I fear other people using magic to prevent
my goals. i have learned to be cautious. I have learned that there are kind people willing to
Example:
help.
Example: I am hesitant to use magic wantonly. I might even reserve myself in a scenario that
would benefit from magic I am scared of.
Example: I will do everything in my power to protect the forest.

a kind Furbolg helped me put it out and then tended to my wounds without a word. I realized
from thispushed
of them that there
my will
head always
into abe kind
cold people
water pailinwhile
the world and itstood
the others is myby.
duty to add
I didn't to that
understand
why at the time, but I recognize now that those who abuse their power often fight their own

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.

My descriptors
, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
sitive, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
ated,
nored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
e, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptical,
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

estions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.
Instructions: Fill in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done. Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon
these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
Below are big-picture details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
this section. Try to be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Race
Class
Background
Age
Alignment
Home

Appearance
Hair Color and Style
Eyes
Skin
Clothing
Posture
Favorite Feature
Self-Conscious Feature

Relationships

Parents or Guardians
Siblings
Other Notable Family
Romantic Relationships
Enemies
Friends
Mentors
Alliances
Rivals
Deity
Personality
Diet
Likes
Dislikes
Vices
Virtues
Moral compass
Habits
Trinkets and Mementos
Flaws
Strengths

Skills
Trades
Hobbies
Handwriting Quality
Achievements
Failures
Sociability
Source of Power or Magic

Motivations

You may wish to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.

Fears
Hopes
Regrets

Other Details

Example: I emotionally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want t
be able to open myself up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enoug
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.
IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
The following questions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Why did your character
leave the comfort of home to
What was their call to
adventure?
What does your character
adventure?
hope to accomplish by
adventuring?

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

List a Fond Memory


From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Tragic Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?
List a Regretful Memory
From this experience, what
What
do youpositive
fear? trait has this
experience
What flaw hasbuiltthis
in your
character?
experience builtexperience
in your
How does this
character?
motivate your character in
their goals?

Describe a time when your


character experienced
Describe
kindness:a time when your
character experienced pain:

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.
My descriptors
eager, easy-going, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
important, inquisitive,
disrespectful, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
abandoned,
humiliated, alienated,
hurt, ignored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
indifferent, impulsive, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptica
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

The following questions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.
parents meet? Was their
union happy? Under what
duties did your did
circumstances character
they
What is your character's
have growing up? How did
level of education? Their
standing in their community?
parents?
What
What makes yourparents'
about their character
happy? Are there any
temperment?
memories tiedAre they easily
to this?
provoked?
believe How
about are they
themselves
and how did they
Does your character come to
have
an active imagination?
personality result? Or
instead, are they introverted
What is the approximate IQ
What
of yourischaracter?
your character's
attitude toward life (hopeful,
character? Are they
defeatist, ambivilent)?
What makes
hesitant? Do your character
they need to be
self-conscious?
How religious is your makes
What
your character
character? Howfeel do strong?
these
beliefs affect their actions?
in the light gray text and change its font color to black when you're done. Throughout your campaign, reflect often upon
these answers as they guide your roleplay, character choices, and character development.

Character Name
Player

CHARACTER SUMMARY
e details about your character. You may wish to look at the "In-Depth Questions" section first to discover the answers in
o be unique (not repeating) in each prompt, as your character has had many diverse experiences before adventuring!

Basics
Example: Elf
Example: Druid
Example: Hermit
Example: 102
Example: Neutral Good
Example: Cormyr Forest in Faerun

Appearance
Example: Blonde with long braids
Example: Orange like fiery fall leaves
Example: Pale in complexion
Example: Hand-sewn natural fibers from leaves of my home forest
Example: Relaxed to slightly slumped
Example: Strong nose and slender eyes
Example: I do not like the way my shoulders clench up when I'm relaxed (which causes me to
un-relax when I notice).

Relationships

Example: Orphaned at age 15, lived with a great aunt and her children until adulthood.
Example: None that survived.
Example: Dozens of cousins, children of my great aunt. They often crowded my space while I
lived in their house.
Example: A few flings here and there, nothing stuck.
Example: I ran with a bad crowd in my youth. I made a terrible impression with the rival gang
leader,
Example: Barthow.
I was close to one member of my gang, Brie, but we have drifted since I left the
gang. I likeIntothe
Example: beCormyr
alone now, soIImet
forest, haven't made
an old friends
sage since leaving.
who taught me how to better connect with the
earth magically. He taught me how to be a Druid.
Example: The Druid order my mentor started will take me in whenever I need help.
Example: One Druid pupil never liked me and even went out of her way to spite me, especially
to my mentor.
Example: General fealty to Seldarine but not a staunch worshipper.
Personality
Example: Mostly vegetarian.
Example: Roasted acorns; the way the sun makes leaves transparent and reveals the veins; a
friendly kiss on the forehead
Example: Mushrooms; too much noise at once; being called pet names
Example: I indulge in spirits a bit too much when around others.
Example: I will always help an injured animal or child. I lend an ear to those who need to speak
their problems
Example: aloud.I try to do what's morally good, but I recognize that what I think is good
Generally
might not be
Example: what's
I rub best for
my fingers oneveryone.
my palms when I'm stressed. I tug on my braid when I'm
annoyed.
Example: A bronzed feather necklace that belonged to my mother.
Example: I'm a bit abrasive toward extroverted busybodies. I fear letting people in emotionally. I
am hesitant
Example: to use
I am powerful
decisive undermagic.
pressure. I have great hope for love and connection and safety. I
stay out of unnecessary trouble. I am careful with my magic.

Skills
Example: I carve wood trinkets and totems to sell at festivals and markets.
Example: I enjoy drawing maps of thick forests I explore.
Example: Exceptional, related to my cartography skills.
Example: I finished my Druid schooling with top marks.
Example: I accidentally set a small patch of the forest on fire when practicing magic. From this,
IExample:
learned that I needed
Highly greater
introverted andcontrol
preferor I would but
isolation, hurtI what I love.
hold my own in conversation. I'm very
straight
Example: to Ithe point.how to connect with the earth, which helped me understand how to weave
learned
the magic around me.

Motivations

to answer the in-depth questions before filling out this section to give you greater clarity about the following things.
Example: Letting someone into my life just to lose them. Being abused by a person in power
Example: To find
while helpless people myself.
to defend I can trust to be strong enough to defend themselves so that I can let
them into my heart. To establish the forest as a sanctuary in which I can live with the people I
love most.Misusing my magic foolishly, resulting in the partial destruction of the forest I love.
Example:

Other Details

ally cut myself off from people as a result of losing the only people who truly loved me, my parents. I want to
self up again, but I don't feel like I can risk loving people who could get hurt. They need to be strong enough
to take care of themselves before I open myself up to them.
IN-DEPTH QUESTIONS
ions are designed to help you delve deeper into the qualities above. The experiences may be unique from the prompts
above, or you may use these questions to further explain your above answers.

Motivations
Example: I was not particularly skilled, I did not have a family trade (as my parents died), and I
needed
gained atolittle
escape the madness
knowledge thatbut
of magic, was my great
really honedaunt's
it whenhouse.
I apprenticed at the Druid school. I
Example:toI've
decided never
utilize myfitnewfound
in anywhere
magicexcept
skillsthe forest. I'm
to protect the comfortable by myself,
lands that I love butpowers
from the I reallythat
hope to secure the land for my own enjoyment and develop a tight-knit group of individuals who
can enjoy the land with me.

Past Events
List 3 past events that have shaped your character based on the following prompts.

Example: Wrestling with my parents and being tickled by them. Feeling close to them, feeling
their love.
Example: Finding more people to love and losing them.
Example: The ability to hope for and recognize love when I find it.
Example: I am distanced from people. I fear letting them in, even though that's what I desire.
Example: People need to prove themselves both capable and earn my affection before I will let
them in on my desires to start a community in the Cormyr forests.

Example: At 15-years old, I learned that my parents had perished at the hands of an orc
warlord. I was helpless and powerless and confused.
Example: Leadership with too much power that nobody will publicly challenge.
Example: Caution to not look for or get into trouble.
Example: I cut myself off emotionally from others unless they are strong enough to protect
themselves.
Example: I just want to find a place where I feel safe to love again. I will do anything to make
my forest that space, and I will find people I can open up to.

Example: I regret my overconfidence in my magic when I didn't know what I was dealing with. I
burned down
Example: part
I fear of the
using forest
magic I dearly
I am love.
not experienced in. I fear other people using magic to prevent
my goals. i have learned to be cautious. I have learned that there are kind people willing to
Example:
help.
Example: I am hesitant to use magic wantonly. I might even reserve myself in a scenario that
would benefit from magic I am scared of.
Example: I will do everything in my power to protect the forest.

a kind Furbolg helped me put it out and then tended to my wounds without a word. I realized
from thispushed
of them that there
my will
head always
into abe kind
cold people
water pailinwhile
the world and itstood
the others is myby.
duty to add
I didn't to that
understand
why at the time, but I recognize now that those who abuse their power often fight their own

These Experiences Have Made My Character...


Choose from the following adjectives (or use your own) to describe your character.
My descriptors
, ecstatic, elated, energetic, excited, faithful, fulfilled, genuine, glad, good-natured, grateful, happy, hopeful,
sitive, inspired,
distressed, joyful,
empty, jubilant,frightened,
enraged, liberated, furious,
merry, optimistic, peaceful,
glum, gloomy, powerful,
grumpy, proud,
grouchy, relieved,
guilty, hateful,respected,
hostile,
ated,
nored,apathetic, bored,
inadequate, confused,
inferior, critical,
infuriated, disillusioned,
insecure, distant,jealous,
insignificant, embarrassed, fatigued, frustrated,
mad, miserable, powerless,hesitant,
rejected,
e, judgemental, lonely, mysterious, moody, nervous, overwhelmed, perplexed, religious, sensitive, skeptical,
startled, suspicious, timid, victimized, vulnerable, withdrawn, worried

Additional Questions (Supplemental)

estions are supplemental, as you likely have enough information above, but these questions will further explain your
character and their history.

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