Party Connections

1. Relationship of Service 5. Relationship of Planar Travel

d8            Service
1     Trained in the same academy
2     Apprentices under the same master
3     Followers of the same faith or creed
4     Former members of the same adventuring party
5     Met on a pilgrimage, caravan, or journey
6     Business associates
7     Trained together
8     Servants of the same government
d8            Planar Travel
1     Came through the same portal
2     Lost the same friend or family member to a portal
3     Planar traveling companions
4     Guide and client
5     No memory from before the portal
6     First person they met on the other side
7     Portal victim and helping hand
8     Saved by the same person or group

2. Relationship of Friendship 6. Relationship of War

d8            Friendship d8            War
1     Childhood friends 1     Fought in the same war
2     Friendly rivals 2     Veterans of a skirmish or war
3     Best friends 3     Friendly competitors
4     From the same town or region 4     A blood debt that needs to be repaid
5     Former friend 5     Former enemies
6     Raised in an orphanage together 6     Fought together to protect their land from raiders
7     Work friends 7     Survivors of the same lost battle
8     Grudging friendship 8     Participants in a successful heroic last stand

3. Relationship of Intrigue 7. Relationship of Fate

d8            Intrigue d8            Fate
1     The only survivors of a brutal police raid 1     Bound together by an ancient prophecy
2     Former inmates, or inmate and captor 2     Seem to keep winding up in the same place together
3     Criminal connections 3     Have the exact same strange birthmark
4     The only ones that know a secret 4     Share identical dreams of a mist-shrouded figure
5     Victims of the same crime 5     Feel the other's emotions
6     Unwilling criminals 6     Working to find a prophesied saviour
7     On the run 7     Have identical copies of the same important trinket
8     Partners in crime 8     Pawns of the same higher power

4. Relationship of Necessity 8. Relationship of Mysticism

d8            Necessity
1     Each has information or skills the other needs
2     Forced to fight together by a mutual patron
3     Named in the same will, with a condition
4     Members of the same order/gang/secret society
5     Trying to rescue a mutual friend
6     Seekers of the same lost knowledge
7     (Innocent?) Criminals forced to atone for their sins
8     Former heroes trying to cleanse their dishonour
d8            Mysticism
1     Victims of the same ritual
2     Resurrected together, with nobody nearby
3     Servants of a powerful mage
4     Fighting against the same dark order
5     Bound together at birth by magical tattoos
6     Attuned to the same magic item, calling them to it
7     Kidnapped at a young age by an ancient power
8     No memories of anything but each other