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| + | ODl4cV I am so grateful for your blog.Much thanks again. |
- | (Pardon any typos in advance.)
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- | The Mother Of All Character Questionnaires
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- | “You’re on this mission because of who you are, not because of some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.”
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- | --Joseph Young
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- | Use this list of three hundred and seventy-nine-odd questions to construct or add to your own characrer background. Questions are divided into broad categories, and similar questions and bunched into groups within their category. For brevity, I cut out most follow-up explanation type questions, such as "Why", "how come", and so on. If you find a question that you think could use a “why,” it can only help your XP to put one in.
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- | Introduction Questions
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- | 1. Give a two or three word description of yourself. (Describe your character concept.)
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- | 2. Do you have any nicknames, street names, titles, nom de plume?
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- | 3. What is your full birth name?
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- | 4. Where do you live?
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- | 5. Why do you live there?
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- | 6. What is your citizenship status?
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- | 7. What is your most obvious blessing or strength?
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- | 8. What do you perceive as your greatest strength?
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- | 9. What is your most obvious flaw or weakness?
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- | 10. What do you perceive as your greatest weakness?
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- | 11. Was there any event or cause of these weaknesses?
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- | Physical Traits
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- | 1. How old are you?
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- | 2. What is your gender?
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- | 3. What is your species/race?
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- | 4. How tall are you?
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- | 5. How much do you weigh?
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- | 6. What is your general body type, frame, bone structure, and poise?
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- | 7. What is your skin colour?
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- | 8. What is your hair colour?
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- | 9. What is your hair style?
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- | 10. Do you have any facial hair?
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- | 11. What is your eye colour?
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- | 12. Does it change?
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- | 13. How attractive are you?
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- | 14. What is your most distinguishing feature?
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- | 15. Do you have any scars, tattoos, or birthmarks?
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- | 16. If so, how did you acquire them?
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- | 17. What do these distinguishing marks look like?
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- | 18. Do they have any special significance?
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- | 19. Where are they located?
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- | 20. What is your handedness (left/right)?
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- | 21. Do you resemble some currently known person?
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- | 22. What is your hand size/description?
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- | 23. Do you wear a uniform?
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- | 24. What kind of clothing do you wear?
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- | 25. What is your clothing's style or level of sophistication?
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- | 26. What size are you for various pieces of clothing?
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- | 27. Do you wear makeup?
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- | 28. Do you wear glasses/contacts?
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- | 29. What sort of vocal tone do you have?
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- | 30. Do you get sick? '
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- | 31. Maybe you catch the flu twice a year and that's it?
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- | 32. Or maybe you have a weak immune system and catch anything that goes around?
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- | History
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- | 1. Where is your homeland?
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- | 2. What are it's people like?
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- | 3. Are you aware of it's history?
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- | 4. Are you patriotic or a social outcast?
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- | 5. What are your opinion of home?
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- | 6. Where is your home town?
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- | 7. What is your home town's name?
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- | 8. What was the area like and how did it affect you?
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- | 9. Did you witness any historical events?
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- | 10. If so, how did that event impact you?
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- | 11. Are your real reason for becoming an adventurer different from what you tell others?
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- | 12. If so, how might such secrets be revealed?
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- | 13. How far would you go to keep such secrets from being revealed? What would you do if the truth became known?
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- | 14. What do you fear would occur if the truth became known?
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- | 15. Do you have any particularly high or low ability scores?
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- | 16. If so, were these scores a result of you past?
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- | 17. How have these scores affected your life so far?
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- | 18. Did you affect you in your chosen profession?
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- | 19. What about your race, growing up were you in the majority or a minority?
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- | 20. How were you treated by other nearby races?
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- | 21. Were you persecuted for your race?
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- | 22. Did this impact your outlook in any way?
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- | 23. Did it affect your personality?
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- | 24. How do you feel about other races?
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- | 25. Do you have any justification from your past experience for holding such views?
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- | 26. Were there any traumatic experiences in your early years (death of a family member, abandonment, orphaned at an early age,
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- | 27. Briefly describe a defining moment in your childhood and how it influenced your life.
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- | 28. What was childhood like for you?
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- | 29. Was it calm and peaceful or turbulent and traumatic?
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- | 30. Did you have any childhood friends?
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- | 31. If so, who and where are they now?
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- | 32. Are you still close to them or have you grown apart?
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- | 33. What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
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- | 34. Which toys from your childhood have you kept?
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- | 35. Why? What do they mean to you?
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- | 36. If you didn't keep any, why not?
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- | 37. What did you do to them all?
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- | 38. Do you have any deep, dark secrets in the past that may come back to haunt you?
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- | 39. What conflicts might arise from your past?
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- | 40. Are you who you claim to be?
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- | 41. Do you have any sort of criminal record?
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- | 42. How do you view the heroes/legends of your country?
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- | Family
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- | 1. Who were your parents?
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- | 2. Were you raised by them?
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- | 3. If not, then why didn't they and who did raise you?
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- | 4. What is your father's full name?
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- | 5. What is your mother's full name?
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- | 6. What did your parents and/or foster parents do for a living?
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- | 7. What was their standing in the community?
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- | 8. Did your family stay in one area or move around a lot?
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- | 9. How did you get along with their parents?
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- | 10. How would your parents describe you? Answer this in the voice of your mother, then in your father's.
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- | 11. Do you have any siblings?
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- | 12. If so how many and what were their names?
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- | 13. What was your birth position in the family (i.e.-ast born, and child, rd, etc.)?
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- | 14. How did you get along with each of their siblings?
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- | 15. What was your family life like?
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- | 16. List all current knowledge of family locations, spouses, children, birth dates, schooling and any important incidents that
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- | only you and they might remember.
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- | 17. Are any or all of your family still alive?
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- | 18. If so, where are they now?
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- | 19. Do you stay in touch with them or have you become estranged?
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- | 20. Draw out your family tree, including living and dead relatives.
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- | 21. Do you love or hate one member of the family in particular?
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- | 22. Is any member of the family special to you in any way (perhaps, as a confidant, mentor, or arch-rival)?
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- | 23. Are there any black (or white) sheep in the family (including you)?
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- | 24. If so, who are they and how did they "gain" the position?
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- | 25. If this person is not you, then how do you feel about them?
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- | 26. Do you have a notorious or celebrated ancestor?
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- | 27. If so, what did this person do to become famous or infamous?
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- | 28. What do people assume about you once your ancestry is revealed? Do you try to live up to the reputation of their ancestor,
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- | 29. Have you begun your own family?
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- | 30. If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
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- | 31. If so, with who or what type of person?
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- | 32. What type of person would be your ideal mate?
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- | 33. What would you be willing to do to protect such a person?
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- | 34. Is there anything you wouldn't do to protect such a person and if so what?
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- | 35. Would anything change your mind on this issue and if so, what?
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- | Relationships
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- | 1. Do you have any close friends?
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- | 2. If so, who and what are they like?
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- | 3. What is the history of their relationship(s) with you?
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- | 4. Do you currently have a best friend whom you would protect with your reputation or your life?
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- | 5. If so, who are they and what caused you to feel so close to them? What would have to happen for you to end this relationship?
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- | 6. Do you have any bitter enemies?
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- | 7. If so, who are they, what are they like, and what is the history of their feud with you?
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- | 8. Have you defeated them before?
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- | 9. How might these enemies seek to discomfit you in the future?
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- | 10. What valuable or important contacts do you have?
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- | 11. How did you come to know them?
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- | 12. Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
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- | 13. List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s).
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- | 14. How do you think others generally perceive you?
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- | 15. If someone crossed your path, what would you do?
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- | 16. Who is your most trusted ally?
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- | 17. Who do you trust, in general?
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- | 18. Who do you despise and why?
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- | 19. Name seven things you hate in others.
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- | 20. Is your image consistent?
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- | 21. Do people see you in similar ways?
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- | 22. Do you deliberately present yourself differently in different situations, and how?
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- | 23. For what would you die for?
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- | 24. For whom would you go to extremes for?
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- | 25. Who does you turn to when you're in trouble?
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- | 26. What is the worst thing someone has done to you?
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- | 27. What are your general reaction to an attractive member of the opposite sex who lets you know they are available?
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- | 28. How do you get along with others in the same field and/or work environment?
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- | 29. How can you be blackmailed, beaten, and tricked (by PCs or NPCs)?
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- | 30. Have you lost any loves?
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- | 31. How did you handle the situation (short & long term)?
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- | 32. Who would miss you, should you go missing?
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- | 33. Who might protect you?
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- | 34. Who might be convinced to sell you out?
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- | 35. How close are you to your friends?
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- | 36. What do they know about you?
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- | 37. What do they not know about you?
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- | 38. What do you know and not know about them?
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- | 39. Do you live with anyone (housemates, roommates, relatives, friends, near-strangers, family friend, spouse, boyfriend,
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- | 40. Are you a member of any special interest groups?
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- | 41. What is your level of involvement?
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- | 42. What is your current status with local law-enforcement?
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- | 43. Do you have a record of cooperation or non-cooperation with authorities?
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- | 44. Do you have a file with local, national or internation law enforcement?
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- | Personality/Beliefs
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- | 1. Do you, or did you, have any role models? Do you have any heroes or idols, either contemporary or from legend?
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- | 2. If so, have you ever met them?
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- | 3. Did you ever become disillusioned with former heroes or idols? If so, why and what were the circumstances?
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- | 4. When did you decide to become an adventurer?
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- | 5. Why have you chosen to risk your life as a career?
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- | 6. What do you expect to get out of being an adventurer (satisfaction, glory, money, redemption, etc.)? What, if anything, would
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- | make them stop adventuring (death of a loved one, marriage, mutilation, money, position, old age, etc.)?
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- | 7. Do you have any dreams or ambitions?
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- | 8. If not, why?
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- | 9. How does adventuring fit into this dream, or does it at all?
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- | 10. What are your short term goals (what would you like to be doing within a year)?
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- | 11. What are your long term goals (what would you like to be doing twenty years from now)?
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- | 12. If these goals seem at odds with each other or with your dreams, how do you reconcile the differences?
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- | 13. How do you seek to fulfill these dreams, goals, & ambitions?
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- | 14. Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias? If so, what are the origins of or reasons behind them?
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- | 15. What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this?
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- | 16. How do you react when this fear manifests itself?
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- | 17. Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation?
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- | 18. What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
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- | 19. Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
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- | 20. Are you greedy or generous?
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- | 21. Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
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- | 22. How do you generally treat others?
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- | 23. Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily) or not?
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- | 24. Are you introverted (shy and withdrawn) or extroverted (outgoing)?
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- | 25. Are you a humble soul or blusteringly proud?
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- | 26. Do you act differently than you feel (concealing your true thoughts)?
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- | 27. What habits would you find most annoying in friends?
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- | 28. Is there any race, creed, alignment, religion, class, profession, political viewpoint, or the like against which you is
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- | strongly prejudiced, and why?
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- | 29. How do others typically react to you?
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- | 30. Why, in your opinion, do they act that way?
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- | 31. What are your most annoying habits?
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- | 32. What is your favourite food?
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- | 33. What is your favourite drink?
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- | 34. What is your favourite treat (desert)?
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- | 35. Do you favour a particular cuisine?
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- | 36. Do you savor the tastes when eating or "wolf down" your food?
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- | 37. Do you like food mild or heavily spiced?
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- | 38. Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
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- | 39. Are you allergic to any food?
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- | 40. What are your favourite colour(s)?
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- | 41. Is there any colour that you dislike?
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- | 42. Do you have a favourite (or hated) song, type of music, or instrument?
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- | 43. What is your favourite bard song?
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- | 44. If you have a favourite scent, what is it?
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- | 45. What is your favourite type of animal?
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- | 46. Why do you category that creature?
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- | 47. Do you have an animal totem or affinity, and if so for what?
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- | 48. Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear?
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- | 49. Are you allergic to any kinds of animals?
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- | 50. Do you have any allergies?
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- | 51. Is there anything that enrages you?
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- | 52. Is there anything which embarrasses you?
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- | 53. How do you react to being teased about it?
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- | 54. Do you enjoy "roughing it", or do you prefer your creature comforts?
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- | 55. Do you believe in the gods or not?
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- | 56. Do you have a patron Deity?
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- | 57. Are you devout or impious?
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- | 58. Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service?
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- | 59. What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
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- | 60. Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
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- | 61. Do you belong to the orthodox church, or a fringe element thereof (and is the group accepted, frowned upon, or considered
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- | 62. How has this impacted your faith and life?
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- | 63. Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret?
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- | 64. How did this affect your faith and life?
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- | 65. Have you, personally, ever been persecuted for your faith?
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- | 66. If so, when and how did you handle it?
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- | 67. Can you kill?
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- | 68. When did you decide (or learn) that they could?
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- | 69. What happened and how did you handle it?
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- | 70. When do you consider it okay to kill (under what circumstances)?
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- | 71. When do you consider it wrong to kill (under what circumstances)?
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- | 72. What would you do if someone else attempted to (or successfully did) kill under their "wrong" circumstances, what would be
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- | 73. What if it were your enemy?
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- | 74. What if it were your friend?
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- | 75. What if it were an innocent?
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- | 76. What if the opponent were not in control of their own actions (i.e.-under duress, charmed, dominated, possessed, etc.)?
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- | 77. What would you do if someone shot at (attacked) you?
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- | 78. What would you do if something were stolen from you?
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- | 79. What would you do if you were badly insulted publicly?
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- | 80. What would you do if a good friend or relative were killed by means other than natural death?
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- | 81. What is the one task you would absolutely refuse to do?
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- | 82. What do you consider to be the worst crime someone could commit and why?
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- | 83. How do you feel about government (rulers) in general?
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- | 84. Why do you feel that way?
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- | 85. Do you support the current government of your homeland?
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- | 86. If so, how far are you willing to go to defend the government? If not, do you actively oppose it?
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- | 87. Do you belong to an anti-government organization?
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- | 88. If so, describe the group and it's aims.
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- | 89. What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy)
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- | and why?
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- | 90. Have you ever been persecuted for their political stance?
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- | 91. If so, describe the occurrence and how it affected you?
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- | 92. Are you a member of any non-religious group, cause, order, or organization?
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- | 93. If so describe it, its goals, and membership.
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- | 94. How loyal are you to this group and why?
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- | 95. How did you become a member?
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- | 96. If you are a former member, did you leave voluntarily or involuntarily and why?
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- | 97. Was it under good (amicable) conditions or bad?
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- | 98. Are you being sought or hunted by the organization?
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- | 99. If so, by whom and with what intent (to murder you, to force your return through blackmail or coercion, to spy on you and
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- | make sure they do not reveal any of the groups secrets)?
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- | 100. Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others?
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- | 101. If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them?
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- | 102. How do you react if made fun of for any of these things?
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- | 103. Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms, such as when talking, thinking, afraid, under stress, or when embarrassed?
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- | 104. If so, are there any reasons behind them from your past?
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- | 105a. Do you have an unusual gait or accent?
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- | 105. If so, where did you acquire them?
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- | 106. Are there any circumstances where they become more (or less) evident?
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- | 107. How do you feel and react if made fun of for any of these things?
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- | 108. What is your favourite colour?
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- | 109. What place would you most like to visit?
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- | 110. What annoys you the most?
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- | 111. What (if any) are your favourite forms of art?
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- | 112. What is your most treasured possession?
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- | 113. What things could he/ she not live without?
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- | 114. Do you have a good luck charm? What is it?
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- | 115. If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
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- | 116. Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
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- | 117. Does you prefer to tear down or build up?
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- | 118. Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
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- | 119. Do you prefer the town or the country?
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- | 120. If made to decide, would you rather be deaf or blind? Why?
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- | 121. How do you feel about magic, myth, and the supernatural?
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- | 122. Do you remember your dreams?
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- | 123. Describe a typical dream you might have.
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- | 124. Describe your worst nightmares.
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- | Career/Training
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- | 1. Where and how were you educated?
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- | 2. Who trained you in your class or job?
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- | 3. What was your relationship with your teacher(s)/mentor(s)?
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- | 4. How did you happen across this teacher or mentor?
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- | 5. Was your mentor kind, stern, cruel, indifferent?
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- | 6. Is this person or institution still in existence?
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- | 7. Were you forced into your profession by parents or peers?
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- | 8. Did circumstances dictate your choice of profession?
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- | 9. Were you a prize student or did you just barely pass?
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- | 10. Look at your skills. How did you acquire them (especially the unusual ones)?
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- | 11. Have you ever done anything else for a living?
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- | 12. How do you function in combat (maneuvers, weaknesses)?
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- | 13. How would you best be defeated?
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- | 14. Have you ever received any awards or honours?
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- | 15. What have you done that was considered "outstanding" in your occupation by others in your field?
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- | 16. What are your long-term goals in work?
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- | 17. Describe any traumatic experiences in your present occupation that has affected you deeply in some way.
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- | 18. How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
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- | 19. Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could?
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- | 20. Are you envious of others who can do such things in a good-natured way or are they sullen and morose about it?
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- | Lifestyle/Hobbies
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- | 1. What is your normal daily routine?
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- | 2. How do you feel and react when this routine is interrupted for some reason?
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- | 3. What are your hobbies when they are not adventuring or training?
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- | 4. What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?
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- | 5. What do you do for relaxation?
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- | 6. What things do they do for enjoyment?
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- | 7. What interests do you have?
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- | 8. How do you normally dress, when not in your adventuring gear?
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- | 9. Do you like to dress up or down to relax?
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- | 10. Do you have a look or style? If so, describe it.
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- | 11. What do you normally wear in bed at home?
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- | 12. What do you normally wear in bed while adventuring?
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- | 13. Do you wear any identifiable jewelry?
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- | 14. Where do you normally put your weapons, magic items, or other valuables when you are sleeping?
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- | 15. What morning or evening routines do you normally have?
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- | 16. Do these change when you is adventuring?
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- | 17. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
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- | 18. What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
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- | 19. Do you read the newspaper?
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- | 20. If so, which sections and how often?
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- | 21. Travel: how do you get around locally?
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- | 22. What is your idea of a good evening's entertainment?
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- | 23. Do you get seasick, airsick, motion sick?
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- | 24. Do you like riding animals?
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- | 25. Any fears in traveling?
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- | 26. What sorts of general belongings or equipment do you take when traveling?
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- | 27.. What are your hangout places?
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- | 28. Do you go to a bar after work?
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- | 29. Do you go dancing?
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- | 30. Who goes with you?
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- | 31. What do you read? Scientific textbooks, historical novels, myths and legends, maps, cookbooks, romances, news magazines,
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- | science fiction, fantasy, horror, the newspaper, short stories?
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- | 32. What music do you like?
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- | 33. Do you have a favourite artist, band or bard?
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- | 34. Will you listen to or sing the same songs over and over, or does it drive you nuts when people do that?
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- | 35. How do you exercise?
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- | 36. Do you work out at the gym, walks in the morning, run marathons, play sports, couch potato?
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- | 37. Where do you live?
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- | 38. Do you rent or own? Apartment, house or castle?
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- | 39. How close are the neighbors?
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- | 40. Is it a good neighborhood?
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- | 41. What colour is the house?
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- | 42. Which floor are you on?
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- | 43. Do you have a lawn?
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- | 44. What about a flower garden?
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- | 45. Does your house have an attic or basement?
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- | 46. What does your furniture look like?
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- | 47. Do you buy antiques?
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- | 48. What are your walls covered with? Wallpaper, art, photos?
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- | 49. What sorts of curtains do you have?
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- | 50. Do you keep your house clean? Is it dusty?
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- | 51. Is the bathtub moldy or coated in rust?
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- | 52. Do you clean it yourself?
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- | 53. What do your desk or workspace look like? Small and cramped, huge and expansive, covered in drifts of books and papers?
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- | neatly ordered and clean?
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- | 54. Can you find what you're looking for when you need it?
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- | 55. What colour are your sheets?
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- | 56. Satin or cotton?
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- | 57. What sorts of food do you eat?
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- | 57a. How do you like your eggs done?
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- | 58. Do you cook your own dinners?
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- | 59. Are you a good cook, a gourmet, or a terrible cook?
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- | 60. Do you eat out?
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- | 61. Are you on a diet?
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- | 62. Where do you vacation, and how often?
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- | 63. Do you have any pets?
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- | 64. Do you keep a calendar?
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- | 65. Where do you keep it?
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- | 66. Did you leave a Will?
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- | 67. What does it say?
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- | Miscellaneous
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- | 1. What would you like to be remembered for after your death?
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- | 2. What kind of threat do you present to public?
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- | 3. If your features were to be destroyed beyond recognition, is there any other way of identifying your body?
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- | 4. How much do you enjoy a pint of mead?
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- | 5. As a player, if you could, what advice would you give you? Speak as if he/she were sitting right here in front of you. Use
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- | proper tone so they might heed your advice...
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- | [[Category:Distre Chronicles]]
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The following is an exhaustive (but by no means complete) series of questions designed to help you flesh out your character to its fullest potential. I am not requiring anyone to complete this, but this should provide guidelines of thought for the biography / personality of your character. If you do decide to fully complete this, feel free to send it to me via e-mail to sneakyghost@gmail.com.
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