101 Questions to Help Create Character Backgrounds and Personalities

A character needs to be more than just a few scores and abilities and possessions.  There are so many ways to make your character more memorable and most of them don’t take much time.  Below is a list of 101 thin[...]
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Bringing Fictional Characters into RPG’s

   One of the most common requests in almost any role-playing game is to import a character – often from sources that have little or nothing to do with the game or setting being played. Other characters are conve[...]
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Every Book’s a Sourcebook: Worlds of the Imperium

Recently I was reading a blog by the name ‘Blog of Holding’ and read this post. In summary he thinks that every book has roleplaying ideas in it, just waiting to be unlocked. I think this is an excellent idea[...]
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Rifts-Style Smartclothes

   After they first appeared in our Marvel Super Heroes game, Smartclothes migrated into quite a few games – and developed considerably along the way. Most other games called for far more standardized systems th[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 129 – The Darkness Upon The Deep

   Further poking around in Core revealed… nothing much. For the moment, the conflict had been pushed back, the kadian treatment centers and various countermeasures had reduced the trouble with the weaponized mem[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 28

   With the party more or less decided on escaping, now it came down to planning how we might go about that. I was all for attempting to rig one of the damaged missile launchers to explode – and then making a bre[...]
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Theurgic Variations

   For today, it’s some additional explanation of the Theurgy magic system from Eclipse.    Like most of the magic systems in Eclipse, Theurgy is good for a particular magical style – in its case, skill based[...]
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Marvel Super Heroes – Darkwolf

   One of the more amusing aspects of the original Marvel Super Heroes game was that pretty much everything about your character was determined at random. Random attributes, random powers, random species… In fact[...]
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The Well-Dressed Hero

   With the exception of James Bond and (to some extent) Stargate SG1, most of the metahumans, star travelers, secret agents, and other high-tech heroes that you see running around in comics, movies, and television ser[...]
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An Interview With The Hellrider: Part 3: What are the Hellriders & the End of the Hellriders.

Sorry for the long delay, I’ve been caught up in real life again: Moving across the province, packing to move again to go back to university and the (fortunately friendly) end of a romantic relationship. Anyway, en[...]
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Role Playing Disadvantages – With Teeth

   First up today, it’s another question from Alzrius – whom I must thank for helpfully providing topics, since my answers so often turn into small articles like this one.    You mention (in an article on rac[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 128 – Gates of Legend

   Back in the Neanderthal manifold, Kevin had a theory.    The Neanderthals had gone extinct in Core while they were still tribal. They’d never known what the natural laws of Core were like, and their basic assump[...]
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RPG Design – Designing Subraces and the Mothu

   Next up, we have a new Eclipse race by Joshua Troeger - the Mothu – and a general discussion on designing races.    The Mothu, like the Spirit-Touched, fall into the “Human Subrace” category in [...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 27

   I had taken up a patrol around the Hohenheim Research Facility while we waited for our assassin to come in. Xiang and Jacob were doing their own security tasks like I was and Ben was playing scientist with the resea[...]
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Eclipse d20 – Visions of the Ancient One

   Olavia Marcanti Level Zero Visionary Ancient One    Olavia had a small occult gift; she had occasional visions, sensing dangers, coming events, and hidden facts.    She consulted Anselem Hite – in his cap[...]
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Eclipse d20 – Professing the Alternatives

   Yesterdays sample character, Professor Arcane, has his abilities divided into a number of smaller subpackages – Respected Academic (20 CP), Psychic Mastery (20 CP), Ritual Enchantments (8 CP), and Shamanic Lor[...]
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Eclipse d20 – Professor Arcane

   Professor Arcane Level Two Anime-Themed Human Occultist    Located in the foothills of the highlands near Torridon, Kinlochewe is notable for its regular reports of monsters, hauntings, and other strange events. S[...]
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Eclipse d20 – Killers, Diplomats, and Technomagi

   First up for today, it’s a trio of sample characters for Eclipse d20 – one human assassin, one half-orc warrior-diplomat, and one dwarven technomage. Why these? Simply because these were set up for other peo[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 127 – Of Mice, Men, and Opossums.

   Peter Leland sighed. It had been entertaining for a bit – it wasn’t as if mass destruction really had any real effect on Battling Business World – but after watching Zero destroy Manhattan every day fo[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 26

   Aboard the Lingsrymu (the Sith Super Star Destroyer), Ben, Lazlo, Alys, Shipwreck, and Khadim were becoming increasingly nervous – although 10-CH didn’t care… It wasn’t that they were being relentles[...]
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Epic Spell Conversions, Part VII. Create Living Vault, Crown Of Vermin, Superb Dispelling, Time Duplicate, Blurred Instant, Thief Of Time, Verdigris, and Verdigris Tsunami.

   To continue with Alzrius’s request, here are a few more epic spells converted to Eclipse high-level spells – including three of the most awkward ones on the list; Create Living Vault, Crown Of Vermin, and Ti[...]
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Epic Spell Conversions, Part VI. Summon Behemoth, Lord of Nightmares, Acid Drizzle, Rain of Fire or Elemental Rain, Epic Spell Reflection, and Eternal Freedom.

   To continue with Alzrius’s request, here are a few more epic spells converted to Eclipse high-level spells. This particular series should be concluding in one or two more segments – although I may continue w[...]
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Epic Spell Conversions, Part V. Origin of Species Achaierai, Nailed to the Sky, Pestilence, Mist of Contagion, Safe Time, Raise Island, and Master of the Earth

   To continue with Alzrius’s request, here are a few more epic spells converted to Eclipse high-level spells – starting off with one he mentioned in particular…    Origin of Species: Achaierai    Thi[...]
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Montsalvat and the Stone of Destiny

   Evil is easy, attractive, and seductive. Its rewards are ease and wealth, power and pleasure. From petty greed and willful blindness on through the grandiose evil of epic villains, the worlds are filled with it.  Â[...]
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Are you in the RPG closet?

Here’s a question for the role-playing game community: Do you hide your hobby from your non-gamer friends / colleagues? Friends who play games – well, obviously they know that you play D&D or Pathfinder o[...]
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Raaksasha-Grashishnu the Dreamhunter

   In the foothills, a city stands on the bluffs above a river that snakes onwards through the plains. Above it the forested hills supply wood, spices, dyes, and other products of the wilds. Of course, without the oppo[...]
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Dreamspawn and Dreamhunters

   In their own realms, most Dreamspawn are lesser creatures. For them, the material universe is a place of refuge from greater, and more dangerous, entities. To anchor themselves within that sanctuary, they bond with [...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 126b – The Champions of Faith and Family

   Meanwhile, Gelman was off to consult one of the more actively researching Rabbis. Much as he’d like to consult a Rabbi from Battling Business World, he suspected that only a Core Rabbi would have the kind of backg[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 25

   As usual, this is Kira’s edited player log with material inserted to cover what the other characters were up to – and thus allow it to serve as a general session log…    Meanwhile, aboard the Lin[...]
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Companions Redux

   First up for today, it’s a question from Alzrius about Companions. Sadly, this one was from last month; the answer got delayed due to lack of time to check through all the older articles to find all the exampl[...]
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Baron Ectar’s Fortress of DOOM!

   Relatively recently, the (seriously posing) Baron Ectar found that he had at his disposal: An expert mystical architect. An unrelenting rain of life force and magical energy. A nigh-limitless workforce – even [...]
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An Interview With The Hellrider. Part 2: The Formation of the Hellriders

“You still here? Wanna hear more? Well why the fuck not? Buy me another drink and I’ll ramble a bit more. So most of us were originally ex-bikers, but a few like me were picked up for useful skills. I could f[...]
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Valerie Soung (Alternate Galaxy)

   The Star Wars characters have recently confirmed that something does happen if you attempt to negate the force. It does indeed bind the galaxy together – and if you tamper with it, or sever your force-links wi[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Valerie Soung – Retaliation

   Valerie Soung, Trayus Academy, Malachor V    The fact that the Mandalorians came in on the freighter full of hafnium that blew up Headstone Station pretty much implied the explosion was not an accident. It also im[...]
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Human Variants III – The God-Touched Human

   The Old Gods were born of the wild powers of nature. The raging storm, the blazing sun, the fearsome flood, the turning of the seasons… All were dangerous forces, far beyond the strength or skill of men to con[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 125 – The Green Green Hills Of Aerth

   Inversion, Berlin, The Chief Persecutors Office:    Kevin sighed and carefully stowed away the transformed Chief Persecutor and his aides. They could change them back when they were someplace safer… There di[...]
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Epic Spell Conversions, Part IV – Eidolon, Enslave, Hellball, Hellstorm, Kinetic Control, (Energy) Hammer, and Momento Mori

   To continue with Alzrius’s request, here are a few more epic spells converted to Eclipse high-level spells – along with a few new spells, either as components or as derived effects.    Eidolon:    Eidolo[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 24

   As usual, this consists of Kira’s edited player log with material about the other characters inserted so that it can serve as a general session log as well.    While Kira, Alys, Handell, and the rest of the [...]
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Twilight Isles – Who, What, and Where

   Here we have a list of the currently-active major characters – and parties – in the Twilight Isles campaign. It’s worth noting that NPC’s often get adopted as characters, and that some characters hav[...]
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Star Wars – Xiang the Slayer

   Xiang the Slayer is actually an obscure Coruscant cult classic – a holovid series about an extremely athletic young woman who secretly defends her home sector by hunting down and destroying the Sith and their [...]
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Divergent Paths – the Ardell Campaign

   The Ardell setting will be using the “Mutants of Eclipse” rules. Outside of incomprehensible alien-nanite induced “mutant powers” and minor psychic abilities (Witchcraft, with no Pacts, a lim[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Valerie Soung – Repercussions

   Valerie Soung, Trayus Academy, Malachor V    I woke up in a daze and feeling very hungry. Looking out the window it was hard to tell the time as it was still dark and raining. The worst effects of the suppression [...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 23

   Meanwhile, Ben and Lazlo had been ushered right past all the formalities and had been taken aboard the Super Star Destroyer – with had it’s own small Sith Academy to go with the colonization setup – fo[...]
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You have no power over me!

(Jareth) “Sarah, beware. I have been generous up until now, but I can be cruel.” (Sarah) “Generous!? What have you done that’s generous?” (Jareth) “Everything! Everything that you want[...]
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An Interview With The Hellrider. Part 1: Demons Ate the Goddamn World.

“Alright, listen up as I don’t wanna have to say this mor’n once. I’m sick of tell’n every yokel and farmer I run across to piss off so I figure I’ll tell you once and be done with it.[...]
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Star Wars – The HoloSith

   Virtually everyone in the galaxy knows about the Sith and the apparently-endless cycle of Sith Wars. They’ve been the favored master villains of holodramas, novels, and folktales for tens of thousands of years. Th[...]
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Federation-Apocalypse Session 123b -The Descent from Lunacy

   While closing up the conference, Kevin took a few minutes to consider the overtones he’d picked up from Cardinal Richar… It looked like… they were projecting twenty years until he got into trouble? Heâ[...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Kira Keldav – Session 22

   On the borders of Jerondal’s gravity well, Handell was looping the Asrai in a complex web of evasive maneuvers that nevertheless managed to keep the ship between their target – the Ranharik – and a cle[...]
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Latest Material Index

   It’s once again time to get the latest material index updated and to transfer the material from the old one to the main index tabs at the top of the page. If you want the very latest material, it may be necessary [...]
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Recordings from the Holocron of Valerie Soung – Retributions

   Valerie Soung, Trayus Academy, Malachor V    We finally got all the wounded back to the Varen Compound the next morning. Once there, we found out that the Baramour fleet had arrived and was now in a staring match [...]
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