The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

Prompts and Activities to Create Compelling Characters for Horror, Sci-Fi, X-Punk, and More

James D’Amato author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Adams Media Corporation

Published:4th Aug '22

£10.99

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The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition cover

Take your skyship pirate, haunted waif, or alien scientist to the next level with this fun, interactive book of exercises to help you build your RPG character’s backstory—made specifically for the genres you love to play.

You can now explore new RPG character ideas with this character backstory guide to the most popular RPG genres beyond fantasy, from sci-fi to horror and superhero to western-themed games. This latest guide from One Shot creator and RPG expert James D’Amato helps you build out an existing character or create a new one, with these activities that provide plenty of RPG fun before you even hit the gaming table. With activities to help you flesh out characters for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, x-punk, superhero and western campaigns (with an extra chapter of neutral exercises you can use whenever you like), this book has everything you need, whether you’re looking to start a new character, build out an existing character you’re currently playing, or explore new character ideas and genres.

“This book offers dozens of prompts on everything from family to fears and other emotions...It’s an excellent choice for tables that play in more than one genre.”

Forbes
"James D'Amato has put together a fun and accessible activity book that makes you really think about who your character is and what they're all about."

Guide Fall

ISBN: 9781507217917

Dimensions: 214mm x 140mm x 20mm

Weight: 372g

336 pages