Sarah Facts
For much of college, I lived in a coed fraternity. As it is, parents are often weirded out by this and, well, possibly with good reason. So to help ensure that our friends didn't reveal interesting tidbits during the inevitable family or friend visit, we often would circulate what we called "facts." These were often a list of facts or activities that an idealized version of ourselves would do. For instance:
Tracy Facts
* Tracy brushes her teeth and flosses in the morning, at night and after every meal.
* Tracy _never_ wears pajamas to class. In fact, she always wears freshly pressed khakis and a button down shirt.
* Tracy never plays pong and is always asleep by midnight at the latest.
Well, you get the idea. The nice thing about these facts is that they help illustrate not only what is important to the person but also to those around her. They describe the characters we often play to our family, particularly at that age.
In case you are interested, here are some Sarah facts:
* Sarah has never had a crush on a dwarf.
* Sarah never coup-de-graced anyone.
* Sarah always bathes alone, fully clothed.
* Sarah is not a warlock.
* Sarah writes letters to her family every night. It's just that the postal service around here sucks.
I'm thinking of creating a list of 10 facts about my next character. It should be interesting to say the least. What would your character's "facts" look like?

* Sarah always bathes alone, fully clothed.
For some reason, this wierds me out more than any other possible option...
I played a character based on a pro wrestler once, my submission for the character backstory was a sheet with 20 bulletpoints 10 things everyone knows about King Spineshatter II, and 10 things no one knows about Oak, AKA King Spineshatter II.
Love this idea! Just love it! Definitely adding it to my character creation repertoire. In fact, I may just suggest it to my husband, for us to do with the characters we just started gaming with.
I love stuff like this. -Yet another approach to making your character more enjoyable to play.
I can't even imagine original SD crushing on a dwarf. Certainly not a taciturn NPC pally of the Raven Queen.
Ha, well she does have rather romantic notions of adventuring given that her parents met while part of an adventuring group. So when the dwarf put himself in danger to save her during her first battle, well, I can't see how she would do anything other than form a small crush.
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