Post by Angela on Oct 12, 2008 0:10:22 GMT -5
Here are some nice (but long) character development forms. If you'd like to get in touch with your character, you can fill these out, as a reply to the profile they are for!
These forms were found by our dear Lanie on another site. She makes no claim to them and neiher do I.
Introduction Questions
Give a two or three word description of yourself.
Do you have any nicknames, street names, titles, or aliases?
What is your full birth name?
Where do you live?
Why do you live there?
What is your citizenship status?
What is your most obvious blessing or strength?
What do you perceive as your greatest strength?
What is your most obvious flaw or weakness?
What do you perceive as your greatest weakness?
Was there any event or cause to cause these weaknesses?
Physical Traits
How old are you?
What is your gender?
What is your species/race?
How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
What is your general body type, frame, bone structure, and poise?
What is your skin colour?
What is your hair colour?
What is your hair style?
Do you have any facial hair?
What is your eye colour?
Does it change?
How attractive are you?
What is your most distinguishing feature?
Do you have any scars, tattoos, or birthmarks?
Where are they located?
What is your handedness (left/right)?
What is your hand size/description?
What kind of clothing do you wear?
What is your clothing's style or level of sophistication?
What size are you for various pieces of clothing?
Do you wear makeup?
Do you wear glasses/contacts?
What sort of vocal tone do you have?
Do you get sick? ' Maybe you catch the flu twice a year and that's it? Or maybe you have a weak immune system and catch anything that goes around?
History
Where is your homeland?
What are its people like?
Are you aware of its history?
Are you patriotic or a social outcast?
What are your opinion of home?
Where is your home town?
What is your home town's name?
What was the area like and how did it affect you?
What was childhood like for you?
Was it calm and peaceful or turbulent and traumatic?
Did you have any childhood friends?
If so, who and where are they now?
Are you still close to them or have you grown apart?
What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
Which toys from your childhood have you kept?
Family
Who were your parents?
Were you raised by them?
If not, then why didn't they and who did raise you?
What is your father's full name?
What is your mother's full name?
What did your parents and/or foster parents do for a living?
What was their standing in the community?
Did your family stay in one area or move around a lot?
How did you get along with your parents?
How would your parents describe you?
Answer this in the voice of your mother, then in your father's.
Do you have any siblings?
If so how many and what were their names?
What was your birth position in the family (i.e.last born, and child, rd, etc.)?
How did you get along with each of your siblings?
What was your family life like?
Do you stay in touch with them or have you become estranged?
Do you love or hate one member of the family in particular?
Have you begun your own family?
If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
If so, with who or what type of person?
What type of person would be your ideal mate?
What would you be willing to do to protect such a person?
Is there anything you wouldn't do to protect such a person and if so what?
Would anything change your mind on this issue and if so, what?
Relationships
Do you have any close friends?
If so, who and what are they like?
What is the history of their relationship(s) with you?
Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s).
How do you think others generally perceive you?
If someone crossed your path, what would you do?
Who is your most trusted ally?
Who do you trust, in general?
Who do you despise and why?
Name seven things you hate in others.
Is your image consistent?
Do people see you in similar ways?
Do you deliberately present yourself differently in different situations, and how?
For what would you die for?
For whom would you go to extremes for?
Who do you turn to when you're in trouble?
What is the worst thing someone has done to you?
What are your general reaction to an attractive member of the opposite sex who lets you know they are available?
Have you lost any loves?
How did you handle the situation (short & long term)?
Who would miss you, should you go missing?
Who might protect you?
Who might be convinced to sell you out?
How close are you to your friends?
What do they know about you?
What do they not know about you?
Do you live with anyone (housemates, roommates, relatives, friends, near-strangers, family friend, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover)?
How do you think your significant other sees you?
Personality/Beliefs
Do you, or did you, have any role models?
Do you have any heroes or idols, either contemporary or from legend?
Do you have any dreams or ambitions?
What are your short term goals (what would you like to be doing within a year)?
What are your long term goals (what would you like to be doing twenty years from now)?
If these goals seem at odds with each other or with your dreams, how do you reconcile the differences?
How do you seek to fulfill these dreams, goals, & ambitions?
Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias?
If so, what are the origins of or reasons behind them?
What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this?
How do you react when this fear manifests itself?
Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation?
What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
Are you greedy or generous?
Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
How do you generally treat others?
Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily) or not?
Are you introverted (shy and withdrawn) or extroverted (outgoing)?
Are you a humble soul or blusteringly proud?
Do you act differently than you feel (concealing your true thoughts)?
What habits would you find most annoying in friends?
What are your most annoying habits?
What is your favourite food? What is your favourite drink?
What is your favourite treat (desert)?
Do you favour a particular cuisine?
Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
Are you allergic to any food?
What are your favourite colour(s)?
Is there any colour that you dislike?
Do you have a favourite (or hated) song, type of music, or instrument?
If you have a favourite scent, what is it?
Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear?
Are you allergic to any kinds of animals?
Do you have any allergies?
Is there anything that enrages you?
Is there anything which embarrasses you?
How do you react to being teased about it?
Are you devout or impious?
Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service?
What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
Do you belong to the orthodox church, or a fringe element thereof (and is the group accepted, frowned upon, or considered heretics)?
How has this impacted your faith and life?
Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret?
Do you support the current government of your homeland?
What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy) and why?
Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others?
If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them?
How do you react if made fun of for any of these things?
Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms, such as when talking, thinking, afraid, under stress, or when embarrassed?
If so, are there any reasons behind them from your past?
Do you have an unusual gait or accent?
How do you feel and react if made fun of for any of these things?
What is your favourite colour?
What place would you most like to visit?
What annoys you the most?
What (if any) are your favourite forms of art?
What is your most treasured possession?
What things could you not live without?
Do you have a good luck charm?
If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
Do you prefer to tear down or build up?
Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
Do you prefer the town or the country?
If made to decide, would you rather be deaf or blind? Why?
Do you remember your dreams?
Career/Training
Where and how were you educated?
Who trained you in your job?
What was your relationship with your teacher(s)/mentor(s)?
How did you happen across this teacher or mentor?
Was your mentor kind, stern, cruel, indifferent?
Is this person or institution still in existence?
Were you forced into your profession by parents or peers?
Did circumstances dictate your choice of profession?
Were you a prize student or did you just barely pass?
Have you ever done anything else for a living?
Have you ever received any awards or honours?
What have you done that was considered "outstanding" in your occupation by others in your field?
What are your long-term goals in work?
How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could?
Are you envious of others who can do such things in a good-natured way or are you sullen and morose about it?
Lifestyle/Hobbies
What is your normal daily routine?
How do you feel and react when this routine is interrupted for some reason?
What are your hobbies when you are not adventuring or training?
What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?
What do you do for relaxation?
What things do you do for enjoyment?
What interests do you have?
How do you normally dress, when not in your adventuring gear?
Do you like to dress up or down to relax?
Do you have a look or style? If so, describe it.
What do you normally wear in bed at home?
What do you normally wear in bed?
Do you wear any identifiable jewelry?
Where do you normally put your valuables when you are sleeping?
What morning or evening routines do you normally have?
Do these change when you are adventuring?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
Do you read the newspaper? If so, which sections and how often?
Travel
How do you get around locally?
What is your idea of a good evening's entertainment?
Do you get seasick, airsick, motion sick (auto or animal)?
Do you like riding animals?
Any fears in traveling?
What are your hangout places?
Do you go to a bar after work?
Do you play pool?
Do you go dancing?
Who goes with you?
What do you read? Scientific textbooks, historical novels, myths and legends, maps, cookbooks, romances, news magazines, science fiction, fantasy, horror, the newspaper, short stories?
What music do you like?
Do you have a favourite artist, band or bard?
Will you listen to or sing the same songs over and over, or does it drive you nuts when people do that?
How do you exercise? (Work out at the gym, walks in the morning, run marathons, play sports, couch potato, etc.?)
Where do you live?
Do you rent or own?
Apartment, house or castle?
How close are the neighbors?
Is it a good neighborhood?
What colour is the house?
What does your desk or workspace look like? Small and cramped, huge and expansive, covered in drifts of books and papers?, neatly ordered and clean?
Can you find what you're looking for when you need it?
What colour are your sheets? Satin or cotton? Patterned with flowers, or covered with pictures of toy robots?
What sorts of food do you eat?
Do you cook your own dinners?
Are you a good cook, a gourmet, or a terrible cook?
Do you eat out?
Are you on a diet?
Where do you vacation, and how often?
Do you have any pets?
Do you keep a calendar or address book?
Where do you keep it?
Did you leave a Will?
What does it say?
OK that's one form. Here is the other!
Character Profile Worksheet
Basic Statistics
Name:
Age:
Nationality:
Socioeconomic Level as a child:
Socioeconomic Level as an adult:
Hometown:
Current Residence:
Occupation:
Income:
Talents/Skills:
Salary:
Birth order:
Siblings (describe relationship):
Spouse (describe relationship):
Children (describe relationship):
Grandparents (describe relationship):
Grandchildren (describe relationship):
Significant Others (describe relationship):
Relationship skills:
Physical Characteristics
Height:
Weight:
Race:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Glasses or contact lenses?
Skin color:
Shape of Face:
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress?
Mannerisms:
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.)
Health:
Hobbies:
Favorite Sayings:
Speech patterns:
Disabilities:
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.):
Greatest flaw:
Best quality:
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background:
Intelligence Level:
Any Mental Illnesses?
Learning Experiences:
Character's short-term goals in life:
Character's long-term goals in life:
How does Character see himself/herself?
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others?
How self-confident is the character?
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
What would most embarass this character?
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Introvert or Extrovert?
How does the character deal with anger?
With sadness?
With conflict?
With change?
With loss?
What does the character want out of life?
What would the character like to change in his/her life?
What motivates this character?
What frightens this character?
What makes this character happy?
Is the character judgmental of others?
Is the character generous or stingy?
Is the character generally polite or rude?
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God?
What are the character's spiritual beliefs?
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life?
If so, what role does it play?
This isn't a requirement, just something to do when you have some free time if you can't think of anything better to do and would like to get to know your characters. Hope they help!
These forms were found by our dear Lanie on another site. She makes no claim to them and neiher do I.
Introduction Questions
Give a two or three word description of yourself.
Do you have any nicknames, street names, titles, or aliases?
What is your full birth name?
Where do you live?
Why do you live there?
What is your citizenship status?
What is your most obvious blessing or strength?
What do you perceive as your greatest strength?
What is your most obvious flaw or weakness?
What do you perceive as your greatest weakness?
Was there any event or cause to cause these weaknesses?
Physical Traits
How old are you?
What is your gender?
What is your species/race?
How tall are you?
How much do you weigh?
What is your general body type, frame, bone structure, and poise?
What is your skin colour?
What is your hair colour?
What is your hair style?
Do you have any facial hair?
What is your eye colour?
Does it change?
How attractive are you?
What is your most distinguishing feature?
Do you have any scars, tattoos, or birthmarks?
Where are they located?
What is your handedness (left/right)?
What is your hand size/description?
What kind of clothing do you wear?
What is your clothing's style or level of sophistication?
What size are you for various pieces of clothing?
Do you wear makeup?
Do you wear glasses/contacts?
What sort of vocal tone do you have?
Do you get sick? ' Maybe you catch the flu twice a year and that's it? Or maybe you have a weak immune system and catch anything that goes around?
History
Where is your homeland?
What are its people like?
Are you aware of its history?
Are you patriotic or a social outcast?
What are your opinion of home?
Where is your home town?
What is your home town's name?
What was the area like and how did it affect you?
What was childhood like for you?
Was it calm and peaceful or turbulent and traumatic?
Did you have any childhood friends?
If so, who and where are they now?
Are you still close to them or have you grown apart?
What stupid things did you do when you were younger?
Which toys from your childhood have you kept?
Family
Who were your parents?
Were you raised by them?
If not, then why didn't they and who did raise you?
What is your father's full name?
What is your mother's full name?
What did your parents and/or foster parents do for a living?
What was their standing in the community?
Did your family stay in one area or move around a lot?
How did you get along with your parents?
How would your parents describe you?
Answer this in the voice of your mother, then in your father's.
Do you have any siblings?
If so how many and what were their names?
What was your birth position in the family (i.e.last born, and child, rd, etc.)?
How did you get along with each of your siblings?
What was your family life like?
Do you stay in touch with them or have you become estranged?
Do you love or hate one member of the family in particular?
Have you begun your own family?
If not, do you ever want to have a family of your own someday?
If so, with who or what type of person?
What type of person would be your ideal mate?
What would you be willing to do to protect such a person?
Is there anything you wouldn't do to protect such a person and if so what?
Would anything change your mind on this issue and if so, what?
Relationships
Do you have any close friends?
If so, who and what are they like?
What is the history of their relationship(s) with you?
Which person(s) or group(s) are you most loyal to?
List any past serious relationships that you have had, and give a brief overview of the relationship(s).
How do you think others generally perceive you?
If someone crossed your path, what would you do?
Who is your most trusted ally?
Who do you trust, in general?
Who do you despise and why?
Name seven things you hate in others.
Is your image consistent?
Do people see you in similar ways?
Do you deliberately present yourself differently in different situations, and how?
For what would you die for?
For whom would you go to extremes for?
Who do you turn to when you're in trouble?
What is the worst thing someone has done to you?
What are your general reaction to an attractive member of the opposite sex who lets you know they are available?
Have you lost any loves?
How did you handle the situation (short & long term)?
Who would miss you, should you go missing?
Who might protect you?
Who might be convinced to sell you out?
How close are you to your friends?
What do they know about you?
What do they not know about you?
Do you live with anyone (housemates, roommates, relatives, friends, near-strangers, family friend, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, lover)?
How do you think your significant other sees you?
Personality/Beliefs
Do you, or did you, have any role models?
Do you have any heroes or idols, either contemporary or from legend?
Do you have any dreams or ambitions?
What are your short term goals (what would you like to be doing within a year)?
What are your long term goals (what would you like to be doing twenty years from now)?
If these goals seem at odds with each other or with your dreams, how do you reconcile the differences?
How do you seek to fulfill these dreams, goals, & ambitions?
Do you have any great rational or irrational fears or phobias?
If so, what are the origins of or reasons behind them?
What, if anything, would it take for you to be able to overcome this?
How do you react when this fear manifests itself?
Are you willing to discuss, or even admit to, the situation?
What are your attitudes regarding material wealth?
Are you miserly with your share of the wealth, or do you spend it freely?
Are you greedy or generous?
Do you see wealth as a mark of success, or just as a means to an end?
How do you generally treat others?
Do you trust easily (perhaps too easily) or not?
Are you introverted (shy and withdrawn) or extroverted (outgoing)?
Are you a humble soul or blusteringly proud?
Do you act differently than you feel (concealing your true thoughts)?
What habits would you find most annoying in friends?
What are your most annoying habits?
What is your favourite food? What is your favourite drink?
What is your favourite treat (desert)?
Do you favour a particular cuisine?
Are there any specific foodstuffs that you find disgusting or refuse to eat?
Are you allergic to any food?
What are your favourite colour(s)?
Is there any colour that you dislike?
Do you have a favourite (or hated) song, type of music, or instrument?
If you have a favourite scent, what is it?
Is there a certain type of animal that you hate or fear?
Are you allergic to any kinds of animals?
Do you have any allergies?
Is there anything that enrages you?
Is there anything which embarrasses you?
How do you react to being teased about it?
Are you devout or impious?
Do you actively worship and proselytize or do you simply pay lip service?
What lengths would you go to defend your faith?
Was your faith influenced or molded by anyone special?
Do you belong to the orthodox church, or a fringe element thereof (and is the group accepted, frowned upon, or considered heretics)?
How has this impacted your faith and life?
Is your church an accepted religion where you grew up or did it have to conduct its services in secret?
Do you support the current government of your homeland?
What form of government do you believe is the best (democracy, monarchy, anarchy, aristocratic rule, oligarchy, matriarchy) and why?
Do you have any unusual habits or dominant personality traits that are evident to others?
If so, describe them and how you acquired them, as well as when they might be more noticeable and what causes them?
How do you react if made fun of for any of these things?
Do you have any unusual or nervous mannerisms, such as when talking, thinking, afraid, under stress, or when embarrassed?
If so, are there any reasons behind them from your past?
Do you have an unusual gait or accent?
How do you feel and react if made fun of for any of these things?
What is your favourite colour?
What place would you most like to visit?
What annoys you the most?
What (if any) are your favourite forms of art?
What is your most treasured possession?
What things could you not live without?
Do you have a good luck charm?
If your life were to end in 24 hours, what 5 things would you do in those remaining hours?
Do you have a "Black-and-White" view of reality or can you see shades of grey?
Do you prefer to tear down or build up?
Are you deliberate or spontaneous?
Do you prefer the town or the country?
If made to decide, would you rather be deaf or blind? Why?
Do you remember your dreams?
Career/Training
Where and how were you educated?
Who trained you in your job?
What was your relationship with your teacher(s)/mentor(s)?
How did you happen across this teacher or mentor?
Was your mentor kind, stern, cruel, indifferent?
Is this person or institution still in existence?
Were you forced into your profession by parents or peers?
Did circumstances dictate your choice of profession?
Were you a prize student or did you just barely pass?
Have you ever done anything else for a living?
Have you ever received any awards or honours?
What have you done that was considered "outstanding" in your occupation by others in your field?
What are your long-term goals in work?
How do your relatives and friends view your present occupation?
Is there anything that you don't currently know how to do that you wish you could?
Are you envious of others who can do such things in a good-natured way or are you sullen and morose about it?
Lifestyle/Hobbies
What is your normal daily routine?
How do you feel and react when this routine is interrupted for some reason?
What are your hobbies when you are not adventuring or training?
What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?
What do you do for relaxation?
What things do you do for enjoyment?
What interests do you have?
How do you normally dress, when not in your adventuring gear?
Do you like to dress up or down to relax?
Do you have a look or style? If so, describe it.
What do you normally wear in bed at home?
What do you normally wear in bed?
Do you wear any identifiable jewelry?
Where do you normally put your valuables when you are sleeping?
What morning or evening routines do you normally have?
Do these change when you are adventuring?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the most enjoyment?
What pastime (that you participate in regularly) gives you the least enjoyment?
Do you read the newspaper? If so, which sections and how often?
Travel
How do you get around locally?
What is your idea of a good evening's entertainment?
Do you get seasick, airsick, motion sick (auto or animal)?
Do you like riding animals?
Any fears in traveling?
What are your hangout places?
Do you go to a bar after work?
Do you play pool?
Do you go dancing?
Who goes with you?
What do you read? Scientific textbooks, historical novels, myths and legends, maps, cookbooks, romances, news magazines, science fiction, fantasy, horror, the newspaper, short stories?
What music do you like?
Do you have a favourite artist, band or bard?
Will you listen to or sing the same songs over and over, or does it drive you nuts when people do that?
How do you exercise? (Work out at the gym, walks in the morning, run marathons, play sports, couch potato, etc.?)
Where do you live?
Do you rent or own?
Apartment, house or castle?
How close are the neighbors?
Is it a good neighborhood?
What colour is the house?
What does your desk or workspace look like? Small and cramped, huge and expansive, covered in drifts of books and papers?, neatly ordered and clean?
Can you find what you're looking for when you need it?
What colour are your sheets? Satin or cotton? Patterned with flowers, or covered with pictures of toy robots?
What sorts of food do you eat?
Do you cook your own dinners?
Are you a good cook, a gourmet, or a terrible cook?
Do you eat out?
Are you on a diet?
Where do you vacation, and how often?
Do you have any pets?
Do you keep a calendar or address book?
Where do you keep it?
Did you leave a Will?
What does it say?
OK that's one form. Here is the other!
Character Profile Worksheet
Basic Statistics
Name:
Age:
Nationality:
Socioeconomic Level as a child:
Socioeconomic Level as an adult:
Hometown:
Current Residence:
Occupation:
Income:
Talents/Skills:
Salary:
Birth order:
Siblings (describe relationship):
Spouse (describe relationship):
Children (describe relationship):
Grandparents (describe relationship):
Grandchildren (describe relationship):
Significant Others (describe relationship):
Relationship skills:
Physical Characteristics
Height:
Weight:
Race:
Eye Color:
Hair Color:
Glasses or contact lenses?
Skin color:
Shape of Face:
Distinguishing features:
How does he/she dress?
Mannerisms:
Habits: (smoking, drinking etc.)
Health:
Hobbies:
Favorite Sayings:
Speech patterns:
Disabilities:
Style (Elegant, shabby etc.):
Greatest flaw:
Best quality:
Intellectual/Mental/Personality Attributes and Attitudes
Educational Background:
Intelligence Level:
Any Mental Illnesses?
Learning Experiences:
Character's short-term goals in life:
Character's long-term goals in life:
How does Character see himself/herself?
How does Character believe he/she is perceived by others?
How self-confident is the character?
Does the character seem ruled by emotion or logic or some combination thereof?
What would most embarass this character?
Emotional Characteristics
Strengths/Weaknesses:
Introvert or Extrovert?
How does the character deal with anger?
With sadness?
With conflict?
With change?
With loss?
What does the character want out of life?
What would the character like to change in his/her life?
What motivates this character?
What frightens this character?
What makes this character happy?
Is the character judgmental of others?
Is the character generous or stingy?
Is the character generally polite or rude?
Spiritual Characteristics
Does the character believe in God?
What are the character's spiritual beliefs?
Is religion or spirituality a part of this character's life?
If so, what role does it play?
This isn't a requirement, just something to do when you have some free time if you can't think of anything better to do and would like to get to know your characters. Hope they help!
