Player's Stuff

This page is for articles and ideas useful to players, no matter what system they are using.

Articles

Give Your Character Culture
The full article for giving your PC a colourful background with ideas for actually bringing it out in play.
NB: A heavily modified version of this was published in Dragon Magazine, but this is the full article.

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Character Connections

Here are many ways to connect characters to one another. Choose another member of the party then roll a random number or choose.

Roll	Connection	Ideas, Charts, extras
1	Owe them a debt	See Debts table Eberron Rising… p9
2	Have the same patron	See Random Adventure Generator Page for patrons
3	Sibling
4	Relation other than sibling
5	Was thrust into your care
6	Belong to the same group/organisation/team	Have Relationship dice with the same group
7	Is under your command or your student
8	Is your superior/commander/mentor
9	Knows your secret
10	From the same hometown/neighbourhood
11	Attended school/church/etc together
12	Childhood friend
13	Friendly rivals
14	Belong to same religion/follow the same deity
15	Only recently met and hit it off
16	You don't know them or just met
17	Romantically linked
18	Were locked-up or prisoners together
19	Both suffer the same curse
20	Both forced into this quest
21	Both survived a pivotal event - maybe you're the only ones?
22	You saved them
23	They saved you
24	You are business partners
25	You accidentally affected them with your Powers
26	You have a mysical bond	Maybe you never target them even when charmed etc.
27	Arcane connection	Powers and spells might affect them too when they are next to you or their presence might affect the way your Powers work
28	You lost something valuable to them (or their connections)
29	You are suspicious of them
30	You share a hobby or a love for the same thing
31	You both have the same fear
32	You are aquaintences through an important third party
33	They owe you a debt	See Debts table Eberron Rising… p9
34	You worked together on a job previoulsy	Did it go well or end bad?
35	In the past, the two of you were on opposite sides of a conflict
36	They got you into your current line of work
37	A reassuring presence	You might be able to better deal with fears or hindrances in their presence
38	Luck or chance brought you together	You just happened to be in the same place at the same time