The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

Name: The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition
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SKU: 9781507217917
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Prompts and Activities to Create Compelling Characters for Horror, Sci-Fi, X-Punk, and More

By James D’Amato

Series: Ultimate Role Playing Game Series

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The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition by James D’Amato is a creative tool designed to help RPG players develop rich, imaginative backstories for their characters. It offers a variety of exercises across numerous genres, enabling players to delve deeper into their character's history, motivations, and personality. This guide is perfect for adding depth to your RPG experience by making your characters more engaging and multidimensional.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This book may appeal to you if you enjoy diving deep into role-playing games and want to create detailed character backgrounds. It's perfect for enhancing your storytelling skills and immersing yourself further into diverse RPG genres, providing creative prompts and exercises.

The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

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.

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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.

Series: Ultimate Role Playing Game Series

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Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition by James D’Amato is praised for its extensive prompts that delve into diverse aspects like family and emotions, making it ideal for multi-genre role-playing sessions. Reviewers commend it as a fun and engaging activity book that encourages deeper character development.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781507217917

Publisher: Adams Media Corporation

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Adams Media Corporation

Illustration: 2-color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 214.0mm

Weight: 372g

Pages: 336

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Computing & Technology Education & Reference James D’Amato Non-Fiction Series: Ultimate Role Playing Game Series

About the Author

James D’Amato is the author of The Ultimate RPG Series, cofounder of the One Shot Podcast Network, and host of the One Shot and Campaign: Skyjacks podcasts. He trained at Second City and iO in Chicago in the art of improvisational comedy: he now uses that education to introduce new people to role-playing, and incorporates improvisational storytelling techniques to create compelling and entertaining stories for RPG campaigns and one-shot adventures.