The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

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The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Expanded Genres Edition

ONE SHOT Podcast Network

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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. In addition to exercises that help you develop characters for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, x-punk, superhero, and western campaigns, this book also includes an extra chapter with neutral exercises you can use whenever you want. Whether you are starting a new character, building out an existing character, exploring new character genres or ideas, this book has everything you need.

We can't thank James D'Amato enough for being such a great person to work with. We've loved being able to collaborate with him and the ONESHOT Podcast Network and we hope to be able to continue to do so far into the future. You can view the ONE SHOT Podcast Network Merchandise we've created in our ONE SHOT Podcast Network collection!

All proceeds go to Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide.

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“Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.”

― Patrick Rothfuss,

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. In addition to exercises that help you develop characters for fantasy, sci-fi, horror, x-punk, superhero, and western campaigns, this book also includes an extra chapter with neutral exercises you can use whenever you want. Whether you are starting a new character, building out an existing character, exploring new character genres or ideas, this book has everything you need.

We can't thank James D'Amato enough for being such a great person to work with. We've loved being able to collaborate with him and the ONESHOT Podcast Network and we hope to be able to continue to do so far into the future. You can view the ONE SHOT Podcast Network Merchandise we've created in our ONE SHOT Podcast Network collection!

All proceeds go to Worldbuilders, a geek-centered nonprofit supporting humanitarian efforts worldwide.

Format
336 pages, Paperback
Published
June 14, 2022 by Adams Media
ISBN
9781507217917 (ISBN10: 1507217919)
Language
English

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.