Character Background and Psychological Information

 

 

1. What is your name? What alias, if any, do you go by?
2. What is your strongest virtue? What is your greatest weakness?
3. What are your fears?
4. What qualities do you respect in a person? Whom do you know that possess these qualities?
5. What are your hidden secrets?
6. How do you feel about your family? Describe each member.
7. Who are your friends? How did you become friends and how long have you known them?
8. What is your driving goal at the start of the game?
9. What are your superstitions? Why?
10. How do you see yourself? How do others view you?
11. How materialistic are you? What possessions or objects do you hold as valuable?
12. What do you do in your spare time?
13. Who are you romantically interested in?
14. What type of music does your character enjoy? What song would represent your theme song?
15. What is your style? (dress, speech, attitude, etc.)
16. If the game was a movie or tv show which actor/actress would you have play your role?
17. How spiritually devoted are you? Describe any religious convictions.
18. What do you do to support yourself? How did you learn this skill?
19. Have you ever killed an animal? A human? A monster? How did you feel about killing?
20. What is your opinion of the supernatural?
21. Which, if any, races, faiths or nationalities do you have intolerance toward?
22. How were you trained in your profession? Who trained you?
23. What are you doing at the game’s beginning?
24. If not ambidextrous, which is your dominant hand?
25. Do you buckle your seat belt?
26. Do you use contraceptives/have others use them?
27. What is your sexual preference?
28. What accent do you have?
29. In a perfect scenario, how would you save the day?

 

 

 

Mage the Ascension Character Questions (Mta-2ed pp.90-92)

 

Individual

1. How old are you?
2. When did you notice that you were different?
3. How did you come by your abilities?
4. Who is important to you?
5. When did you first encounter Magick?
6. Who was your mentor?
7. How did you meet the others in your cabal?
8. Do you maintain a mundane life?
9. What do you, the player, want to do and accomplish? What are your motivations?
10. What destiny does she pursue?
11. How does your mage regard her destiny?
12. What is your character’s avatar like?
13. How does the Mage get along with her avatar?
14. What conflicts might come up along the way (psychological, physical, emotional, etc.)?

 

The Cabal

1. Where do they meet?
2. What are the cabal’s goals?
3. Who are the cabal’s friends and enemies?
4. Does the cabal have a chantry?
5. Does it control a node?

 

Society

1. How did you get inducted into your Tradition/Convention?
2. How do you view the Traditions, Technocracy, Nephandi, Marauders, Umbrood, and other supernatural creatures?
3. What is your opinion of Reality as it is right now?
4. How do you practice your magic/enlightened science? What are the theories behind them?
5. What type of foci/apparatus do you use to do your magick/enlightened science?