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100 Warm Up DnD Character Questions

1. If your character wasn’t an adventurer, what livelihood would they
lead?
2. Who in the party would your character trust the most with their
life?
3. What are your character’s core moral beliefs?
4. What relationship does your character have with their parents and
siblings?
5. Does your character have any biases for or against certain races?
6. What is your character’s opinion on nobility? On authority?
7. Describe your character’s current appearance: clothes, armor,
scars they’ve picked up along the journey, etc.
8. What location encountered in the campaign has your character
felt the most “at home” in, or just generally liked the most?
9. What deity, if any, does your character worship? What’s their
opinion on other people’s worship?
10. If your character had time to pick up any artisan’s tools, game set,
instrument, etc., what would it be?
11. Describe your character’s current relationship with the player
character sitting to your right.
12. What is your character’s current goal, summed up in one
sentence?
13. Does your character ever want to “settle down” with a spouse,
children, house, etc.?
14. Has your character ever been in love?
15. What battle in the campaign has been most memorable to your
character?
16. If your character wasn’t whatever class they are, what would they
be instead?
17. What is your character’s favorite season?
18. What would your character’s Zodiac sign be, following
stereotypical astrology?
19. Where in the world does your character most want to visit?
20. What is the biggest mistake your character has ever made?
21. Does your character have any noticeable scars? If so, what are
their stories?
22. What animal best represents your character?
23. If your character could go back in time and change one thing
about their life, what would it be?
24. Which other player character does your character find themselves
having the most in common with?
25. Does your character regret any particular choice the party has
made?
26. What would your character say their best trait would be?
27. What is your character’s greatest fear? Deep, irrational?
28. What is currently motivating your character to stay with the
party?
29. What are your character’s hobbies and interests outside of their
class?
30. What would most people think when they first see your
character?
31. What stereotypical group role does your character play in the
party? (The Mom, the Mess, the Comic Relief, etc. Optionally:
What role would your character play in the “Five Man Band”
structure?)
32. What is your character the most insecure about?
33. What person does your character admire most?
34. What does your character admire and dislike the most about the
player character sitting to your left?
35. Why is your character’s lowest stat their lowest (the in-character
reason, not “because there’s no reason for a wizard to have 16
strength, duh”)?
36. What would be your character’s theme song/favorite
band/favorite genre of music?
37. What stereotypical role would your character play in a high school
AU/if they attended a normal high school? (Nerd, jock, bully, goth,
etc.)
38. What treasure/item/artifact that your character has collected
during the adventure is the most important to them?
39. Is there any particular weapon, item, etc. that your character
longs to find?
40. Where does your character feel the most at home?
41. Does your character care about how they’re perceived by others?
How do they change themselves to fit in with other people?
42. What does your character think is the true meaning of life?
43. What is your character’s scent? (Bonus points for a description
that sounds like it could be from a bad [or awesome] fanfic.)
44. Does your character think more with their heart or their brain?
45. What is your character’s most recent or frequent nightmare?
46. What opinion does your character have on [CERTAIN
ESTABLISHED GROUPS/AUTHORITIES IN THE GAME WORLD]?
(Dragonmarked Houses, royal crown, etc.)
47. How did your character spend their childhood? Where did they
grow up/who were their childhood friends?
48. What aspect of your character’s future are they most curious
about? (If they could know one thing about the future, what would
it be?)
49. What colors are associated with your character?
50. Who in the party would your character prioritize rescuing, in dire
circumstances?
51. Is your character the most swayed by ethos, pathos, or logos?
52. If your character was granted a single use of Wish, what would
they use it for?
53. What is your character’s favorite spell? If they don’t use spells:
what is their favorite personal weapon/combat
maneuver/skill/etc.?
54. How does your character feel about keeping secrets from the rest
of the party?
55. What type of creature in the world is your character the most
intrigued by?
56. When they were a child, what did your character want to be, or
think they were going to be, when they grew up?
57. The player character to your left admits that they’re passionately
in love with your character. How would your character respond?
58. If somebody (an NPC, someone from their backstory, etc.) your
character trusts/loves asked your character to do something
against the party’s best interest, who would they side with?
59. Does your character value their own best interest more than the
party’s?
60. What decision would the party have to make in order for your
character to consider splitting off from the group?
61. How does your character imagine the way they will die?
62. What is your character’s greatest achievement?
63. Is your character willing to risk the well-being of others in order to
achieve their goal?
64. What is your character’s opinion on killing others?
65. What is your character’s favorite food? Beverage?
66. How generous is your character? Especially to those they don’t
know?
67. What is your character the most envious about, regarding anyone
in the party?
68. The player character to your left and the player character to your
right are both telling your character two different versions of the
truth. Who does your character believe?
69. What is your character’s sexuality/relationship with sex?
70. What is your character’s biggest pet peeve?
71. Describe how your character feels about the party’s current
situation/objective/etc.
72. Who in the party would your character trust the most to keep an
important secret?
73. If your character knew that they were going to die in a month,
how would they spend the rest of their life?
74. What makes your character feel safe?
75. If your character had the chance to rename the party/give the
party a name, no questions asked, what would it be?
76. What memory does your character want to forget the most?
77. If your character had to multiclass into a class they currently
aren’t the next time they level up, what would it be and what
reason would they have for doing so?
78. What television/book/video game/etc. character would your
character be best friends with? (Or: what media character is your
character the most influenced by/similar to?
79. What unusual talents does your character possess?
80. How does your character feel about receiving/giving orders? Are
they more of a leader, or a follower?
81. What does your character’s name represent to them? (Or: why as
a player did you choose your character’s name?)
82. Is your character more of an introvert, or an extrovert?
83. How far is your character willing to go to pursue the “greater
good”? Do they believe in a greater good at all?
84. What does your character want to be remembered by?
85. What would be your character’s major in college?
 86. Does your character consider themselves a hero, villain, or
something else?
87. What major arcana tarot card best represents your character?
88. Where does your character see themselves in 20 years?
89. What is your character’s relationship with magic? Are they scared
of it, wish to know more about it, indifferent to it?
90. Who is your character’s biggest rival?
91. What is your character’s guiltiest pleasure?
92. What does your character hope for the afterlife?
93. Who in the party does your character trust the least?
94. What is your character’s biggest flaw?
95. How did your character learn the languages that they speak?
96. What is your character’s favorite school of magic/type of
weaponry?
97. What is most important to your character: health, wealth, or
happiness?
98. What advice would your character give to a younger version of
themselves?
99. Are there any social or political issues your character feels
strongly about?
100. What, currently, is your character the most curious about?

taken from here courtesy of @greyjediluke

oldearthmapping

@softbutchtaako you ask and I deliver…. the most recent one I

reblogged because I’m lazy and didn’t go hunting for another one XD

oldearthmapping

#i’m gonna grill my partymates

Please do! It’s too hot to go to sleep, Mr Accretionist is out with

friends and he wants to watch the rest of Good Omens with me and
I’ve mostly caught up on my Tumblr for the day, so like… as many as
you want I’ll do XD

#character creation

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