A backstory should be functional

Players who fall into the trap of instead writing a short story are wasting their effort — who needs all this useless information about the character’s childhood, filmic descriptions and dense prose? Thankfully there’s a better way.

The PDF provides scaffolding to the process of creative a character backstory, and additional pages for your character sheets. These extra sheets should help players structure their backstory in a way that gives the Dungeon Master more useful information.

Contents

• An instructional, five-step process for writing a great character background
• Suggestions about how to transform mechanical elements of the character sheet into narrative points-of-interest for your backstory
• Suggestions for scaffolding and formatting your backstory so it’s scannable useful to your Game Master
• Two stylized pages to add to your regular character sheets to accommodate your backstory

And check out this video related to the PDF