Reviews
James D'Amato's The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide contains a wealth of exercises that can be used to enrich RPG characters and their interactions with others through the use of improvisational storytelling techniques, something James has a great deal of experience with, having trained at Second City and iO in Chicago in improvisational comedy., "I can give The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide the following praise - it's inspired me to want to kick off a new RPG Campaign for the first time in a year and a half. I want to DM a campaign and I want to play in a campaign. I want to pick through the guide for nuggets of inspiration, for added depth to my next game world. I can think of no better endorsement other than "this book will be used". Sadly, I can't say that for the vast majority of my gaming collection.", The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide will not only help spark the beginner's mind to create a healthy backstory, but will also help veterans find aspects of their character that they may have never considered before. Anyone with an imagination could take a blank slate and come out with an interesting character on the other end. If anyone asked me for advice, my first suggestion would be this book and I would even recommend my favorite activities., This guide's a little funny, a little awesome, and also perfectly geeky. The activities in this guide are super fun!, Your character creating journey itself seems like a game, there's space available to write in the book which I feel helps add to pencil and paper feel to the famed tabletop RPGs! What I like about this book is even if you don't want to play with others, you could entertain yourself by creating characters for fun OR to help you create characters for a book or short story. From what I've read so far, this book is pure fun. If someone like me who knows little to nothing about traditional RPG's could enjoy this book, then other newcomers to the genre and returning heroes from past fellowships will find something in this for them., And I really love some of these exercises. I'm almost always running games these days, but when I do get a chance to play I often feel like my characters' lives are so much more nuanced than what we see on screen; these are people that I'd like to get to know better. The Ultimate Guide promises to help you do just that, and creates an avenue for you to continue playing the game without your GM or the rest of the party, and it largely succeeds., In addition to backstory though, the guide also helped me consider new ways to progress in an RPG in a way that properly fit my character. That isn't to say I had been playing wrong of course, just that I had not considered every option available, or what the best option actually was. This was another reason why the book was popular among players I shared it with, and I feel both longtime and newcomer players of RPGs will get a lot out of it. I truly recommend it a great deal., The author James D'Amato has created a great reference guide for RPG fans with The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide . The 140 page book manages to cover all the intricate details of creating the perfect character for all of your favorite RPG games. The book has a slew of activities and exercises to flesh out your fantasy character by pushing the reader to delve into their own imagination., It truly is an RPG guide that hopes to make everyone a bit more excited for the RPG experience. Again, as mentioned above, it's incredibly useful for those trying to get a kickstart into creating a story for their friends... I can dig this guide and its purpose... Anyway, there isn't a lot to dislike about this book. It shoots straight, it works for what it is, and it feels open. I particularly enjoyed the fact that there are spaces for writers/game masters to fill in the blanks to answer questions, as well as make notes... it is a good book that does truly act as a guide. It will certainly help to kickstart ideas for characters, stories, and situations that pure RPGers can get behind., "If you're the type of person that's looking for inspiration in creating your next character, or if you're trying to find ideas to make your current character more interesting, "The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create the Most Interesting Story for Your Character" is worth your time. You may not use every exercise in this book, but they're all worth reading.", In what seemed like it would be a novelty item to your RPG adventure, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide comes off far more as a requirement for crafting your character... I absolutely enjoyed this. I tried to be a bit critical and think what this book lacked. There's really not much... The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is still a really essential guide for crafting your player character to their fullest. For me, this gave me the opportunity to delve a bit deeper into my own character in some rather interesting ways that I never thought about. Highly recommended., Whether you are a DM/GM that wants to encourage their players to have deeper characters and create more engaging Non-Player Characters (NPCs), or a player looking to bolster their roleplaying by establishing more about a character's origin, or even an author in need of a tool to assist in building believable characters, relationships, and establishing world building, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is a perfect supplement to any game's character creation process. Ever activity is well thought out and cover a broad range of impact to the character and the world they live in. Some are silly and fun, while others dig deep into a character's major events. For RPG veterans and new players alike grabbing The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is a sure way to expand your overall RPG experiences!, The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is the perfect way to create a unique character for yourself, and no two characters made using this book will be the same... Even if you don't intend to use your character for anything, going through this book will give you an appreciation for the skill of creating characters. Whether for video games, literature, D&D or even comic books... The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is a gem for all dungeon masters, and for anyone who may find themselves with the need to create characters with depth. I could even picture indie developers who may not have their own creative resources, utilizing this book to flesh out characters in their RPGs. At $10.39 for the paperback currently, this book is completely worth the price., The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide is a great resource for those who love playing tabletop RPGs. It gives a ton of simple yet effective exercises and activities that help stimulate the player's mind as they create their character, I highly recommend adding this guide among the other handbooks that are used to create adventures.
