Alternate Backgrounds
These can be used in concert with the original Background Charts.
First, we have the Alternate Background Chart.
Player Character Secrets
You have a secret that causes you to feel Embarrassment, Guilt, or Shame. You hope no one finds out about it! Roll 1d20 or choose OR make up your own!
1) Caused the death of a Hero or Publicly-Loved NPC
You killed the Wrong Guy, or lost the Pardon, etc
2) You are the reason some Villain or Menace is alive today
You stopped someone else from killing him (on purpose or accident)
3) Related to some Big Bad or Embarrassing Outcast
It can’t be good for your rep to be Darth Vader’s kid
4) Lost a lover to a rival
Did you drive them away, or did you just seem boring compared to the other guy?
5) Stole a lover (on purpose or not) from a Close Friend
Perhaps you did it on purpose; perhaps the lover was flighty and fickle to begin with
6) Former member of a Gang or Cult
How proud would you be if everyone learned you used to be in the Clown Gang?
7) A misunderstanding or scandal cost you a Close Friend
There was no betrayal on either side, but you’re too proud to admit your wrongdoing
8) A misunderstanding or scandal cost you a Position in some Organization
You didn’t really feel up the Dean’s daughter, but you still didn’t get tenure
9) You squandered your money on an obvious scam
You sent a small fortune to a Nigerian Prince
10) Secretly the Child of a prominent NPC
Hope no one realizes you’re the King’s runaway son
11) You practice a “wimpy” or “effeminate” hobby
Like the Manly Art of Flower Pressing!
12) Recovering from some Vice like drinking, drugs, gambling, etc
Because some people think “Once a junkie, always a junkie!”
13) Secretly suffering from a long slow disease
Hope no one finds out you have Dwarven Beard Cancer or Jefferroids!
14) You nearly died once because of a freak one-in-a-million self-inflicted accident
You were just walking along when you tripped and fell onto your own weapon
15) Had a brief love affair with a member of the ugliest race in the game
Because Porcine Francine of the Butt-Ugly Orc Tribe has a great personality!
16) You gambled your family into indentured servitude to a Noble or Mobster!
Man…you had the second-best hand in the whole game!
17) Once indulged in cannibalism (did you know it?)
I
mean, they were the best meat pies in
18) Once lived in extreme poverty and squallor
You had to eat leftover rats and used both sides of the toilet paper
19) You are secretly an agent of some prominent NPC
Secret Agent Man!
20) You have (roll any die) Even=1d12 Months, Odd=1d4 Years that you can’t remember
NO memories at all! Dun, dun…DUNNN!!!
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