Explore your character’s background by answering the background questions in your character guide. Several prompts are provided to jumpstart inspiration, but you or the GM can modify or replace these questions to fit the character you’re looking to play. The prompts are a jumping-off point if you don’t know where to start, but they should never inhibit your creativity.

The decisions you make about your character’s background are purely narrative, but they deeply impact the character you’re playing and the story the GM is preparing for your adventures. Over the course of character creation, feel free to adjust mechanical choices you made in earlier steps to better reflect this background as you shape your character.

If you’re planning to play in a campaign, you can continue developing your character after the background questions in whatever way works best for you. Just remember to give the GM your backstory so they can work any people, places, or ideas from it into the campaign. You can also choose not to do any more background work, instead finding out more about your character as you play. Lean into a process that’s fun for you.