Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: Building a Backstory (CC2)

Creating an awesome character goes beyond the game’s basic options for race, class, statistical attributes, and equipment. Building a rich, compelling background story can bring your character to life. 

Understanding your character’s history helps you understand everything else about your character – what they care about, what their goals are, what they fear or despise, and how they make their decisions. And when you know all that, role play with your character gets a lot more fun. 

In this class, we’ll talk about ways to create your character’s background, and spend a little time brainstorming story ideas to create unique, dynamic character stories, too.  

We’ll begin class with a discussion about the importance of backstories and the process to create them, but we’ll spend most of our time in an interactive session where we’ll get creative together and brainstorm ideas to bring YOUR character to life.

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What will we do in class? 

This is a hands-on class where we’ll each develop ideas for our own character’s backstory, and contribute ideas for the other students’ characters, too. Together we’ll go over: 

     - Why knowing a character’s race, class, statistical attributes, and equipment is just the beginning of the character creation process 
     - The importance of backstory in understanding and playing a character 
     - Elements of a strong backstory 
     - Process for brainstorming and then deciding on a backstory 
     - An interactive brainstorming session, coming up with background stories and ideas for each student's character

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Who is this class for? 

This class is for students who already understand the basic rules of D&D, and have created at least one character before.  

If you are completely new to the game, I recommend my class Dungeons & Dragons for First-Time Adventurers to learn the basics first. And if you’ve not yet created a character, you can take my class Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: The Basics (CC1) to learn how. 

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What if I want more advanced training? 

This class is part of a four-part series on character creation. After you’ve taken this course, or if you are already an experienced D&D player, you can learn more advanced character creation techniques by taking CC3 and CC4. 

     - Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: The Basics (CC1)  
        https://tinyurl.com/y63b2egs

     - Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: Building a Backstory (CC2) 
        https://tinyurl.com/y4p9avr6

     - Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: Finding Your Class Path (CC3) 

     - Dungeons & Dragons Character Creation: Creating Your In-Game Story (CC4) 

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Ready to play?

If you're ready to start playing, think about joining the D&D Adventure Club, which meets Friday each week. More info at:  https://tinyurl.com/yy7ux48u.