: Re: Resources for character development I'm weak at building characters. What resources are there to create rich characters? I'm thinking beyond name generators: Quirks, biography, diseases like allergies,

One thing you could try is looking at the Player Hand Books (PHBs) of some paper Role Playing Games like Dungeons and Dragons or Palladium. Some of these have tables that you are able to roll various dice against to get a random character. You can find games like these for almost any genre, but it really doesn't take much to modify from the fantasy books. Palladium has several tables based on character flaws, addictions, phobias, etc. if I remember correctly.

You can even use the tables as examples and substitute more applicable traits into your own tables.

There may even be online applications for these games (created by players) to automate character generation.

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