You give me a YouTube video of a gif ? Be gone ! <| sep |> This is a cool way of doing it . When I was talking to my players about what kind of character they ' d like to play , I was always asking things likeWhat type of character archetype are you interested in ? How did you get into adventuring ? Do you have any family ? What ' s your relationship with them like ? I basically kept asking a lot of questions and tried to prompt them thinking about these things , and I ' d ask things based on what their answers were . So the dwarf brewer took you on as an apprentice at a fairly young age . Did he see something in you ? Was he understaffed ? What ' s your relationship with him like now ? By the end of these conversations I really felt like something had been made more real . I think you ' re taking on a lot of pregame work in going through 3 sessions with each player , I found that it was basically 1 session ' s worth of informal chatting with each player to tease out character stuff . But whatever works , hope it goes well .