A review by ethancf
The Ultimate RPG Character Backstory Guide: Prompts and Activities to Create the Most Interesting Story for Your Character by James D'Amato

4.0

I'm planning on retiring one of my D&D characters in the nearish future for narrative reasons so I've been chomping at the bit to roll up his replacement. We'd just gotten this in at work so I brought it home and flipped through to give me some ideas or refine some more that I already had. There's a lot of great starting points in here so flipping through and cherry picking things works great, there's also a lot of options you might roll that aren't great themselves but give you enough of a kickstarter to think of one that better suits your character. I think this would be a great addition to a DM toolbox; make copies of some pages and hand them out to first-time players to help encourage them to not accidentally make a cliche.