Fleshing Out Characters

[Rayna Star 167]

As I'm in the process of making a new DnD character, I wanted to ask what everyone's favorite resources are for fleshing out character personalities/traits. Do you have a list of quirks you like to pick from? A multiple-choice psychology quiz? An article on writing characters well? Drop me some links. :)

[tadabug2000 4924]

I like picking something to base them around, some of my best characters have admittedly been based around like, one of the seven sins type thing. Greed, vanity, gluttony, whatever. I'd pick one of those and usually some general concept, like, 'greedy scholar' and build from there. I find it helps to start them as children, as well, it lets me have natural persona development ontop of a natural fault and idea that helps the making of the persona