Getting into Character - some useful links

Here are some questions to consider when trying to get into the headspace of your character. There are other questionnaires listed underneath.

• What is your apparent age?
  
• What is your actual age?
  
• When did you die?
  

• How happy were you with your human life?
  
• What did you do for a living?
  
  
  
  • Did you find it fulfilling?
    
  • Would you still be doing it now if you hadn't died?
    
  
  
  

• What was your relationship with your friends and family?
  
• What do they think happened to you?
  
  
  
  • Are they still looking for you?
    
  
  
  
• What unfinished business do you have with them?
  
• Are you still keeping tabs on them?
  

• How do you feel about being dead?
  
• Who was your sire and what was your relationship with him or her like?
  
• How did your sire find and Embrace you?
  
• Did your sire approach you pretending to be a mortal, or were you snatched away into a back alley somewhere? Etc?
  
• Why did your sire choose you for the embrace?
  
  
  
  • Do you even know?
    
  
  
  

• How do you feel about your Clan?
  
• How well do you fit it's stereotype? (In other words, if you're Nosferatu, does it bother you much being ugly? If you're Ventrue, are you as arrogant as other Kindred believe those in your clan to be? Etc.)
  

• How do you deal with the "logistics" of being a vampire?
  
• What are you feeding habits like?
  
• What are you typical hunting grounds?
  
• What method do you use to find and isolate your prey?
  

• Where do you prefer to keep a haven?
  
  
  
  • Why?
    
  
  
  
• Do you look for luxury and comfort or more practical concerns like security?
  

• Why are you in Kingston?
  

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Other useful questionnaires:

http://www.plus1gaming.com/2011/07/20-questions-for-deep-character-creation/