Question Karte | 280 questions for your OC and TRPG characters

Start and end of the day

• What’s the first thing you do when you wake up?
• How’s your mood right after waking?
• Early riser or night owl?
• What do you wear to sleep?
• What do you always do before bed?
• Any dream you keep having?
• What’s your favorite time of day?
• If tomorrow were a day off, what would you do?

Food

• Name one food you love.
• What food can’t you stand?
• Do you prefer eating with someone, or alone?
• Sweet or spicy?
• What do you usually order to drink?
• Name one thing you can cook.
• What do you do when you’re hungry?
• What was the last thing you ate?

Everyday life

• If someone saw your room, what would catch their eye first?
• What do you carry with you?
• What’s the oldest thing you own?
• What household chore are you good at?
• What household chore are you bad at?
• When shopping, do you dither or already know?
• What do you want right now?
• What’s the best thing you’ve ever gotten?
• How much do you bring when you go out?
• What do you keep forgetting?

About yourself

• How do you feel about your own name?
• What do you want to be called?
• What’s your favorite color?
• How do you pick what to wear?
• What do you do with your hair?
• What do you like about your own face?
• What do you think of your own voice?
• Name one thing you’re good at.
• Name one thing you’re bad at.
• What kind of thing do you pick up quickly?
• How good are you with your hands?
• Can we count on you for heavy lifting?

How feelings show

• When you laugh, is it out loud?
• When did you last cry?
• What happens when you get angry?
• What does your face do when you panic?
• When you lie, where does it show?
• Where do you keep your secrets?
• How do you respond to a compliment?
• What do you say when you apologize?
• What word slips out without meaning to?
• What do you mutter to yourself?

Meeting people

• What do you talk about first with someone new?
• Faces or names: which do you remember first?
• Big groups or small ones: which is easier?
• What do you do when a conversation dies?
• Are you good at asking for favors?
• How do you say no?
• What do you do when someone tells you a secret?
• If you get lost, do you ask someone?
• Do you show up early to meet people?
• Who do you most want to see right now?

Likes and dislikes

• What’s your favorite season?
• Heat or cold: which is more bearable?
• How do you spend a rainy day?
• What’s a sound you love?
• What’s a sound you hate?
• What’s a smell you love?
• When do you sing?
• Name one song you know by heart.
• What do you do with time alone?
• What’s in your head when you’re bored?

When the body moves

• Do you like moving your body?
• What happens if you’re made to stand somewhere high?
• Walking a dark road alone, what do you think about?
• A bug shows up. What do you do?
• You run into an animal. What do you do?

Places

• Where do you want to go someday?
• Where would you never go back to?
• Describe where you are now in one word.
• Picture the place you go home to. What do you see?
• If you took a detour, where to?

Last one

• What do you need least right now?
• One thing you haven’t said yet today.

The past

• What’s your earliest memory?
• What did you want to be as a child?
• If your younger self saw you now, what would they say?
• If you could go back, which day would you return to?
• What can’t you forget, even though you want to?
• What did you leave behind back then?
• Who influenced you the most?
• What was the first pain you remember?
• When did you feel you’d become an adult?
• What old habit still lingers?

Regrets and mistakes

• What’s your biggest regret?
• Is there someone you never got to apologize to?
• Was that choice the right one?
• What did you think could never be undone?
• How do you deal with your own mistakes?
• Is there someone you haven’t forgiven?
• Have you forgiven yourself?
• If you could start over, from where?
• What did you pretend not to see?
• What’s one thing you wish you’d said?

What you believe

• Name one thing you won’t give up.
• What do you live for?
• Being right or being kind: which do you choose?
• What do you want to protect?
• Do you think some lies are necessary?
• What do you trust when you decide?
• Could you throw everything away for someone?
• Is there something you’d dirty your hands for?
• What human behavior do you hate most?
• What rules do you keep for yourself?

Distance from others

• Who’s closest to you?
• Have you told them everything?
• Is there something you’ve told no one?
• Can you lean on people?
• When do you want to be alone?
• Have you ever been left behind?
• Have you ever left someone behind?
• What does your face do when you say goodbye?
• If you could send one line to someone you’ll never see again, what would it say?
• Is anyone waiting for you?

Weakness

• What scares you most?
• On sleepless nights, what do you think about?
• When do you cry?
• When you’re at your weakest, who must not see?
• Can you say “help me”?
• When you’re about to break, what do you hold on to?
• What do you hate about yourself?
• Where do you hide what you’re hiding?
• What face do you never want seen?
• What are you putting up with that no one has noticed?

How you see yourself

• Do you think you’re kind?
• How do you think others see you?
• How far is that from the truth?
• Do expectations weigh on you?
• Being praised or being needed: which do you prefer?
• If you gave yourself a score, what would it be?
• Describe yourself in one word.
• Have you become someone you didn’t want to be?
• Where are you imitating someone else?
• Where is the real you?

Choosing

• When you’re torn, what settles it in the end?
• The many or yourself: which do you choose?
• Someone dear or something dear: which do you choose?
• Have you ever abandoned someone?
• How do you carry responsibility?
• Have you ever gone back on a decision?
• Have you ever changed someone’s life?
• What have you let go of?
• What became of the road you didn’t take?
• If you could choose again, would you choose the same?

What’s ahead

• Where will you be in ten years?
• If one wish came true?
• When it ends, who do you want beside you?
• Is there something you want to leave behind?
• What do you want to be remembered as?
• What haven’t you given up on yet?
• If it all vanished tomorrow, what would you do today?
• When did you feel happy?
• Are you fulfilled right now?
• If you had one last thing to say, what would it be?

Wild what-ifs

• One thing to bring to a desert island?
• Starting tomorrow you can’t speak for a week. Your last words?
• If you could be someone else for a day, who?
• If you turned invisible, what’s the first thing you’d do?
• If you could fly, where would you go?
• If you could stop time, what would you use it for?
• Past or future: one trip only. Which?
• If you got one superpower?
• If you could change one rule of the world?
• The world ends tomorrow, then resets five minutes later. What do you do?

Something’s wrong with your body

• You suddenly shrank 3 cm. What now?
• You wake up with a tail. What now?
• If you swapped voices with someone, whose would you want?
• If you could only wear one outfit for life, what would it be?
• If one part of your body could glow, which part?
• Only soup forever, or only bread forever?
• If you never needed sleep, what would you do with the time?
• If you had four eyes, what would you use them for?
• If you could grow extra hands, how many?
• If you could be an animal for a day, which one?

Odd talents, odd habits

• Tell us one weird talent.
• One pointless thing you’re particular about.
• What habit has made people sigh at you?
• What’s the dumbest thing you’ve cried over?
• One brag you can’t brag to anyone about.
• Something you can do that’s totally useless?
• The most useless fact you remember?
• What’s your best impression?
• What weird thing do you do when you’re alone?
• What’s trending inside your head right now?

Contests

• Name one contest you could win.
• What contest would you definitely lose?
• What contest would you swap bodies with someone to win?
• Rock, paper, scissors: what do you throw first?
• Hide-and-seek: where do you hide?
• Speed-eating: what could you win with?
• How good are you at staring contests?
• At a liars’ contest, what lie would you tell?
• If you were allowed to shout, what would you yell?
• What could you be the best at?

Strange situations

• You walk into a room where everyone has your face. What now?
• Someone falls flat right in front of you. First move?
• A stranger waves at you. What now?
• Your stomach growls at a crucial moment. What now?
• You realize your shirt’s on backwards. What now?
• Someone keeps calling you the wrong name. When do you correct them?
• There’s a box you must not open. What now?
• There’s a button that says DO NOT PRESS. What now?
• Someone hugs you from behind out of nowhere. First words?
• You overhear someone badmouthing you. What now?

Wants

• You must spend a fortune by tomorrow. What do you buy?
• If one thing were free forever, what would you pick?
• What do you buy even when it’s overpriced?
• What was your biggest waste of money?
• Is there anything you’d quietly pocket if you found it?
• Treating or being treated: which is easier?
• Are you lucky with raffles?
• Are you good at haggling?
• If you were allowed to steal one thing, what would you go for?
• If you never had to work again, what would you do?

Pointless either-or

• Dogs or cats?
• Mountains or sea?
• Morning bath or night bath?
• Sweet breakfast or savory breakfast?
• Favorite food first, or saved for last?
• Sitting: edge or middle?
• Do you read the manual?
• When lost: push on, or turn back?
• Sleepy or hungry: which makes you grumpier?
• Do you run hot or cold?

Last one

• Give yourself a weird nickname.
• Come up with a name for your finishing move.
• Give us your catchphrase.
• If you had an entrance theme, what would it sound like?
• If they built a statue of you, what pose?
• What goes on your gravestone?
• Introduce yourself in one line. Exaggerate as much as you can.
• A hundred steps from now, what are you doing?
• What’s the most useless thing in this room?
• Lastly, say one thing that means nothing.

What was lost

• What did you lose that still hasn’t been filled?
• Do you still remember their voice?
• Tell us about the last day you saw them.
• Among what they left, what can’t you throw away?
• What did you only understand once they were gone?
• When were you unable to cry?
• At what moment did you know it wouldn’t come back?
• Is there a name that hurts to say?

What you carry

• Have you ever broken someone with what you did?
• What are you still leaving unsaid?
• Do you think you can make up for it?
• Have you ever been the one left, in someone else’s place?
• Is there someone you want to be forgiven by?
• If you judged yourself, what would the sentence be?
• Have you ever let a hand pass that you could have reached?
• What did you swear never to do again?

Alone

• Tell us about a night you felt no one needed you.
• Have you ever called out and had no one come?
• What’s the longest you’ve been alone?
• Do you think the world would go on unchanged without you?
• When did you lose the place you go home to?
• When someone says “I understand,” what do you feel?
• Are you still afraid of being touched?
• Why did you decide being alone was easier?

What broke

• Have you been betrayed by something you believed in?
• What would you have to lose to stop being yourself?
• Has anyone told you that you’ve changed?
• Can you face who you used to be?
• What did you swear to protect, and fail to?
• When did you doubt you were in the right?
• Where was the line you knew you couldn’t come back from?
• Is there a name you threw away?

Even so

• When you couldn’t stand, what got you up?
• Why do you keep going?
• What would you need to carry on?
• If you could be honest just once, to whom, and what would you say?
• When you wanted to throw it all away, what held you back?
• Who haven’t you forgiven yet? Yourself?
• What do you intend to let go of from here?
• After it’s over, what do you hope remains?