Creating Player Characters

    Let me start by saying I actually used to run Vampire the Masquerade before I began DMing for D&D. I even played a little here and there. Well having ran or played in vampire games I got pretty bored with it and needed a change. So I decided to start my first campaign. I went and got the basic books needed. Even got my fiancé and out three kids to play. 

    I began to help them build their characters. My fiancé decides she wants to play Tiefling Sorcerer who was once a sky pirate captain. She had fallen in love, given up being a pirate and had a family. One day her old crew finds her. Kidnaps her family and leaves her for dead. Then we expanded on that by saying her sorcerer powers as it were came from her desire to rescue her family. 

    Next my son who is about fourteen when we started is going to play a Dragonborn Paladin. Before he was a Paladin he was a criminal who had blackmailed a noble and gotten his father killed. After that I sat with him and we figured out that the reason he became a Paladin was out of guilt for being the reason his father died. 

    Then my fiancé son thirteen who picks to play a Half-Orc Cleric former folk hero who gave up the glory of battle to lead a life to his deity. And last my daughter who became a Tiefling Ranger by the way she is nine. Wants to be a noble who learns she has a half sister and goes out in the world to find her sibling. This sibling of course is my fiancé. 

    

    Here I had four PCs. Two that had been bad guys and two that had been pillars of the community. I started everyone off at level 1 so they understood that like me they would grow in the game. I as a DM and them as players. Of course I never knew about session zero as it were and we took a few weeks to work on everyone's characters before we started but that wasn't the point. The point was we had fun.

    Now I’m looking over their character sheets and backstories and thinking Holy fuck this is some good stuff like I would’ve never thought of having a criminal become a Paladin or noble as a Ranger. So how was I going to get turn this into a campaign they could all enjoy? Well like any story you will have to wait and see.