Mandatory Questions

Instructions: If you can not give positive answers to all of these questions, you may be bored or even
unable to participate. At the very least, you will probably be background dressing.

1.What about you is heroic (or anti-heroic)?

2. What about you is social? What do you like about people?

3. Of what benefit could you be to a group?

4. Why would you choose to join a group?

5.What if there are no groups?

6. Invent an adventure/plot that your character would actively undertake (as opposed to just tagging
along)?

Part 1: The Basics

1.What is your full name?

2.Where and when were you born?

3.Who are/were your parents? (Know their names, occupations, personalities, etc.)

4.Do you have any siblings? What are/were they like?

5.Where do you live now, and with whom? Describe the place and the person/people.

6.What is your occupation?

7.Write a full physical description of yourself. You might want to consider factors such as: height,
weight, race, hair and eye color, style of dress, and any tattoos, scars, or distinguishing marks.

8.To which social class do you belong?

9.Do you have any allergies, diseases, or other physical weaknesses?

10. Are you right- or left-handed?

11. What does your voice sound like?

12. What words and/or phrases do you use very frequently?

13. What do you have in your pockets?

14. Do you have any quirks, strange mannerisms, annoying habits, or other defining characteristics?

Part 2: Growing Up
1. How would you describe your childhood in general?

2. What is your earliest memory?

3. How much schooling have you had?

4. Did you enjoy school?

5. Where did you learn most of your skills and other abilities?

6. While growing up, did you have any role models? If so, describe them.

7. While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family?

8. As a child, what did you want to be when you grew up?

9. As a child, what were your favorite activities?

10. As a child, what kinds of personality traits did you display?

11. As a child, were you popular? Who were your friends, and what were they like?

12. When and with whom was your first kiss?

13. Are you a virgin? If not, when and with whom did you lose your virginity?

14. If you are a supernatural being (i.e. mage, werewolf, vampire), tell the story of how you became
what you are or first learned of your own abilities. If you are just a normal human, describe any
influences in your past that led you to do the things you do today.

Part 3: Past Influences

1. What do you consider the most important event of your life so far?

2. Who has had the most influence on you?

3. What do you consider your greatest achievement?

4. What is your greatest regret?

5. What is the most evil thing you have ever done?

6. Do you have a criminal record of any kind?

7. When was the time you were the most frightened?

8. What is the most embarrassing thing ever to happen to you?

9. If you could change one thing from your past, what would it be, and why?

10. What is your best memory?

11. What is your worst memory?

Part 4: Occupational Questions

1.Do you have a job? What is it? Do you like it? If no job, where does your money come from?

2.What is your boss or employer like? (Or publisher, or agent, or whatever.)

3.What are your co-workers like? Do you get along with them? Any in particular? Which ones don't
you get along with?

4.What is something you had to learn that you hated?

5.Do you tend to save or spend your money? Why?

Part 5: Sex & Intimacy Questions

1.Would you consider yourself straight, gay, bi, or something else?

2.Do you currently have a lover? What is their name, and what is your relationship like? What are
they like? Why are you attracted to them?

3.Who was the first person you had sex with? When did it happen? What was it like? How well did it
go?

4.Have you ever had a same-sex experience? Who with, what was it like, and how did it go?

5.What is your deepest, most well-hidden sexual fantasy? Would you ever try it?

6.What was the wildest thing you've ever done, sexually? Who was it with and when did it happen?

7.Is there any sexual activity that you enjoy and/or practice regularly that can be considered non-
standard? (Bondage, Fantasy Play, etc.) Why do you like it?
8.Is there any sexual activity that you will not, under any circumstances, do?

9.What is the perfect romantic date?

10.Describe the perfect romantic partner for you.

11.Do you ever want to get married and have children? When do you see this happening?

12.What is more important - sex or intimacy? Why?

13.What was your most recent relationship like? Who was it with? (Does not need to be sexual,
merely romantic.)

14.What's the worst thing you've done to someone you loved?

Part 6: Drug & Alcohol Questions

1.Do you drink? If so, do you drink on any kind of regular basis?

2.Do you smoke tobacco (via cigaretts, pipe, hooka, etc)? If so, do you smoke on any kind of regular
basis?

3.Do you take any other recreational drugs? If so, do you take them on any kind of regular basis?

4.Do you take any medicaly necessary drugs for a cronic condition?

5.How old were you when you first got drunk/stoned? What was the experience like? Did anything
good come out of it? Did anything bad come out of it?

6.What kind of alcohol do you prefer?

7.Do you have a strong opinion about certain "mood altering" substances? Which one(s)? What did
you think of each?

8.What do you think of drugs and alcohol? Are there any people should not do? Why or why not?

Part 7: Morality & Religion Questions

1.Are you at all spiritual or religious? If so, what religion or spiritual path do you follow? How devout
are you?

2.What one act in your past are you most ashamed of? What one act in your past are you most proud
of?

3.Have you ever been in an argument before? Over what, with who, and who won?

4.Have you ever been in a physical fight before? Over what, with who, and who won?
5.What do you feel most strongly about?

6.What do you pretend to feel strongly about, just to impress people?

7.What trait do you find most admirable, and how often do you find it?

8.Is there anything you think should not be incorporated into the media, art, or culture (sex,
violence, greed, etc.,)? If so, what and why, and if not, why not?

9.Do you have any feelings in general that you are disturbed by? What are they? Why do they
disturb you?

10.Do you hate or distrust members of any religion? Which ones? Why?

11.Do you think the future is hopeful? Why?

12.Do the ends justify the means? Why do you feel this way?

13.What's the worst thing that can be done to another person? Why?

14.What's the worst thing you would actually be capable of doing to someone you hated?

15.What is your responsibility to the world, if any? Why do you think that?

16.Do you think redemption is possible? If so, can anyone be redeemed, or are there only certain
circumstances that can be? If not, why do you think no one can redeem themselves?

17.Is it okay for you to cry? When was the last time you cried?

18.What do you think is wrong with MOST people, overall?

19.Do you try to abide by any particular view of morality? If so describe it.

20.Which religions, philosophies, and schools of thought have influinced your moral code the most?
(examples: Utilitarianism, Nhilism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Kant, Pacifism, etc)

21.Do you have a belief concerning death and the afterlife that is different than the one most
commonly held in your society? If so what do you believe?

Part 8: Relationships With Others

1. In general, how do you treat others (politely, rudely, by keeping them at a distance, etc.)? Does
your treatment of them change depending on how well you know them, and if so, how?
2. Who is the most important person in your life, and why?

3. Who is the person you respect the most, and why?

4. Who are your friends? Do you have a best friend? Describe these people.

5. Do you have a spouse or significant other? If so, describe this person.

6. Have you ever been in love? If so, describe what happened.

7. What do you look for in a potential lover?

8. How close are you to your family?

9. Have you started your own family? If so, describe them. If not, do you want to? Why or why
not?

10. Who would you turn to if you were in desperate need of help?

11. Do you trust anyone to protect you? Who, and why?

12. If you died or went missing, who would miss you?

13. Who is the person you despise the most, and why?

14. Do you tend to argue with people, or avoid conflict?

15. Do you tend to take on leadership roles in social situations?

16. Do you like interacting with large groups of people? Why or why not?

17. Do you care what others think of you?

Part 9: Miscellaneous Questions

1. What is the thing that has frightened you most? Do you think there is anything out there that's
scarier than that? What do you think that would be?

2. Has anyone or anything you've ever cared about died? How did you feel about it? What happened?

3. What was the worst injury you've ever received? How did it happen?

4. What is your current long term goal?

5. What is your current short term goal?

6. Do you have any bad habits? If so, what are they, and do you plan to get rid of them?

7. If you were a normal person (not an adventurer/without special powers), what would you do with
your life? What occupation would you want, and how would you spend all your time?

8. What time period do you wish you had lived in? Why? What appeals to you about this era? (Do not
view this as an attempt to change history.)

9. How private of a person are you? Why?

10. If you were to gain an obscenely large sum of money (via an inhertiance, a lawsuit, a lottery, or
anything else) what would you do with it?

11. What would you wish for if you found a genie?

12. What do you do when you are bored?

13. What is the most frightening potential handicap or disfigurement you can conceive of? What
makes it so frightening?

14. Are you a better leader or follower? Why do you think that? If you think the whole leader-
follower archetype is a crock of shit, say so, and explain why?

15. What is your most prized mundane possession? Why do you value it so much?

Part 10: Likes And Dislikes

1. What is/are your favorite hobbies and pastimes?

2. What is your most treasured possession?

3. What is your favorite color?

4. What is your favorite food?

5. What, if anything, do you like to read?

6. What is your idea of good entertainment (consider music, movies, art, etc.)?

7. Do you smoke, drink, or use drugs? If so, why? Do you want to quit?

8. How do you spend a typical Saturday night?

9. What makes you laugh?

10. What, if anything, shocks or offends you?

11. What would you do if you had insomnia and had to find something to do to amuse yourself?

12. How do you deal with stress?

13. Are you spontaneous, or do you always need to have a plan?

14. What are your pet peeves?

Part 11: Self Images And Etc.

1. Describe the routine of a normal day for you. How do you feel when this routine is disrupted?

2. What is your greatest strength as a person?

3. What is your greatest weakness?

4. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

5. Are you generally introverted or extroverted?

6. Are you generally organized or messy?

7. Name three things you consider yourself to be very good at, and three things you consider
yourself to be very bad at.

8. Do you like yourself?

9. What are your reasons for being an adventurer (or doing the strange and heroic things that RPG
characters do)? Are your real reasons for doing this different than the ones you tell people in
public? (If so, detail both sets of reasons…)

10. What goal do you most want to accomplish in your lifetime?

11. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

12. If you could choose, how would you want to die?

13. If you knew you were going to die in 24 hours, name three things you would do in the time you had
left.

14. What is the one thing for which you would most like to be remembered after your death?

15. What three words best describe your personality?

16. What three words would others probably use to describe you?

17. If you could, what advice would you, the player, give to your character? (You might even want to
speak as if he or she were sitting right here in front of you, and use proper tone so he or she might
heed your advice…)

Part 12: Moral Foundations Questionnaire

Part 1. When you decide whether something is right or wrong, to what extent are the following considerations
relevant to your thinking? Please rate each statement using this scale:

[0] = not at all relevant (This consideration has nothing to do with my judgments of right and wrong)
[1] = not very relevant
[2] = slightly relevant
[3] = somewhat relevant
[4] = very relevant
[5] = extremely relevant (This is one of the most important factors when I judge right and wrong)

______1. Whether or not someone suffered emotionally

______2. Whether or not some people were treated differently than others
______3. Whether or not someone’s action showed love for his or her country
______4. Whether or not someone showed a lack of respect for authority
______5. Whether or not someone violated standards of purity and decency
______6. Whether or not someone was good at math
______7. Whether or not someone cared for someone weak or vulnerable
______8. Whether or not someone acted unfairly
______9. Whether or not someone did something to betray his or her group
______10. Whether or not someone conformed to the traditions of society
______11. Whether or not someone did something disgusting
______12. Whether or not someone was cruel
______13. Whether or not someone was denied his or her rights
______14. Whether or not someone showed a lack of loyalty
______15. Whether or not an action caused chaos or disorder
______16. Whether or not someone acted in a way that God would approve of

Part 2. Please read the following sentences and indicate your agreement or disagreement:
[0] [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
Strongly Moderately Slightly Slightly Moderately Strongly
disagree disagree disagree agree agree agree

______17. Compassion for those who are suffering is the most crucial virtue.
______18. When the government makes laws, the number one principle should be ensuring that everyone is
treated fairly.
______19. I am proud of my country’s history.
______20. Respect for authority is something all children need to learn.
______21. People should not do things that are disgusting, even if no one is harmed.
______22. It is better to do good than to do bad.
______23. One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal.
______24. Justice is the most important requirement for a society.
______25. People should be loyal to their family members, even when they have done something wrong.
______26. Men and women each have different roles to play in society.
______27. I would call some acts wrong on the grounds that they are unnatural.
______28. It can never be right to kill a human being.
______29. I think it’s morally wrong that rich children inherit a lot of money while poor children inherit
nothing.
______30. It is more important to be a team player than to express oneself.
______31. If I were a soldier and disagreed with my commanding officer’s orders, I would obey anyway
because that is my duty.
______32. Chastity is an important and valuable virtue.

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To score the MFQ yourself, you can copy your answers into the grid below. Then add up the 6 numbers in each
of the five columns and write each total in the box at the bottom of the column. The box then shows your
score on each of 5 psychological “foundations” of morality. Scores run from 0-30 for each foundation.
(Questions 6 and 22 are just used to catch people who are not paying attention. They don't count toward your
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Part 13: The Ethics Position Questionnaire
Please indicate if you agree or disagree with the following items. Each represents a commonly held
opinion and there are no right or wrong answers. We are interested in your reaction to such matters of
opinion. Rate your reaction to each statement by writing a number to the left of each statement where:
1 = Completely disagree
2 = Largely disagree
3 = Moderately disagree
4 = Slightly disagree
5 = Neither agree nor disagree
6 = Slightly agree
7 = Moderately agree
8 = Largely agree
9 = Completely agree

1. People should make certain that their actions never intentionally harm another even to a small degree.

2. Risks to another should never be tolerated, irrespective of how small the risks might be.

3. The existence of potential harm to others is always wrong, irrespective of the benefits to be gained.

4. One should never psychologically or physically harm another person.

5. One should not perform an action which might in any way threaten the dignity and welfare of another
individual.

6. If an action could harm an innocent other, then it should not be done.

7. Deciding whether or not to perform an act by balancing the positive consequences of the act against
the negative consequences of the act is immoral.

8. The dignity and welfare of the people should be the most important concern in any society.

9. It is never necessary to sacrifice the welfare of others.

10. Moral behaviors are actions that closely match ideals of the most “perfect” action.

11. There are no ethical principles that are so important that they should be a part of any code of ethics.

12. What is ethical varies from one situation and society to another.

13. Moral standards should be seen as being individualistic; what one person considers to be moral may
be judged to be immoral by another person.

14. Different types of morality cannot be compared as to “rightness.”

15. Questions of what is ethical for everyone can never be resolved since what is moral or immoral is up
to the individual.

16. Moral standards are simply personal rules that indicate how a person should behave, and are not be
be applied in making judgments of others.

17. Ethical considerations in interpersonal relations are so complex that individuals should be allowed to
formulate their own individual codes.

18. Rigidly codifying an ethical position that prevents certain types of actions could stand in the way of
better human relations and adjustment.

19. No rule concerning lying can be formulated; whether a lie is permissible or not permissible totally
depends upon the situation.

20. Whether a lie is judged to be moral or immoral depends upon the circumstances surrounding the
action.