Character Background 16 Cards
So here is a spread that gives you the basic outline for a backstory. One of the areas has to do with a professional life. If you’re dealing with a young character who might not have experienced a professional life, this can be interchanged with a social life, education, etc. Likewise, if you’re dealing with an older character and you want to include a social and/or education experience, all you have to do is add rows to the spread.
Source: https://karmastartarot.com/2019/04/16/day-16-of-30-day-tarot-writing-challenge-character-background/
Cards count: 16
- Card 1 - Family Life
- Card 2 - Difficulties in family life
- Card 3 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in family life
- Card 4 - How does family life affect their plot
- Card 5 - Romantic Life
- Card 6 - Difficulties in romantic life
- Card 7 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in romantic life
- Card 8 - How does romantic life affect their plot
- Card 9 - Social Life
- Card 10 - Difficulties in social life
- Card 11 - Success in overcoming the difficulties in social life
- Card 12 - How does social life affect their plot
- Card 13 - Ideology that carries on into the story
- Card 14 - Challenge/difficulty to the ideology
- Card 15 - How they react to the ideology being challenged
- Card 16 - How the ideology and events around it affect the plot
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Created: 2021-01-30 by user
gokuharagonta1998
Moon
Ace of Pentacles
Four of Swords
Star
Eight of Swords
Two of Pentacles
Knight of Wands
Seven of Pentacles
Three of Swords
Ten of Cups
Tower
Five of Swords
King of Wands
Judgement
King of Pentacles
Queen of Wands
Ace of Cups
Page of Pentacles
Knight of Cups
Four of Wands
Four of Pentacles
High Priestess
Eight of Wands
Sun
King of Swords
Nine of Cups
Ten of Wands
Three of Cups
Three of Pentacles
Hanged Man
Four of Cups
Death
Emperor
Page of Cups
Queen of Pentacles
Nine of Swords
Seven of Cups
Two of Wands
Eight of Cups
Magician
Knight of Pentacles
Eight of Pentacles
Five of Cups
Hermit
Fool
Seven of Wands
Ace of Wands
Devil
Two of Cups
Empress
Queen of Cups
Queen of Swords
Page of Wands
Strength
Five of Pentacles
Ten of Swords
King of Cups
Hierophant
Six of Cups
Page of Swords
Two of Swords
Six of Pentacles
Justice
Seven of Swords
Wheel of Fortune
Chariot
Lovers
Three of Wands
Temperance
Nine of Pentacles
Nine of Wands
Six of Swords
Ace of Swords
World
Knight of Swords
Ten of Pentacles
Five of Wands
Six of Wands
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"This is tarot spread that I've designed for randomly creating characters for use in roleplaying games and possibly other forms of storytelling as well."
Mentioned in source section.
Cards count: 7
Cards:
1) Concept: the character's basic position in their story.;
2) Impulse: the character's wants/needs/etc.;
3) Ideal: the character's beliefs/goals/etc.;
4) The Past: how their saga began.;
5) The Interim: what happened to bring them from the past to the present.;
6) The Present: what is currently happening.;
7) The Future: what is likely to happen in the future..
Cards count: 7
Cards:
1) Concept: the character's basic position in their story.;
2) Impulse: the character's wants/needs/etc.;
3) Ideal: the character's beliefs/goals/etc.;
4) The Past: how their saga began.;
5) The Interim: what happened to bring them from the past to the present.;
6) The Present: what is currently happening.;
7) The Future: what is likely to happen in the future..
Draws 8 tarot cards, each has its own category.
Cards will be completely random, so uprights and reversals are possible.
You can however treat them all as just uprights and go from there.
Inspired by: Mark McElroy & TarotTools.com.
Cards count: 8
Cards:
1) Appearance (Height, hair, eye colour, skin colour, general impression);
2) Age (In years or a description of apparent age);
3) Visual Signature (Clothes, posture, walk, or distinctive mannerism);
4) Backstory (Trauma, occupation, spirituality, pet peeve);
5) Primary Strength (What could story be solved by?);
6) Critical Flaw (What could progress be impeded by?);
7) Motivator (What does character lack, but long for?;
8) Problem-Solving (How does character react to conflict?).
Cards count: 8
Cards:
1) Appearance (Height, hair, eye colour, skin colour, general impression);
2) Age (In years or a description of apparent age);
3) Visual Signature (Clothes, posture, walk, or distinctive mannerism);
4) Backstory (Trauma, occupation, spirituality, pet peeve);
5) Primary Strength (What could story be solved by?);
6) Critical Flaw (What could progress be impeded by?);
7) Motivator (What does character lack, but long for?;
8) Problem-Solving (How does character react to conflict?).
For simple and direct answers. 3 cars will give you more details about the question. There’s no rules for this spread. You must consider the meaning of the cards jointly.
Cards count: 3
Cards:
1) Yes or no - 1rst part;
2) Yes or No - 2nd part;
3) Yes or No - 3rd part.
Cards count: 3
Cards:
1) Yes or no - 1rst part;
2) Yes or No - 2nd part;
3) Yes or No - 3rd part.