Session Zero Info
THE FIRM
Session Zero Character Questionnaire
Required Before Session One
This document helps the GM design cases, threats, and long-term story arcs around your character.
Keep answers concise but meaningful. Specific details are more useful than long paragraphs.
Professional Identity
1. What is your role within the firm?
(Investigator, tactical response, decker, mage, negotiator, analyst, surveillance specialist, etc.)
2. Why do you work for a structured private firm instead of freelancing?
3. What makes you especially good at your job?
(Identify one clear professional strength.)
Motivation & Personal Code
4. Why do you believe in what the firm does?
(Justice? Stability? Reputation? Redemption? Financial security?)
5. What line will you not cross on a job?
6. Under what circumstances would you bend the rules?
Personal Hooks (Adventure Fuel)
7. Who outside the firm matters to you?
(Name and relationship.)
8. Who in Seattle would prefer you fail?
(Former employer, rival, criminal contact, corporate figure, political adversary.)
9. What unfinished business follows you?
(A failed case, unresolved accusation, debt, betrayal, missing person, internal scandal.)
Team Integration
10. Why do you trust this team?
11. What kind of teammate frustrates you?
12. What do you contribute beyond your primary specialty?
(Contacts, morale, discipline, tactical planning, negotiation skill, etc.)
Pressure & Risk
13. How do you behave under pressure?
(Calm, aggressive, analytical, withdrawn, decisive, reactive.)
14. What kind of threat genuinely unsettles you?
(Magical phenomena, corporate retaliation, public scandal, betrayal, loss of control.)
Long-Term Direction
15. Five years from now, what does success look like for you?
Important
This questionnaire shapes the campaign.
Your answers will directly influence:
- NPC creation
- Antagonists
- Case design
- Personal stakes
- Long-term arcs
Be specific. Be intentional.
This document must be completed before Session One.
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