So, your character has been fucked by The Man. Maybe that's the mafia, maybe that's the government, maybe that's the hive-minded slaver aliens.

"What did they take from you?"

That's the question I need answering during character creation. To assist with creativity, I'd like to sharpen that question. For example, "who did they take from you?" "what did they destroy" or "what did they shut down?"

The idea is that each player will be given two randomly determined questions each at the beginning of character creation. The results will then feed into the world building.

I'm trying to break the list of questions into two categories: to me and to it. That is, one category for the shizzle that they did to your character and one category for the shizzle that they did to something/someone your character cares about.

I need ideas for the questions. So far, I have things like:

"Who did they take?"
"Who did they kill?"
"Who did they abuse?"
"Who did they corrupt?"

and

"How did they abuse you?"
"How did they take your job?"
"How did they use you for testing?"
"How did they give you a disease?"

Can you help me to compile a list of questions you think would inspire players to come up with interesting personal tragedies?

I'd go the tarot way, more than questions, I'll offer archetypes, expressed in concepts or images that suggest

Hi,

interesting personal tragedies?

Questions, eh?

"What did they promise?"
"What did they take?
"What did they give you?"

Hey guys,

Thanks a million for your comments. To Simon, the tragedies must be interesting only to the player who makes them up. But the questions should antagonise in order to help push for that invested interest. To Chrono, these questions are useful. Thanks.

This thread was cross-posted on the Collective Endeavour (I must stop doing that). I`d like to point new commenters [URL=http://collective-endeavour.com/forums/comments.php?DiscussionID=136]over there[/URL]. So, let`s close this thread. Thanks for your comments.

Sebastian.

In the book The Far Arena, the gladiator protagonist Eugeni is confronted by the emperor's wife, Domitia.  She tries desperately to seduce him, in which he narrates something along the lines of, "A vagina is more dangerous than any sword". 

Sex is a good concept for an antagonist, and tragedies often begin this way - the Iliad comes to mind.  So my questions are:
"Who did she seduce?"
"Who did he fall in love with?"
"Who did he kill for her?"
"Who did she sleep with?"

Hi Ar Kayon. Thanks for the comments on sex. I'm continuing this thread over on CE. I`d like to point new commenters over there. So, let`s close this thread.