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The Watch Dog
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This simple resource bank will sort out some basic quirks and mannerisms characters can have. Such subtle touches to your character concepts can mean the difference between a lively character and a bland shell of walking mass.
The following are taken from Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide, 4th edition.
CHARACTER MANNERISMS
Your character maybe...
CHARACTER QUIRKS
Your character might be having...
The following are taken from Dungeons & Dragons Dungeon Master's Guide, 4th edition.
CHARACTER MANNERISMS
Your character maybe...
- Is prone to singing, whistling, or humming quitely
- Speaks in rhymes or meter
- Has particularly low or high voice
- Slurs words, lisps, or stutters
- Enunciates very clearly
- Speaks loudly
- Whispers
- Uses flowery speech or long words
- Frequently uses the wrong word
- Uses colorful oaths and exclamations
- Constantly makes jokes or puns
- Is prone to predictions of certain doom
- Fiddles and fidgets nervously
- Squints
- Stares into distance
- Chews something constantly
- Paces
- Taps fingers
- Bites fingernails
- Twirls hair or tugs beard
CHARACTER QUIRKS
Your character might be having...
- Distinctive jewelery (earrings, necklaces, bracelets)
- Piercing
- Flamboyant or outlandish clothes
- Formal or very clean clothes
- Ragged and very dirty clothes
- Pronounced scar
- Missing tooth
- Unusual eye colour
- Tattoo
- Birthmark
- Unusual skin colour
- Bald head
- Braided beard or hair
- Unusual hair colour
- Nervous eye twitch
- Distinctive nose
- Distinctive posture-crooked or very rigid
- Exceptional beauty
- Exceptional deformity
