Defining Life Events

These are the mostly horrible things that made you who you are today. (d88)

11 You were ritually scarred, physically altered.

12 A freak canoeing accident took your leg. But you’ve gotten used to the oar stump.
13 A great musician once visited your village and taught you a song which enthralls all who listen.
14 Seeing a horrifying ghost turned all of your hair white.
15 You rescued a giant owl from a snare trap long ago. It still returns to assist you occasionally.
16 You spent years making a colorful coat from the feathers of fallen birds. Your mother threw it into the fireplace.
17 After losing your wedding ring to a gambling debt, the love of your life left you.
18 A freak fishing accident took your hand. But this hook works pretty good.
21 You’ve been living off a cache of gold you found. Somebody is bound to come looking for it.
22 You were captured by slavers as a child, raised in the fighting pits.
23 You bear the mark of Goonfun, the savior.
24 After freeing an imprisoned demi-god from a lantern, it granted you tremendous luck.
25 Your parents named you Fifteen. They never bothered with a proper name.
26 A childhood disease has left you horribly disfigured. The mask helps.
27 You became addicted to skull fungus as a teenager.
28 Your evil twin escaped captivity and roams the land committing sins in your name.
31 While chopping down an old tree, you found the entombed body of a wizard.
32 You were raised to survive. Not to love.
33 You raised a goat as a child. One day, your parents admitted to what was in that night's dinner: Chonky.
34 A foreign dignitary was poisoned. You were the cook.
35 As a child you saw and talked to ghosts. They no longer speak to you.
36 Consuming a wild weed in the woods as a child revealed to you the face of God and you've never forgotten it.
37 A highwayman made you flip a coin for your life, or that of your brother. The coin landed on its side, sparing you both.
38 With the blood of your first kill still wet on your hands, you realized your true purpose.
41 You were a merchant sailor until being captured and forced to work as a pirate.
42 Falling out of a tree left you with a crippling fear of heights.
43 As a child, you ate a weird mushroom that grew on another mushroom. You’ve never been the same.
44 Raiders slaughtered your village with a horde of killer puppies.
45 Barbarians killed your mom while you watched.
46 Your rage used to consume you. Your rampages led to a lengthy prison sentence, where you learned to control your rage.
47 You were an addict for years. You were a thief to support your habit. The urges are mostly gone now. Mostly.
48 Your pet rabbit Martha had its neck broken by a bully.
51 The local dark wizard chose you as his ward and practiced his arcane arts on you. Since then, you've had a twitch and a tremor. Ruthless.
52 You always thought your imaginary friend was just that -- imaginary -- until they killed the person closest to you.
53 Fear of deep water. Must have been all that drowning.
54 Your family was killed by highway robbers. You hid and watched.
55 Your mother traded you to Faeries for a sackful of coins.
56 Years ago you stumbled across the hovel of a tribe of tiny gnomes. You always swore to keep this a secret.
57 A vengeful sorcerer transformed you from your original form as punishment.
58 Dropped on your head as an infant, your skull is flattened but you think... different.
61 A werespider befriended you and tricked you into letting it into your home. It ate your family and let you live.
62 Raised by animals in the forest before being rescued by huntsmen. The animal that raised you? Roll on Animals table.
63 You adopted a young child you found in the woods. To this day, they are mute.
64 You were a brainwashed cult member. Your rescuer is your new idol.
65 Your village was nearly wiped out by plague. The local religious leader claimed it was your touch that healed them.
66 Your father studied mushrooms and taught you everything he knew. One fungus wasn’t what he thought...
67 Your kid brother was sold to slavers.
68 Insanity took the mind of your parents, and it's only a matter of time until it takes yours, too.
71 Rite of Passage: take part in the Great Hunt
72 Your parents beat you mercilessly, convinced you were possessed by demons.
73 The book you spent your life writing was stolen. The thief profited greatly from it. You're left with nothing.
74 As a child, you made a deal with Death to spare your grandmother. But Death will return to square the deal.
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75 You were switched with a noble at birth.
76 A rock fell to earth, and onto your house.
77 A donkey kicked you once. You hate all four-legged animals.
78 You're pretty sure you once met a god at a bar. Roll on gods table.
81 You were a champion chessers player. Until your rival humiliated you in a grand competition.
82 Playing with fire as a child, you set a forest fire that burned down your village.
83 While sleepwalking, you stepped right off the porch and broke your leg. Now you sleep tied down.
84 You've always had a knack for whittling.
85 Your mother tried to kill you as a child. You finally escaped from her.
86 Tinkering with explosives caused a family tragedy. Poor Rufys.
87 You were born with the mark.
88 Known to your people as "the Watildo", you were raised to commune with the mud spirits.

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