What is your current character's deepest darkest secret? Come on, everyone has at least one so let's hear it.
My party ran into the old "share a true secret to pay for travel" thing. My Tiefling barbarian's secret was that he is seriously considering making a deal with a demon, despite his race's bad history with demons. The reason he's seriously considering it is he feels strength alone is not going to be enough to deal with what has now become apparent is a shadow organization aiming to overthrow the ruling council.
Aiden Hill
Those fireball amulets I made for the party double as remote explosive collars.
Justin Hernandez
My soldier-turned-spy has: "When I shot my partner in the back of the head, I finally felt the thrill of the kill come back to me. And want more of it."
Jack Cook
Fucking christ dude
Feast your eyes on this absolute train wreck: >Party fighter >Playing as an edgy lone wolf >Still the party's wall >Avoid speaking as much as possible Woman disguised as man in drag after Mulan-ing her way to desertion and working with the party to eventually eliminate her former boss. Also gestalt class into Oracle, basically party's emergency healer when shit hits the fan, also secretly a Samsaran, hiding as a elf in full plate because outsider races are frowned upon... Been a couple months and nobody suspects a thing. GM is totally in on it too.
Henry Morris
He gets a stiffy when he sees underage elf girls. Everyone else thinks he's celibate because that's the only thing that gives him stiffies.
Ethan Moore
Last character I played was an elf from a society that was super into accomplishment and meritocracy. To the point where children were born in batches at a specified time would then be taken at birth and not allowed to know their parents, due to the belief that this would start everyone out on equal footing and their accomplishments would be their own, rather than inherited by family name or bloodline.
Needless to say, despite the "excellence" this supposedly created, and the way it combated the "corruption" of lesser societies (Human kings inheriting the throne with no actual ruling experience, simply because they were son of the last king), it was a somewhat cold and regimented society that spawned a number of dissidents and self-exiled outcasts.
My character was one of these outcasts. Despite having earned her way into a prestigious position within her clan as an alchemist and healer. For most of the game, I kinda just let the players make their own assumptions about why my character left, and had her be vague and dodgy about it, citing those examples but never actually confirming they applied to HER.
In this achievement-based society, it was considered a "mercy" to euthanize any infants born with birth defects, as they would never be able to compete.
It was the job of the clan alchemists to administer this euthanasia.
Jonathan Walker
My LG monk is actually LE. He's normally quiet and peaceful, and I spend my downtime performing my duties as a travelling healer.
And after talking it over with my GM, that's code for 'fulfilling my order's tenets by performing mercy killings for the sick and dying'
It might eventually bite me in the ass, but oh well.
Benjamin Hernandez
My 5E Human Rogue's deepest secret would be that she has a hidden-away child with a guy she is closely related to. It was one of the reasons she left her small village. It was pretty much a case of "stay and become a social pariah, or get the hell out of dodge and try to make enough money to be able to take care of her kid in another town where no one knows her".
The kid is currently staying with the father and has been explained away as a orphaned relative with no other place to go.
Parker Jenkins
He eats raw meat not because he likes 'em blue, but because he is a mutant that can't eat anything else.
Cooper Phillips
My Cleric of St Cuthbert is taking to her grave the location of the Sword of Kas. That little fuck is more trouble than he's worth.
Also, my Dark Heresy Psyker entered the group using a false name, so that he could bug out if forced to betray them. He got so attached to them, he decided to get his name legally changed on the quiet to his cover identity.
