How do you develop your character?

How do you develop your character?

Pick a race and class, some abilities and gear, throw them to the dungeon. If they survive on second level, they'll earn personality based on how they made it.

During play, in accordance with the system's rules.

A line on general appearance, two or three lines on backstory, personality, and motivations.

Having seen this thread previously, I know this will be the point where someone will come in to tell me I'm cancer. Go ahead, fuckers. Fight me.

>conceive of rough idea
>tailor it to what I know about the setting and other PCs
>throw almost everything out in the first session because the group dynamics never turn out the way I assume they will
>settle into a definite identity around the fourth session
>finally start filling out background details, trying to seed personal conflicts that don't derail the overarching story

>If they survive on second level, they'll earn personality based on how they made it.
People like you are the cancer killing traditional games.

People like me -were- the traditional games, newbie, until you fucks came along and filled it with your "story-based" garbage.

Go play Rogue you goddamn rollplayer

I don't. I just roleplay him, and if he changes in the game - he changes in the game. Otherwise, he isn't.

>What class/specialization seems fun?
>Ok, where are they from in the world? What were the conditions of their upbringing?
>What kind of person do they want to be and desperately protray themselves as?
>What kind of shitty person are they really?

By this point I have enough to play with.