Gaming

[ysabetwordsmith]

stepnix has an interesting post about game design and play, regarding character development.  There is a list of excellent questions for creating character relationships.

I have seen other lists that help create connections within a party, so you don't have characters wandering off, working at cross-purposes, or fighting with each other.  So for instance, a party made of characters who all grew up in the same village (e.g. a party formed to deal with the dragon menacing said village) could require each pair of characters to list one positive connection (like both helping to harvest the apple orchard between their farms) and one challenging or competitive connection (like bickering over who has the "better" singing voice).  A party made of newly introduced characters (e.g. hired from a busy port city to go hunt sea monsters for spell components) could instead focus on finding common ground that they just happen to share (e.g. two are elves, three are scrimshaw artists, and two are knot crafters) so that each character has some connection to each other character on which to build a relationship.