Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place but I figured since the character's Bio is in his character sheet this would be the place to post this. I made a Gold dwarf Cleric called Gibly Stoutfist he is 60 years old
and I would like to get some tips on making a good Background for a character
seeing as I never wrote one. It took me like 20 minutes to write this Bio for him and I honestly have no idea if it's any good. Would
appreciate any feedback, and please don't just say stuff like: this Bio
sucks balls, just telling me it
sucks and not explaining what's good/bad about it isn't gonna help me make any future Bios any better. Anyway here goes (I feel like It's too long but again that's why I'm asking for tips :) Coming from a long line of dwarf blacksmiths Gibly Stoutfist was already
used to the sound of hammers
falling on anvils by the time he was 5 years old, growing up with his
overbearing father who was the tribe's best blacksmith and over
protective mother Gibly was always told that his destiny was to be the
tribe’s next best blacksmith after his father was too old to swing a
hammer.
But Gibly never liked blacksmithing in fact he wasn’t
even very good at it, it’s not that he wasn’t strong enough to swing his
hammer
at the anvil, it’s just that he didn’t have enough control over his
strength
to shape the metal the way it needed to be shaped, and every time he
couldn't make a high quality blade he would feel bad about not meeting
his father's expectations. On Gibly's 50 th birthday
his father was already a pretty old and sick dwarf and was much too weak
to work anymore, so Gibly was forced to take on the family profession,
but of course Gibly refused saying he wouldn't be a good enough
blacksmith, this caused him to have a
terrible argument with his parents about it, the argument got so bad in
fact, that Gibly ended up striking his father for the first time in his
life, he struck him so hard in fact that he was knocked out cold, after
seeing his mom's shocked face young Gibly panicked and
ran away from home.
Upon arriving to the surface world the first town Gibly saw happened to
have a very nice looking looking temple, being hungry and without money
Gibly thought to himself maybe that big nice looking building had
something to eat in it. After about 5 years spending most of his
time doing simple chores in the temple for food and shelter Gibly
learned quite a bit about religion and decided he wanted to be a cleric
and help other people with their problems and make the world a better
place, with a new found point of view on life he decided that he was
ready to return
home so he could make amends with his parents before going back to the
surface world to start his new journey in life, alas when he finally
found his way back home, his
uncle told him that his father had passed last year and his mother
followed suit out of grief for losing both her son and husband.
Blaming himself for not being there when his parents needed
him the most, he tried to be the tribe’s best blacksmith so he could carry on his
father’s will and in that way maybe make peace with his inner self, but he just wasn’t any good at
it.
Finally after a few years of being an unsuccessful blacksmith in his
tribe and eventually running out of money, Gibly realized that try as he
might he just couldn't carry on his father's will for him, so he
decided it was time to move on in his life, he packed some food sold his
parents house and old blacksmithing equipment, took his father's old
suit of armor and mace with him and went back to the surface world, only
this time he wasn't doing it to run away from his problems, this time
he was doing it in the hopes of making the world a better place.
