From the introduction: The first step in building your character is to decide who the character is, what they have already done in life, what they love, and what they hate. By shaping that character into a real person in your mind, role-playing that character will be much easier. Keep in mind that, even though this is a fantasy game, certain limits must be kept. You are creating a first level character, they should not have already slain a dragon, assassinated the King, nor conquered the Negative Plane.