GM's Questions (Wildcards)

This page will be dedicated to listing the start-of-session questions that Wildcards GM Jordan Caves-Callarman asks the group to either gather more information on their characters (and may use this info to creatively influence the campaign), or just for the fun of it. This page will include questions from all Wildcards campaigns, and will be organized by campaign and episode order.

In every session, JCC starts out with asking the names of the cast and the names of their characters, and in most sessions also asks them to give a brief physical description and breakdown of their characters. The questions listed down below are ones that JCC asks in addition to these ones.

NOTE: While Prickly Tallstag and the Danger Seekers, Pears is not an official Wildcards campaign, it is included here since it comprises the entire Wildcards cast, and JCC also asks start-of-session questions in those sessions.

Prickly Tallstag and the Danger Seekers, Pears

 * Can you give a little tidbit about the character who I just told you who your characters are and what they are about just now? (The Most Dangerous Dinner Party, 1x01)
 * Can you tell us a little bit about your character? (Thirteensday, 1x02)
 * Can you tell us a little bit about your character in this wonderful magic land? (Oh Crap, A Baby!, 1x03)
 * Can you, for the sake of everyone who may have forgotten anything about this, or that it even existed at all, give them a little bit of information about your character please? (Luthmas, 1x04)

Season 1

 * What quote, from a movie or just in general, would you say after winning a gun fight? (Death Steel, 1x05)

Season 1

 * As people, as players here at the table, what was the one thing you were looking forward to the most about going to college? Or if you did not go to college, what was your idea of what the best thing to look forward to about college was when you were younger, when you were a teen? (The Sweat Lodge, 1x01)
 * What does your character look like? (Bugs, 1x02)
 * A brief thing about your character. (Busted, 1x03)
 * What do your characters eat for breakfast? (Greek Tragedy, 1x04)
 * Why did your character choose their major? (Lighthouse 418, 1x05)
 * This was Halloween week, so in character, the characters were also asked who their characters were going to the party as? (Return to the Roost, 1x06)
 * Brief physical description of your character. (Truth Be Told, 1x07)
 * When your character was a kid, what did they want to be when they grew up? (A Bite to Eat, 1x08)
 * What is your character's New Years resolution? (The Thing in the Corner, 1x09)
 * What was the most spectacular academic failure you, not your character, ever had in your school career? (Toon Time, 1x10)
 * What is your character's favorite solo hobby? That is, what do they do in their free time when they are not hanging out with other people? (Just a Normal Rainy Saturday, 1x11)
 * What is your character's favorite film? (The Seekers of Danger, 1x12)
 * Give a back-of-the-action-figure-box description of your character, and then after that, add one interesting fact about your character. (A Missing Girl, 1x13)
 * What movie does your character think their life is like? What movie character are they in their own heads as they are moving through life? (A Tuesday in the Life, 1x14)
 * One-sentence log line about, and one-sentence physical description of, your character. What is your character's greatest fear? (The Needler, 1x15)

Season 2

 * What is your favorite summer break activity that you remember from when you were at school? What was the coolest thing you as a person, as a player ever did for summer vacation? (Welcome Sophomores, 2x01)
 * What is your character's one-sentence log line? What is one thing that your character is looking forward to the most about Sophomore Year at East Texas University? (The Big Haunt, 2x02)
 * What is the most memorable test story each one of you has, as a player? (Give Me What I Want, 2x03)
 * What is your character's greatest fear? Which paranormal or strange thing that your character has encountered is the one that has impacted them the most? Which strange otherworldly thing is the one that has really stuck with your character and kind of keeps them up at night? (Beautiful Smile, 2x04)
 * What are your character's feelings on the holidays? (Horror for the Holidays: Part 1, 2x05)
 * What is the closest you yourself have come to a near-death experience? (Horror for the Holidays: Part 2, 2x06)
 * What is your character's dream job? Not necessarily like what you are going to school for, it doesn't even have to be something that is necessarily possible, but what is in your character's secret heart of hearts the job that they wish they could have? (All the World's a Stage, 2x07)
 * Since last year the assumption is that you all were forced to go back home for spring break, this is your character's first college spring break, what is your character's expectation for what this beach party week is going to be like? (Gen Con 2019 Bonus - Beach Blanket Big No, 2xSpecial)
 * Which class, in you the player's academic career, did you come the closest to failing, and why? (Sanctuary, 2x08)
 * What does your character have nightmares about? (Skittering in the Shadows, 2x09)
 * What is your character's go to excuse is for getting out of situations? Not a legitimate reason, not anything like that, but what is the top-of-mind panic response answer that your character has to get out of situations? (A Freaky Kind of Friday, 2x10)
 * What thing has your character done so far in college that they are most ashamed of? (The Burn, 2x11)
 * What does your character think would most likely be written on their tombstone? (The Doctor Will See You Now, 2x12)

Season 3

 * What has your character has been up to since leaving Pinebox, if they did indeed leave? (Declared, 3x01)
 * Brief physical description of your character, since it's been a while since we've seen these folks, perhaps their physical descriptions have changed. What did your character do for summer vacation? (On The Grid, 3x02)
 * How has your character handled the very dramatic scene that we left off at last week (On The Grid)? (Cats, 3x03)
 * Brief logline for your character, who they are and what they're about. Why are you still here (at ETU)? (The Show Must Go On, 3x04)
 * Brief physical description (updated for anything that might've changed in recent time). In the spirit of Dom not being here, what is the most unpleasant thing you have ever said about Rhan behind his back? (Hogzilla, 3x05)
 * Brief logline of your character. What unresolved event from our game has your character still looking over their shoulder? (Curse of the Black Guard, 3x06)
 * What was the coolest gift that your character received over the holidays, if any? (Scared Straight, 3x07)
 * What was your character's childhood boogieman? (Fishing Trip, 3x08)
 * Who is your character's favorite professor and why? (The Debt, 3x09)
 * What does your character enjoy doing the most when no one else is at home in the house you all live in together? (Three-Eyed Jack LaSalle, 3x10)
 * What is something your character is really really good at that they don't care about at all? (Resurrection of the Black Guard, 3x11)
 * What do you think is going to happen tonight? (For context, this was the season finale.) (Sweet Heart 243, 3x12)

Season 1

 * Physically describe your character. What is the general vibe that they give off? (A Dark Wagon Comes to Town, 1x01)
 * Tell everyone about your character. Is there any pertinent information that you would like to reveal about your character? (Neck Deep In Purity, 1x02)
 * Give a brief logline reminder of who your character is. What is your character's greatest flaw? (Travler's Rest, 1x03)
 * What is your character's greatest strength? (Nouveau Départ, 1x04)
 * What did you take for your advance since last session and what does that mean for your character, or why is it important for your character? (Nain Rouge, 1x05)
 * What is your character's worst minor fear? (Off the Rails, 1x06)