Welcome to D100 Dark Backgrounds for Fantasy Characters, within you will find various background ideas for player characters.
These Backgrounds are designed to include tragedies and tribulations which the characters have encountered.
These mainly do not give powers or abilities to the character, but as always your character background should be discussed with your GamesMaster to check whether it is okay, and to give them a chance to integrate it into their campaign.
The backgrounds are numbered within the book and within the table of contents, so you can just roll a D100 and get something which will hopefully inspire some interesting play for you and your players.
We hope these give you some interesting ideas to build on, or that you just have some fun.
- from the publisher's blurb