Hot Seat Interview

One player sits in the hot seat as a character — invented on the spot or drawn from a prompt — and the group interviews them: name, job, childhood, secret fears, strong opinions. The character discovers their own history, voice and viewpoint live, in the act of answering, rather than deciding it all in advance. It's a character-depth builder and a superb warm-up before character-driven longforms. Players learn that a rich person is found through questions, not manufactured, and that committing to the first honest answer generates the next. It cures thin, one-note characters by giving them a past, a want and a texture — and it's low-pressure because there's no scene to sustain, only answers to give.