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<blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 6017771" data-attributes="member: 2205"><p>Here's all the backstories I've got so far. What I need everyone to do, and this should hopefully be fun, as well as giving us lots of roleplaying hooks to play off of, is to pick two backstories (other than your own) and <em>insert your character</em> into them. Not in a way that changes the backstory; it could just be a cameo, or maybe you were involved in a minor way on the side. </p><p></p><p>The purpose of this exercise is to avoid the whole problem of the characters working together because it's the structure of the game that they have to, but they otherwise have no reason to. If you have some shared backstory, even if it's very light, then you've got some common ground to build upon.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, just a real quick explanation of how your character was involved somehow in the backstory of <em>two</em> of the other characters. Ideally, I'd assign you two of them randomly, but I'm just going to let you pick which backstory seems like the most likely for you to have been involved with somehow. Creativity is always fun; when I've done this before, I somehow ended up with three characters who were all on the same side of a scam that went south. I had another barbarian character who had fended off an attack by hobgoblins on her village; another character decided he was the hobgoblin that she had scarred; although she didn't recognize him. Anyway, I'll leave the details up to you.</p><p></p><p>And once we're done with this, we've done everything we need to to build our characters, tie them together, and kick the game off! Let's try to have it done by this weekend, so at the latest I can start the game on Monday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Desdichado, post: 6017771, member: 2205"] Here's all the backstories I've got so far. What I need everyone to do, and this should hopefully be fun, as well as giving us lots of roleplaying hooks to play off of, is to pick two backstories (other than your own) and [I]insert your character[/I] into them. Not in a way that changes the backstory; it could just be a cameo, or maybe you were involved in a minor way on the side. The purpose of this exercise is to avoid the whole problem of the characters working together because it's the structure of the game that they have to, but they otherwise have no reason to. If you have some shared backstory, even if it's very light, then you've got some common ground to build upon. Anyway, just a real quick explanation of how your character was involved somehow in the backstory of [I]two[/I] of the other characters. Ideally, I'd assign you two of them randomly, but I'm just going to let you pick which backstory seems like the most likely for you to have been involved with somehow. Creativity is always fun; when I've done this before, I somehow ended up with three characters who were all on the same side of a scam that went south. I had another barbarian character who had fended off an attack by hobgoblins on her village; another character decided he was the hobgoblin that she had scarred; although she didn't recognize him. Anyway, I'll leave the details up to you. And once we're done with this, we've done everything we need to to build our characters, tie them together, and kick the game off! Let's try to have it done by this weekend, so at the latest I can start the game on Monday. [/QUOTE]
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