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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 7496000"><p>Ok, but will you admit that there are many...countless...possible answers, all of which are equally valid? </p><p></p><p>It would have been perfectly valid for Bilbo to refuse to go on the Erebor Quest, because after all he's a Hobbit and that's "what a Hobbit would do".</p><p></p><p>It's also perfectly valid for Bilbo to go on the quest, because he's also part Took, and that is (sometimes) what Tooks do.</p><p></p><p>So there are two diametrically opposed outcomes, both can be equally defended as cases of "would do". (Or, if anything, the "stay home" answer probably has better arguments in its favor, because if the Tookish side was dominant he wouldn't have made it this far in life without having done SOMETHING less respectable.) </p><p></p><p>So what does one do in that case? Personally, I go with a choice that I think will make for a better story.</p><p></p><p>In game terms, when that situation comes up, if I think going on the quest will make a better story, I want the option to say, "Well, yeah, most Hobbits would say no. But my mother was Belladonna Took, and the Tooks are famous for doing very un-Hobbitlike things."</p><p></p><p>I hope the DM doesn't reply, "Let me see your backstory. Was that already in there? Because you can't just narrate new stuff into your backstory whenever you want." If he does, then clearly we have dramatically different ideas of what makes RPGs fun, and I'm going to find a different table.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 7496000"] Ok, but will you admit that there are many...countless...possible answers, all of which are equally valid? It would have been perfectly valid for Bilbo to refuse to go on the Erebor Quest, because after all he's a Hobbit and that's "what a Hobbit would do". It's also perfectly valid for Bilbo to go on the quest, because he's also part Took, and that is (sometimes) what Tooks do. So there are two diametrically opposed outcomes, both can be equally defended as cases of "would do". (Or, if anything, the "stay home" answer probably has better arguments in its favor, because if the Tookish side was dominant he wouldn't have made it this far in life without having done SOMETHING less respectable.) So what does one do in that case? Personally, I go with a choice that I think will make for a better story. In game terms, when that situation comes up, if I think going on the quest will make a better story, I want the option to say, "Well, yeah, most Hobbits would say no. But my mother was Belladonna Took, and the Tooks are famous for doing very un-Hobbitlike things." I hope the DM doesn't reply, "Let me see your backstory. Was that already in there? Because you can't just narrate new stuff into your backstory whenever you want." If he does, then clearly we have dramatically different ideas of what makes RPGs fun, and I'm going to find a different table. [/QUOTE]
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