magnusmalkus
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I have a player with a PC who is an escaped slave. He's playing a human rogue, 1st lvl.
As a slave, he has no real skills to speak of, he's rather scrawny but good at escaping.
The campaign is just beginning. He and I hammered out a character background and it can be summarized as such:
As a child he was fascinated with horses. Unfortunately, a horse clocked him in the head and caused teh boy brain damage (very low wisdom score).
He's currently about 16 years old or so and, still fascinated with horses, 'borrowed' one for a joyride (he was gonna give it back... it was an innocent theft). He was sentenced to death but his family (mother and father) got the judge to soften up due to the boys brain damage, he was instead put into slavery.
The slave transport ship he was on didn't have tight security and he managed to escape at the first port, he has no possessions and never has since he was incarcerated.
Being a slave of no important skill or social importance, he figured all he needed to do was lie low for the two days the capt was going to be in port, then he'd be a free man as the capt had to leave for the next port.
The capt and his bodyguard spent the whole next two days at port looking for him. After the second day, he found that the capt HAD left but left a HEFTY price on his head and now he's hunted by local thugs and bounty hunters.
Thats where my idea runs dry. So this is the question I need help with:
Why is this rogue of no import being so rabidly hunted? What does he possess, represent, have a chance at, etcetera, that some two-bit capt would want to chase him down like a dog? How did the capt find out about what makes the rogue valueable?
I first thougth that maybe the heat of the hunt would be fueld by the principle of the capt's pride, needing to recover an escaped slave, but I've made up my mind that the Capt is pretty lazy.
I want there to be something special about him (unbeknownst to the rogue slave) that the Capt would have caught wind of somehow that make's the rogue valuable to anyone who possessed him.
Any ideas?
As a slave, he has no real skills to speak of, he's rather scrawny but good at escaping.
The campaign is just beginning. He and I hammered out a character background and it can be summarized as such:
As a child he was fascinated with horses. Unfortunately, a horse clocked him in the head and caused teh boy brain damage (very low wisdom score).
He's currently about 16 years old or so and, still fascinated with horses, 'borrowed' one for a joyride (he was gonna give it back... it was an innocent theft). He was sentenced to death but his family (mother and father) got the judge to soften up due to the boys brain damage, he was instead put into slavery.
The slave transport ship he was on didn't have tight security and he managed to escape at the first port, he has no possessions and never has since he was incarcerated.
Being a slave of no important skill or social importance, he figured all he needed to do was lie low for the two days the capt was going to be in port, then he'd be a free man as the capt had to leave for the next port.
The capt and his bodyguard spent the whole next two days at port looking for him. After the second day, he found that the capt HAD left but left a HEFTY price on his head and now he's hunted by local thugs and bounty hunters.
Thats where my idea runs dry. So this is the question I need help with:
Why is this rogue of no import being so rabidly hunted? What does he possess, represent, have a chance at, etcetera, that some two-bit capt would want to chase him down like a dog? How did the capt find out about what makes the rogue valueable?
I first thougth that maybe the heat of the hunt would be fueld by the principle of the capt's pride, needing to recover an escaped slave, but I've made up my mind that the Capt is pretty lazy.
I want there to be something special about him (unbeknownst to the rogue slave) that the Capt would have caught wind of somehow that make's the rogue valuable to anyone who possessed him.
Any ideas?
