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<blockquote data-quote="Thanediel" data-source="post: 1872567" data-attributes="member: 26038"><p><img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /> <span style="color: Orange">Now I wish Kal had let me read his background earlier! That’s sooooo like him. The guy just loves to play the underdog or the whipping boy. I can still remember the first campaign where we played together. His character was a diseased beggar! (who still rose up to become a decent master thief). His two favorites heroes ever must be Raistlin and Sturm (of DL fame)</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: Orange">And that’s putting it mildly. I think the group almost exploded during that first session. Eirak and Kalveig’s players are role-play <em>extremists</em> at times. Both had reasonable (I guess) background reasons for not being on their most friendly behavior but it still took its toll on the team. I could see Siubhan’s player fuming because we were “losing time instead of getting to the xp/gp part” <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" /> and Musadoc’s player was totally confused in-between the apparent antagonism between two players and the little messages our DM was handing him out continuously (I presume those were comments from the ghost?). It got worse for a time and then Mort pulled a trick that forced us to stop worrying about backgrounds and start concentrating on our life expectancy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange"></span></p><p><span style="color: Orange">One question Mort. You wrote that Siubhan’s monastery is ‘St-Martha’ but in my campaign notes I wrote down ‘St-Eilionor’. I just checked and that’s also the name you gave us when we visited the place later. Error?</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thanediel, post: 1872567, member: 26038"] :lol: [COLOR=Orange]Now I wish Kal had let me read his background earlier! That’s sooooo like him. The guy just loves to play the underdog or the whipping boy. I can still remember the first campaign where we played together. His character was a diseased beggar! (who still rose up to become a decent master thief). His two favorites heroes ever must be Raistlin and Sturm (of DL fame)[/COLOR] [COLOR=Orange]And that’s putting it mildly. I think the group almost exploded during that first session. Eirak and Kalveig’s players are role-play [I]extremists[/I] at times. Both had reasonable (I guess) background reasons for not being on their most friendly behavior but it still took its toll on the team. I could see Siubhan’s player fuming because we were “losing time instead of getting to the xp/gp part” :heh: and Musadoc’s player was totally confused in-between the apparent antagonism between two players and the little messages our DM was handing him out continuously (I presume those were comments from the ghost?). It got worse for a time and then Mort pulled a trick that forced us to stop worrying about backgrounds and start concentrating on our life expectancy :eek: One question Mort. You wrote that Siubhan’s monastery is ‘St-Martha’ but in my campaign notes I wrote down ‘St-Eilionor’. I just checked and that’s also the name you gave us when we visited the place later. Error?[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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