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Why would someone that's the heir of both A Very Minor Duke and A Minor Baroness become A Adventurer?
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<blockquote data-quote="aco175" data-source="post: 8978314" data-attributes="member: 27385"><p>I'm reminded of a movie scene where Dustin Hoffman was playing the devil antagonist to Joan of Arc. She was being attacked by a man on the road that passed through a field and pinned to the ground assumedly to be raped. While she flailed in the grass, her hand found a sword and she killed the man. She believed it was the hand of god that intervened. The devil was trying to corrupt her playing to her hubris in thinking that hand of god reached down upon her specifically at that very moment to place a sword in her grasp, since she was so favored. </p><p></p><p>The scene went on showing several possible scenes how a sword could have come to rest in the field such as two knights fighting and the sword being flung by one when he was killed, or a wagon hit a rock and the sword fell from the back. My favorite was a man walking with the sword over his shoulder and then looks at it and say, eh as he tosses it into the field. </p><p></p><p>The point is that it does not matter much why the PC comes to adventure. A larger point in one of my games certainly is why would he have so many guards and why would you roll on a noble chart in the first place. There is a noble background in the game and my group has taken it a couple times, but it does not grant 1,000s of gold and a platoon of armed soldiers. Why not just send him with a 12th level priest that can raise dead and full heal all the PCs in the party. At some point you need to decide what is worth finding the sword.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="aco175, post: 8978314, member: 27385"] I'm reminded of a movie scene where Dustin Hoffman was playing the devil antagonist to Joan of Arc. She was being attacked by a man on the road that passed through a field and pinned to the ground assumedly to be raped. While she flailed in the grass, her hand found a sword and she killed the man. She believed it was the hand of god that intervened. The devil was trying to corrupt her playing to her hubris in thinking that hand of god reached down upon her specifically at that very moment to place a sword in her grasp, since she was so favored. The scene went on showing several possible scenes how a sword could have come to rest in the field such as two knights fighting and the sword being flung by one when he was killed, or a wagon hit a rock and the sword fell from the back. My favorite was a man walking with the sword over his shoulder and then looks at it and say, eh as he tosses it into the field. The point is that it does not matter much why the PC comes to adventure. A larger point in one of my games certainly is why would he have so many guards and why would you roll on a noble chart in the first place. There is a noble background in the game and my group has taken it a couple times, but it does not grant 1,000s of gold and a platoon of armed soldiers. Why not just send him with a 12th level priest that can raise dead and full heal all the PCs in the party. At some point you need to decide what is worth finding the sword. [/QUOTE]
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