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Mannahnin replied to the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?.I tend to keep backgrounds relatively short & sketchy nowadays, to root the character lightly in the world (and allow for flexibility if... -
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This feels like as good a place as any for this. For backers, the GenCon cut of the 4th Gamers movie, "The Gamers: Dorkness Falls" is... -
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Yeah, we might have been able to do that back in the OD&D days, but that's because OD&D characters were almost schematic in their...
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Mannahnin reacted to Dannyalcatraz's post in the thread Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet? with Like.
One of my longest & most complicated backstories was for 3.5Ed campaign that was starting with 10th level PCs. First, I asked the DM if...
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Adults in the their 20s having apartments like that one in the city is probably the bigger one for me, but why quibble? :LOL:
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Since I've written material for convention use, I have a general rule on backstories for convention play: no more than three paragraphs...
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--- This has been a hilariously frustrating week. I'm not even at the point of 'oh yay crunch time' because I cannot even factually do... -
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I think the longest backstory I have had for a PC I've played was for the first 5e campaign I played in. The DM was running Curse of...
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Depends on the setting & the PC. I once ran a 1st level ranger whose origins were based on a sub-Saharan African tribe’s culture. In...
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I've swung around hard on backstories. When I first started playing I went all out on them, but then I realized that no one else I...
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These are good because you are centering your character in the setting. It's the role part of role playing. Treating them as a playing...
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I make a reasonably detailed, but short backstory for a character if I'm making up a character that already has experience. Say, for...
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As a GM I'll take ideas from backstories, though I think they are mostly for the player. Though a lot of this falls into the "all...
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Mannahnin replied to the thread I don't get the arguments for bioessentialism.That is basically the origin of alignment in 1974 OD&D. You get a list of creature types under each alignment (Law, Neutrality, Chaos)...