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<blockquote data-quote="Deadguy" data-source="post: 77731" data-attributes="member: 2480">I have seen this done, though it takes a little preparation in advance. You need to know what the PCs were like at an early point in their lives - when they were just Apprentices in fact (hint - see DMG <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ). Then run through a short story and be prepared to have a deus ex machina in the wings to keep him alive. By choosing an appropriate event, you can shed light on what is happening currently, perhaps even allow him to discover why he is an amnesiac.As an alternative and if he is co-operative, then if he levels up shortly before this episode, ask him to hold off doing so. Then when he has the flashback he might find that he is a stronger Wizard - or maybe was an altogether different class back then, lost to the amnesia (you can find out if he's interested in multi-classing by careful out-of-character querying).I have thought about doing just such a story myself, though I have never actually run it. That said, there's a Mage game I am in currently where in the current story one amnesiac PC is going to learn that he is in fact a figment of someone else's imagination, given form by magic!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Deadguy, post: 77731, member: 2480"] I [i]have[/i] seen this done, though it takes a little preparation in advance. You need to know what the PCs were like at an early point in their lives - when they were just Apprentices in fact (hint - see DMG ;) ). Then run through a short story and be prepared to have a [i]deus ex machina[/i] in the wings to keep him alive. By choosing an appropriate event, you can shed light on what is happening currently, perhaps even allow him to discover why he is an amnesiac. As an alternative and if he is co-operative, then if he levels up shortly before this episode, ask him to hold off doing so. Then when he has the flashback he might find that he is a stronger Wizard - or maybe was an altogether different class back then, lost to the amnesia (you can find out if he's interested in multi-classing by careful out-of-character querying). I have thought about doing just such a story myself, though I have never actually run it. That said, there's a Mage game I am in currently where in the current story one amnesiac PC is going to learn that he is in fact a figment of someone else's imagination, given form by magic! [/QUOTE]

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