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Message: <blockquote data-quote="smathis" data-source="post: 4218378" data-attributes="member: 56465">Thanks for clearing that up. I've read a whole bunch of REH's stuff but wasn't sure if I'd missed something along the way.Your comments about Conan's participation in the sack of Venarium kind of illustrates a side point I've been pinging.Why can't this zero-to-hero thing be handled by some sort of Flashback mechanic?It just seems more interesting to me to have a player who's character is a hero but then one night by the campfire tells the group about a raid he participated in when he was 15 or narrates a flashback to watching his sister being dragged to Scalegloom Hall to be sacrificed to a Black Dragon.It's more scalable than a backstory campaign, doesn't force the party to be inseparable buds all their lives and helps cement why the PCs are where they are and why things are important to them.It also gives those Background Novelists something to play with, yet doesn't force the Lone Soldiers of the Apocalypse to give even a second thought to how their Swordmaster got his two dragon katanae or even what katanae are doing in a Medieval-themed world...This happens all the time in fantasy novels and stories. And many times I would propose that what we're mistaking for a bildungsroman tale is actually just a little vignette. Like with Aragorn. We don't follow him from his humble beginnings.He just shows up and we learn more about him as we go..</blockquote>