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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8163833"><p>Exactly all these things. And like I said many times, the brother being dead is just one possible outcome (and it is a possibility the player is totally aware of when setting out on this kind of search). I have had long lost relatives in my campaigns. I am sure some of them have died off screen. But most don't. I take adjudicating family members of PCs very seriously because they can easily devolve into pawns that help the GM advance his or her own agenda, or just used to annoy players all the time. But I do try to give those characters their own agency (and again, yes I am using a different definition of agency from the other folks here). In one case, in fact, one of the sessions I linked to, one of the players had re-united with  his long lost father and brother, and, if I recall correctly, was trying to help re-establish their old sect. The father was a great guy, and treated the player character well, but the player character was engaged in some shady business, and the brother, was a bit of a self righteous jerk. The player had to deal with dynamic while trying to rebuild his sect. I think he and the brother may have eventually become enemies, but I can't recall without going back to the logs as it was at least 2 or 3 years ago. None of this was stuff the player was allowed to order like off a menu. This was all stuff he knew full well I would create behind the scenes and he would discover what the case was as he searched for them, found them, and if they were alive (which he didn't know if they were), interacted with them. This doesn't strike me as controversial at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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