Ambiguously Gendered Child of "What is the Hivemind?"

[Rystil Arden]

Some people don't put much effort into histories either. I think they're there mostly for people to get an idea of who your character is and where he came from. They don't actually affect anything, though, and GMs are specifically not allowed to use people's backgrounds without permission.

I'd... guess the judges wouldn't care. One reason they can't meet is to avoid sharing items (my dude has 3x normal gold!), and to avoid cheesy roleplaying. Since it's in far past, they probably wouldn't care unless you wanted them to meet sometime in the future. I'd ask on the Discussion thread or ask the character approval judges, who might tell you to bring it up in the Discussion thread.

Hmm...I think I'll make a history then and keep it secret, if they aren't allowed to use it anyways.

 

[Knight Otu]

Hmm...I think I'll make a history then and keep it secret, if they aren't allowed to use it anyways.

For an elan, I'd personally recommend adding a background. And while background is typically private, a GM may ask for permission to use it, or the player can call it public for the GMs to use (personally, I hope I can get a GM for an adventure involving Ashnar in nd below his home village's temple. He believes it is part of his... duty.).

I propably won't get to more than light posting today (had a longish game of Settler of Catan, and the longest road was snatched away from me in the last round ), so I'll propably get to your characters tomorrow.

 

[Knight Otu]

Interesting, it looks like Jdvn logged off when he was 1 post shy of 4000.

 

[Rystil Arden]

For an elan, I'd personally recommend adding a background. And while background is typically private, a GM may ask for permission to use it, or the player can call it public for the GMs to use (personally, I hope I can get a GM for an adventure involving Ashnar in nd below his home village's temple. He believes it is part of his... duty.).

I propably won't get to more than light posting today (had a longish game of Settler of Catan, and the longest road was snatched away from me in the last round ), so I'll propably get to your characters tomorrow.

Yeah, I think what I'll do is make a background and then not show it unless people ask permission to use it, so that way it will really be private and people don't have to worry about having out-of-character knowledge about my character.

Too bad on the Settlers of Catan game, its always brutal to take a dive right at the end (I'm reminded of an academic competition where my team lost in the final round because the other team buzzed in without hearing the question at the last second, assumed it was a multiple choice question, and said, "The second choice" and got it right...). Thanks for your advice!

 

[Rystil Arden]

Interesting, it looks like Jdvn logged off when he was 1 post shy of 4000.

I guess he just doesn't want to go that far today

 

[Knight Otu]

For an elan, I'd personally recommend adding a background.

Obviously, I'm already tired. I wanted to add that it did not have to be a large background, a smallish one is enough.

 

[Rystil Arden]

Obviously, I'm already tired. I wanted to add that it did not have to be a large background, a smallish one is enough.

Hmmm...so 3-5 pages is too long? That seems to be my average these days (I made a Living Dungeon Enchanter with that many pages of background who has some terrible secrets that he doesn't want to reveal, so I only told those to the DM to avoid the other players having to pretend they didn't know)

 

[Knight Otu]

Make the background as long asyou want to. I just said that it does not have to be that long if you don't manage to write that much yet. You can always expand later (within reason, of course).

 

[Rystil Arden]

Make the background as long asyou want to. I just said that it does not have to be that long if you don't manage to write that much yet. You can always expand later (within reason, of course).

Cool! And on a sidenote: I seem to have hijacked the combined brainpower of the Hivemind! My Telepathy save DC must be pretty high

 

[Knight Otu]

Too bad on the Settlers of Catan game, its always brutal to take a dive right at the end (I'm reminded of an academic competition where my team lost in the final round because the other team buzzed in without hearing the question at the last second, assumed it was a multiple choice question, and said, "The second choice" and got it right...). Thanks for your advice!

Ouch. That's... very painful.

It was somewhat my own fault, my sister continued to say that my road is save with its 8 segments, and in the second to last round she realized she had the opportunity to create a 9 segment road. Just shortly before, I thought about building 3 additional segments, but decided to use the material differently.