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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5412562" data-attributes="member: 18253">It need not take a momentous event but must all level 1s have non-momentous backgrounds? The following are so common as to be cliche'd yet they do provide other paths to level 1 that can affect the PCs. And cliche'd as they are, they do tend to show up in RPGs, books, movies...<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The character's elven village was destroyed by goblins. A wizard took the orphan in and raised and triained him. Character has a profound hatred of goblins and wants to defeat them.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The character was a waif living on the streets where he learned the arts of the rogue. Character has a dislike of the wealthy, a keen desire to steal his way to fortune and is amoral (neutral depending on your views). Solidly grounds the rogue, cliche as it may be.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gorrak was a dwarven prince and heir to the throne. As a prince, he was pampered and kept from any real harm (0 XP) but received basic martial training (level 1 warrior). His younger brother framed him and got him banished. He is burning to reclaim his birthright. Heavy motivation here. And yes, I stole that from Dragon Age.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Ilana was a beautiful maiden claimed by the temple, ostensibly for the priesthood but in fact was abused. She did get trained as a level 1 cleric but recently could take no more abuse and killed the high priest in his sleep. She is now on the run.</li> </ol>You could replace the wizard, rogue, cleric and warrior with 4 of the same class who did nothing in their life but I like to think even the cliche'd backgrounds are more interesting. As a ref, I have 2 PCs with a grudge, one with at least clear motivations for being the pita he is likely to be and one on the run. Lots to work with. But that's just me, I suspose... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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