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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 6076126" data-attributes="member: 42582">If you have or can find a copy of Over the Edge (20th anniversary edition currenlty on sale, at least in Australia), it has - among a lot of interesting and solid GMing advice - a discussion of how to do this sort of thing. The suggested approach there is to get the other players on board, and then to have them engage in roleplay -for example, talking about events that happened to the party but were never actually played out at the table - that gradually reveal to the player of the amnesiac/deluded PC that his/her PC's perception of the world is somehow off-kilter.In terms of the issue of GM vs player authority I would tread carefully - Over the Edge has slightly different expectations there compared to D&amp;D - but you might be able to get the player's OK to doing something quirky with his PC's journal without actually tipping your hand as to what it will be.I like that idea - it can go nowhere much, or a long way. Test the waters first, as it were.I once had a player whose PC came into the game when the other PCs found him lying unconscious in the forest with a scar on his neck. Identifying his backstory was meant to be a big part of the game, but as a GM I flubbed it a bit and it ended up being a bit of a letdown (I can't remember the details, just that I failed in my duty to come up with something big enough to deliver on the suspense and build-up).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 6076126, member: 42582"] If you have or can find a copy of Over the Edge (20th anniversary edition currenlty on sale, at least in Australia), it has - among a lot of interesting and solid GMing advice - a discussion of how to do this sort of thing. The suggested approach there is to get the [I]other[/I] players on board, and then to have them engage in roleplay -for example, talking about events that happened to the party but were never actually played out at the table - that gradually reveal to the player of the amnesiac/deluded PC that his/her PC's perception of the world is somehow off-kilter. In terms of the issue of GM vs player authority I would tread carefully - Over the Edge has slightly different expectations there compared to D&D - but you might be able to get the player's OK to doing [I]something[/I] quirky with his PC's journal without actually tipping your hand as to what it will be. I like that idea - it can go nowhere much, or a long way. Test the waters first, as it were. I once had a player whose PC came into the game when the other PCs found him lying unconscious in the forest with a scar on his neck. Identifying his backstory was meant to be a big part of the game, but as a GM I flubbed it a bit and it ended up being a bit of a letdown (I can't remember the details, just that I failed in my duty to come up with something big enough to deliver on the suspense and build-up). [/QUOTE]

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