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<blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 5735207" data-attributes="member: 3820"><p>The question that lingers with me is "why must I have just one?" Adventurers are such a diverse lot. Plus there are fun simple ones in the middle like "I got into bed with the wrong woman and had to leave town to avoid starting a feud", which puts an urbanite in the countryside for a beginning adventure and yet provides questions of what will happen when the party goes to his hometown. The patch between "no background elements of note" and "backgrounds of such import that the player expects the entire game to be about his background details" is quite wide. I roll around in it like a haystack.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I choose neither A nor B, but A + B! (For this game, at least.)</p><p></p><p>For us next week the order of business is trying to frantically prevent an assassination (while hoping the one they commissioned goes off smoothly) and deposing the local head of one of the Houses who's about to set the city at civil war. Admittedly, the players could have accidentally driven Bravadi Rovino into his warmongering state even if (a) one of them hadn't turned out to be the same young blade who slept with Bravadi's daughter and fled town, and (b) another hadn't been a member of House Rovino who's used her family contacts to get close to him, setting up the accidental drive into paranoia. But the backgrounds helped things move along in record time, and there was really nothing quite like the looks on the players' faces when I said "Scorpis looks at you in surprise, and then his eyes narrow in recognition."</p><p></p><p>The whole bit where they chose to commission assassins to take out the Prince's champion and arrange for plague-apples to be discovered on his body? That's not inspired by part of anybody's backstory. But my group is kinda nuts. They manage to have a lot going on at any given time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Barastrondo, post: 5735207, member: 3820"] The question that lingers with me is "why must I have just one?" Adventurers are such a diverse lot. Plus there are fun simple ones in the middle like "I got into bed with the wrong woman and had to leave town to avoid starting a feud", which puts an urbanite in the countryside for a beginning adventure and yet provides questions of what will happen when the party goes to his hometown. The patch between "no background elements of note" and "backgrounds of such import that the player expects the entire game to be about his background details" is quite wide. I roll around in it like a haystack. I choose neither A nor B, but A + B! (For this game, at least.) For us next week the order of business is trying to frantically prevent an assassination (while hoping the one they commissioned goes off smoothly) and deposing the local head of one of the Houses who's about to set the city at civil war. Admittedly, the players could have accidentally driven Bravadi Rovino into his warmongering state even if (a) one of them hadn't turned out to be the same young blade who slept with Bravadi's daughter and fled town, and (b) another hadn't been a member of House Rovino who's used her family contacts to get close to him, setting up the accidental drive into paranoia. But the backgrounds helped things move along in record time, and there was really nothing quite like the looks on the players' faces when I said "Scorpis looks at you in surprise, and then his eyes narrow in recognition." The whole bit where they chose to commission assassins to take out the Prince's champion and arrange for plague-apples to be discovered on his body? That's not inspired by part of anybody's backstory. But my group is kinda nuts. They manage to have a lot going on at any given time. [/QUOTE]
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