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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 2367501" data-attributes="member: 2205">Harvey, those are both good questions, and naturally I have neither my copy of Complete Arcane nor Sharn with me here at work.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  I'll try and pop into the local bookstore near lunchtime and see if I can find any guidance on either of those questions.  If not, I'll just make something up later today.Still looking for something on a character from Lord_Raven88 as well.One thing I forgot to mention -- although it's been done well by the backgrounds I do have, I'll go ahead and mention it for those still to come.  Keep in mind that your characters should probably be fairly youngish -- you may have some training, but you don't really have any experience to speak of, naturally, as you're all first level.  Backgrounds that have a long list of prior exploits won't make much sense -- backgrounds that have stories that get you to this location are better.To begin with, you'll all find yourselves in a small town -- if you have access to the Eberron map (and you should -- you can <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/eb_map/Eberron_Map_32x20.jpg" target="_blank">get it online</a> at wizards.com) and you can find the Silver Lake (a smaller lake just south of Lake Galifar) look for the small thorpe of Greenblade, between Xandrar and Sylbaran.  The town is in the border country, and gets traffic and travelers from the Eldeen Reaches, Breland and occasionally even Droaam.  It is a dingy and dirty mining town, where agents of rich Brelish lords have exploited the native inhabitants by employing them mining coal and iron from rich beds and veins under the surface.  The town itself is in an area chock full with sites of archeological significance -- although conventional wisdom is that all of them were ransacked and anything of value was taken before the Last War even started, leaving behind only the grassy hummocks of former earthworks, walls or barrows as a mute testimony to the history of the region.As you develop your backgrounds, please keep in mind that you need a reason to be in this little town as we begin.</blockquote>

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