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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7523365" data-attributes="member: 15700"><p>Bargle. nuff said.</p><p></p><p></p><p>On a personal campaign note, when I DM, I like to incorporate my players backgrounds they do for the PC into my adventures. A while back I was running ToEE, and one of my players gave me his background that he came from a circus, but had to leave in disgrace because he and another member were in love with the same woman, and the other one is the one who she ended up with. When this other guy (a half ogre to boot) ended up dead from suspicious means, they assumed it was from my player's PC and forced him into exile even though he didn't do it, and it made the woman hate him even more. That took place a few years before the start of the adventure.</p><p></p><p>Well, behind the scenes I happened to have a necromancer working for Zuggtomy raise said half ogre, and in those few years, he rose to become one of the captains in the adventure module (I simply replaced the existing captain with the half ogre). Throughout the adventure, the half ogre harried and harassed the party, and the party felt like they were being hunted by him. Only, they didn't know it was the half ogre from the PC's past. At some point, they ran into his old circus in the temple, brutally murdered and tortured by the denizens (led by said half ogre), including the PC's love. The player was primed with strong emotional reactions from that, so when he found out later right before the big battle that it was the half ogre who did all this and confronted him (the half ogre mocking all his failures from failing to woo her to failing to protect her), it was a pretty climatic moment in the adventure.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 7523365, member: 15700"] Bargle. nuff said. On a personal campaign note, when I DM, I like to incorporate my players backgrounds they do for the PC into my adventures. A while back I was running ToEE, and one of my players gave me his background that he came from a circus, but had to leave in disgrace because he and another member were in love with the same woman, and the other one is the one who she ended up with. When this other guy (a half ogre to boot) ended up dead from suspicious means, they assumed it was from my player's PC and forced him into exile even though he didn't do it, and it made the woman hate him even more. That took place a few years before the start of the adventure. Well, behind the scenes I happened to have a necromancer working for Zuggtomy raise said half ogre, and in those few years, he rose to become one of the captains in the adventure module (I simply replaced the existing captain with the half ogre). Throughout the adventure, the half ogre harried and harassed the party, and the party felt like they were being hunted by him. Only, they didn't know it was the half ogre from the PC's past. At some point, they ran into his old circus in the temple, brutally murdered and tortured by the denizens (led by said half ogre), including the PC's love. The player was primed with strong emotional reactions from that, so when he found out later right before the big battle that it was the half ogre who did all this and confronted him (the half ogre mocking all his failures from failing to woo her to failing to protect her), it was a pretty climatic moment in the adventure. [/QUOTE]
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