From the ashes will rise a new Hivemind.

[Relique du Madde]

Boring isn't bad, though. I prefer a player to have a PC with a boring backstory than an uber-cool-I'm-the-most-BA-thing-ever-and-I'll-tell-you-about-it-for-three-hours backstory.

That's why you reserve that character for the first one-shot kill of the campaign.*




*Assuming you are not playing 4e.

 

[Jdvn1]

Travelled hundreds of lands, slayed hundreds of beasts and demons, power beyond all dreams... only to be killed in the first encounter.

I am, unfortunately, too fair a GM to do that.

But I'm sure I'll consider it many times...

 

[Phaezen]

Prefer short simple backgrounds for characters myself, especially at low levels/ages.

As a player I love letting the character develop personality over the first few sessions, as it generally surprises me and works out better than having something prewritten.

 

[Relique du Madde]

The ICONS preordered pdf is coming out sometimes next week. So what was suposed to be a early May release has turned into a First hald of May release.

 

[Jdvn1]

This is my experience, too. I think the party meshes with itself better, too, when they can do this together.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Assuming you are making low leveled characters, is there any type of game where coming up with an extravagant background would be acceptable?

 

[Jdvn1]

Yeah, probably.

Just not immediately after playing with those two annoying guys.

I've had a player write a short story based on his character as his backstory. That was pretty cool.

 

[Relique du Madde]

Wow.. almost every issue of X-Men Second Coming has one "important" death..* They have been so frequent that even the previews of the next issue has a death.


* I'm including characterization assassination (Colossus, and Beast, I'm looking at you) .

 

[megamania]

Beast is joining Avengers.

 

[megamania]

The money that is being spent is my inherence. If I keep it to 500 dollars of "fun" money and the rest to bills and house repairs I should be doing well.

Kids seem to have a new interest in Overpower again which is good.

Most of the bills are done. Still have over 20,000 and more to be settled.

As for Overpower. They got to play. I have not even built a deck.