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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fanaelialae" data-source="post: 7983230" data-attributes="member: 53980">In what way is that total control over the patron-warlock relationship? I added one small detail to your proposal. A detail which, unless you are primarily concerned with the game benefit it would deny you, shouldn't even be pertinent to the scene as proposed. It would be like you going to the DM and insisting that your character's mother is the most powerful archmage in all of history. Then when the DM counter proposes that she's a powerful archmage, but not necessarily the most powerful to have ever lived, throwing your arms up and declaring your character won't even have a mother then. Or getting upset when that character goes to ask mommy to solve a problem for them and the DM says that she's gone traveling the planes (or whatever) and that her servants don't know when she will return. I like character backgrounds. I reward players who write them. That doesn't mean that you can write whatever you want into your backstory and expect to have complete control over it. Those are NPCs, which places them firmly within the DMs authority, irrespective of the fact that you invented them. Your character is the archmage's child, not the archmage herself. You have complete authority over your own character, but the rest of the world is in the DM's authority. Whether your background references it or not. If that means you don't consider writing a background to be worthwhile, then you may not have appropriate motives for why you are writing a background. The background describes the character and their connection to the world, ideally with a few potential adventure hooks thrown in. It isn't an invitation for you to create an entire stable of characters over which you expect to have complete authorial control.</blockquote>

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