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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5215942" data-attributes="member: 2205">At this point, I honestly have to ask; why is this player so invested in keeping her character's mom in this static environment?  Why is she so invested in, "this is my mom; this can't possibly be what my character thought of my mom all her life, but my mom was secretly something else."Why not have a mom who was a doppleganger?  Why not have a mom who's a frog who was polymorphed and awakened by a kiss, but never told anyone?  Why not have a mom who seems like the fantasy version of June Cleaver but who secretly sacrificed all the character's best friends to Orcus after she left town to increase her own power?  Why not have a mom who turns into a horde of butterflies every night like a bizarre Ladyhawke?NPCs can't keep secrets from the PCs now?  Seriously; why not?</blockquote>