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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NewJeffCT" data-source="post: 5215996" data-attributes="member: 10784">Sorry I did not respond sooner, I have been busy with work the last few days.First off, there was a lot more to the story than her mom instantly becoming a lich.  I condensed it on here so I did not have to write a book.  It was completely in line with the mother’s background, and the mom had ten years from when the daughter left home to improve on her initial magical ability. If a PC can gain 10-12-14 levels in the course of a few “in game” months, I don’t see why a bitter and hateful woman with access to an evil artifact could not become a powerful evil mage over 10 in-game years?  The player in question loved the twist in the story and it was very well received by the players overall.(BTW, the sister became an ongoing NPC and a strong ally of the party after she realized the PCs were involved in a save the world/epic quest.  And, I did not demand a background of her- I had said that since the group was close to her player’s hometown, she was welcome to give me any information on her family.  I had honestly expected nothing from her, as her attendance was spotty at the beginning of the campaign. )And, after the campaign, the players were making jokes about their backgrounds for the next campaign – it was definitely not something where they said, “I don’t want NewJeffCT turning my mom into a lich, so I will give him nothing to work with.”  If they had hated how I used their backgrounds, there are plenty of other D&D games around in my neck of the woods that they could have joined afterwards.So, rather than assuming it was “DM dickery” as I saw in this thread several times, would it not be better to assume that maybe, just maybe, I had not posted every single detail of the story from my 2 1/2 year long campaign here on enworld? I could just as easily say it was “poster dickery” for assuming that what I did was completely out of line and not within the context of the story.How about this background ?  “Talented pilot who longs to leave his boring farm home.  He was raised by his aunt and his stern uncle after his father was killed in a war when he was young.”  Would you consider George Lucas making Luke’s father Darth Vader an example of “dickery” as well if you were playing Luke Skywalker?  (Though, making Jar Jar Binks would certainly qualify as dickery…)</blockquote>

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