How would you feel?

[just__al]

We are about to start a campaign that involves high level characters that are supposed to have known each other for a while and work together. The DM has asked us to submit character histories for our characters and one of our fellow players has done something I consider to be a big faux pas.

Her character is introduced to the group by capturing them in a trap (physical) and making them beg for their lives, freedom and food.

At the time the rest of the group was powerful enough to defeat the dragon that devastated her town but yet we had to beg for our release from her and she was the same level the other 6 players were.

Never were any of us so much as asked about this history, and taking that kind of tact towards the other players just isn't cool unless it's cool with them....

 

[diaglo]

i'd coup de grace her in her sleep first opportunity. just in case she got the idea to do it again.

 

[Henry]

As a player, I'd say, "sure, but only if it's in retaliation for me making you my indentured manservant for the previous 14 years, and you still lapse and involuntarily call me, "great master" from time to time, even if you hate it."

Alternately, I'd say, still as a player, "errrrr. No. Got a better angle?"

 

[Skarp Hedin]

That would really annoy me, and if the DM said she could have that background without consent from all the other players, then that'd really annoy me a lot.

I'd be tempted to take some sort of revenge on that character at some point in the adventure, one that resulted in that character's unfortunate demise, even though that'd probably just mess things up.

But that sort of thing is really twerpy,.

 

[drnuncheon]

I would feel like the player has some issues that they really need to work out.

If the DM is letting her get away with it, then I suggest you rewrite your backgrounds to say 'we successfully escaped the trap and killed the vile fiend that had put us there'. Maybe she'll get the idea.

J
is she the DM's girlfriend?

 

[alsih2o]

chugga chugga chugga chugga CHOO! CHOO!

railroading from a player, that's new....

 

[Henry]

railroading from a player, that's new....

Not as new as you'd think. I once had a player who wanted totell me what towns were in my world, why his character was so important, etc. It was a wierd situation, but I haven't played with him in years, and quite glad not to. "Back-seat driver" comes to mind.

 

[BlackMoria]

If I was in this situation and the DM allowed that history, I would most likely look for the first good opportunity to screw that character over and then claim I did it because I was tramatized by the earlier captivity and I never learned to forgive or forget.

Knowing my fellow players that I do, I am certain there would be competition to see who would screw with this character first, because they would all be entertaining the same idea.

Sheesh. Taking about setting up oneself for some ugly misery dished out by the other characters.

The DM and/or the player is just asking for trouble by letting this stand. Advice: Change it.

 

[Zappo]

There are two possibilities.
A) The other players agree. Then, everything is cool.
B) The other players don't agree. Then, only trouble can come out of this.
Seeing as we are in case B, I suggest to squelch this before the campaign starts.

 

[Voadam]

We are about to start a campaign that involves high level characters that are supposed to have known each other for a while and work together. The DM has asked us to submit character histories for our characters and one of our fellow players has done something I consider to be a big faux pas.

Her character is introduced to the group by capturing them in a trap (physical) and making them beg for their lives, freedom and food.

At the time the rest of the group was powerful enough to defeat the dragon that devastated her town but yet we had to beg for our release from her and she was the same level the other 6 players were.

Never were any of us so much as asked about this history, and taking that kind of tact towards the other players just isn't cool unless it's cool with them....

I agree it is very poor thing to do to others. You have control over your character, not her.

What is the hook for this history leading to your group working together after that threat was over? I can see all the rest of you doing so, but not with her. I would expect there to be a repercussion against such an evil villain once the opportunity presented itself, say in the first game.