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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Delemental" data-source="post: 1213818" data-attributes="member: 5203">Though it seems the issue has been resolved (score one for communication!), I'm curious as to how she plans to adjust her background.To be honest, I think she could modify it without really changing too much of what happened.  Looking at the problem part of the background:The problem is a matter of tone - as you said, the whole 'making you beg for mercy' aspect of her story.  She could still do everything she said here, but change her attitude.  She set her traps to catch a dragon, but instead caught a party of adventurers, the same ones that she'd heard were coming to clean up her town (maybe they were overconfident after some recent victory and weren't expecting an ambush in a town that had obviously just been destroyed by a dragon).  Well, that's not good.  So she lets them 'stew a while' - in reality she's trying to figure out a plan.  Perhaps she tries to bluff the party into thinking she's this ruthless bandit lord at first, hoping they'll just leave, but when they start to threaten her back she realizes (being a practical sort) that she's outgunned.  So she switches to something she hasn't used much - the truth.Her character sounds to me like someone who likes to put up a good front; who 'talks tough' and 'plays by her own rules'.  Someone who doesn't like to show weakness.  This may be what influenced her original background.Obviously, this is only one idea; she has to decide for herself what changes to make.  But I don't think she'll need to rewrite her entire background.</blockquote>

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