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Message: <blockquote data-quote="W'rkncacnter" data-source="post: 9812687" data-attributes="member: 7033455">"Man, if I get indicted once I leave here, this is getting harder and harder to explain. I don't think anyone's gonna buy a few dozen counts of self-defense with a submachine gun. I think there's kind of an unspoken rule in our society that if this many people are trying to kill you, you're supposed to be dead. I need to talk to an attorney. Maybe there's some sort of Rambo clause. But wait, Rambo goes to prison after the first movie. ****!" -Freeman's Mind, Episode 22as for the original question, probably the happiest background i've come up with for a character was a backup i had for my first 5e campaign - he was a tabaxi echo knight from a well off merchant family. he adventured because he was the middle son and thus had no real prospects, so he'd gathered what funds he could to go on archaeology expeditions and hopefully make some discoveries that'd earn him status. he was an echo knight from having an artifact embedded in his eye during one such expedition. not super happy, but also not super tragic. of course, my main character NEVER DIED, so i never got to play him. still.i guess another backup i thought of was technically happier - this is gonna take some explaining. so in the same game the tabaxi was a backup for, we ended up visiting an important city pretty late in the campaign (i wanna say around level 10 or 11?) that suffered a break in the planes as we were walking the streets (this was to introduce a new character - we lost one the session before). we fixed the break and cleared out the horrors that crawled out of it, obviously, but what got us hyped was that the regular guards who were present - who were clearly supposed to be fodder to show how dangerous the enemies were - all survived. in fact, not ONLY did they all survive, NONE of them got hit, and they pressed their attacks and NEVER MISSED. the enemies were unfortunately immune to nonmagical weapons, but the point was made. my character was...unwell...so i took the opportunity to give the guards my payment (i think we were paid a few hundred or thousand gp each?). since then i've wanted to play one of those guards, using the money to invest in better gear and training to go adventuring and earn enough money to help his family live more comfortably. again, haven't got to play that.</blockquote>

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