Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 9312668" data-attributes="member: 6801228">Depends on my mood, well as a player it does. DM I tend to stick more to tropes, just because it is quicker and easier. But I also like throwing curveballs to catch people off-guard. If the obvious thing is that the princess would be bold and adventurous, constrained by her title... then I might make her actually love her position and the finer niceties of social maneuvering, while still being brash and bold in a different way.I also like to mix tropes. I had a paladin who was a huge &quot;patriot&quot; for his city, so&nbsp; he had elements of the football fan and the freedom fighter mixed in with him being a cop. And generally, I've found, by mixing tropes you can end up with some interesting things that only sort of break tropes. Like a Totem barbarian orc who is a shaman and scholar, it technically doesn't break the scholar tropes, but it is a half-step to the left of what people expect to see.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 9312668, member: 6801228"] Depends on my mood, well as a player it does. DM I tend to stick more to tropes, just because it is quicker and easier. But I also like throwing curveballs to catch people off-guard. If the obvious thing is that the princess would be bold and adventurous, constrained by her title... then I might make her actually love her position and the finer niceties of social maneuvering, while still being brash and bold in a different way. I also like to mix tropes. I had a paladin who was a huge "patriot" for his city, so he had elements of the football fan and the freedom fighter mixed in with him being a cop. And generally, I've found, by mixing tropes you can end up with some interesting things that only sort of break tropes. Like a Totem barbarian orc who is a shaman and scholar, it technically doesn't break the scholar tropes, but it is a half-step to the left of what people expect to see. [/QUOTE]

Verification