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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steve Gorak" data-source="post: 1213061" data-attributes="member: 15132">mpickett81, that's a great idea. It's also going to help me avoid having a "goodie two shoe" character. I'll be friendly, but I'll believe that it's time humans do their own things. I'll also have good knowledge of ancient history, and will desire the creation of autonomous human kingdoms.OK, so lets say our family works for the Giants in city X, and are loyal to them. Our father could have been a medium level administrator, a warrior in their army. This could explain where the family got the funds to have 2 kids get their education (Runethane & Akashik). When the two of us found out about the transformation, the family wasn't open to the idea (imagine if you had a dying son, and the only way to save him was to transform him in a giant lizard), but being part of the family, they felt it was the better of the two evils (a lizard son is better than a dead son). The giants hyerarchy (bosses, business partners, etc) however, were completely opposed to the idea, seing the ritual as something of great evil that would transform us in the embodiment of ancient demonic oppresors. They could have threatened to banish the family from the city (or something like that), if we went ahead with the ritual. I think we need to work on the story of the threat and what means they took to stop us: imagine, two sons of a human that works for giants, transforming themselves into something many giants died to eradicate!In order to save the family from this shame/torment, we could have fled, or even better yet, we could have faked our funerals to avoid the ire of the giants  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Of course, this doesn't mean the family accepted our transformation entirely. We could have gone to visit them after the ritual (during the night, of course), and there could have been a sceen: mom crying, pops renouncing his lizard sons, the kid sister completely freaking out, the dog barking like crazy... Anyways, you get the picture.Also, How old do you want to be? I have a problem with the starting age of 60. It's way too old. I was thinking more of late teens or early twenties (if the DM is ok with this, of course). Do you have a preference?Hey, I love where this is going! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Cheers,Steve Gorak</blockquote>

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