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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4644106" data-attributes="member: 13892">I haven't actually run into this in too many high fantasy games — but I've seen it in the various oWoD White Wolf games more times than I can accurately recount (thankfully, not in many of the games I was running). I think it's one of the curses of established metaplot. I did play a lot of AD&amp;D 2e with one guy, though, who always wrote up a &quot;seventh son of a seventh son&quot; or &quot;an orphan with a mysterious past&quot; or a &quot;prophecied savior of worlds&quot; and so on. Always. That and Ninja. In fact, I recall him demanding to play Japanese Ninja in game settings that had no analogue to the Far East. This guy fully expected whoever was GMing (usually me, unfortunately) to support these kinds of things mechanically. Even after it was explained that if he wanted those thing to have mechanical meaning, he would have to buy the related mechancial effects as a part of his character. Which he almost never did. I think that went on for several years in several different groups until another friend of ours found out that if you gave this guy enough Awesome, he'd use it to snuff his own characters. Much hillarity ensued, though those are tales for another thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 4644106, member: 13892"] I haven't actually run into this in too many high fantasy games — but I've seen it in the various oWoD White Wolf games more times than I can accurately recount (thankfully, not in many of the games I was running). I think it's one of the curses of established metaplot. I did play a lot of AD&D 2e with one guy, though, who always wrote up a "seventh son of a seventh son" or "an orphan with a mysterious past" or a "prophecied savior of worlds" and so on. [I]Always[/I]. That and Ninja. In fact, I recall him demanding to play Japanese Ninja in game settings that had no analogue to the Far East. This guy fully expected whoever was GMing (usually me, unfortunately) to support these kinds of things mechanically. Even after it was explained that if he wanted those thing to have [I]mechanical[/I] meaning, he would have to [I]buy[/i] the related mechancial effects as a part of his character. Which he almost never did. I think that went on for several years in several different groups until another friend of ours found out that if you gave this guy enough Awesome, he'd use it to snuff his own characters. Much hillarity ensued, though those are tales for another thread. ;) [/QUOTE]

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