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Message: <blockquote data-quote="noretoc" data-source="post: 3918671" data-attributes="member: 1276">My players love and hate giving me backgrounds..  One player coming into my game new, played a merc, who had been raised by his father, which he always called captain.  He didn't remember his mother.  During the campaign, he encountered people from his past, most unscupulous, and he loved me working his history into the game.  One session he went to a brothel, and spent some time with a lady there.  Later he found out that the lady was not a brothel worker, but the wife of a prominent local merchant, who had shady dealings.  Also, she was pregnant with his kid.  (I usually stay away from soap opera play, but keep reading).    When the merchant found out, he worked to find the player and end him, and for several months, they went back and forth, looking for ways to take him down.  Eventually they caught him in the act, and the party split, half to a warehouse to capture him and the other half to his home where they would find evidence and rescue the wife and unborn.    The player went after the merchant.  The others after getting in the house and finding the woman, listen to her sob story, about how her husband was not always evil.  When he was young, he had a tryst with a woman, and a child resulted.  He ordered his guard captain to kill the child, for the embarrasment.  The soldier did, but then left the merchant's service.  Well, by now the other players have figured out that the missing son was never killed, and was raised by the Captain and that is it the other player.    Also while searching out the house they found the merchant's journal, which states that the reason he had the baby killed was that his family had been cursed by a gypsy, and the first born of every generation would always kill the father.  They rushed to find the first player, and managed to get to him just in time to watch him pull a punch on the merchant, who tripps and hit his head and dies.  They they all remembered the merchants wife was carrying the player's child, cursed to grow up and kill his father.  The look on his face was classic..He ended up playing the son in the next campaign looking for  away to end the curse, to fins that the curse was tied up in a pipe, the merchant owned, which the last players had happily sold for loot.</blockquote>

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