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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 2465937" data-attributes="member: 20323"><p>Great ideas! Thanks for the Tony Robinson link demiurge! </p><p></p><p>Here's an example of the kind of backgrounds I'm creating. FYI, we're using the True20 system, and everyone starts without a Role, but has a background instead.</p><p></p><p><strong>Honey Pot Polisher</strong></p><p><em>"Oh pissboy!" "Don't worry sir, you'll find it."</em></p><p>After a chamber-pot has been emptied of its nightsoil, someone has to clean it. Lucky you! You can polish a “honey-pot” faster than anyone in the village. Sometimes your job can become very stressful, especially when destitute purefinders try to steal from your master’s chamber pots, or when a large group of travelers visits the village. You do a brisk business with highly advanced barber-surgeons who will examine your findings in the “honey-pot” to ascertain the cause of disease. Sometimes you regret your job when diarrhea strikes.</p><p><strong>Bonus Skill:</strong> --</p><p><strong>Bonus Feat:</strong> Plausible Deniability, Royal Pisser</p><p></p><p><strong>Plausible Deniability</strong></p><p>No one ever suspects you due to your low status in the community.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> Whenever the authorities or elders look for a culprit or question people involved in a situation, you will always be the last person they think of. Should an authority figure ask you to tell them all you know, you may claim “I’m but a simple peasant.” This is always good enough for them unless they have testimony or evidence (true or not) of your wrong-doing.</p><p></p><p><strong>Royal Pisser</strong></p><p>Nobles and royalty tend to assume you are one of their servants.</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> Spend a point of Conviction in order to have a noble confuse you for one of their own servants, ordering you about, and allowing you to infiltrate their court. Servants will either remain quiet out of fear or spite of the noble, or they may assume you are a replacement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 2465937, member: 20323"] Great ideas! Thanks for the Tony Robinson link demiurge! Here's an example of the kind of backgrounds I'm creating. FYI, we're using the True20 system, and everyone starts without a Role, but has a background instead. [b]Honey Pot Polisher[/b] [i]"Oh pissboy!" "Don't worry sir, you'll find it."[/i] After a chamber-pot has been emptied of its nightsoil, someone has to clean it. Lucky you! You can polish a “honey-pot” faster than anyone in the village. Sometimes your job can become very stressful, especially when destitute purefinders try to steal from your master’s chamber pots, or when a large group of travelers visits the village. You do a brisk business with highly advanced barber-surgeons who will examine your findings in the “honey-pot” to ascertain the cause of disease. Sometimes you regret your job when diarrhea strikes. [b]Bonus Skill:[/b] -- [b]Bonus Feat:[/b] Plausible Deniability, Royal Pisser [b]Plausible Deniability[/b] No one ever suspects you due to your low status in the community. [b]Benefit:[/b] Whenever the authorities or elders look for a culprit or question people involved in a situation, you will always be the last person they think of. Should an authority figure ask you to tell them all you know, you may claim “I’m but a simple peasant.” This is always good enough for them unless they have testimony or evidence (true or not) of your wrong-doing. [b]Royal Pisser[/b] Nobles and royalty tend to assume you are one of their servants. [b]Benefit:[/b] Spend a point of Conviction in order to have a noble confuse you for one of their own servants, ordering you about, and allowing you to infiltrate their court. Servants will either remain quiet out of fear or spite of the noble, or they may assume you are a replacement. [/QUOTE]
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