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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hopeless" data-source="post: 8295039" data-attributes="member: 36349">Or to introduce new plot elements when something in game makes them necessary?I hadn't planned on a player character's parents playing an important part in the plot, but after he went with a Folk Hero Background and did absolutely nothing that merited that background I figured I needed to introduce something that explained that.I did mention they can ask questions if they wanted (and mostly didn't which was why I ended up adding them), however I used a picture I used of the PC's father for a retired former royal guard and when asked said that wasn't his character's father as he had confirmed both his character's parents were dead.No that was his father's identical twin brother who was fostered into the church as their parents couldn't afford to raise both.Both grew up one a farmer who married a Sarenrae priestess who transferred over from the Dawnfather faith as she was being harassed by a cleric of that order.The other raised in the Dawnfather faith became a Royal Guard and a Dragon Rider of the Gold Dragon Matthau.That dwarven cleric saw them together mistook her husband for his twin and ordered the man be murdered except they killed the couple leaving their son an orphan raised at her Sarenrae shrine with the aid of a family friend who became his mentor.The attempt to cover up the incident caused the founding of a new order called the Free Knights who became the de-facto protectors of the people and included former members of the Royal Guard who left in protest at the foul deed and cover up.Three sessions in and he still didn't have a clue he was the literal inspiration for a new knightly order of whom he was a member.That primer and a proper session zero might have helped but given how little details they gave beyond apparently both parents dead for three of them the fourth just didn't bother mentioning theirs just a mentor (which I managed to get them to agree to the Ladyhawke cast photo for the parents of the Paladin and the Cleric's mentor).</blockquote>

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