One of my favorite things to dream up in SCAP was interesting character backgrounds. While I see there is a thread going about party make-up, I am not seeing anything yet on the backgrounds for the characters. With the Player's Guide now out I think we have enough to start coming up with some (though admitedly not the ones that will be most closely tied to the adventures).
So let me propose a couple
- This character was the only son of a minor noble family. However, unlike the other nobles who kotowed to the occupiers who held Sasserine for 100 years, his family were active members of an underground resistance movement. In fact, it was tactical information provided by this characters fathers that allowed occupiers forces to be broken and the leadership of Sasserin soon fell. In once last act of retribution though the characters entire family was scheduled to be executed. With the sounds of an angry mob getting closer and closer the bitter nobles put each member of the traitors house to death. Left standing when the mob broke in was the only remaining scion of the house.
This would work pretty well for just about any class... the child might have escaped during the executions and found a life on the streets and learned the ways of the rogue. Or perhaps combined his early training in fencing to become a swashbuckler or fighter. Or even cloistered himself in the safety of an academy of magic, clerical temple or monastary.
Anyone else have anyothers?
Sean Mahoney
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I'm making a DMPC ally for my AoW campaign hailing from Sasserine, both as a way to try out my copy of Book of Nine Swords, and as a tenuous tie-in to STAP. I don't have the Sasserine backdrop article (yet), and obviously don't have info on the six affiliations covered in the next Dragon, but I put a small contingent of Ruby Knight Vindicators under the command of the Church of Wee Jas. I've got a full write-up on her backstory, but it's a bit long, so here's a synopsis.
Born the illegitemate child of a local noble and one of her Amedian servants, the character was shipped off to seminary school at the Temple of Wee Jas. The elders of the church saw something special in her and had her transferred into their academy for church crusaders. She took to her training with gusto, and graduated successfully at sixteen. The church elders knew it would be hard for a bastard child of a prominent noble to operate in secret, so they gave her a fake name and history and shipped her off to Greyhawk.
It could be altered easily enough: the character could be kept in town as a potential piece of blackmail against whatever family she's related to, or could be a full-blooded noble but secretly working for the Temple of Wee Jas (or any of the churches, really). A secret agent need not be a stealthy spy or assassin, however--any character with some decent social skills could pull off getting whatever political dirt the church needed, and having a powerful prominent citizen (when the PC begins gaining levels) loyal to their cause would do any organization proud.
I'll try to come up with more when it's not late and I'm not keeping my girlfriend up by writing instead of sleeping.