I know the PC's end up responding to a goblin threat. My DM has let us know that much. What I would like to know is do the PC's respond to the threat as part of the town guard, are they the local heroes that everyone looks up to, or is it up the DM/players. I am asking because I am writing my background story for the character I might play, and I don't want it to conflict with the adventure path. The DM is busy and is not always available for questions.
Local heroes works well. Guards have duties, and can hardly go off galivanting...
Local heroes works well. Guards have duties, and can hardly go off galivanting...
Is that how the story starts them off or is it open to the players and/or the DM?
Character backgrounds are not prescribed or proscribed by the module. You should ask your DM what he or she intends, but meantime, just make a character you can dig.
Thanks. That is what I needed to know.
While not a character in RotRL (which I am running now), a player in the last campaign wanted to be from the watch. To work this in I had the first day of the adventure be the last day of the characters service with the guard. This freed him up to adventure, but at the same time gave him a lot of contacts with the guard.
I like the Characters to be as tied to the setting as possible in my games, so this worked out really well for me.
This setup would work well for RotRL as well, but keep in mind that you may be asking your DM to come up with some extra info on the guards and such that your PC would know. (I believe someone actually named them all on the boards here, you could recommend your DM search for them to save time.)
Sean Mahoney
I have turned the RotRL feats into campaign traits in this thread
You might find something that works for your character background there.