paizo.com Recent Posts in "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)paizo.com Recent Posts in "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)2013-10-31T20:21:26Z2013-10-31T20:21:26ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Dire Elfhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2712013-11-06T21:22:03Z2013-11-06T21:22:03Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Adamantine Dragon wrote:</div><blockquote><p> I always get a kick out of the reactions people have to pop stars. When I was a kid there was this dude named Bobby Goldsboro and it was the fashionable thing to do to hate on the guy. He was cute. He sang bubble-gum pop teen love songs. He had a screaming legion of girl fans. To express any appreciation of Bobby was to instantly destroy any credibility you might have as a music aficionado. </p>
<p>That was about the same time that this "made up band" called "The Monkees" came out. The general reaction to them was more or less the same as to Bobby Goldsboro. They weren't even a real band! Just a bunch of pretenders thrown together by some Hollywood hack to capitalize on the Beatles craze. To express appreciation for them was to not only destroy musical credibility, but to identify yourself with the capitalist pigs who were destroying art in the greedy pursuit of money.</p>
<p>But I loved "Honey." I still find myself singing it.</p>
<p>And "Last Train to Clarksvillle" was clearly a powerful anti-war protest song with one of the most compelling guitar riffs in music history.</p>
<p>So I bought their records and I'm glad I did. </blockquote><p>Aaahhhh, someone of my generation! :)
<p>Getting back to the latest topic in this highly off-topic thread, I'm enjoying reading all the backstories. I tend to avoid detailed backstories myself, because I usually am inspired to add more details after I get to know the other PCs and their stories. Most of my experiences with detailed backstories have ended in disappointment, when my backstory just never came into play in the campaign.</p>Adamantine Dragon wrote:I always get a kick out of the reactions people have to pop stars. When I was a kid there was this dude named Bobby Goldsboro and it was the fashionable thing to do to hate on the guy. He was cute. He sang bubble-gum pop teen love songs. He had a screaming legion of girl fans. To express any appreciation of Bobby was to instantly destroy any credibility you might have as a music aficionado.
That was about the same time that this "made up band" called "The Monkees"...Dire Elf2013-11-06T21:22:03ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Icyshadowhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2702013-11-05T12:03:25Z2013-11-05T12:03:25Z<p>I checked the article, and I see it as overly biased against players. I say this as a DM, not as a player. However, I do not fully disagree with it. If I did have a setting where I've banned elves or humans, I would not allow a player to bring such characters in. I would inform my players well in advance if I did such a campaign world, though, so situations like that would not occur to begin with. Now that I think about it, most of the arguments against both Players and DMs around here seem to disregard common sense, which in turn makes them less effective in proving a point.</p>
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Grimmy wrote:</div><blockquote>By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsaran Cavalier, Vegepygmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only. </blockquote><p>Hah! Nice. I'd wanna play in that group myself. My own setting's party isn't complete yet (two characters left), but my players have confirmed a Half-Ogre Fighter (or Barbarian) and a Girtablilu• Druid (or Ranger), which are going to make things interesting. The former is a freed slave, while the latter is searching for a way to reverse a curse inflicted upon his tribe by an efreeti.
<p>• = I gave the race its own stats, since the Bestiary version is too powerful.</p>I checked the article, and I see it as overly biased against players. I say this as a DM, not as a player. However, I do not fully disagree with it. If I did have a setting where I've banned elves or humans, I would not allow a player to bring such characters in. I would inform my players well in advance if I did such a campaign world, though, so situations like that would not occur to begin with. Now that I think about it, most of the arguments against both Players and DMs around here seem...Icyshadow2013-11-05T12:03:25ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Aranna (alias of Min2007)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2692013-11-05T12:01:30Z2013-11-05T12:01:30Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Grimmy wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Thanks Aranna and Mikaze for sharing stories, I like reading this stuff.</p>
<p>By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only. </blockquote><p>Sounds cool.
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Do they have back stories explaining how they all ended up as a team? Maybe you could post a couple interesting ones.</p>Grimmy wrote:Thanks Aranna and Mikaze for sharing stories, I like reading this stuff.
By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only.
Sounds cool.
Do they have back stories explaining how they all ended up as a team? Maybe you could post a couple interesting ones.Aranna (alias of Min2007)2013-11-05T12:01:30ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Aranna (alias of Min2007)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2682013-11-07T04:18:07Z2013-11-05T11:59:41Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Mikaze wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Aranna wrote:</div><blockquote>Though I didn't know it yet, I was the one prophesied to kill the emperor.</blockquote>All of that taken together, this sounds like a fun/fulfilling sword and sorcery-style campaign. I probably would have been nervous about the slave angle being introduced as a surprise, but it sounds like that all worked out with everyone being on the same page. :) </blockquote><p>Yes thankfully I had nothing to worry about. It was a 1st to 30th level game... it had a lot of fun and tense moments. Like the time I had to play good little slave behind my owner while he traded information with an ancient red dragon over the location of a liches phylactery or the time I was delivered before the emperor himself wearing little more than chains and silk. The first was important so I could share my protection against fear with the cleric... it would have ruined negotiations if he had succumbed to dragon fear. Though standing in the presence of such an evil force without armor or weapons was nerve wracking. The time with the emperor was actually the start of the solo adventure where I got to kill the rotten scumbag. But it was touch and go for a while, edge of the seat level danger. Mr. Munchkin doesn't pull any punches in his game.Mikaze wrote:Aranna wrote:Though I didn't know it yet, I was the one prophesied to kill the emperor.
All of that taken together, this sounds like a fun/fulfilling sword and sorcery-style campaign. I probably would have been nervous about the slave angle being introduced as a surprise, but it sounds like that all worked out with everyone being on the same page. :) Yes thankfully I had nothing to worry about. It was a 1st to 30th level game... it had a lot of fun and tense moments. Like the...Aranna (alias of Min2007)2013-11-05T11:59:41ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Mikazehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2672013-11-05T06:20:55Z2013-11-05T02:31:27Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tacticslion wrote:</div><blockquote><p>Heh. She never actually got any "better".</p>
<p>But over time the <i>daughter</i> (who took care of her) eventually went from shaking with fear to smiling at and even flirting with Austikelphur a bit (the half-drow/giant) at least until he got married to a fellow adventurer (although there were... tensions between his wife and an aasimar over him).</blockquote><p>Love triangles and "romance in the workplace" parties are always fun. That's certainly one way to increase party cohesion. :)
<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tacticslion wrote:</div><blockquote><p>Anyway.</p>
<p><i>Dat Backstory</i>. O.o </blockquote><p>I freely admit getting carried away on that one. ;)Tacticslion wrote:Heh. She never actually got any "better".
But over time the daughter (who took care of her) eventually went from shaking with fear to smiling at and even flirting with Austikelphur a bit (the half-drow/giant) at least until he got married to a fellow adventurer (although there were... tensions between his wife and an aasimar over him).
Love triangles and "romance in the workplace" parties are always fun. That's certainly one way to increase party cohesion. :) Tacticslion...Mikaze2013-11-05T02:31:27ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Mikazehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2662013-11-05T02:22:44Z2013-11-05T02:22:44Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Aranna wrote:</div><blockquote>Though I didn't know it yet, I was the one prophesied to kill the emperor.</blockquote><p>All of that taken together, this sounds like a fun/fulfilling sword and sorcery-style campaign. I probably would have been nervous about the slave angle being introduced as a surprise, but it sounds like that all worked out with everyone being on the same page. :)Aranna wrote:Though I didn't know it yet, I was the one prophesied to kill the emperor.
All of that taken together, this sounds like a fun/fulfilling sword and sorcery-style campaign. I probably would have been nervous about the slave angle being introduced as a surprise, but it sounds like that all worked out with everyone being on the same page. :)Mikaze2013-11-05T02:22:44ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Mikazehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2652013-11-05T02:18:57Z2013-11-05T02:18:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Grimmy wrote:</div><blockquote>By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only. </blockquote><p>And just to demonstrate how subjective all this is, the only one that honestly seems "weird" to me is the Vegepygmy. Neat party. :)
<p>Does that player know about the Ghoran player race from Inner Sea Bestiary? They bring some really strange ideas into the game, primarily their ability to be both a party member and a renewable source of trail rations. :O</p>Grimmy wrote:By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only.
And just to demonstrate how subjective all this is, the only one that honestly seems "weird" to me is the Vegepygmy. Neat party. :) Does that player know about the Ghoran player race from Inner Sea Bestiary? They bring some really strange ideas into the game, primarily their...Mikaze2013-11-05T02:18:57ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Tacticslionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2642013-11-05T01:25:19Z2013-11-05T01:25:19Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Shifty wrote:</div><blockquote> That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet. </blockquote><p>A dhampir begs to differ...
<p>(Especially given how intrinsic the "Doctor" was to the "original" vampire story...)</p>
<p>... though he does <i>not</i> want a positive-energy channeling cleric near him.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>(The Samsaran will just get better in its next life.)</p>Shifty wrote:That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet.
A dhampir begs to differ... (Especially given how intrinsic the "Doctor" was to the "original" vampire story...)
... though he does not want a positive-energy channeling cleric near him.
:)
(The Samsaran will just get better in its next life.)Tacticslion2013-11-05T01:25:19ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)pres manhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2632013-11-05T21:28:53Z2013-11-05T01:05:57Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Shifty wrote:</div><blockquote> That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet. </blockquote><p>And perhaps a shrubber.Shifty wrote:That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet.
And perhaps a shrubber.pres man2013-11-05T01:05:57ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Shifty (alias of Nik B.)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2622013-11-05T21:28:26Z2013-11-04T23:50:24Z<p>That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet.</p>That party doesn't require a doctor, it requires a vet.Shifty (alias of Nik B.)2013-11-04T23:50:24ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Generic Dungeon Master (alias of Terquem)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2612013-11-05T01:09:02Z2013-11-04T23:30:52Z<p>Sounds like the appetizer menu at 10 barrels in Boise idaho</p>Sounds like the appetizer menu at 10 barrels in Boise idahoGeneric Dungeon Master (alias of Terquem)2013-11-04T23:30:52ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Grimmyhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2602013-11-05T02:13:40Z2013-11-04T23:04:12Z<p>Thanks Aranna and Mikaze for sharing stories, I like reading this stuff.</p>
<p>By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only.</p>Thanks Aranna and Mikaze for sharing stories, I like reading this stuff.
By the way everyone, I started a new campaign sunday, and the party has a Tengu Rogue, Samsarran Cavalier, Vegepigmy Cleric and Dhampir Inquisitor. Quite a change from our last game which was CRB only.Grimmy2013-11-04T23:04:12ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Aranna (alias of Min2007)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2592013-11-04T19:34:50Z2013-11-04T19:34:50Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Grimmy wrote:</div><blockquote> Crazy story Aranna. Your group sounds awesome. </blockquote><p>Thanks Grimmy.Grimmy wrote:Crazy story Aranna. Your group sounds awesome.
Thanks Grimmy.Aranna (alias of Min2007)2013-11-04T19:34:50ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Tacticslionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2582013-11-04T14:26:33Z2013-11-04T14:26:33Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Mikaze wrote:</div><blockquote> <div class="messageboard-quotee">Tacticslion wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!</p>
<p>"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"</p>
<p>That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.</p>
<p>Glorious. </blockquote><p>Hopefully she eventually upgraded to "stereotypical mildly racist grandma" over time. ;)
<p>The apology scene from Blazing Saddles just came to mind. </blockquote><p>Heh. She never actually got any "better".
<p>But over time the <i>daughter</i> (who took care of her) eventually went from shaking with fear to smiling at and even flirting with Austikelphur a bit (the half-drow/giant) at least until he got married to a fellow adventurer (although there were... tensions between his wife and an aasimar over him).</p>
<p>Anyway.</p>
<p><i>Dat Backstory</i>. O.o</p>Mikaze wrote:Tacticslion wrote:Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!
"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"
That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.
Glorious.
Hopefully she eventually upgraded to "stereotypical mildly racist grandma" over time. ;) The apology scene from Blazing Saddles just came to mind. Heh. She never actually got any "better". But over time the daughter (who took care of her) eventually went from shaking with fear to smiling at and even...Tacticslion2013-11-04T14:26:33ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Redjack_rosehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2572013-11-04T14:07:06Z2013-11-04T14:07:06Z<p>My society character is a 7th level Rogue, 4th level Paladin. I tell people it's for the saves (my lowest is 15), but it's really cause I like to hear people's surprise when the trap finding rogue starts smiting+sneak attacking things. (Or they look puzzled and seem to think Rogue's can't be lawful).</p>
<p>=P I'm special too right?!</p>My society character is a 7th level Rogue, 4th level Paladin. I tell people it's for the saves (my lowest is 15), but it's really cause I like to hear people's surprise when the trap finding rogue starts smiting+sneak attacking things. (Or they look puzzled and seem to think Rogue's can't be lawful).
=P I'm special too right?!Redjack_rose2013-11-04T14:07:06ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Mikazehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2562013-11-04T12:13:17Z2013-11-04T12:13:17Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Tacticslion wrote:</div><blockquote><p> Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!</p>
<p>"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"</p>
<p>That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.</p>
<p>Glorious. </blockquote><p>Hopefully she eventually upgraded to "stereotypical mildly racist grandma" over time. ;)
<p>The apology scene from Blazing Saddles just came to mind.</p>Tacticslion wrote:Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!
"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"
That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.
Glorious.
Hopefully she eventually upgraded to "stereotypical mildly racist grandma" over time. ;) The apology scene from Blazing Saddles just came to mind.Mikaze2013-11-04T12:13:17ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Mikazehttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2552013-11-04T23:01:16Z2013-11-04T12:04:19Z<div class="messageboard-quotee">Grimmy wrote:</div><blockquote> Let's hear some more backstories. Everyone tell the most elaborate one you've ever done. </blockquote><p>[Spoiler omitted]
<p><span class=messageboard-ooc>Holy crap there is some awkward writing in there.</span></p>
<p>Technically that backstory has been appended with the events of a cancelled Kingmaker campaign, now that he's being taken into Mendev and Wrath of the Righteous. Infatuation with benign fey, frustration over failed redemption attempts and loss of friends, guilt over the maiming of his sister relating to said failed redemption attempt and several related deaths, mounting fear of his own nature and sexuality, and an increased burning, unhealthy need for validation as the shining knight he so desperately wants to be. </p>
<p>The holy half-orc/half-Shoanti barbarian born from a happy union but with currently split parents and raised to revere celestial totems and be proud of his dual heritage was downright concise, and I had to make up a whole culture for that to work.</p>Grimmy wrote:Let's hear some more backstories. Everyone tell the most elaborate one you've ever done.
[Spoiler omitted] Holy crap there is some awkward writing in there.
Technically that backstory has been appended with the events of a cancelled Kingmaker campaign, now that he's being taken into Mendev and Wrath of the Righteous. Infatuation with benign fey, frustration over failed redemption attempts and loss of friends, guilt over the maiming of his sister relating to said failed...Mikaze2013-11-04T12:04:19ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Grimmyhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2542013-11-04T01:06:40Z2013-11-04T01:06:40Z<p>Crazy story Aranna. Your group sounds awesome.</p>Crazy story Aranna. Your group sounds awesome.Grimmy2013-11-04T01:06:40ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Tacticslionhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2532013-11-03T18:16:41Z2013-11-03T18:16:41Z<p>Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!</p>
<p>"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"</p>
<p>That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.</p>
<p>Glorious.</p>Oh yeah! The old lady's quote!
"You're ugly! You're ugly and you're blue!"
That was her reason for hitting my character with a shoe. Each time.
Glorious.Tacticslion2013-11-03T18:16:41ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Aranna (alias of Min2007)https://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2522013-11-04T11:38:48Z2013-11-03T18:00:46Z<p>Fun background? How about this?</p>
<p>It was a dark and humid night at Gen Con... when I created my very first 3e character. It was a time long long ago (2000) when the world cared about breaking old boundaries. And so I set out to create the very first Paladin archer. It was an awkward attempt without a wealth of feats to draw from and so after a couple of adventures I set her aside. </p>
<p>Fast forward to a time years later when 3.5e was seeking to kick the game up a notch. My friend "lovable munchkin" was starting a new campaign, one that featured adventures within a sprawling lawful human empire (perhaps Roman inspired). He was deliberately vague about the details of this empire which in hind sight should have tipped me off that he was about to pull something unusual, but I didn't notice at the time. So being a bit of a good type of snowflake, I set out to make an elf. I wanted an elf that had turned her back on the elves to embrace lawfulness and who would fit perfectly into the human society. That is when I remembered that first 3e character, my Paladin archer. I decided to revisit her concept for this new campaign and perhaps do her more justice now that I had a wealth of options to draw from. </p>
<p>The GM gave me creative license to color the elves in myself and that he would work with what I created. This should have been another red flag because lovable munchkin rarely gives someone that much creative control over his setting. So I set out to weave a very carefree group who loved and embraced nature itself as the greatest work of art. They were modeled a bit after the sun elves from Krynn with cities literally woven right into the forest itself. They were the greatest archers in the world and had driven invaders from their ancient forests time and time again with their deadly arrows. Society was very chaotic good with people following the example set forward by their nobles rather than having any laws per say. My character had of course turned her back on chaos and embraced lawful good. She was the daughter of an elven noble who would be expected to lead by example herself... hence the wedge between her and her people. She valued a code of laws governing the behavior of all peoples and I even began to map out subplots between my character and the elf/human divide which would constantly place me in the middle of this culture shock... Oh how I didn't know how literally mr munchkin was going to place me in the middle. </p>
<p>Jump forward to character introduction/creation night. He finally unveils his grand empire so that we can place the final tweaks on our characters and build them a bit of history before game start. He reveals that this human empire is Lawful Evil and represents the worst of the Roman empire at it's most restrictive mixed with Arab fundamentalism. ALL non humans were slaves. ALL half breeds were little more than second class citizens. ALL women were property. We were starting in the era right after the humans had defeated the other great factions in the world and were now the dominant world power. The other empires being the Dwarves, the Orcs, and the Elves. With each race representing a corner alignment Dwarves=LG, Orcs=CE, Humans=LE, and Elves=CG. He did use my elf society enlightened chaos (lead by example). BUT unlike what I was expecting the elves had already been defeated and the ancient elf forests are occupied by human legionnaires. I was a battle prize taken alive when the tower of the sun fell and they stormed into the nursery that I refused to leave undefended during the invasion of Solnor. I was taken as a gift by the regional commander, who in turn gifted me (a Paladin of Heironeous) to the Archbishop of the church of Hextor in an effort to insult him. </p>
<p>I ... was stunned to say the least as this turned everything I had expected on it's head... I remember putting my character away and getting up from the table. "I am going to need a new character it seems" I told him. He said NO, I had to play my elf paladin. I had to play an owned slave. I started to object but he assured me that my character would be central to the main plot. Yeah... hit me with my own desire to be a main character... fine I sat down to play. I was very afraid of what I would have to endure however. </p>
<p>I needn't have worried. He started us in a border town between the main Human Empire and the occupied Orcish Expanse. One of the other players had made a Half Orc Priest of Hextor and I was given to him as a prize for managing to land his first office of duty. It was a s$@#hole of a town filled with all manner of inhuman trash and since Hextor was the primary Human religion it made sense to leave the undesired post to a half breed. The other player was a bit easy on me despite me being completely at his mercy. I was happy. And to skip to the end I was indeed important. Though I didn't know it yet, I was the one prophesied to kill the emperor.</p>Fun background? How about this?
It was a dark and humid night at Gen Con... when I created my very first 3e character. It was a time long long ago (2000) when the world cared about breaking old boundaries. And so I set out to create the very first Paladin archer. It was an awkward attempt without a wealth of feats to draw from and so after a couple of adventures I set her aside.
Fast forward to a time years later when 3.5e was seeking to kick the game up a notch. My friend "lovable...Aranna (alias of Min2007)2013-11-03T18:00:46ZRe: Forums/Gamer Life: General Discussion: "Saying No" (KQ article relevant to locked snowflake thread)Immortal Greedhttps://paizo.com/threads/rzs2qaxm&page=6?Saying-No#2512013-11-03T18:03:04Z2013-11-03T09:26:32Z<p>Johann Bückler, a rogue I made had quite the backstory. It involved a certain river city town and a desire to get out of there before he was fed to the eels. It left him with a bit of an anxious personality but a strong will to survive and proper way beyond the city limits (adventure or eels, basically). The fear did lead to him becoming a bastard sword wielding rogue with a few tricks up his sleeve and a very nice defensive style.</p>
<p>Eels up inside ya, findin an entrance where they can.</p>Johann Bückler, a rogue I made had quite the backstory. It involved a certain river city town and a desire to get out of there before he was fed to the eels. It left him with a bit of an anxious personality but a strong will to survive and proper way beyond the city limits (adventure or eels, basically). The fear did lead to him becoming a bastard sword wielding rogue with a few tricks up his sleeve and a very nice defensive style.
Eels up inside ya, findin an entrance where they can.Immortal Greed2013-11-03T09:26:32Z