24th Jan 2018, 8:00 PM"Backstory, as the plot demands"
My DM tends to have us make a framing piece for our backstories, and then we fill in the blanks as we go along.
For the first game I played with him, my Rogue was only able to kill monsters and demons, other sapient beings, he would try to tie up instead, all because he ended up fighting and killing his Assassin fiance. As we went along, and my Rogue got over his inability to kill, we fleshed out the entire series of events leading to him killing his fiance, as well as how he was found by a Weather Ranger who worked at the Sun Temple, and their budding romance. It's really fun to not have things set in stone, so our character arcs feel more"natural" rather than the GM having to bend his story to fit our characters.
Phantomdemon2
24th Jan 2018, 2:54 AM
...Cory was looking at his backstory when the GM wasn't looking, wasn't he?
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plotvitalnpc
24th Jan 2018, 2:57 AM
What better time is there to read your backstory, than at the last moment?
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Super_Big_Mac
24th Jan 2018, 8:00 PM"Backstory, as the plot demands"
My DM tends to have us make a framing piece for our backstories, and then we fill in the blanks as we go along.
For the first game I played with him, my Rogue was only able to kill monsters and demons, other sapient beings, he would try to tie up instead, all because he ended up fighting and killing his Assassin fiance. As we went along, and my Rogue got over his inability to kill, we fleshed out the entire series of events leading to him killing his fiance, as well as how he was found by a Weather Ranger who worked at the Sun Temple, and their budding romance. It's really fun to not have things set in stone, so our character arcs feel more"natural" rather than the GM having to bend his story to fit our characters.
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