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| Billzbub | Jul 17 2012, 03:26 PM Post #1 |
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In general, I'll be the one who creates the events that happen in the world around you, and you all will choose how to react to them. However, I want to give you all input into the events that lead up to the start of the game. I'd like for all of your characters to know each other somehow and have a desire to work together. You will all have diverse backgrounds and training, which should be accounted for. You will also have widely varying personalities, so you have to have some really good reason to want to stick together. Here's a few ideas that I've come up with, but I'd LOVE to hear yours. SECRET SOCIETY All of your parents are members of a secret society. Each of you is from a different village in the region, and has been raised by your parents with the intent of joining the secret society when you grow up. During the spring of your 18th year, all of you come together as the group to represent your region and set out on an adventure to prove your worth. If successful, your group is inducted into the society. Your mission is up to you, kind of like a Master's Degree thesis. You choose the topic, but it better be worthy. Of course, since you are not members of the secret society yet, you don't know exactly what they are looking for. You have one year. FRIENDS You are all friends from childhood. Each of you has spent a few months living in town training in whatever area interests you. You are now back in your village for a summer festival, celebrating your graduation from whatever training program you were in. Then suddenly, something happens! SURVIVORS You were all survivors of a ship that was attacked and pillaged by pirates and stranded on a small island. You worked together using your skills to escape the island and have just arrived back on the main continent. AMNESIA You all wake up in a daze and look around. The five of you are in the center of a clearing surrounded by the dead bodies of goblins and a few orcs. You are all battered and bruised, and it is obvious that there was a fight between your group and the monsters. You don't know where you are, and you can't remember anything about your past except the skills that you possess. ADVENTURE TEAM You met at the local Adventure Guild, where you accepted a contract to deliver a package from one town to another along a road known to be hunted by bandits. You were successful and used your earnings to upgrade your equipment and purchase horses. Now you are a well-equipped, loyal band of friends ready to take on anything. RED DAWN The five of you were out in the mountains for a week camping and hunting, and you returned to find that your village was taken over by an unknown army. None of your fellow villagers are anywhere to be found. Please post your comments and ideas so we can figure out what we want to do by next weekend. The process of making characters this weekend may give us more ideas, too. |
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| Chadoe | Jul 18 2012, 08:27 PM Post #2 |
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Just an idea - kind of a combination of a few of the above: As children we were all (individually) captured by a slaver group. We met in the slaver's camp and, working as a group, managed to escape together. We all went back to our families, but kept in touch over the years. During those years we have grown up and learned our abilities. Now, as adults, we find out that one of our group has gone missing under suspicious circumstances. (This would be some NPC defined by the DM). We come back together to search for our missing comrade. I'm thinking sort of like searching for the one armed man. We can get clues, or hear about rumors that send us off on different adventures. This gives us reason to like and trust one another, and an ultimate goal to work towards, but still leaves some roleplay leeway for discovering what we've each been up to over the years (instead of just acting like we saw each other yesterday )
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| Billzbub | Jul 19 2012, 12:53 PM Post #3 |
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I like it. =) |
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| ShakaCon | Jul 20 2012, 12:44 AM Post #4 |
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FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING!!!!! FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING!!! |
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| ShakaCon | Jul 20 2012, 12:47 AM Post #5 |
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Or Chadoe's idea....hers sounds quite cool! |
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