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Nevar
Acolyte
Canada
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 Posted - 16 May 2008 : 07:30:08
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| I love all my characters! So long as they die a meaningful death (ie in the heat of battle) I'm satisfied they died well. If the DM poisons them in their sleep, I'll let the air out of all his tires LOL! |
Meteor swarm first and ask questions later! |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2008 : 19:54:51
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I'm one of those types who writes 10 page (or longer) backstories for most of my characters . . . particularly those I really like, and there have been quite a few, PCs and NPCs.
I build up relationships based on actions/personalities (not alignments, per se, unless my character can detect alignments, in which case it's a factor) with the other PCs and NPCs, then notes them all down. I also like to weave my backstory with those of others in a sort of LOST fashion . . . sometimes the characters don't find out about the connections they have until really, really late in the game.
Clearly, this is easier to do as the DM, but I've been known to do it as a player . . . and I email the DM occasionally with suggested plot-hooks incorporating my character's past. Not that the DM has to use them, of course. Usually, the DM cooks up some neat twist I hadn't thought of, and I really enjoy figuring my character's reaction to it. Those are my most memorable PCs.
As a DM, I get attached to NPCs all the time--either because I thought up an awesome backstory, or because they're part of a really cool scene, or because their powers are neat, or because the PCs like them. If I can get my players emotionally invested in the NPCs--which generally requires *me* being invested in them in the same way--then I've done my job.
It's kinda like writing, in that way.
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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QueenofShadows
Acolyte
13 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jun 2008 : 19:30:19
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| I have a character I have played for years, I am very attatched to her *lol* |
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BlackDragonKarameikos
Learned Scribe
USA
106 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jun 2008 : 10:46:19
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
What was the longest you played a character?
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How much personal time did you invest into the character?
One of my players wrote 8 or 9 pages of backstory for her character. If that character were to die, I know she would be really pissed...
It's all a matter of time investment.
I have a Level 55 Fighter that I have been playing for almost 29 years now. I staredt him in 1st. Ed. and have played him since.
As for backstory, I have around 10-12 or more pages for this paticular character. |
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Shottglazz
Acolyte
Canada
49 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 14:52:06
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Originally posted by Alisttair
An NPC actually died in one of my campaigns and everyone was mad at me because he was there since the beginning....Mission Accomplished
Alisttair - friend or foe?
Managed to do this once or twice (memory fails) in the last 10yrs or so...the best though was a long-time nemesis that the party actually felt sorry for when they beat her...so much so that they were ready to have her raised from the dead (and have incarcerated) rather than live with her death on their hands... |
Shottglazz
"Take my love, Take my land, Take me where I cannot stand;
I don't care, I'm still free. You can't take the sky from me." |
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Tyranthraxus
Senior Scribe
Netherlands
423 Posts |
Posted - 15 Aug 2008 : 19:07:01
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I have a Level 55 Fighter that I have been playing for almost 29 years now. I staredt him in 1st. Ed. and have played him since.
As for backstory, I have around 10-12 or more pages for this paticular character.
Lol I can see why you're attached to that character, he's like your child or something. Damn he's older than I am  .
Anyway as DM I get really attached to the characters and hate to see them die, but that's the risk of being an adventurer.
One time I created an NPC, Al-Habib Kazef Muhammed, who was a merchant from Calimshan and had a strange taste of smoking black lotus. The players liked him so much because he reminded them of me . |
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