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Nightfallen 04-08-08, 09:13 PM	Ello, kinda new hear. I am just wondering if you guys could give me some idea's for a guttersnipes Background. I have tried the Background generator, but never got some resaults I could right on paper. I was hopeing someone could give me some Idea's fro some events in his life, they dont have to be a whole story. I aint that good At story makeing. All I know so far is that he fended for himself because his parants died, abandend him, or some other stuff. I thank you for the help in advance.
Nightfallen 04-09-08, 10:06 AM	12:00 hours = :bump: Bin a little longer then that though.
LiXinjian 04-09-08, 07:20 PM	Hmm, it's kinda hard coming up with a background without knowing a little about the campaign world. So, tell us about it and then we'll be able to help you out. Anyways, I can give you an idea: why not make him a guttersnipe who happened to be adopted by nobles? They couldn't have kids of their own, your character was an orphan, and they adopted him. However, your character was set in his ways and couldn't help but steal (your character's a rogue, right?), from his parents, from his family, from the locals. When he got into trouble with the law, his parents bailed him out, until one day he went too far and got into something really serious, and he had to flee or bring disgrace upon them.. and death to himself. Ever since, he's been living the life of an adventurer, and the authorities or some powerful local mobster/official from his hometown are still searching for him to make him pay for this mysterious deed.
Nightfallen 04-10-08, 01:45 PM	Lol, ya that is a good one. But it just don't sound like my character. Good thought though. Anyway, the campain is in forgoten realms. The Caimpain gruop is on there way to waterfront, but first we have to make it over some mountains.... with some giants on it. ^^ I have an really bad fealing my guy wil die, so I am makeing a backup right now. I do have some Idea's for him though. {Shadowmark's Background in Progress} * His Parants died from an unknown Illness when he was 5 * Had to steal to servive, he doesn't steal less there is a reason to it. * Beleaves the Deitys turned ther back on him, so he hasn't much faith in them * He bacame an adveturer for the exitment after hearing a group in the local tavern telling tales about there travles. Well thats all I got right now, sorry I couldn't provide more. ^^; Oh, and one other thing about my guy. I, for some reason, don't like to make characters that got into a high ranking position, let along being a noble. Just dont like the class for some reason.
Terjon of the Blue Rose 04-12-08, 10:48 PM	It's a little off what you had but your character doesn't need to know the full truth of things. How about you parents were of Selune's clergy. Killed while you were young by followers of Shar? They may well have even taken you in for a time after you spent time on the streets and had learned to disdain the gods. Their dogma of hatred and vengeance never appealled to your simple survivor instincts though and so you left them. You probably don't realize they killed your parents but they likely knew it when they tried bringing you into their own fold. The life of the adventurer appealled to you, though, and when it came time to leave (both to avoid Shar's faithful and because you where known to the local constabulary) you decided to try for a better life. Adventurers either make it big or die trying and that's what your out for now.
Filurmanden 04-14-08, 12:46 PM	One of my friends played the most hilarious guttersnipe once. We rolled up characters for 1 lvl, and he rolled 16 on average age, so he actually had to roleplay his own age(he was a human rogue) At ALL, and i all times his character would say in a realy peasant kind of way (translated from danish): When i was little, 100 orcs came to my home and my father and I we slew them all, but then they chopped of his mothers breast and bla bla bla" But the point is that his character imagined he once had a family and had reasonable (somehow reasonable :D) explanation how they perished, and why he became an adventurer. But after the that lasted for 1 year, our GM told us that everything he told was a big fat lie. He was just abandoned at birth and then some thief found him and raised him. I really suggest you go for something like that!
Nightfallen 04-15-08, 01:28 PM	Lmao, that ;ast one was a good one, Im still laughing hade the second time I heard it. and Terjon, I like it... bt I have know Idea who thoughs to diety's are. ^^;; I think I'll try a little combination of both of your guy's story types. But really the only reason he travles is for exitment, but I may add that thing were he is wanted by some group or somthing.
Nightfallen 04-15-08, 08:37 PM	Ok, i think I got an ok background, can you please look and see if it is ok? His Parents died when he was 5 from an unknown ilness that even the local clergy couldn't heal. He was devistated by this event and turned his back on the deity's because in his mind, they turned there back on him. Now on the streets, he was found by a thief in the city named Razinard. Razinard desided to raise him, feeling sorry for him, and seeing for some reason himself in that young kid. Razinard called the kid Renizar, and eventuraly, the kid forgot his old name and stated to address himself as Renizar. Razinard tought him how to servive on the streets and steel for your food. Slowly he learned from his guardian how to become a good theif. Razinard had freinds on the street, peseants and begers and some famlies in the middle class that kept him from getting arested. One day however, one the day Renizar turned 16, the freindship with the peasents and beggers that Razinard had did not help him. Razinad was arested and put into jail. Knowing that he couldn't save his guardian and shouldn't stay around the town anymore because he might risk imprisonment himself, he left the city. Although this is his background, he tends to make things up to make i sound more exiting, changeing the story every time he tells it. Now travaling, Renizar searches for exitment, letting one adventure lead to the next.
Nightfallen 04-17-08, 12:05 AM	:Bump:
Terjon of the Blue Rose 04-17-08, 07:02 AM	Not bad. I'd work up one or two cores for stories that he likes to tell. Don't develope details however, as he should forget what he has told, letting others in on the lie. PS: Selune is a fairly benevolent moon goddess. Shar is her sister, a petty and vengeful goddess of darkness and hatred. Selune is fairly minor in FR while Shar has a number of worshippers since she created the shadow weave, an alternative source of magic from the weave, guarded over by Mystra. Shar hates her sister with a passion and her followers hunt Selune's wherever they can find them. Selune's clergy is likewise a passionette foe of Shar's but otherwise a group that promotes a general state of harmony.
Nightfallen 04-20-08, 11:55 PM	Oh, so it is a sibling raivalry garn to far? Anyway, I got a couple, but I am afraid when I get in because I will most likely tell the storye because we have a freedom paladin with intimidate and sence motive. Oh, do you make a will save if you past is so horific that you dont want to talk about it? Just wonderin, I mean mine isn't like that, but my last characters was. Luckilly no one asked my background.
Terjon of the Blue Rose 04-22-08, 12:11 PM	That's the basics. There is a bit more there but you've got what you need to in order to understand the relationship between those two. As for Will saves, that's highly situational but hardly inappropriate. Pretty much a DM call but I would probably use them if forced to confront a truly horendous pasts. Say a fail result in panic or even unconsciousness. Of course if you're going to add something like that as a house-rule it should be discussed between you and the player beforehand.
Nightfallen 04-25-08, 01:35 PM	Lol, I changed my character background. I made him a Swashbuckler and my Friend is a Scout, we are both Moon Elves and we were from the same village. I got some right now, because we had to come up with somthing before hand. Basicly here are the basics. Our village was destroyed and burned to the ground. We had time to get some items, but only enough to servive, so I think that somehow we got out before they attacked. Then afterwards, we were captuered by a group of bandits that we rememebred as the people that burned down there village with the same leader. We were there about a week, and during thoughs days, we also found out the worked with the goblin king (main bad guy) and that thay were REALLY powerfull, thay took down a group of guards that were sent to destroy them in heart beat. This was all that we had got for a background, and that was with my DM, my Friend and I. So there are to things I really need help with, I need to make this into a story type thing. And I also need help with makeing it into a little diry entry made by my character who carrys a Book with him, and he rights entries about his travles. I hope this isn't to much to ask for, I dont wanna be to much of a pain.
Nightfallen 04-25-08, 10:21 PM	12:00 hours = :bump: Bin a little longer then that though. x2