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Joush Mark 01-06-08, 05:19 PM

I've been considering ways to help players get a handle on new characters in a roleplay heavy game and came up with the idea of, as part of the first session, presenting them with a few critcal events and chances from there character's past and asking them how they handled it. Rather then the sort of random nature of quizzes that ask for theoretical responses these represent things that happen IC and still effect them. The characters will be livening with the scars and reputation built from these events. A few examples follow. I'd like to hear what people think of it and see more examples. When about fifteen your character is walking to a walled village when six brutal orcish raiders run from the forest edge, running and well armed. Maybe a dozen feet from you off the path a girl that can't be older then eight trembles with fear at the first sight the raiders. The safety of the village is half a mile away and you could stay ahead of the raiders and reach it before them, but the girl clearly can't outrun them. Your skills are a pale shadow of what they will be one day and you carry only a long walking staff and a dagger. What do you do? A few years ago your character took a job with a baron in a walled town in the north. His people were oppressed and the baron himself seemed more interested in feeding his own vices then attending to his duties, but the job he ask of you was dangerous but not too much for your abilities. The problem came when it was time to be paid and you were sent to a small hut on the edge of the fife where you found a chest with one thousand silver.. and chained to it a nervous young slave in a gray shift. What do you do? After spending exasperating weeks on a grueling, challenging quest your character goes to the merchant that hired them only to be refused an audience, the man claiming to never have hired you and refusing to pay the money you are owed. He has four guards, all but one of whom have no idea that there master is a cheat and work here honestly. What do you do?