Post/Author/DateTime	Post
alecthemad 05-31-05, 12:22 PM	This actually comes from a Mage the Ascension game, but a throwaway line in my background was that my straightlaced professor who lived a quite normal life had purchased a home whose previous inhabitants had been declared legally dead. This was a very long running campaign (5 years) and for 4 of those years my background was never mentioned. Though as the only home-owner in the game I was constantly attacked on the way out the door. Well one day my character wakes up with the ghosts of the two prevoius owners still in the bed. These ghosts still think they are alive. It took quite a while to get rid of them and for that time the house was not inhabitable. I played it that my character was terrified of them.
Callista 05-31-05, 12:32 PM	Level 20 game... I played this middle-aged elven healer (actually a fairly typical wizard/cleric/mystic theurge) who had just come out of a hundred-year-long war with dark elves and did NOT want any more war, just someplace where her healing skills were useful... And what does the DM do? He puts this worn-out, tired elf in the middle of an epidemic!! I'm talking full-blown, bodies in the streets, bubonic plague style here. DM: "Well, at least it wasn't a war." :rolleyes: If it weren't a one-shot adventure, I'd be seriously tempted to roll randomly on the insanity table and apply it to my poor bedraggled healer...
Draco Strang 05-31-05, 12:52 PM	Backgrounds? What? No one uses backgrounds in 3.5! What sourcebook are they in? Don't you need a feat to take a background in the first place?
alecthemad 05-31-05, 01:03 PM	Backgrounds? What? No one uses backgrounds in 3.5! What sourcebook are they in? Don't you need a feat to take a background in the first place? It is an automatic feat that usually ends up giving your DM a headache.
The Almighty Dru 05-31-05, 01:08 PM	Backgrounds? What? No one uses backgrounds in 3.5! What sourcebook are they in? Don't you need a feat to take a background in the first place? Match set, Draco Strang, 1-love. Anyway, I mostly DM, and I haven't played far enough with any characters for any background to come into play. Though my lack of background has been used. To introduce me into the game, the DM said this wizard has killed some family member of mine. Cue battle. That, and "you see a ninja fall out of a tree in front of you." " *gets up* Hi, can I join the party?"
DuskyFruit 05-31-05, 01:11 PM	A DM that used my character's ties to her church as adventure hook each and every time we went adventuring.
Draco Strang 05-31-05, 01:19 PM	Match set, Draco Strang, 1-love. Are you insinuating that there's one lover in my background? Huh? There have been many, many more my good friend. Crap....I'm fleshing out my character too much. I don't have the feat.
CzarGarrett 05-31-05, 01:52 PM	When I DM, I always make sure to work with the players to develop a mostly comphrensive background. Rarely will I ever use the background 'against' them, but I get plenty of side quests from backgrounds. A cleric's former (as in where he lived) temple that is nearby has a bunch of undead in the catacombs- the Cleric should feel obligated to go help. A players brother is starting a logging business, and is being attacked by a goblin tribe. The PC and his group should want to go help out. So on and so on.