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stalemate 02-10-06, 01:30 PM	I play a half-orc barbarian LV5 in a serious campaign and my DM told me to get a background before we started. I thought that since my character is crazy (which he is) he should think he is the son of Grummish. No extra powers just a abandoned son of grummish. My DM thinks that I shouldnt be allowed this privalige. The question is if i told a cleric who has a zone of truth around him i was grummish's son would it register a truth or lie ( i believe i am so it should in my opinion.
pres_man 02-10-06, 01:42 PM	Right, being wrong is not lying. If I said, I think it's going to rain tomorrow and it doesn't, I didn't lie, I was wrong. Same thing with this fellow. There was a movie on SCI-FI this last weekend, Hercules. Basically, it wasn't that he was the son of Zeus, it is just that people thought he was and he grew up believing he was until he learned the truth much later. He wasn't lying when he told people he was the son of a god, he was just wrong. Your DM might be confused because some politicials (and commentators) are using the word incorrectly, stating that so-and-so lied to the public, when in fact the person (and many others including many who are now claiming the person lied) may have just been wrong.