Character Backgrounds

OK, things are starting to come together on characters . . . now I want to talk a little bit about character background and personality.

I will apologize in advance for the first game session. Your characters are all going to be railroaded into working together, so diverse backgrounds are way cool. In fact, it will make the game more interesting if none of you have anything in common. Basically, you can anticipate being the archetypical reluctant heroes thrown together in a time of adversity to face the great evil that is threatening the world.

All PCs need to have a core kernel of goodness. Although evil PCs are possible, I'm not going to allow them at this time (maybe after I kill your first character your second one can be evil). Selfish neutral PCs will work just fine as long as there is some room in the personality/background for the PC to come around and join the good guys.

Please feel free to put as much effort as you wish into your background and motivation, but bear in mind that this adventure has a fairly clear-cut path. I will make some effort to tie in character backgrounds to the events of the adventure, but there will be little, if any, adventure hooks based on specific backgrounds that you invent.

It is not necessary for any of you to work out how/why you're going to be "at the adventure site" as I will have that covered for you. The only thing you need to worry about is making up a character that can be swayed to join the side of good when push comes to shove.

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