Tuesday, June 30, 2009

On Origins

Cubist made another good point, to no surprise of mine! However, generally there's little effort put into why the parties in dungeon crawlers actually crawl through the dungeon; they just go off and fight the big bad. This is opposed to PnP RPGs, where the characters give their own backgrounds.

Well, Xandre and I have sorted out Sarah's origin story: a missing brother, blackmail, and a concerned sister.

We have Cubist's back story.

If Mephis and Kenku want to work on back stories that'll be fine.

However, I won't make it a necessity: the simple act of stopping a bad guy with a dungeon has proved sufficient motivation for rampaging through many a computer-generated dungeon!

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