Character Histories!

Character Histories!

We recently re-vamped the Story Teller System and part of the new procedure encourages Story Tellers to run the occasional mod related to a character’s history. 

That’s great news for you, because it translates into personal mods for PC’s.  All you have to do to make sure you are eligible to be chosen is to make sure you have your character history turned in.

I am in the process of gathering all the histories in one place. Once that is complete in a few days, I will post a list of all the people who’s history we have on file so that you can be sure we have them and resend them if it appears it got lost somewhere.

If you know you have not sent in your history and wish to do so, please send it to me directly at .

If you specifically do not want anything run for your character, you’ll need to let me know and I will flag your history as untouchable.

I just want to clarify a couple of things that are very important to the people that it affects.

1. If you submit a history, James is the only person that will initially receive it, and will review it for approval. If he finds something questionable, he may consult with staff members to determine if it's acceptable, but he will do so by taking the questionable bit out of context. In other words, he won't say, "hey, check out Solomon's history and let me know if it's cool.". He'll say "someone submitted a history in which he claims to be the only living descendent of Valos, is that cool?". The key point here is that submitting a character history does not expose your character's background to anyone other than James.

2. If you submit your history with the desire that a mod might be run about it, then any Storyteller, including people who will be playing as their regular PCs for 3/4ths of each event, will be able to read it. Now, one attribute James is certainly looking for in any Storyteller is discretion, and Storytellers will know that histories should not be talked about casually or referenced for any reason other than plot. But, if your background is that you are a spy serving a warlord in the Chaos Wastes, well, here is your full disclosure that submitting your history for plot involvement will expose that history to more people than James, and they are people who are playing PCs.

3. PC histories that are put into the plot fodder bin might be picked up for a single mod, or might be threaded into a longer storyline which doesn't directly pertain to the PC. Whatever happens, the important thing to note is that your PC history will not simply be translated into a mod for your buddies with mad lootz for all. It may indeed be something very personal and your PC is the primary actor in it, but it might also be that instead of Random Scholar X coming to town to explain Weekend Plot Y, it's actually your PC's friend Winston who, experimenting with stuff he shouldn't have, has now unleashed Weekend Plot Y. Obviously that could go any number of ways for your PC, in terms of how much it ultimately involves you in the plot and whether or not that's good or bad for your PC. The point here is that when you let the Storytellers access your history, you're trusting us to use it in a way that is interesting and dynamic - not necessarily a way that is pure gravy for your PC and exclusively his/her ball of cheese.

James, if after 10 years and five separate submissions you lost my history I'm going to teabag you...

with Quagz' junk

Should players with PCs who've been around for awhile resubmit?

I would definitely resubmit my characters history if I can get another shot at those damn Subterranean Mongoloids.

In other words, he won't say, "hey, check out Solomon's history and let me know if it's cool.". He'll say "someone submitted a history in which he claims to be the only living descendent of Valos, is that cool?".

Wait... Solomon is Valos' only living descendent???  Huh... maybe that would explain the big skull sword. 

I would definitely resubmit my characters history if I can get another shot at those damn Subterranean Mongoloids.

bahahahahahahahahahaha

--Skimmel

ps. hahahaha