I'm in one of those cycles where a friend wants to remake so I make a side character to join him, only to realize that the new characters don't get along with my brother's character for legitimate flavor/alignment reasons so we remake again but the character dynamic doesn't feel quite right so everyone remakes again, rinse and repeat x 4. My friend and I came to an agreement that seemed stable and copacetic, we would just tell the other guy a class and he'd have to use it. In fact my friend got greedy and gave me an alignment and a race too!
I'm a lawful neutral half orc monk with hooks for hands, because "unarmed" combat can be pretty brutal.
Besides being a double amputee and semi reformed Sencliff pirate I was thinking of making him an ex convict. The problem is that I don't know anything about the prison system of the Arelith universe. Are there any larger prisons (20+ people) where prisoners are held long term? I haven't seen any, but perhaps they exist"off screen" somewhere?
If jail is just one or two cells and more temporary in the Arelith universe I'll scrap the ex-con idea, but I wondered if a man getting thrown in a large dungeon, losing both his hands and being forced to fight to survive for a decade would be something that fits with the setting.
Prisoner Backstory
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Re: Prisoner Backstory
As far as IC goes, troublemakers tend to be ostracised rather than incarcerated. However, Forgotten Realms has prisons and labor camps, so wouldn't personally find either an unseemly choice for a character background. My own idea is that player actions don't reflect the day-to-day of the rabble and so circumstances outside the common knowledge of players and characters may exist among the NPCs.
Characters: all poor babies suffering from neglect
Re: Prisoner Backstory
There is a prison in neverwinter (See also nwn Main story)
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki ... a_District
Your Post and Charakter concept made me lol and i genuinely hope to run into him!
Have at it!
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki ... a_District
Your Post and Charakter concept made me lol and i genuinely hope to run into him!
Have at it!
Re: Prisoner Backstory
Prisoner background would fit well with an elder-scrolls/arelith crossover... not that such will ever happen of course.
Re: Prisoner Backstory
I went with what Opostus mentioned, a labor Camp somewhere unspecified in the Forgotten Realms setting.
The fighting style looked a bit comical but he turned out to be a very serious character. Poor guy was betrayed by the half elf ranger who he saw as almost a son and was killed.
He had a very hard life and after that betrayal he didn't have the heart to come back from Kelemvor's wall.
RIP.
The fighting style looked a bit comical but he turned out to be a very serious character. Poor guy was betrayed by the half elf ranger who he saw as almost a son and was killed.
He had a very hard life and after that betrayal he didn't have the heart to come back from Kelemvor's wall.
RIP.