Hence the number one rule: cool stuff should be done in the game, not your backstory.
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And this is why my next character is gonna be Steve the fisherman. Been spear fishing his whole life. That's it. That's his backstory. He carries a spear.
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I feel your wife may have just been assassinated in the chaos Thievius, I don't think that dragon would've used a sword
Your anger was misplaced, it was truly the goblin that took both your wife and you.
I've become increasingly convinced that people don't want to play low level characters. Level 1 characters are neophyte adventurers. Their backstory shouldn't include significant a mounts of adventure, combat, or heroics, because it introduces a significant amount of ludo-narrative dissonance into the campaign.
Unless there's a reason they've been de-leveled.
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Yep. Feel like we just had some posts about this. People who write that kind of backstory should just write a book. It's especially bad in games like D&D where you're starting out as a level 1 nobody. Some games, even some games of D&D, start at higher power levels, so the story is at least mechanically plausible.
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Seems like panel 3 couldve been their character arc for the campaign
That was obvious. Why would a dragon need a sword to kill a maiden?
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