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Page 1624 - Adventure Lessons, Part 5
11th Dec 2021, 6:00 AM in Intermission 15

Author: Digo Dragon

Guest Author’s Note: “I think players and GMs miss out on a lot of great opportunities when a PC writes off their family. While there are some GMs that might be tempted to use relatives as ransom, they do the character’s background and their own campaign a disservice this way. Family can be very useful tools for a GM! They’re a readily safehouse for the party to stop at while traveling. Relatives can serve as a means to pass hints and quests to the party so that they follow your crafted story arc instead of wandering off course. Feel that someone in the party missed out on treasure or didn’t get anything useful because you used a random loot chart? Send them a late birthday or holiday gift from parents! After all, who doesn’t like getting gifts from trusted sources?”

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Lesson: Do not fall for the orphaned background trap. You are not a Disney princess.

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> **Page 1624 - Adventure Lessons, Part 5**
> **11th Dec 2021, 6:00 AM** in [Intermission 15](http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/archive/60238)
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> Author: Digo Dragon
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> Guest Author's Note: "I think players and GMs miss out on a lot of great opportunities when a PC writes off their family. While there are some GMs that might be tempted to use relatives as ransom, they do the character's background and their own campaign a disservice this way. Family can be very useful tools for a GM! They're a readily safehouse for the party to stop at while traveling. Relatives can serve as a means to pass hints and quests to the party so that they follow your crafted story arc instead of wandering off course. Feel that someone in the party missed out on treasure or didn't get anything useful because you used a random loot chart? Send them a late birthday or holiday gift from parents! After all, who doesn't like getting gifts from trusted sources?"
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> Lesson: Do not fall for the orphaned background trap. You are not a Disney princess.

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artwarrior1985

Pay no attention to the sonic rainboom either.

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Lord Of Dorkness

I mean, you can still have a family even as an orphan?

Honestly, that stuff was one of my favorite bits of Neverwinter Nights 2. Your foster dad, Duncan, is a deeply flawed, outright broken ~~man~~ elf, but in his own way, he tries. He’s just basically a walking avatar of depression about it.

It added WAY~ more interesting story beats then if, you know, they’d just gone for the ‘forever~ alone~’ stereotype of dead parents.

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