@Zzarchov: Ha, I’m not sure I’d be bold enough to pull the ‘cut in twain’ trick in a commercial adventure. However, it sure did it’s thing in our game.

@Wally: I would agree with you Wally if Fangs had half or even a quarter of a backstory. He had none to speak of except what has been building over the last few sessions. Granted, that may be enough. I still took the chance and decided to explore what might have happened before he lost his memory.

However, one of Eric’s motivation in a RPG is to explore the psyche of his character, which isn’t really possible with an amnesic PC.

Absolutely not true! You need to be watching Dollhouse – each week the central character’s mind is wiped totally clean, yet each week her character gains complexity, shows fascinating and momentarily inexplicable reactions to the other ‘dolls’…a tricky conceit, and the slow evolution of the lead is riveting.

Roleplaying a character with a half-formed identity, having only halfway thought out the character’s backstory, doesn’t sound ‘not really possible.’ It sounds absolutely necessary.
.-= Wally´s last blog ..Up. =-.

And the players’ reaction afterwards was so worth it.

@Yan: Yeah, let’s just say that it made up for the 2 crits you scored on the Boss monster with that +3 Vicious greatsword of yours.

First: 1 and 1. I can take the roll I want. Well thanks for nothing.
Second: 1 and 4. Better but still a miss.
Third: 1 and 3. Oh come on! These are D20 not D4!

At least it did not stay that way for the hole evening but my contribution in this fight was of no consequence.

Time waits for the look of astonishment on the wizards’ face before releasing the body parts from gravity’s hold.

Precious moment
.-= Eric Maziade´s last blog ..Keeping tabs on initiative =-.