Post by DM Windhover on Mar 2, 2017 16:29:19 GMT
I had no idea what to title this. This is a very obscure problem.
I'm about to start a campaign with real life friends who have only played D&D once before (in a 1-shot I ran for them a few weeks ago.) We're having our session 0 for the campaign tomorrow. I've sent them a campaign bible, and asked them for basic information on race and class they're wanting to play, etc.
One of them wants to come from a kingdom in my world which is populated by a combination of elves and humans, which also happens to be the only place in the world where half-elves are common because of lots of intermarriage. She wants to be the daughter of a man who has never told her who her mother was. And so she as a character doesn't know whether she's a half-elf or a human; in my world, half-elves tend to look fairly indistinguishable from humans, and given that she's a ranger, the fact that she sees unusually well in the dark and sleeps lightly could make sense in story terms even if she were human.
Here's my problem. She got her husband to pick for her (half-elf) and tell me. But she as the player wants to be kept in the dark, if possible, just as the actual character is. Beyond just making her character sheet for her, rather than walking her through it like I'll be doing with the other players in the session 0, is there any way you can imagine to successfully hide this information from her? Keep in mind that she's brand new to D&D, so that helps some.
I'm about to start a campaign with real life friends who have only played D&D once before (in a 1-shot I ran for them a few weeks ago.) We're having our session 0 for the campaign tomorrow. I've sent them a campaign bible, and asked them for basic information on race and class they're wanting to play, etc.
One of them wants to come from a kingdom in my world which is populated by a combination of elves and humans, which also happens to be the only place in the world where half-elves are common because of lots of intermarriage. She wants to be the daughter of a man who has never told her who her mother was. And so she as a character doesn't know whether she's a half-elf or a human; in my world, half-elves tend to look fairly indistinguishable from humans, and given that she's a ranger, the fact that she sees unusually well in the dark and sleeps lightly could make sense in story terms even if she were human.
Here's my problem. She got her husband to pick for her (half-elf) and tell me. But she as the player wants to be kept in the dark, if possible, just as the actual character is. Beyond just making her character sheet for her, rather than walking her through it like I'll be doing with the other players in the session 0, is there any way you can imagine to successfully hide this information from her? Keep in mind that she's brand new to D&D, so that helps some.
