Post by Vulash on Jan 5, 2016 16:29:43 GMT
I'm sorry I never got back to you! And you took the time to write up the character backstories and all. Sorry, I got really busy with real life. First of all, I think you have great character backstories! Secondly, did you end up running with your rampaging golem idea? I think it's a great idea - I might be careful about how much you reveal about the Aasimar. OR! What if afterwards they see the cloacked Aasimar figure watching from the distance, and he disappears before they can get to him. Then slowly...very slowly...have other events at future dates where something subtle happens that endangers Tieflings, and the cloaked figure in the distance. I'm thinking as I go so there may be holes to that....
As to your part 1. What if the artifact that the dragon is having your character recover is an artifact that can bring her true child back to life - the slain dragonling. If you really wanted to twist them up with emotions you could have the artifact work in such a way that a life must be taken for a life to be given. The dragon had planned all along to raise the young elf child and have her retrieve the artifact from a sacred place that only an elf could recover - and then had planned to sacrifice the character to resurrect her son/daughter. However, the dragon has come to love the character and is torn and unable to follow through once the item is retrieved. Perhaps she gives up her own life so that both of her "children" may live.
Other brainstorms:
Is the male ranger's mother still alive in a coma then?
What if the priest's mother, now aged and destitute, was arrested for some crime and brought before the church? Perhaps her no good husband squandered the family lands and money, and now was forcing her to a life of petty crime with him? Or perhaps he leads a band of hard up bandits and the mother was captured. There are any number of "hard life" routes this could take where the mother ends up in need from the church, or looking guilty, and the character can either show resentment and hold strict to her doctrine, or dig a little deeper and realize the mother didn't know what happened and was in a bad situation now and needed help. NO matter what, I think working this in in a way in which the character has to "bend" the priests rules slightly to help a woman that was lied too and thought her daughter died (maybe she is broken from that?) is a good example of the moral dilemma from the latest podcast. Just establishing a new home for her mother and trying to pay for that can create adventures in itself.
Those ideas are all pretty gritty though. I'll see if I can brainstorm some more fantastical light ideas. Honestly, the creation and inspiration podcasts have some great larger hook ideas that you can take and run with.
As to your part 1. What if the artifact that the dragon is having your character recover is an artifact that can bring her true child back to life - the slain dragonling. If you really wanted to twist them up with emotions you could have the artifact work in such a way that a life must be taken for a life to be given. The dragon had planned all along to raise the young elf child and have her retrieve the artifact from a sacred place that only an elf could recover - and then had planned to sacrifice the character to resurrect her son/daughter. However, the dragon has come to love the character and is torn and unable to follow through once the item is retrieved. Perhaps she gives up her own life so that both of her "children" may live.
Other brainstorms:
Is the male ranger's mother still alive in a coma then?
What if the priest's mother, now aged and destitute, was arrested for some crime and brought before the church? Perhaps her no good husband squandered the family lands and money, and now was forcing her to a life of petty crime with him? Or perhaps he leads a band of hard up bandits and the mother was captured. There are any number of "hard life" routes this could take where the mother ends up in need from the church, or looking guilty, and the character can either show resentment and hold strict to her doctrine, or dig a little deeper and realize the mother didn't know what happened and was in a bad situation now and needed help. NO matter what, I think working this in in a way in which the character has to "bend" the priests rules slightly to help a woman that was lied too and thought her daughter died (maybe she is broken from that?) is a good example of the moral dilemma from the latest podcast. Just establishing a new home for her mother and trying to pay for that can create adventures in itself.
Those ideas are all pretty gritty though. I'll see if I can brainstorm some more fantastical light ideas. Honestly, the creation and inspiration podcasts have some great larger hook ideas that you can take and run with.
