Lucky Day
Daywatch
what about starting in prison or having amnesia?
we should really start our own cliche thread.
As for family members dying in BG remember your adoptive father gets the axe pretty quick.
another cliche was discovering you're a deity but I believe this is what Bioware was going for: an oldskool RPG in the tradition of RPG's they played in the early '80's. Heck my oldest brother wouldn't even play unless he got to play a demigod.
IWD was the same but they took a different direction. Interplay made their's in a linear fashion the way those old modules were contrived.
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movies and books have been quite successful with the boy meets girl formula for centuries. they tell it in complicated ways is the secret.
with rpg's though it seems to have become terribly obvious. When I ran a Wheel of Time server 9 out of 10 biographies were of children waking up to discover they burned their farmhouse down so they run off to the White or Black Tower before they get lynched. Or their house was burned down by channelers so they run off to join the Whitecloaks so they could lynch a few.
I gave a Biography award to the only player who decided to become a blacksmith.
we should really start our own cliche thread.
As for family members dying in BG remember your adoptive father gets the axe pretty quick.
another cliche was discovering you're a deity but I believe this is what Bioware was going for: an oldskool RPG in the tradition of RPG's they played in the early '80's. Heck my oldest brother wouldn't even play unless he got to play a demigod.
IWD was the same but they took a different direction. Interplay made their's in a linear fashion the way those old modules were contrived.
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movies and books have been quite successful with the boy meets girl formula for centuries. they tell it in complicated ways is the secret.
with rpg's though it seems to have become terribly obvious. When I ran a Wheel of Time server 9 out of 10 biographies were of children waking up to discover they burned their farmhouse down so they run off to the White or Black Tower before they get lynched. Or their house was burned down by channelers so they run off to join the Whitecloaks so they could lynch a few.
I gave a Biography award to the only player who decided to become a blacksmith.