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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 9318890" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>Right, so I can give you some examples: My Seeker character in Stonetop starts play as a bit of a foolish girl that has some personal goals built into her backstory. Later she needs something done, and there's a young man, an NPC, whom she manipulates to go deal with this dangerous situation. The character wasn't drawn to be manipulative like that, it 'just happened'. This is learning about the character, growing the character conception, and as it turns out driving story (later we had to undo the screwup that resulted). </p><p></p><p>Yorath, my Stonetop Fox, suddenly faces immediate death from a supernatural threat that he's not equipped to deal with. Being a selfish kind of guy he calls on Helior to save him! I rewrite his instinct to 'praise Helior'. BUT he's not all of a sudden an upstanding guy! This is purely transactional with him, as that's how he views life, fundamentally. Helior is a big powerful being that helped him, so he's grateful and willing to pay back the debt, so to speak, but it isn't clear to what degree he's actually a changed man, yet... </p><p></p><p>Systems often help with this stuff in Narr game design. Like Takeo, my BitD cutter, he had a vice that was supplicating the bloodlust of the Oni which possessed his Katana (a fine weapon, a big edge for him). Later he came to really hate this Oni and finally got in exorcised, after which he took up a different vice, serving the orphans and their caretaker, although this became somewhat self-serving too as he trained some of them to become a cohort in the gang!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 9318890, member: 82106"] Right, so I can give you some examples: My Seeker character in Stonetop starts play as a bit of a foolish girl that has some personal goals built into her backstory. Later she needs something done, and there's a young man, an NPC, whom she manipulates to go deal with this dangerous situation. The character wasn't drawn to be manipulative like that, it 'just happened'. This is learning about the character, growing the character conception, and as it turns out driving story (later we had to undo the screwup that resulted). Yorath, my Stonetop Fox, suddenly faces immediate death from a supernatural threat that he's not equipped to deal with. Being a selfish kind of guy he calls on Helior to save him! I rewrite his instinct to 'praise Helior'. BUT he's not all of a sudden an upstanding guy! This is purely transactional with him, as that's how he views life, fundamentally. Helior is a big powerful being that helped him, so he's grateful and willing to pay back the debt, so to speak, but it isn't clear to what degree he's actually a changed man, yet... Systems often help with this stuff in Narr game design. Like Takeo, my BitD cutter, he had a vice that was supplicating the bloodlust of the Oni which possessed his Katana (a fine weapon, a big edge for him). Later he came to really hate this Oni and finally got in exorcised, after which he took up a different vice, serving the orphans and their caretaker, although this became somewhat self-serving too as he trained some of them to become a cohort in the gang! [/QUOTE]
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