A “tragic” character For this blog post a “tragic” character is one with a truly long, twisting, and awful life. Perhaps they make the most of what they’re given or they succumb to tragedy and despair. The important aspect is that the character suffers quite a lot of terrible events in their life. The majority […]
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D&D Series #3: A Character Example
Introduction It’s Thursday book bees, and you know what that means? Another installment of my Dungeons and Dragons series! Following my previous posts about creating characters and the importance of their backstories, I thought it might be smart to give an example of a character created and played for those that learn by example. Okay, […]
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D&D Series #2: Backstories and Payoff
Backstories: What they are and how to write them To start with, yes, obviously backstories are the stories that tell what happened in a character’s life up to the point the campaign starts. I imagine most people are able to figure that out from the word itself. But in Dungeons and Dragons, backstories can be […]
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