If you have the skills of a player character, you’re a capable person… so did you fight in the war? If so, who did you fight for? What did you do? How do you feel about the outcome? If you didn’t fight in the war, why not? What did you do instead? Did you oppose the war or simply find a different path? Personally, I often choose Cyre as a nation for my PCs because the concept of having lost everything is a strong foundation for why a person would become an adventurer. Everyone understands the core story - “ We’re all secret agents” - and they should come up with a concept that fits that.īut sometimes it’s more fun to have everyone come up with a unique character that doesn’t have any pre-existing connection and to have the campaign be what brings them together, and that’s what I’d like to explore now… when you’re making a character on your own, but want to develop a compelling story.Įberron gives a number of handles for you to latch on to. Or they all fought for Cyre in the Last War. Perhaps they’re all members of the Boromar Clan. If I want a campaign with a clear focus, I’ll often talk to the players and encourage them to come up with a shared character concept that gives them a clear connection from the start and defines the direction of the campaign. And even if we DO just go on a few dungeon crawls, I still feel like this is a character and not just a set of numbers. But I’d love to see any of those stories play out. Will he try to get back into his house? Will he seek out Prince Oargev and fight on behalf of the Cyran people? Will he find his faith again in a divine revelation, and take levels of paladin or cleric? Will he be approached by the Twelve to become part of a secret group of excoriates doing deniable missions for the houses, or uncover a Quori infestation that’s taken over his old family? I don’t know. Now the war is over, and the Mourning shattered his faith and destroyed everything he loved. Or I could be a dragonmarked heir who broke ties with his house to fight for Cyre, because he truly believed their cause was just and the Sovereigns were on their side.
I could be a 1st level human fighter - done. And I want my character to be someone whose story I’d like to know. But even so, what I love about RPGs - as player or GM - is the fact that we’re building a story together. If you know you’re just doing a straight-up dungeon crawl, it may be that the only thing that really matters is your statistics. In Eberron - or D&D in general - that’s not always the case. In Phoenix, this is a cornerstone of the story that drives the campaign. Further, the protagonists of Phoenix have died and returned imbued with new skill and supernatural power, and the type of Phoenix you become is determined by the nature of your death and the lessons that you learned… so it’s important to think about who your character was before they became a hero, and exactly how they died. As such it’s vital for every character to establish what they are fighting for. Recently I made a post about developing origin stories for my new RPG Phoenix: Dawn Command. In Phoenix, the PCs aren’t casual adventurers their world is facing a mysterious and terrible threat, and the narrative is about fighting that Dread and trying to unravel its mysteries.
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