Making up character history

[Sho]

There are plenty of threads dealing with the three character subrule. Go to those threads!

On topic: I wouldn't say creating a fictitious past is bad per se, but there are better ways to give a character a plausible reason to travel without causing arguments in and out of the game. Pre-twenties memories, like clothes (are characters naked?) and writing style (see the newspaper thread) are a Cantr grey area that causes confusion. Best to avoid those if at all possible.

[rklenseth]

There are plenty of threads dealing with the three character subrule. Go to those threads!

On topic: I wouldn't say creating a fictitious past is bad per se, but there are better ways to give a character a plausible reason to travel without causing arguments in and out of the game. Pre-twenties memories, like clothes (are characters naked?) and writing style (see the newspaper thread) are a Cantr grey area that causes confusion. Best to avoid those if at all possible.

Well what I got from him was that his character created a lie about the past thing so as to give him a good reason to travel to that place. So in other words, he lied to some people so that they would allow him to go or something. That is what I was getting from him. Lying isn't a CR Breach in game. Our characters can lie all they want.

[Sho]

What I got was that he gave his character memories for something that happened before he was 20. Of course it's a lie, but that's not my point. My point is that players know that characters (at the moment) start at 20, so they yell at the character in question for doing something forbidden by certain interpretations of Cantr (that characters spawn at 20). Then the other people (who say that characters are born at 0 but don't do anything noteworthy for 20 years) yell back, and this thread gets created. Saying your character was born in another place is tantamount to an invitation to debate.