> While this seems like a great piece of advice if you
> know at chargen that that's the first scenario you're
> doing, how does it work if you dropping it into an
> existing campaign? I can see that in a few cases you
> might be able to fiddle character back-story to add a
> remote cousin they'd forgotten about, but you couldn't
> do it for everyone, surely?
I think that you might be too rigid in your view of backstory. These things are more flexible if handled with the right spirit.
However, I think I will let this example speak for itself:
LEIA: No. Where are we?
HAN: The Anoat system.
LEIA: Anoat system. There's not much there.
HAN: No. Well, wait. This is interesting. Lando.
He points to a computer mapscreen on the control panel. Leia slips out of her chair and moves next to the handsome pilot. Small light points representing several systems flash by on the computer screen.
LEIA: Lando system?
HAN: Lando's not a system, he's a man. Lando Calrissian. He's a card player, gambler, scoundrel. You'd like him.
LEIA: Thanks.
HAN: Bespin. It's pretty far, but I think we can make it.
LEIA: (reading from the computer) A mining colony?
HAN: Yeah, a Tibanna gas mine. Lando conned somebody out of it. We go back a long way, Lando and me.
LEIA: Can you trust him?
HAN: No. But he has no love for the Empire, I can tell you that.
And thus, Lando appears with the expenditure of a few hero points...
(just as noted in the HQ rules when discussing spending HP on the fly)
Jeff
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