You can come from anywhere! Torn exists because I say it does! No one needs so much of the Barony that you or I can't have a piece to make our own! Names occur more than once - perhaps Torn is the name of a famous hero who travelled - we realise we've used the same name, get together, take five minutes creating the hero and bingo. We have a link between our characters to roleplay around. Or it's just a coincidence - a common word, a name for something familiar. I grew up in Coombe House. Do you know how many Coombe streets, Combe Streets, Coombe Roads, Coombe Houses, etc there are? I see them everywhere.
The thing is, I know from my experience of you that if you made a map of the Barony, then if Torn wasn't on it, there wouldn't be room for Torn. But I want to create it - now I can't. So every character I ever have will probably come from outside the Barony after that.
And your right - there are a hundred ways to get around any restriction of background from your NPC backgrounds, which is why I didn't even notice the supposed restrictiveness of them until people started shouting on the boards. All I can say is people should have more imagination when bending what has already been said... but that kind of comment makes people think I'm twinking instead of creating enjoyment for myself that doesn't impinge on others.
In case I've misrepresented myself, I fully support the npcs you crafted, continue to use Tobin and don't see the problem as a real problem. But there we go - I'm no longer in a position to push that, as you so artfully point out.
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Date: 2006-02-04 12:49 pm (UTC)You can come from anywhere! Torn exists because I say it does! No one needs so much of the Barony that you or I can't have a piece to make our own! Names occur more than once - perhaps Torn is the name of a famous hero who travelled - we realise we've used the same name, get together, take five minutes creating the hero and bingo. We have a link between our characters to roleplay around. Or it's just a coincidence - a common word, a name for something familiar. I grew up in Coombe House. Do you know how many Coombe streets, Combe Streets, Coombe Roads, Coombe Houses, etc there are? I see them everywhere.
The thing is, I know from my experience of you that if you made a map of the Barony, then if Torn wasn't on it, there wouldn't be room for Torn. But I want to create it - now I can't. So every character I ever have will probably come from outside the Barony after that.
And your right - there are a hundred ways to get around any restriction of background from your NPC backgrounds, which is why I didn't even notice the supposed restrictiveness of them until people started shouting on the boards. All I can say is people should have more imagination when bending what has already been said... but that kind of comment makes people think I'm twinking instead of creating enjoyment for myself that doesn't impinge on others.
In case I've misrepresented myself, I fully support the npcs you crafted, continue to use Tobin and don't see the problem as a real problem. But there we go - I'm no longer in a position to push that, as you so artfully point out.