This is really an adaptation rather than a recounting of the game we're playing just now, although the events remain more or less the same. But I do like to give my player's characters good backstories to promote and provoke good roleplaying opportunities; pre-existing relationships is one way of doing it.

For those who want a shorthand character interaction solution for a new party of adventurers, just make a note on the player's character sheets that two of them previously dated a third.


I'm roughly basing the game-world on the Dark Ages, around AD 650. Conisborough Castle is about eight miles away from where we live (or it's ruins are, anyhow).

I quite like Moranna. She's a good non-player character in the game, and she's a fun write in the story because she gets to be a bit looser and wilder than the children of Jothan.


I'd quite like to write some.