I have a lot of soul searching to do. Not my soul; haven't seen that bitch in 12 years.
My previously mentioned rich kid with dead parents and a flying ship. When I created Luken my goal was to make a niave Pollyanne hero, like Yugi Moto or Luke Skywalker, and give him a dark and terrible destiny (It's an actual trait you can give a character in this system and it basically says that the GM picks on you) to see if it makes him step up and become a real hero or if it twists him into darkness. Well, in one fell swoop I've lost my ship, my money, found and watched murdered my parents (again, WTF) and then crippled by my mother's spirit, transformed by greif into a wraith. Oh, and he's killed an unarmed man, but that shit is all me. So now, I'm searching his soul, since his life is ruined, but also, I need to worry about my relevance to the party at large as he's now a cripple and can't really fight.
So, tell me if this is a dick angle to take. I figure, it doesn't matter if I can kill more monsters or romance more princess, so long as I can keep the plot revolving around me my character will be indespencible to the party? Confront destiny head on, I'm saying, and wrestle control back from the gods. I'm going to use this event to justify his becoming a medium, making him the soul connection to my dead father who holds the key to a truly awesome treasure. Awesome enough that by being the catalyst for it's recovery, I'm basically extorting relevance from the other, more capable, characters in the party.
So, tell me if this is a dick angle to take. I figure, it doesn't matter if I can kill more monsters or romance more princess, so long as I can keep the plot revolving around me my character will be indespencible to the party? Confront destiny head on, I'm saying, and wrestle control back from the gods. I'm going to use this event to justify his becoming a medium, making him the soul connection to my dead father who holds the key to a truly awesome treasure. Awesome enough that by being the catalyst for it's recovery, I'm basically extorting relevance from the other, more capable, characters in the party.