Special Background Ruling

[granny]

I have been wondering a bit so far:

Do you need to app if you are looking for a special background? I mean to belong to a well known organization (like a monk order)... or family/ heritage?

[dutchy]

all depends you have to be more specific.

cannot be for example be family to a burgomaster or one of the ruling houses in the port, thats out of the question.

noble you can be but it is often best to make up your own name/clan/family.

i no way can you pretend that your family holds power in the module as that would give you an advantage others do not have and thats not allowed (this part needs better explenation but atm i can't think of a better way to word it)

so depending on what you had in mind yes and no is the awnser.

you can be part of orders that are not represented in game yet, if they are represented ingame and there no players in it ask a dm for the rp if there are players in it go to the players, theres often 1 leading it.

[HellsPanda]

But your background has to be what a character of level 2 could have. Which in most organisations would be fairly low ranking.

[Ercvadasz]

I have been wondering a bit so far:

Do you need to app if you are looking for a special background? I mean to belong to a well known organization (like a monk order)... or family/ heritage?

You could be a member of a dominant family, however, you must be a powerless member. For example you are an outcast, a 5th son/daughter, basicly anyone that cannot rely on the family resources or aid, and has to find his own luck.
Well this is how i see it.

[HellsPanda]

Also it can give you no benefits ingame.

[respawnaholic]

But your background has to be what a character of level 2 could have. Which in most organisations would be fairly low ranking.

On the bright side. It would make him a brigadier or at least a coloniel in the Barovian army.

[herkles]

When I had the Montte family, which was a noble family in the port. I worked to see if people would fit in;since naturally you had to either marry in or be born in. Now if one started off as a montte noble, they were considered a minor noble as that is what the family was till edmond and mathieu managed to be given a title raising them up just a fraction