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[AnubisXy]

There's no "requirement" on having had bad things happen, and when I'm running a game I generally don't mandate players put certain things into their backstory (unless it's a particular theme for a campaign like, "Why are you all here together?") but that said I do ask players to include plot hooks for me and having bad things happen in a past allows for more hooks than having had a wonderful perfect past. At the least, throw in some rivals or other people who are unhappy with how perfect the character's life was.

[AnubisXy]

Right up until the C-4 went off anyway. Oops. ...

[AnubisXy]

Yeah, at the end of the game it looked like it was just an ancient corpse. Messerach wasn't a vampire or anything supernatural, just a normal dead human corpse.

[AnubisXy]

"Anti-fascist? Why heavens no officer, I absolutely love fascism. Hitler, Mussolini, Pinochet, they're some of my favorite people! But by far and away the fascists I love the most are you guys."...

[AnubisXy]

I hate it when people use sayings without actually understanding what they mean.

I've seen a lot of conservative talking heads and some extremely prominent conservative politicians saying that the problem with racism and brutality among police officers is one of, "just a few bad apples." But the full saying is, "A few bad apples spoil the bunch." In other words, if you have a bunch of apples and see a few are spoiled and don't immediately get rid of them all the rest of the apples will be tainted and will need to be thrown out. In other words, even if there are...