[LoO] The Mortal Parent

RPGPundit · September 19, 2012, 04:50:01 PM

So I didn't go too far into this in the book itself, but it obviously stands to reason that unless you were a product of one of those incestoriffic cousin or brother/sister romances that are not uncommon among the gods, one of your character's parents is mortal.

Would you factor this into the game as a GM? As a player, would you want to?
I mean, it could be a really formative factor for a PC: if their parent was basically a rape-victim of a God, or if it was a romance that ended in heartbreak, or felt he/she was taken advantage of and then abandoned (and why? Did your divine parent leave the mortal out of boredom? Lust for another? or just because the mortal parent started to age too much?); or maybe the mortal parent was a fanatical cultist of the god and has some odd ideas (and maybe her/his friends in "The church" do too) about what their child's role should be in society/the world's future.

The mortal parent could be almost as interesting a factor in the game as the immortal one.

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danbuter · September 19, 2012, 05:14:17 PM

Most of the Greek heroes had a mortal mother. I really expected you to address that pretty thoroughly in the book. :confused:

RPGPundit · September 20, 2012, 08:07:36 PM

Quote from: danbuter;583789Most of the Greek heroes had a mortal mother. I really expected you to address that pretty thoroughly in the book. :confused:

In the book, the obvious emphasis for any character is their immortal parent; however, I do talk a lot about character creation, which includes a thorough "character questionairre" that the players should go through to get to know their PC, guidelines as to how to choose their place of origin (were they born on Olympus? One of the Earths? Somewhere else?), and every single NPC deity includes a section on how that god would be like as a parent, which inherently includes some ideas about how said god would have related to the PC's other (mortal) parent. Its just the secondary emphasis compared to the fact that you're the son/daughter of a Titan or Olympian deity.

All I'm saying in this thread is that its a very good idea in actual play that you have a good emphasis on the other side of the equation too.

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