I'm a new DM, trying to run a relatively short (partly) homebrew campaign. One of the characters is a half-Orc raised by Dwarves and is looking for his biological parents. Any ideas on it? I was thinking that maybe his father was a non-typical Orc, exiled for his abnormal behaviour. And then he fell in love with a human lady. Is it too cheesy? I don't want the campaign to be too dark, but any suggestion is welcome :)
For some reason I read your post and came up with the following:
Father: Half Orc, Mother: Dwarf.
"Mother was on her travels and stopped over in a town two valleys over. One night she was at a tavern and having a great time drinking the locals under the table when she caught the eye of the local bard, a half orc. The two set about some friendly banter, more drinks and one thing led to another and the next thing she knew she was waking up in bed the next morning with the bard gone and some time later she realised she was with child. Mother continued her travels and eventually gave birth and brought her son home where she lied and said the baby was one she found abandoned and she planned ot raise it in teh Dwarvish traditions. Time passes and enter the PC."
For a plot point you could then have a troupe of performers turn up at the Dwarf community and have a certain Half Orc member fo the troupe beat a hasty retreat when confronted by the Mother.
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Orc falls in love with human isn't cheesy, it's traditional. Nothing wrong with that.
What I recommend, rather than working on the circumstances of the parental union, is tying the parents in with the main plot itself. If your campaign is about stopping an evil wizard, maybe the parents were accidentally swept up in the wizard's experiments and the party finds them in cryo-stasis in a dungeon, somewhere. If your campaign is about restoring harmony to a kingdom, maybe the parents were conscripted in the war, captured by the enemy, and are in a work camp that the party can liberate on their travels. Tying in the player's backstory to current campaign events really adds to the experience and makes their victories and reunions even sweeter.
I really liked the idea of the womanizer bard, but probably I'll change it a bit. Maybe they meet him when the party travels through the Orclands. Thank you both!
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I'm a new DM, trying to run a relatively short (partly) homebrew campaign. One of the characters is a half-Orc raised by Dwarves and is looking for his biological parents. Any ideas on it? I was thinking that maybe his father was a non-typical Orc, exiled for his abnormal behaviour. And then he fell in love with a human lady. Is it too cheesy? I don't want the campaign to be too dark, but any suggestion is welcome :)
For some reason I read your post and came up with the following:
Father: Half Orc, Mother: Dwarf.
"Mother was on her travels and stopped over in a town two valleys over. One night she was at a tavern and having a great time drinking the locals under the table when she caught the eye of the local bard, a half orc. The two set about some friendly banter, more drinks and one thing led to another and the next thing she knew she was waking up in bed the next morning with the bard gone and some time later she realised she was with child. Mother continued her travels and eventually gave birth and brought her son home where she lied and said the baby was one she found abandoned and she planned ot raise it in teh Dwarvish traditions. Time passes and enter the PC."
For a plot point you could then have a troupe of performers turn up at the Dwarf community and have a certain Half Orc member fo the troupe beat a hasty retreat when confronted by the Mother.
Orc falls in love with human isn't cheesy, it's traditional. Nothing wrong with that.
What I recommend, rather than working on the circumstances of the parental union, is tying the parents in with the main plot itself. If your campaign is about stopping an evil wizard, maybe the parents were accidentally swept up in the wizard's experiments and the party finds them in cryo-stasis in a dungeon, somewhere. If your campaign is about restoring harmony to a kingdom, maybe the parents were conscripted in the war, captured by the enemy, and are in a work camp that the party can liberate on their travels. Tying in the player's backstory to current campaign events really adds to the experience and makes their victories and reunions even sweeter.
I really liked the idea of the womanizer bard, but probably I'll change it a bit. Maybe they meet him when the party travels through the Orclands. Thank you both!