Jessica

Yeah, I mean, that's a common thing in storytelling.

They used to do it with people's wives.

It's called fridging the wife.

It's to give you meaning and a drive to go forward because someone you love died.

We'll just make it a generic woman.

She doesn't need any more information about her.

That's fine.

Yeah, no, I like doing that.

I mean, a big thing for writing backstories for me is to give the GM hooks for stuff to play with my characters.

That's a big part of it.

I'm like, here's all these things.

So here's the strings you can pull to motivate my character to get them to go in certain ways to match the story.

But yeah, yeah.

And family can be a great one for that.

I've had a lot of characters who have had very complicated issues with their, you know, relationships with their mothers because, you know, mothers and their daughters are classic trope in storytelling.

So I've had lots of those as well.

So you don't have to

You know, the play is the character's family.

You can just make them problematic people in their lives that they have to deal with.

What has your child done?