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I’m still working on the GM screen but haven’t had the time I was hoping to have to work on it. Since I’m taking longer than I wanted, I’ll jump into a post that I wanted to save for next week.

One of the interesting things about playing a character in The Artifact is that most of them have just cut all ties to family and friends. Earthers on the planet have almost certainly left everyone they know behind. There is the possibility that a few siblings may have also been selected for the project but they’d probably be given different assignments and so would rarely see each other. Even a Scimrahn PC is not likely to have a lot of family contact from the games we’ve played, although they do occasionally.

That doesn’t mean that family is irrelevant. I was thinking about some of the Transmissions posts that I’ve done about a soldier writing back home. It still effects how a person thinks.

It’s also the case that most RPGs don’t overtly specify that a PC should have family connections. There are a lot of blog posts out there about PCs never seeming to be married. Seeing how we very rarely pick our family situation, I thought that discovering a PCs family connection would be interesting in the character generation process.

Family Back Home

Roll a D6, this will be the number of times the player will roll on the table below.

Roll 1D100

So how much of play will this effect? Not too much admittedly but I think it gives some back story to a character that can be informative for role play.