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>How is an appropriate hook or tale determined?
Ah, That's something I somewhat forgot about (This is why feedback is important, It's all too easy to miss things like this without a second set of eyes.)
Now even with elaboration, his is going to be up to my personal judgment, but some examples would definitely help clarify what would make a good hook or tale. I've been meaning to lay down some examples for the example character, so I guess that needs working on now.
But to summarize, a "tale" could be seen as in the vein of Ero-Empire's 2k 2lewd bonuses, if you've been around long enough to be at all familiar with that. A "tale" should be a short story that most importantly fleshes out your character. It doesn't need to be lewd, but that wouldn't hurt, since it needs to be interesting in some way. A good hook would be a story that shows an example of your character in action, personality, powers and all. Alternately it could be a story about a pivotal point of your character's development. And naturally an encounter with a tentacle monster they narrowly escape with no more than a shred of dignity or clothing left works too.
Ero-empire gave a bonus for posts with a minimum of two thousand words, I'm thinking something in that ballpark would be good. I'm looking for quality first, but if it's shorter than 1k it probably doesn't have enough meat.
"Hooks" are in the line of gameplay disadvantages, so it's much more of a mechanical trade-off. Hooks should disadvantage your character in a way that makes being a DM for your character more interesting and opens up possibilities. It should be something that doesn't take a lot of contrived coincidence to use, and not be something that's easy to work around.
One example of a good hook is a limitation on or because of your character's magic. For one example, say a character with elemental powers is unable to use magic if they get soaked with water. Another might have the character's magic be unable to work on things made of a certain material.
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