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He may be cute, but he's definitely not happy about the rider.

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Oh that's interesting, I like his background and story, what happened that he was transformed into a feral Kitsune?

Kind of a long story, but I'll try and give the brief cliff notes version. Essentially before the campaign began there was a massive war against the shapeshifters where a lot of them were hunted down to near extinction. The kitsune were one of them where they are actually thought extinct. Well one of the last ones was pregnant as she was fleeing someone specifically hunting down the last of the kitsune to finish the job. As a final act of desperation to save her unborn child she cast a very dangerous spell that transferred him into an already pregnant human with a bunch of extra magic to allow him to be born a a human twin of the other child. This caused him to grow up and live a normal human life until the whole group got pulled into the other world of magical creates which at that point the higher level of magic finally broke the spell that was causing him to remain in a human form. Of course with no kitsune to help teach him how to shapeshift he spent most of the campaign stuck as just a feral kitsune in a world that wanted him dead. The player actually was a good sport about it and spent a bunch of time looking into fox behaviors to "accurately portray his character."

Oh and thanks for the fav.

Oh and I should note that in this campaign that I ran no one knew anything about the setting going into it. I had everyone create normal human characters on earth (specifically a bunch of freshman college students) who all just got sucked into the secret world of magic and had to learn all about it at the same time there characters did. Humans staying too long in the realm all end up getting TFed into magic creatures though. So by the time we ended up stopping the campaign (it kind of fizzled due to covid and people moving) none of the party was human.

In the system we were using, GURPS, there's actually a bunch of ways to indicate to the GM that you want your character to be messed with and he took all of them. So I warned him at the start of the campaign that taking secret advantages would allow me to highly dictate his character. And then he took 50 points of them. For comparison the second highest secret advantage point total was I believe 20 and in total players would only have 80 total character points to spend. He also took this thing called "Weirdness Magnet" that also gave me even more permission to screw with him. So while I gave everyone else a bit more opportunity to shape their characters and what they ended up turning into, for him I really did just dictate it because I wanted a kitsune in the game.

Thanks for the explanation! You guys have the best fun with these role-playing campaigns, they aren't really a thing here.

Yeah, sorry it was a bit long, but there's a lot to say (and a lot I didn't bring up). They really are fun and it is a shame they aren't bigger over there. I do remember reading somewhere that they took off way more in America while the UK stuck more with wargames which is why stuff like Warhammer is larger over there compared to being extra niche over here.

That makes sense, thanks.