subplotkudzu | Russia Buy In

We had

evynrude over this weekend and managed to get a couple of hours of combined character creation and baby-watching while Rachel took a nap. Evynrude had been concerned about stepping into the Russia game at some point because there was an ongoing history for it, so I tried to diffuse that by giving her a clear explanation of everything that has happened to date - I trust that she can keep her character from knowing things she shouldn't.

I had created a PC for her some time back, but decided to ditch it in favor of her building one with me to get a greater player buy-in. This was enormously successful. Strangely, the class combination (Barbarian Bard) is identical, but the concept is radically different - rather than a unicorn touched Cossack earth-cultist, she's a renegade Gypsy with a fierce temper. The look on Evynrude's face when she heard that Romany was an available race (OK, they're Gnomes in D&D, but I don't have actual non-human races in Russia) pretty much clinched the deal.

She's apparently making the reference department at her library look up information on Russian Gypsies, and is genuinely enthused about playing. A little buy in is a good thing.