Retiring - how does it work?

Retiring - how does it work?

James_Nostack 17 Jul 2010 01:49

I am about 90% sure I want to retire Arnold Littleworth, a/k/a Zolobachai of the Nine Visions. I love the character madly, but I suspect he's reached his stop on the Subway of Adventure.

How does retirement work in the White Sandbox? I ask because a few months ago I was under a misperception about how it worked in Glantri.

What I want to do is (a) keep Arnold more-or-less in the background living as a kind-hearted picaro, (b) deny anyone else authorship over Arnold's fate (he doesn't become the Dungeon Master's property), and (c) distribute to the party any wealth or magical gear (CONDITION: The Wand of Wonder must henceforth be known as ZOLOBACHAI'S WAND).

I'm not totally sure I want to do it yet, but is that achievable?

Re: Retiring - how does it work?

foner 28 Jul 2010 05:06

If I remember correctly from Tavis talking about this with someone at the last game, you get to maintain control over him, and do pretty much anything you want. Except, if the party should stumble across him/his lair later on, then something would have to be worked out. Tavis, did I get that right?

Re: Retiring - how does it work?

TavisAllison 28 Jul 2010 14:43

Upon retirement, a retired White Sandbox character reverts to the same kind of status he or she had before play. Like making up your character's background, you have a degree of fictional control over the character's circumstances which is moderated only by events in play. Thus, if your background or your retirement plans involved Big Rock Candy Mountain, and the adventurers went there during a session, we'd need to work out the exact details of the cigarette trees and whether or not they've all been picked clean by hobos.

In any case, I'd take care to keep backstage player characters out of the action; if the adventurers trash a wagon while visiting the retirement colonies, it wouldn't be Arnold's.

The equipment of retired PCs is theirs to do with as they see fit, and giving it to other PCs to keep it in play is encouraged.

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