I would disagree there. You yourself identified this scar as something very specific, which was made by your cat. Getting to know the cause does tell things about you, it is not just “random”.
Aside from that, I think it is a bit of a broad way to approach the topic. Role-play and IRL are two distinct worlds and we convey things in RP in different ways. Usually, people leave out of the role-play certain aspects of their characters: I doubt you role-play going to the toilet, sleeping, eating everyday, and all those activities that really add little, if anything, to your session. Role-play is usually not intended to be about this kind of trivial stuff. The same would apply to equally trivial scars, unless they are intended to add a specific vibe to the session.
I don’t talk about the tiny scar on my hand from said story either, mainly because if people see my left hand they’re going to more be like; “jesus Christ, why do you have a claw for a hand?!” (Arthritis my dudes)
Also my story about being scarred by Leo is very much overshadowed by everything else I say about him, post in his pictures or even the white hairs I got from nearly putting him down in January because he was really. REALLY. ill.
Long story short, dumb stuff happens to characters and people, they get scarred from it, there’s not much thought needed to be put into it after that.
Then [assuming it is a major scar, otherwise it belongs to trivial stuff] that is a missed opportunity, it is all I am saying.
I get the point Zaphius is making in this regard (even if I broadly side with what the Agenda has been saying). Person has scar and asking about → information that the person has a cat, it gives the uninitiated lore on Croecell the player.
Hlaanu lost her right hand during a recent campaign. Managed to perform the big heroic deed that saved the day and I thought it would be cool if it came at a cost. Thankfully, one of the npcs opened my brain like a book and read it, then came at me and did exactly what I wanted to happen with no prompting. Shoutout to Gariok
Roleplaying a character that lacks a limb is kinda wonky because the limb is still there on the model but I also found it fun. Its a steady source of conflict for the character, especially if they are not exactly at peace with the loss.
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Lyth has lost all skin and now is floating spooky grill. Before that she lost her right eye. She is now floating spookester, closing in Lich. For now, she just rattles about, dooting when you least expect it
You’re a braver RPer than most of us. Hat’s off to you for seeing that through.
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A bad roll in an event saw her trapped under the rubble of a dying infernal, taking previous running jokes of catching fire to a whole new level. She was effectively in shock and wrapped like a mummy for a while, healed to the greatest extent possible but left with fel-fissured cracked skin from her left shoulder, down her back all the way through her casting hand.
Debilitatingly painful, it slowly turned to scarring reminiscent of cracks but the worst harm was psychological. A catastrophic blow to her vanity, it also instilled an instinctive pyrophobia which is incredibly inconvenient when one of your primary weapons is hellfire.
Things are better these days but she’ll resort to burning things only as a last resort and wears a glove on her casting hand.
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How much protection will the glove truly provide?
Magic glove with fire resistance perhaps
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I like this topic, it really made me think!
When I first made Grizz, I gave him a super cringe neck scar from surviving a knife to his throat. I thought it made him cool. In hindsight, its all the little scars and scratches on his hands from a lifetime labouring in Booty Bay. To me, its the evidence of hard work that makes him cool.
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It protects her vanity so it’s absolutely vital. Nobody wants to see that charred, skeletal thing.
Funny notion, though. I can picture her with an oven mitt.
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“Scars? What’s the point? It’s not like we don’t have healers to remove them!” ~ Lintian
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Perhaps I like grotty warlock women, huh
I have a lot of options for you that aren’t a middle-aged amoral narcissist.
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but you’ve just described my ideal woman
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Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of fire and purge.
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On the topic of charred, skeletal things…
One of my characters is a curmudgeonly old goblin chemist, a warlock. He got blown up during a Venture Company sabotage attempt, became an everburning skeleton, and just kinda kept going. Spite (and excessive fel usage) keeps him alive. Unalive. Whichever.
Tangentially topical for the subject of lasting “scars”.
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