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A simple yet useful tool to add depth to the players' characters. I always loved rolling for character backstory, piecing together what happened to them with each new roll, and I this submission provides that for characters in an ongoing campaign. I like how each result is followed up by questions to make you think about how to incorporate the result into a narrative. Good stuff. I can already see an otherwise good and by-the-book character rolling 5 every time and getting into trouble with authorities, and it's never their fault! That would impact how I roleplay that character for sure :D

My only note—a suggestion, really—is that getting multiple times a New Pet result would quickly get tiresome. I think a better option is to rewrite it into a New Friend option that mentions how this new friend can also be an animal. And getting a new friend as a result of rolling on this table would provide the Director with an excellent opportunity to use this new NPC for their nefarious purposes! Betrayal, kidnapping, leverage! Or just a natural source for providing new campaign-related information.

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Thanks for the extensive feedback, really glad you like the rules! Very kind of you to say :)

The idea with the ongoing events is that it's one ongoing situation that doesn't necessarily end each time. So with the New Pet option, the idea is that the situation with your pet advances in some way. Maybe they get housetrained, maybe they make a new pet friend at the dog park, if things advance poorly maybe they get ill. It doesn't mean that you get a new pet every time.

As for new friend, I was thinking about this as one of the options, but I thought about how we behave in real life; usually, making a new friend isn't something that will take up an extended amount of your free time for an entire month, in the way that a new romantic partner or getting a new pet might. The New Community event is sort of supposed to be these rules version of that. Getting one new friend might not take up the entire month, but getting a bunch of new friends might! :D

That's the idea, anyway. Though if that isn't clear to readers, perhaps these rules require some clarification.

Oh, right. I read that part and then almost immediately forgot about it. Yep, all makes sense to me!