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RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint |
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04-14-2017, 05:09 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-14-2017, 05:09 AM by Nebbs.)
My main problem with things like this is when it becomes the main focus of someones RP. So with any affliction or disability, try to make it about the character first. And most people with affliction defined characters don't want it fixing, which kind of puts a knife in any RP progression.

I also see such things as over used, and almost loose the will to carry on when I meet yet-another-<insert affliction> character. 

That said, it could be useful for a one off plot. You could be creative about it, such as:
  • Having a memory stealing wizards at large
  • Someone is possessing people getting them to do things and then wiping their memory somehow
  • You have someone else's memories of an event and they have yours, due to some shrunken monkey head curse
  • Drinking a herbal tea that make you a bit absent minded
Personally I have sort of used it as a slightly lesser alternative to retcon, when there was no other way around things, though I avoid such areas in RP so it seldom comes up.  I have also done some RP where you find yourself in a slightly different world, which could be seen as your memories not quite matching reality but this was a closed RP and part of a long in depth plot rather than the main thing.

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Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Maril - 04-13-2017, 11:32 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Gegenji - 04-13-2017, 11:41 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Kilieit - 04-13-2017, 12:22 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Ellmida - 04-13-2017, 12:29 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Verad - 04-13-2017, 01:06 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Kilieit - 04-13-2017, 02:13 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Verad - 04-13-2017, 02:26 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Thraask - 04-13-2017, 02:30 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Verad - 04-13-2017, 02:32 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Ellmida - 04-13-2017, 02:57 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Oyuu - 04-13-2017, 04:18 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by TK Hikaru - 04-13-2017, 08:51 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Kerrath - 04-13-2017, 10:18 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Nebbs - 04-14-2017, 05:09 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Valence - 04-14-2017, 01:42 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Zhu - 04-16-2017, 04:16 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Katsu Kuroko - 04-17-2017, 04:13 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Berrod Armstrong - 04-17-2017, 09:18 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Erah'sae - 04-17-2017, 09:35 AM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Nero - 04-18-2017, 04:36 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Caspar - 04-18-2017, 06:49 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Nero - 04-18-2017, 07:58 PM
RE: Amnesia as a plotpoint - by Teadrinker - 04-18-2017, 10:05 PM

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