"I'm the illegitamate daughter of the French king and the scottish hand-maiden. I was captured and taken by pirates and learned to fight with the broadsword...". Pure fantasy drivel.

Most living history-style personnas are much more mundane: "My father was a yeoman, my mother spun and sewed, and I was raised in the home of my parent's and Uncle." I'm extensively traveled - All the way to London! Someday, I hope to inherit, or earn enough in my lord's service to buy a couple of farms of my own."

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Originally posted by Jeff Johnson:
You've seen a lot of silly personnas, I take it? Some organizations engender some pretty far-out personal histories. I've met this person in a certain organization:

"I'm the illegitamate daughter of the French king and the scottish hand-maiden. I was captured and taken by pirates and learned to fight with the broadsword...". Pure fantasy drivel.

Most living history-style personnas are much more mundane: "My father was a yeoman, my mother spun and sewed, and I was raised in the home of my parent's and Uncle." I'm extensively traveled - All the way to London! Someday, I hope to inherit, or earn enough in my lord's service to buy a couple of farms of my own."

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Tiny person - big personna.

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Originally posted by Alan F:
Jeff, those are the ones I'm talking about! What I can't for the life of me understand why is it that they feel the need for some so outlandish? Is representing a normal person not good enough?

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In certain groups, they *used to be* encouraged to explain all of the various activities that one may want to pursue. For example, somebody who wanted to fence and also was interested in bellydancing would be encouraged to come up with a story to justify why they would do both. The trend *now* is to just do what you want, either change persona, or just have one good persona and step outside of it for your other pursuits. It's getting better, really, though you'll still hear some doozies, usually involving pirates.

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I still haven't seen any examples of this in LH.

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ever been to Florida?... bad dan! don't talk ill of other LH groups in the south FL area! even if they're from a town founded by russian circus midgets (sweetwater, FL in Dade county I'm not making this up!!!)

anyways this was a problem down here. when i first got interested in LH i checked out a couple of groups. i "was" Frank, just plain frank, an archer. my father was an archer and he also served under his lordship... yadayada. however, i was the only archer in a "lance" composed of 20 "men at arms" (aka space mercernary pirates) maybe i'm being too harsh, but it got old quick!

yes, i've found people that are these great personas and sometimes they're a bit insecure or are trying to compensate. but then again i've found that they're definition of LH is different from mine and i let them be.

daniel

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