(07-02-2013, 02:42 PM)moody Wrote: You can also pretty easily say that your purchased it, traded for it, or were given it as a gift after saving the life of an off-screen adventurer who was involved in that particular battle. Possibilities are pretty endless without resorting to "my character doesn't look like this". I do think you should respect the uniqueness of that kind of gear by working out an IC explanation for it that's better than "Well I was walking around and found it" or that your supposedly non-combat character killed the hero of [whatever] or won it in an epic duel of some sort. Though I've seen those too.
Yep! That's exactly what I'm getting at.
The important thing is to have a plausible explanation for why your character has something "weird" about them. If you've got that, you're golden.
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