You certainly seem to display a tendency toward troublemaking characters. That being said, however, I don't think that's especially relevant to the current discussion. Most of the Aralis 2 players either don't have extensive experience of Rolend, Jeremiah et cetera, or likely aren't influenced much by that experience.
So far as I have seen - which is not to say that I couldn't have missed something - Caulder hasn't especially "caused trouble" in the way that Ross did. Some people don't approve of the Blood Magic thing, but I don't see that it's been an especial problem for the town.
I do think, however, that many PCs (players and characters both, I suppose) lump Caulder in with Ross until they're given a reason to do otherwise. So if there's a Ross image that you don't want Caulder to have, e.g. "Ross is trouble", I think that will to some extent persist until Caulder is seen not only as the absence of that, but the opposite, e.g. "Ross is helpful to have around
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I completely agree with you that Ross' had several core beliefs that unfortunately could not be changed easily, which I would find frustrating to deal with in the opposite shoes.
For Caulder, I agree that he was definitely brash and arrogant. However, I would also say that Kiyomi and Caulder had relatively few interactions over the course of two and a half sessions- really only two scenes. The first was more an introduction without any explicit advice with the second being a confrontation of sorts that sobered him a great deal. I do endeavor to tone him down as a problem and understand that people may wish to keep their distance until there are more obvious results.
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You certainly seem to display a tendency toward troublemaking characters. That being said, however, I don't think that's especially relevant to the current discussion. Most of the Aralis 2 players either don't have extensive experience of Rolend, Jeremiah et cetera, or likely aren't influenced much by that experience.
So far as I have seen - which is not to say that I couldn't have missed something - Caulder hasn't especially "caused trouble" in the way that Ross did. Some people don't approve of the Blood Magic thing, but I don't see that it's been an especial problem for the town.
I do think, however, that many PCs (players and characters both, I suppose) lump Caulder in with Ross until they're given a reason to do otherwise. So if there's a Ross image that you don't want Caulder to have, e.g. "Ross is trouble", I think that will to some extent persist until Caulder is seen not only as the absence of that, but the opposite, e.g. "Ross is helpful to have around ( ... )
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For Caulder, I agree that he was definitely brash and arrogant. However, I would also say that Kiyomi and Caulder had relatively few interactions over the course of two and a half sessions- really only two scenes. The first was more an introduction without any explicit advice with the second being a confrontation of sorts that sobered him a great deal. I do endeavor to tone him down as a problem and understand that people may wish to keep their distance until there are more obvious results.
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