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A great twist to this is what I call the "Garak inversion:" they're all true. "Even the lies?" "Especially the lies."

Don't worry! Pappi can hold his breath for an hour!

Neat idea.

Kind of similar to Fate's standard game creation, where you go around and come up with how your backstory connects to everyone else. These connections can be invoked for bonuses later.

I had a DM who did something similar. We all had to describe five NPCs that were important to our characters: two friends or family members, two enemies or rivals, and one fate-bonded character who could be friend or foe.

In addition to the RP possiblities, it also gave the DM a ready supply of NPCs to populate the setting.

Let the other players make up the false rumors.

Now, this I like.