When it comes to a PC's backstory, I only have one cardinal rule:>"The adventure you are on, right now, is the most exciting and significant thing you've ever done in your entire life."I feel it makes things a lot more straightforward.
>"your creativity must be limited by my imagination"Rules like yours are why I laugh at people who live by rules.
>>98342245i made a washed out star athlete character who was knocked down to level 1 due to a bum kneethe first level isnt the most exciting thing he did in his life, he is too old and jaded to be really excited for anything, but it still ended up being a fun character to playlevelling up is just him rediscovering his old skills
>>98342245>killing 10 rats is the most exciting thing in your lifeSounds gay
>making a rule tacitly permitting every PC to have fucked OP's momCuck thread detected
>>98342245What's really straight-forward is when the backstories come directly from the character options, so no time is wasted getting to playing the game.
>>98342245I have found as a player and GM that it's best to have only a very broad backstory, and fill in specifics once you've played the character and have a better idea of who they are, who the group is, and what the game's about.A character backstory works best when it acts to complement the game.
>>98342259>"Oh no, the goblin just slashed my arm and it's now crippled, guess I'm back to level one"Retarded logic. Rediscovering old skills is also retarded unless he has a massive XP boost, which he doesn't.
>>98342253Restrictions breed creativity.
>>98343491Choo choo
>>98342245was there something you wanted to discuss? this site isn't a diary.
>>98342245>warlock fucked up his pact ritual>gets his soul scorched out of his body by great old one patron>great old one now has a human sized partition of its soul gunked up in a human body>wandering the world pretending to be a for-sure-real-warlock>"yeah for sure, let me just call up my patron real quick. he says don't bother him.">occasionally gets extremist basedboi intrusive thoughts from the vestiges of host body's original soul>turns out the yawning maw of the abyss is the moral superior of this sketch-ass devil summoner, by virtue of not understanding morality much at all
>>98342245Well?
>>98342245I feel like people confuse backstories as a list of cool things your character done when it's supposed to tell the DM the character's motivation.
>>98343495>autist captivated by trainsMany such cases.
>>98345016>Nooooo you have to run my plot line my way or you’re a bad playerMany such cases
>I'm right and better than youMany such cases.
>>98345150You don't get as many feats as you want.This is a restriction.This doesn't mean the campaign is railroaded.It is retarded to make this argument.Therefore (you) are retarded.
Excellent thread! I'd give you reddit gold if I could
>>98345504>Pffffft lol at these pathetic plebs thinking that they should be allowed to play anything but dirt peasants, what ungrateful plebeians they are to be wasting my time demanding to actually want to play a game instead of being an passive observer to my well-thought out novel where my gmpc shows them the way a true build os performed *snort*Yes, (you) are retarded
>>98345578The imaginary scenario you concocted in your head has nothing to do with OP's or my stance. You're fighting windmills.
>>98345593No, I’d disagree with you and Op for different reasons. The kind of asshole that says “your character has to be a nobody in my campaign” is certainly not someone I’d play with, but they are still welcome to run their game how they like. The kind of asshole that says “Restriction breeds creativity” really means “Any creativity besides mine is out”, and they deserve to be ridiculed at every occasion. Restrictions do not do anything but narrow, that’s their purpose, they do not enable creativity any better than getting drunk before prepping for a game does.
>>98345630>“your character has to be a nobody in my campaign”Again: This isn't OP's point. Apparently you're just both uncreative and retarded.OP gives you restriction. Once you have a restriction you can play (amongst other things) against expectation>Yes, this adventure is the best YET. I've had other adventures though.or you play right into it>I'm some wide-eyed bumpkin. Even the big city is wondrous to me.
>>98345812Wrong. I play whatever sort of character I want to play, and you can't stop me and you can't remove me from the game.
>>98345841Your distractions don't work on me.You being booted from many tables has nothing to do with your lack creativity.
>>98345862Nope you lose and I'm more creative than you.
>>98345927You'd have to be creative to imagine yourself victorious here I'll give you that.
>>98342245I'm all for restraint in backstories, meaning that you shouldn't have motherfukcing Heracles or Captain Kirk at first level, but this id dumb
>>98346022>meaning that you shouldn't have motherfukcing Heracles or Captain Kirk at first levelDepends on the system, really.
>>98345995no I wouldn't since I won, dumb bitch lmao
>>98345016Trains are cool. I wanna run a weird western game where my players end up on a train at some point. Probably fighting werewolves.
>>98348555>gets ass handed to him>claims victory anywaylel
>>98342245What game?
