prabe's latest activity

I think my issue with it is that it presumes that character creation, including background, is something done in isolation. As in "We're...

I don't even think its really necessary to make them relevant; often they're just to inform how the character will be played. I'm not...

I think backstories for level 1 characters can be fine, so long as the players realize they're writing backstories for level 1...

I wish I could tolerate listening to people talk so I could watch youtube sometimes, but...I really cannot. I can listen to my wife, my...

That can be a little odd. I've got a player in my 13th Age game who came in as the "Champion of Concord" (one of the major cities in...

I tend to keep backgrounds relatively short & sketchy nowadays, to root the character lightly in the world (and allow for flexibility if...

That's one of the things about backstories; they can sometimes supply useful material to incorporate into the campaign as a whole. (But...

Sometimes they have interesting ideas, and sometimes it's "see how great I am" meh.

Adults in the their 20s having apartments like that one in the city is probably the bigger one for me, but why quibble? :LOL:

That's awesome. To be fair on my previous statement, if one of the people I play with now showed up to our next campaign with a long...

Depends on the setting & the PC. I once ran a 1st level ranger whose origins were based on a sub-Saharan African tribe’s culture. In...

These are good because you are centering your character in the setting. It's the role part of role playing. Treating them as a playing...

While its a risk, its not a given they'll be hostile to it. I generally have pretty substantial backstory for most characters, but if...

As a GM I'll take ideas from backstories, though I think they are mostly for the player. Though a lot of this falls into the "all...

I have had the opposite, with a player had a long back story, they thanked me for not fudging the dice when their character died.