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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8120935" data-attributes="member: 7006">Exactly!  Which has been Hussar's entire point-- the players supposedly have agreed to a theme, but then after the fact shows up with a character not on theme.  What players do that, and why do they insist on trying?Now, the question could easily be raised "Is this really a problem that occurs that often?"  And I bet more often than not, it's probably no.  I know I've personally never had that issue where my players have agreed on a campaign premise and then came back trying to make a character deliberately off-type.  But maybe I just have players who are creative enough to make all manner of different characters all within the same type.  And that is basically due to me curating my game group.But other players are not that lucky.  Especially making pick-up groups online I'm sure have more players agreeing to specific ideas because they just really want to play, but then trying to play off-type because what they really wanted was to play this idea they already had.  And that's where I'll bet many DMs have to bite their tongues or just be more selective.At the end of the day though... it's really just being mature enough to do what you said you were going to do.  If you say you'll make X character type or background... then do it.  Because even within that specific type or background there are literally millions of different ideas within that playground for you to play in and make something really cool.</blockquote>

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