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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7908064" data-attributes="member: 29398">Only if the GM feels she needs to do anything with them other than read them once.[USER=19675]@Dannyalcatraz[/USER] has it right: whatever backstory I dream up is mostly to inform me how this character got to be who and where and what it is, and give a base to play it going forward; and if that backstory never enters play beyond that, fine with me.  That said, sometimes the backstory I dream up can - if the DM so desires - help fill in some minor setting details.An example is the backstory I came up with for my Roman-culture wizard.  I determined she'd done time in the Legions as a functionary and later a minor staff mage; what rank she reached; how she came to leave the Legions (long story!); and why she's now an adventurer.  In process of doing this, with the DM's OK I came up with a bunch of info about the Legions - various commander names and capabilities, some history, roughly where the units she served in were at what time in her past, and so forth - that he can later use or not as he sees fit.But now, it means that during play I can quite literally tell war stories in character and back them up with hard info that, should someone question my veracity (how dare they!), would be largely verifiable. The notes are already there for me to riff off of, which I'd never be able to do otherwise and keep it all consistent - my memory's not that good. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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