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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7909990" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I'm going to try and understand what you mean by this, because I see two possible meanings here."If someone like you likes to write long involved backstories for your characters"So, yes, I do enjoy writing backstories. I'm not sure all of them are long or involved, but that is a matter of degree not intent."and thinks they don't do those things" And I do think that I don't act like a jerk, trying to make the story all about me, ruining everyone's fun, or ect."Then condemn those things as a problem some people should work on"So, first off, condemn is some harsh language. It's a game, I don't tend to "condemn" people for being annoying while playing a game... okay, sometimes I do but beside the point.I am in fact saying we should point out the actual problems and work on group communication and learning not to be jerks, so that is exactly what I am saying."instead of defending those people by saying it is not everyone."See, this is where you lose me. Because I am defending "people who write backstories" and you are condemning "people who are jerks".Do jerks write backstories? Sure, they can. They also drink monster energy drinks. I do not condemn all players who drink monster energy drinks because the only player I have had at my table who did so was also a jerk at times.So, are you saying don't defend jerks, or don't defend backstory writers? Because they are two different groupsSee, despite your decades and decades of GMing for multiple groups across a wide spectrum of play, you seem to be missing that not all stereotypes are true. For example, I live in Ohio.I am not a football fanI do not hate MichiganI have never done the majority of farm based things like cow tipping or other nonsense.I enjoy more condiments than Ranch and KetchupI listen to more than Country and Pop musicWhy do I mention these things. Because a quick google search showed that these are some steroetypes about Ohioans. Is there some truth to these steroetypes? Probably. I know a lot of football fans, have quite few friends who grew up on farms, lot of people I know like Country and Pop music.But steroetypes aren't truth, and assuming they are is just bad practice. Assuming everyone who writes more than two sentences for their backstory and creates some npcs from their past is trying to be a jerk, ruin the game, and wants to see the world burn so their special snowflake can rule the ashes, is just plain wrong. Because on this very thread we have quite a few people who have admitted to writing backstories, liking backstories, and none of them seem like the self-entitled jerks who would do that sort of thing.</blockquote>

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