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<blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 7910212" data-attributes="member: 6801228">If you want to walk away, feel free, but I'm still trying to figure out how this is a confusing stance. Don't be a jerk. Don't be a spotlight hog.Don't cheat. Don't try and hide cheating, spotlight hogging and jerkitude by writing a backstory. These are not mutually exclusive, and they have nothing to do with writing backstories. I am not &quot;dismissing the problem&quot;, people who act the way you have described are a problem, but they are not a problem because they write backstories. I mean, why is it my responsibility as a person who writes backstories to police all jerks? Do I need to police the guy who buys the module and reads it ahead of every session so they know the secrets? I disapprove of that practice, but I also buy modules, because I am a DM and I find useful material in them. Do I need to police DMs who create DMPCs and lord over their players? I've created characters who have adventured with the party before. Heck, do I need to police all people who hog the food and leave a mess at the DMs house? I went to a friend's house to game for months, ate there too, am I responsible for policing all people who do that? The only claim I have made is you are conflating two communities as being the same just because they share one specific action. Writing Backstories. And, like them, dislike them, write them, have horrid expeirences of marysue overload with them... you can't blame everyone who writes a backstory because some people try and take advantage of it to cheat the game and hog the spotlight.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chaosmancer, post: 7910212, member: 6801228"] If you want to walk away, feel free, but I'm still trying to figure out how this is a confusing stance. Don't be a jerk. Don't be a spotlight hog. Don't cheat. Don't try and hide cheating, spotlight hogging and jerkitude by writing a backstory. These are not mutually exclusive, and they have nothing to do with writing backstories. I am not "dismissing the problem", people who act the way you have described are a problem, but they are not a problem [B]because[/B] they write backstories. I mean, why is it my responsibility as a person who writes backstories to police all jerks? Do I need to police the guy who buys the module and reads it ahead of every session so they know the secrets? I disapprove of that practice, but I also buy modules, because I am a DM and I find useful material in them. Do I need to police DMs who create DMPCs and lord over their players? I've created characters who have adventured with the party before. Heck, do I need to police all people who hog the food and leave a mess at the DMs house? I went to a friend's house to game for months, ate there too, am I responsible for policing all people who do that? The only claim I have made is you are conflating two communities as being the same just because they share one specific action. Writing Backstories. And, like them, dislike them, write them, have horrid expeirences of marysue overload with them... you can't blame everyone who writes a backstory because some people try and take advantage of it to cheat the game and hog the spotlight. [/QUOTE]

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