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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 2678165" data-attributes="member: 9410">I hate it when GMs insist you create a background for your PC, when you know nothing about their world...  It is especially annoying when they tell you "No, that can't have happened, in my world; we're going to have to change that to..."I also hate that the background that I created never gets used, except as a mine for NPCs to bedevil the party with...  Hence, my "Standard Background".My PC was a wanderer before he was old enough to walk.  His parents were part of an Elven Monotheistic Religious Caravan, 4/5 of which were wiped out when he was five, including his Mom & Dad.  Having no siblings, nor other relatives of note, he was raised by the Clerics until he finally came to the age of majority.  Now free to wander on his own, he began his adventures and (did this and that).I created this background in the 3e days, pre-3.5e, using The Hero Builder's Guide.  There is even a plot hook (he was "born under a strange moon, in the Year of the Comet") which no GM has ever even bothered to pick up on.Hence, since the background never makes any difference, anyway, I just keep re-using it.  I see no point in creating a new one, as it never gets used save for character motivation, anyhow...</blockquote>