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<blockquote data-quote="Mallus" data-source="post: 5417996" data-attributes="member: 3887">I'm a big proponent of role-playing games as a kind of fiction, I don't have much use for long, elaborate backstories. I'm much more interested in the stories that emerge during play. I think the longest backstory I've written, for a superhero PC of mine, was two or three paragraphs, with most of the length being an attempt to explain how he could be the ancient Egyptian god of Mexican wrestling. Hint: it involved time travel and post-Singularity BS science!My current PC's backstory is as follows: he was a poet who performed in the disreputable artist's quarter. Now's he's a paladin of a New Age-y cult that preaches Manichean self-improvement culminating in personal apotheosis ie they believe in fighting evil in order to level up! Also, he like fireworks, Pernod, and mice (he's a Dragonborn), roughly in that order. That's all the background I needed for 2.5 years of campaign. I do like to continually amend my character's background, though, as I think up new material. PC's are fictional characters I'm writing. Most of that writing is done through play, but some of it isn't, and I hate to have a character limited by however creative I was feeling at the time of chargen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mallus, post: 5417996, member: 3887"] I'm a big proponent of role-playing games as a kind of fiction, I don't have much use for long, elaborate backstories. I'm much more interested in the stories that emerge during play. I think the longest backstory I've written, for a superhero PC of mine, was two or three paragraphs, with most of the length being an attempt to explain how he could be the ancient [i]Egyptian[/i] god of [i]Mexican[/i] wrestling. Hint: it involved time travel and post-Singularity BS science! My current PC's backstory is as follows: he was a poet who performed in the disreputable artist's quarter. Now's he's a paladin of a New Age-y cult that preaches Manichean self-improvement culminating in personal apotheosis ie they believe in fighting evil in order to level up! Also, he like fireworks, Pernod, and mice (he's a Dragonborn), roughly in that order. That's all the background I needed for 2.5 years of campaign. I do like to continually amend my character's background, though, as I think up new material. PC's are fictional characters I'm writing. Most of that writing is done through play, but some of it isn't, and I hate to have a character limited by however creative I was feeling at the time of chargen. [/QUOTE]

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