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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MonkeezOnFire" data-source="post: 7477336" data-attributes="member: 6784845">In the campaign I am currently running one player used the tables in Xanathar's guide to generate his entire backstory completely randomly. There were a few inconsistencies, I recall he rolled that his character never knew their parents and then later encountered a table to determine what kind of family he had. So it did require some human intervention and judgement calls to make work. But given that the tables only really give you a skeleton of a narrative some human embellishment was needed anyway. Overall it didn't feel much different to working with a player on any kind of backstory. They bring forward some plot points, or ideas they like and work with the DM to incorporate other tidbits from the world. In this campaign I also decided to allow pretty much any content from the hardcover books, with UA needing to seek approval. The player, not having this kind of freedom before all collaborated to exclusively use the races from Volo's giving me a party full of monsters. This actually kinda worked out in my favor as it served to show that the uncommon races were basically refugees in the main city and are treated as second class citizens.</blockquote>