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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vael" data-source="post: 9747686" data-attributes="member: 57043">TBH, expecting a sharp divide of Player and GM responsibilities on world-building seems short-sighted and ... maybe if people are so precious about their sandboxes they'd be better off writing their own fiction without others messing it up?Sorry, too aggressive. But building a character to exist in a campaign alters the world to incorporate said character. I sat down at a 5e table where the GM decided that Magic was shunned and outlawed. So naturally, I chose to be a Wizard ;-P ... (Just a sidenote, with the GM's approval.) I actually don't like playing Wizards, but I liked the idea of being a Wizard in this world because how did I study something forbidden? And so I ended up with a Criminal background, because I studied with a magical Mob. The GM hadn't built a Magical Mob, but we together extrapolated that if Magic was pushed underground, then it'd be criminals that studied and used it, and therefore organized crime that used Magic and had the network to actually have the tomes to study.A PC isn't an island of a character alone in a GM's ocean. Or ... I'd tire of only playing orphaned murder hobos without a friend in the world. And I think it's asking a lot for the GM to build my PC's social life.</blockquote>