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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fusangite" data-source="post: 1229325" data-attributes="member: 7240">My gaming group was sort of separated from the rest of the gaming community for about a decade and when we re-joined the world, we found that players used to playing in other campaigns would come forward with backgrounds that they just "made up." Often, these backgrounds were based on assumptions that were not true in the campaigns I ran; so my initial impression of these typed-up backgrounds was pretty negative.A DM should, first and foremost, provide players with a proper world background. After the player has reviewed the background, he should develop some rough ideas about character ideas and the meet with the DM to find out the feasibility of these ideas, how they fit into the world system and what additional campaign material the DM needs to generate in order to make the background viable. Background creation is not the exclusive responsibility of the player; creating a background is a bilateral process between the DM and the player. A good meeting and discussion is worth far more than 3-5 paragraphs written with insufficient information.</blockquote>