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<blockquote data-quote="Sleepy Walker" data-source="post: 7388637" data-attributes="member: 6924770">Depends on the person.&nbsp; I think many people have only a shallow idea about his or her character and need a good hour or so of in-game time to develop a good reason to be adventuring together.&nbsp; I can make a massive backstory (as I did recently), but it still ended up with one player character semi-metagaming to ask me to come along or else I would have to semi-metagame to find a reason to demand that my character comes along.&nbsp; This has been the case for each of my characters, with the exception of one which was flat out hired to be with the party.I mean anybody can say,&quot; I'm adventuring with you because you look strong&quot; or &quot;the guild set us up&quot; or &quot;we have the same employer&quot; or &quot;I think you are traveling roughly the same general direction&quot; or &quot;we are wearing the same color, blue.... red... yellow... brown, you have to be wearing brown&quot;.&nbsp; Anything deeper than that (roughly saying) requires either in-game time or preptime to get stories intertwine.&nbsp; I think it is a rare person that goes out and says,&quot; I'm adventuring with x because I am his 2nd cousin's best man's sister's labradoodle transformed into a tiefling and I think Aberfilch is really dreamy.... all 75 years... I have a thing for magic.&quot;&nbsp; While that could be absolutely hilarious, it could also be uncomfortable and undesirable.&nbsp; Don't know since you have never met this player or character before.&nbsp; It is very much so easier to speak of what you know, which is your character's stats and other story bits that you do not care about other people knowing.Not saying this is the case, because it is not out of the question that a player might want to be more well rounded, but I've seen this pattern quite a lot at the start of games.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sleepy Walker, post: 7388637, member: 6924770"] Depends on the person. I think many people have only a shallow idea about his or her character and need a good hour or so of in-game time to develop a good reason to be adventuring together. I can make a massive backstory (as I did recently), but it still ended up with one player character semi-metagaming to ask me to come along or else I would have to semi-metagame to find a reason to demand that my character comes along. This has been the case for each of my characters, with the exception of one which was flat out hired to be with the party. I mean anybody can say," I'm adventuring with you because you look strong" or "the guild set us up" or "we have the same employer" or "I think you are traveling roughly the same general direction" or "we are wearing the same color, blue.... red... yellow... brown, you have to be wearing brown". Anything deeper than that (roughly saying) requires either in-game time or preptime to get stories intertwine. I think it is a rare person that goes out and says," I'm adventuring with x because I am his 2nd cousin's best man's sister's labradoodle transformed into a tiefling and I think Aberfilch is really dreamy.... all 75 years... I have a thing for magic." While that could be absolutely hilarious, it could also be uncomfortable and undesirable. Don't know since you have never met this player or character before. It is very much so easier to speak of what you know, which is your character's stats and other story bits that you do not care about other people knowing. Not saying this is the case, because it is not out of the question that a player might want to be more well rounded, but I've seen this pattern quite a lot at the start of games. [/QUOTE]

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