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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 5671368" data-attributes="member: 23094">To me, this is another outgrowth of the "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, a fooler can't get fooled again" [or however that goes] reaction to past DMs that also expresses itself as perennially orphaned characters."Don't have families in your backstory, because the DM will just have the monsters kill / BBEG kidnap / evil cult sacrifice your sister / mom / uncle, so you might as well do it yourself a long time before the game starts."On the other hand, and cribbing heavily from the Evil Overlord List, "I will classify [NPCs] in three categories: untrusted, trusted, and completely trusted. Promotion to the third category will be awarded posthumously."</blockquote>