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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 7933666" data-attributes="member: 15700">Back in the early 80s, whenever we DMd, we rarely incorporated PC backgrounds into the actual adventure. PCs were pretty generic at level 1, and it was the adventure that created and was the catalyst for the stories. Perhaps it was because the game was more lethal back then, especially at low level, so you really didn’t spend a lot of time creating a background if there was a good chance you’d die. When we DMd, we had a story and adventure in mind. Either from a published adventure or a home brew adventure and world we fleshed out, and we stuck to key NPCs, monsters, and areas as they appeared.Now I notice I DM much differently. Sure, I have an adventure and plot all in mind, but the players spend a lot more time creating character backgrounds. And I do my best to incorporate them into the game before session one. And in between sessions, I continue to have private conversations with players about their PC specific story arcs. I’ll change NPC names, or add a few NPCs based on the backgrounds I get, and make them core to the adventure. The overall plots stay the same, but what I’ve found by doing this is that it makes no two campaigns the same, even if they are the same adventure I’m DMing.  It’s a much more collaborative approach to story telling while still maintaining control of the game world, story, and NPCsso where do you fall?  Do you pretty much run adventures as written, without changing them based on character backstory?  Or do you fully let players dictate parts of the game to fit their story?  Or somewhere in the middle, like where I’m at currently?</blockquote>

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