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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 7936014" data-attributes="member: 7016699">Obviously, what works at one table isn't necessarily going to work at another, but ...I see using the backstories as a way to tie the PCs to the campaign and the setting. These characters came from somewhere before campaign started. Once they've done some things together, I start having their backstories lead to adventures, and they get to choose the order. Note the plural, there.Did you note the plural above? Here's where it pays off. There are multiple backstories paying off at different levels at once. Also, since the backstories start cropping up as adventure hooks after the party is actually a party, they're tied-enough to each other that they're willing to work to help with one another's backstories.If they're tied together, and they're choosing the sequence in a way that makes sense to the party as a whole, these two things are one thing, and away you go. It's not less work, but it doesn't feel like more work to me, either.</blockquote>