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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gepetto" data-source="post: 7937022" data-attributes="member: 6990165">Yes. In fact when I say campaign I mean the entire chain of events that involves those same players and the same group of adventurers roughly. I've noticed people seem to mean what we used to call adventures when they say campaign now. Like if its lord of the rings. ALL of the books, hobbit to Return of the king is what I mean by our campaign. Seems like a lot of other people would call each individual book its own campaign. Which might by the source of some of the disconnect here. Thats sort of illustrative of the problem. Your backstory is not who you ARE, its who you WERE. A character shouldnt stay frozen in the past, and those things shouldnt matter for very long. Part of the point is that all those things that happened before you became an adventurer were small potatoes. Your world expands exponentially as an adventurer, everything gets bigger and more important the further on you go. What mattered on day 1 of your adventurer career is nothing by day 30. Much less a dozen levels and possibly years of game time further in. Real people dont stay frozen. At least your not supposed to. If your the same person at 21 as you were at 15 something is wrong. And if your still that person at 30 after you've left home, built a career, seen parts of the world and had some ups and downs all on your own then something is very definitely wrong. Who you started life out as really doesnt matter very much after a few years into independence and adulthood. And thats not even talking about a world full of magic, alternate planes of existence and a dozen intelligent species all living in close proximity. If backstory has some effects on the game for level 1, maybe level 2 characters, eh I can live with it I guess. I wont be doing it, because I have lots and lots of ideas for low level adventures and dont need any co-authors there. But it should be all done and much bigger and more important things should be happening after that.</blockquote>

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