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DM question: how much do you incorporate PC backgrounds into the campaign?
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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 7937086" data-attributes="member: 7016699"><p>Just to be clear about my own campaigns, both of mine are running every other week. One just had Session 46; the other just had Session 13. I didn't start either with much more than an instigating event, involving all the PCs.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Part of what I specifically ask for in backstories is why the characters are adventurers. Or at least, why you're at the instigating event. Call-backs to previous events happen from time to time; sometimes they're to things from backstories, sometimes they're to things from previous sessions.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I think of people more as onions. I am not the same person I was at nineteen, but I <strong>contain</strong> that person, and I would not be who I am now without having been that person.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Heh. The longer-running campaign is still actively pursuing threads from at least one backstory, and they're level 11. They had a thread from another backstory that didn't get resolved until Session 31, and the resolution got them to level 8. Your campaign/s work for you and your players; my campaigns work for me and my players. Broader takeaway is there's no single right answer on this, as with many gaming-related things.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prabe, post: 7937086, member: 7016699"] Just to be clear about my own campaigns, both of mine are running every other week. One just had Session 46; the other just had Session 13. I didn't start either with much more than an instigating event, involving all the PCs. Part of what I specifically ask for in backstories is why the characters are adventurers. Or at least, why you're at the instigating event. Call-backs to previous events happen from time to time; sometimes they're to things from backstories, sometimes they're to things from previous sessions. I think of people more as onions. I am not the same person I was at nineteen, but I [B]contain[/B] that person, and I would not be who I am now without having been that person. Heh. The longer-running campaign is still actively pursuing threads from at least one backstory, and they're level 11. They had a thread from another backstory that didn't get resolved until Session 31, and the resolution got them to level 8. Your campaign/s work for you and your players; my campaigns work for me and my players. Broader takeaway is there's no single right answer on this, as with many gaming-related things. [/QUOTE]
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