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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 7937299" data-attributes="member: 32740">Enough for players to feel like their PC's did indeed come from THIS campaign world rather than drop in out of the sky from another parallel dimension, but I've come to believe strongly that character backgrounds are for PLAYER usage, not DM usage.  By the time my campaigns are beginning I've already built them sufficiently to run the entire campaign.  I don't need player input to then rearrange the campaign setting for me just so that they can have a special snowflake niche in the adventures that are about to happen.  The adventures are about to feature them exclusively anyway, I don't need (or want) to build the world around them as such.Backgrounds are for players to use to get a handle on their characters [where they came from, where they are when the game starts, where they as players plan on taking them PRIOR to finding that their plans may change as they begin interacting with the setting and ongoing game], not for ME as DM to use to make adventures revolve around them as individuals in particular.  Such occasions to use particular PC's and their personal backgrounds to develop SPECIAL adventures LATER as time and opportunity permits will undoubtedly arise, but I don't need that information to build the world and adventures around even before play begins.  In fact, if I am not prepared as DM to run a campaign without ever having a word of background from any player about their individual PC then I haven't actually done my job as DM, have I?</blockquote>

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