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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 7942645" data-attributes="member: 25619">About LOTR, how the backstory is revealed is important.  When we first met Gandalf & Gollum in The Hobbit, we didn’t get to read their backstories.  It was revealed in play, the same way it works in most TV series, at least form the audience POV.  My point is, don’t say the PC’s have to make up the whole story before the gaming starts.  Their specific home village and family and even why they left, the player can decide to reveal later, as they figure it out in the context of the plot.Character DEVELOPMENT has a lot of room if the backstory has a lot of room.  My favorite TV show right now is “Endeavour”, and while they main character (Inspector Morse) was a very well known major star of British TV for decades, the whole series is about filing in how young Endeavour Morse became the old character.  Each of the major characters also has backstory - and indeed who they actually are - developed over the seasons.  We knew early on DI Thursday was from London and a WW2 vet.  We didn’t know until it became relevant that he left London in a cloud after his “bagman” was murdered and framed for corruption by London mobsters - that’s SLOWLY revealed and deepens the story for everyone.  If Fred Thursday was a PC, I’d be just as happy if he came up with that 12 sessions into the game than if he came up with in character creation - actually much more likely to fit the plot and campaign world and character as they have been developing it in the “revealed” way.</blockquote>

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