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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 748578" data-attributes="member: 5473">I had everyone e-mail before the game with a character background (as short as a paragraph or as long as 6 pages in one guy's case).  Then, I asked them how much of their background was "secret".  Then I e-mailed the entire group, told them where they were going to be starting the campaign (which country/city) and they needed to discuss amongst themselves what brought them to the city.  I got copied on most of the e-mails and the stuff they came up with was fantastic - several of the characters ended up decided that they were following other characters to the city in secret, some of them "met" because one character tried to steal something from an another character, etc.  Gave me tons of ideas for role-playing hooks within the actual story that I had set up.</blockquote>