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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4644169" data-attributes="member: 13892">Forked from: <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?postid=4642877" target="_blank"> Rant -- GM Control, Taking it Too Far? </a>There is some discussion later in the linked thread (above) about the potential for players to abuse character backgrounds and it occurred to me that the best way to stop this kind of abuse dead in its tracks without the GM stomping all over the player's charcter ownership is to make character background creation part of the game's rules. Few games, however, seem to do this. Games that do take this approach are the various Mekton core rule books, Burning Wheel and Burning Empires, Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game, Traveller, and. . . ah. . . past that, I'm at a loss. Now, to be clear, I'm not talking about games that let you buy background traits or adavantages/disadvantages/skills however you see fit but, rather, games that use 'life paths' to randomly or semi-randomly create an entire character history. Task Force Games also had some books that could ostensibly be used with any system to this end though, in practice, some life paths therein seemed to be pretty poorly mapped out. Also, good luck finding these books at a reasonable price <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Are there any other currently in-print games or supplements that allow for 'life path' background creation?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 4644169, member: 13892"] Forked from: [url=http://www.enworld.org/forum/showpost.php?postid=4642877] Rant -- GM Control, Taking it Too Far? [/url] There is some discussion later in the linked thread (above) about the potential for players to abuse character backgrounds and it occurred to me that the best way to stop this kind of abuse dead in its tracks [I]without[/I] the GM stomping all over the player's charcter ownership is to [I]make character background creation part of the game's rules[/I]. Few games, however, seem to do this. Games that [I]do[/I] take this approach are the various Mekton core rule books, Burning Wheel and Burning Empires, Mouse Guard Roleplaying Game, Traveller, and. . . ah. . . past that, I'm at a loss. Now, to be clear, I'm not talking about games that let you buy background traits or adavantages/disadvantages/skills however you see fit but, rather, games that use 'life paths' to randomly or semi-randomly create an [I]entire[/I] character history. Task Force Games also had some books that could ostensibly be used with [I]any[/I] system to this end though, in practice, some life paths therein seemed to be pretty poorly mapped out. Also, good luck finding these books at a reasonable price :( Are there any other currently in-print games or supplements that allow for 'life path' background creation? [/QUOTE]

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