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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9361548" data-attributes="member: 86653">Sure. But you only need maybe a paragraph of text to handle that for the group. Plenty of basic ideas cover it just fine. We're all from the same town. Our village was wiped out and we're out for revenge. The evil prince kidnapped our families. We're all dirt poor and want to become rich.I don't know about other long-time groups, but we've done simple &quot;how do you know each other&quot; type questions since we started playing AD&amp;D in 1984. None of that led to the kind of...well, Mary Sue fanfiction that is the negative stereotype of this aspect of the style.It's not &quot;a little bit of history&quot; I object to.It's that.Lucky you.I'm fine with &quot;I'm a farmer, there was a drought and my family is starving, so here I am delving dungeons looking for money.&quot;What makes me run screaming is &quot;My story starts about 100,000 years ago when my father, the High Lord King Head !@#$ In Charge Of The Universe...&quot;After getting maybe the 50th such backstory I pulled the plug and just stopped running 5E.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9361548, member: 86653"] Sure. But you only need maybe a paragraph of text to handle that for the group. Plenty of basic ideas cover it just fine. We're all from the same town. Our village was wiped out and we're out for revenge. The evil prince kidnapped our families. We're all dirt poor and want to become rich. I don't know about other long-time groups, but we've done simple "how do you know each other" type questions since we started playing AD&D in 1984. None of that led to the kind of...well, Mary Sue fanfiction that is the negative stereotype of this aspect of the style. It's not "a little bit of history" I object to. It's that. Lucky you. I'm fine with "I'm a farmer, there was a drought and my family is starving, so here I am delving dungeons looking for money." What makes me run screaming is "My story starts about 100,000 years ago when my father, the High Lord King Head !@#$ In Charge Of The Universe..." After getting maybe the 50th such backstory I pulled the plug and just stopped running 5E. [/QUOTE]

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