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<blockquote data-quote="wedgeski" data-source="post: 3117377" data-attributes="member: 16212">I love this board when a thread generates so many different points of view.In answer to the OP, as a DM it is my task to get the players excited about my homebrew, and to encourage them to carve a little bit out of it for themselves. What this means is that at character generation time, they have to know about as many of the options open to them as possible: geography, races, classes, politics, nations... Using that as a basis they can them come up with a characetr concept that works within the world, or something that is so completely contrary to the established world that it would be criminal *not* to give it a go. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Players won't get excited about a homebrew that has no interesting hooks... nothing to get the fires burning. I've seen homebrews that are nothing more than a vague continental outline on a piece of graph paper, and a couple of half-hearted 20th level NPC's. That sounds like the kind of thing that some posters on this threat might have experienced.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wedgeski, post: 3117377, member: 16212"] I love this board when a thread generates so many different points of view. In answer to the OP, as a DM it is my task to get the players excited about my homebrew, and to encourage them to carve a little bit out of it for themselves. What this means is that at character generation time, they have to know about as many of the options open to them as possible: geography, races, classes, politics, nations... Using that as a basis they can them come up with a characetr concept that works within the world, or something that is so completely contrary to the established world that it would be criminal *not* to give it a go. :) Players won't get excited about a homebrew that has no interesting hooks... nothing to get the fires burning. I've seen homebrews that are nothing more than a vague continental outline on a piece of graph paper, and a couple of half-hearted 20th level NPC's. That sounds like the kind of thing that some posters on this threat might have experienced. [/QUOTE]

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