How do you get your 1st level PCs together?

[Viktyr Gehrig]

I typically start at 4th and have the players decide how their characters know each other.

My next campaign is going to be Planescape, and I may require that the characters all grew up in Sigil and knew each other from their childhoods-- just for something different. Probably still start at 4th level, though.

 

[S'mon]

By chance, would that be the Lost City of B.A. Barakus?

"I pity the fool that disturb's my tomb!"

Actually it's "I pity the foo'!"

Hey, I didn't name it, but, hmm....

 

[MonsterMash]

Actually it's "I pity the foo'!"

Hey, I didn't name it, but, hmm....

I've been biting my tongue with this for ages.... watch out for sunday, actually I have an idea to incorporate it into my players journal!

 

[Panthanas]

In my current game, Eberron, I had the players come up with a background story that ended with why they were in Sharn. Then I told them, as a group, they had to come up with a story on how they all knew each other. Seemed to work out pretty well. And made it easy for me! Which is good.