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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9818013" data-attributes="member: 2209">I generally run modules and adventure paths so I like to have PCs start off with some connection to the plot and possibly each other.When I ran the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/25605/the-freeport-trilogy-five-year-anniversary-edition?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Freeport Trilogy</a> I had the players create backstories of why the goodhearted librarian Egil would ask them for help. The first session was meeting him at a dockside pub, which gets interrupted when a group tries to shanghai everybody there, starting with sapping Egil right after he walked in the pub door and waved at the PCs.When I ran the Pathfinder 1e Carrion Crown adventure path I started off the campaign pitch with a solicitor's letter informing the PCs of the death of noted archaeologist professor Lorrimor Jones, their naming in his will, and his request that they be pallbearers at the funeral. They each had to come up with character concepts of their connection to the professor. The actual first game started with the PC butler of the professor using the professor's coach to gather up the rest of the PCs, the professor's rival archaeologist, the on again off again ex-girlfriend archaeologist, the young professor mentee, the professor's secretary, and the professor's grave robber associate.</blockquote>