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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8605589" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yeah this is where we start to run into the wall of different expectations. And, it really shows in players as well.  This style of play is exactly why I get players who play characters that are completely disconnected from the setting.  If everyone is basically from "somewhere else", then, well, why bother having a setting at all?  Just go with sort of generic D&D Land and off we go.  See, here's my experience in the past little while.  Current Campaign - yup everyone is from somewhere else.  Except fo the one player that actually tied his character to the setting.  Guess what?  Everything that happens in the campaign focuses on that character because I can't actually do anything with the other PC's.  They have no ties to anything that's going on in the game world, so, nothing is directed at them.  I want pro-active players who will actually give me a reason for playing THESE characters.  If the character is so disconnected from the campaign that I could replace the character with another character and nothing in the campaign changes, then, I have no interest in playing in that campaign.  I've been there and done that.  It bores me to absolute tears now.  Or, to put it another way.  If I can pick up my character from Campaign X and plunk him down in Campaign Y without actually changing anything about that character, I am simply not interested in playing.  And I'm so discouraged as a DM with those sorts of players.  For me, all that does is suck all the air out of the room.  Hey, and I put my money where my mouth is, eventually.  I left my last group for exactly this reason.  Players that created characters that were just basically place markers - no ties, no links to the setting.  Yeah, no thanks.  See, the Avengers is fine.  I like the Avengers.  But, a steady diet of Avengers for the past couple of decades means that I absolutely LOATHE that style of campaign anymore.  I would rather not play than sit at an Avengers style table again.</blockquote>

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