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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 5214969" data-attributes="member: 2205">Well, I guess it is more common than I suspected, based on the rash of quick replies here, at least.  Huh.I agree, talking with the players about this kind of thing, or at least knowing in advance how they're going to take it is pretty key.I'm definitely with Mallus on this one, though... if you think it's "dickery" to have the GM actually use the stuff in your background, then just write it up for yourself and don't even give it to the GM.  Or don't bother writing it at all.  Apparently it's completely irrelevant to anyone except yourself anyway.Of course you never said that.  Because she wasn't when she was in your backstory.  That's the stuff that happened afterwards.I'm curious if there's a correllation between people who think this is the GM stepping on the PC's territory and those who earlier in the thread were talking about the opposite; it "sitting wrong" with them to have players treading into GM territory.To me, this is clearly GM territory.  I mean, it's about as clear as can be.  It's a setting element, pure and simple.If the GM had come up with some random liche in some random town that had all the exact same attributes except not related to one of the PCs, would the PCs actions really have been any different?Other than being disconnected and random, I mean?</blockquote>