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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bloodsparrow" data-source="post: 1303763" data-attributes="member: 12554">I agree that there can never have enough background information on a world, but it's important to not require your players to know EVERYTHING.I lived in my hometown from the time I was born until I was 24 and I don't think all the information I know about that areas history and important community figures would fill 10 pages...  Okay, maybe ten pages and then some, but that's just me.  Not to mention that I accumulated that knowledge through 24 years of living there.  I certainly wouldn't want to sit down and read through all that crap in one sitting.IMC, the DM made several, categorized and bulleted lists of various things that we needed to know.  The lists and items on them were all quite brief, and it took me hardly any time at all to learn everything I absolutely had to about the city in which my character was born and grew up.  Players could read them or not as we pleased and if we had questions beyond what was covered, we could send an email to the DM and he would elaborate based on what we would know.  We also have a website where we keep track of what we know about the world.  This works really well for us.</blockquote>