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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 8998692" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Sure, but what does that do about players' ability to become engaged with other players' characters? To care about what happens to them? Much harder to do this with D&D and similar games than it is with others, for sure. There's always the risk of contradicting something... we've all done that at times. I don't think the risk is greater when you haven't determined it all ahead of time... in fact, the risk is far lesser.I mean, if the players forget things, then no harm to contradict it, right? The point of whatever detail is to enable play.Fair enough, but I think it's clear that almost everything you're proposing is your preference, and not what's "needed". Why not let the player decide? If someone later wants to play a dwarf, they know what they're like... they can decide to play one or not. How is this different than if the GM decides? Or, maybe there's more than one type of dwarf, or more than one dwarf culture... again, if you don't commit to this stuff all before play, then you can allow these things to come up in response to the evolving game. I think murder hoboes tend to not have connections to the world at all. At least, not any that will matter in play. As for the advantages or disadvantages of background... I don't think you need to be so alarmed about abuse. You've never had a character of noble rank? Or from a wealthy family? As I said, any advantages that brings can be paired with a disadvantage so that it's a mixed blessing. Not at all. How does "hot jungles of the south" limit the player more than a specific jungle with specific concepts attached to it? I'm not talking about an AP type game, necessarily, it was just an example of a game with pre-gens who had minimal world details, as offered by [USER=463]@S'mon[/USER] ; I don't think your assessment that the designers failed is accurate because either, as you say, those details don't matter to the play offered by that product, or because they leave it up to the group to decide.</blockquote>

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