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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 3328113" data-attributes="member: 4937">You should first ask your players what characters that they wish to play.&nbsp; If you can't accomodate your choices you should voice your concerns.&nbsp; If you can, then its best not to spoil thier fun by giving them information that they wouldn't know IC.If the players aren't familiar with the setting you should give them an overview of what any character of average intelligence would be able to know about the setting.&nbsp; This will help them integrate thier character concepts into the campaign world.&nbsp; It's a bigger issue with home brews than published settings.&nbsp; With a published setting you probably should only tell them any changes to the published canon that are particular to your campaign and which would be known to a character of average intelligence.&nbsp; You should probably also at least warn them if you plan to depart signficantly from published canon but don't want to reveal just yet how because some setting fans are as bad as rules lawyers.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 3328113, member: 4937"] You should first ask your players what characters that they wish to play. If you can't accomodate your choices you should voice your concerns. If you can, then its best not to spoil thier fun by giving them information that they wouldn't know IC. If the players aren't familiar with the setting you should give them an overview of what any character of average intelligence would be able to know about the setting. This will help them integrate thier character concepts into the campaign world. It's a bigger issue with home brews than published settings. With a published setting you probably should only tell them any changes to the published canon that are particular to your campaign and which would be known to a character of average intelligence. You should probably also at least warn them if you plan to depart signficantly from published canon but don't want to reveal just yet how because some setting fans are as bad as rules lawyers. [/QUOTE]

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