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<blockquote data-quote="res" data-source="post: 1561298" data-attributes="member: 6904">The Loner hero doesn't always have to be someone who doesn't have a background.&nbsp; If you're player is using the &quot;my family is dead and I have no friends&quot; to get out of creating a background then ask them a few questions.&nbsp; Who killed their family?&nbsp; What happened to these people?&nbsp; Having a background like this is a cop out, if they want a character with a back story like that it should be easy to come up with enough to flesh it out a bit.&nbsp; Ask them some questions to flesh out the background and you'll probably have them come up with something pretty interesting.&nbsp; Those ones are always tricky.&nbsp; I don't like saying no outright, but you really have to weigh the pros and cons.&nbsp; A lot of times it is a huge power-gamer move to pick something that will make them better (ie Half-Dragon.)&nbsp; If you have one guy who is constantly doing this, tell him that you'd like to cut back on the ammount of &quot;wierd&quot; stuff in the party, so next character he makes has to come from the PHB.&nbsp; Then he can go back to something funny for the next game.&nbsp; Its kind of a happy medium really.&nbsp; Isn't the first few mintues of a game like this are always awkward.&nbsp; The theme games that people have mentioned are always fun.&nbsp; I played one where we (the 3 PCs) were siblings.&nbsp; Other cases, one or two people would play a character from a previous game and someone else might be an old friend of their PC from that game. Usually some creative PCs can come up with an idea to help a DM out on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="res, post: 1561298, member: 6904"] The Loner hero doesn't always have to be someone who doesn't have a background. If you're player is using the "my family is dead and I have no friends" to get out of creating a background then ask them a few questions. Who killed their family? What happened to these people? Having a background like this is a cop out, if they want a character with a back story like that it should be easy to come up with enough to flesh it out a bit. Ask them some questions to flesh out the background and you'll probably have them come up with something pretty interesting. Those ones are always tricky. I don't like saying no outright, but you really have to weigh the pros and cons. A lot of times it is a huge power-gamer move to pick something that will make them better (ie Half-Dragon.) If you have one guy who is constantly doing this, tell him that you'd like to cut back on the ammount of "wierd" stuff in the party, so next character he makes has to come from the PHB. Then he can go back to something funny for the next game. Its kind of a happy medium really. Isn't the first few mintues of a game like this are always awkward. The theme games that people have mentioned are always fun. I played one where we (the 3 PCs) were siblings. Other cases, one or two people would play a character from a previous game and someone else might be an old friend of their PC from that game. Usually some creative PCs can come up with an idea to help a DM out on this. [/QUOTE]

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