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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thresher" data-source="post: 1092828" data-attributes="member: 9983">I find it hard to make up a decent character background without at least detailing the nuclear family around them and a few close friends, its what gives them their outlook on life, reflects their personality and their essential upbringing. Though, when your the only one who bothers to make them up sometimes they just feel like youve attached a boat anchor to a characters ambitions and anyone the character cares about becomes "Mobile Targets" for marauding bad guys regardless of what you do to protect them.Though rarely do they seem to be 'useful' for being anything but a sponge for finances and dont do anything but lie around mooching or know anyone interesting.During the last 5 years I think Ive only made up one character thats a genuine orphan and it had some quite nasty psychological problems that made it a mean, bitter, paranoid little person that no one liked much but definatly was remebered for being a bugger. Not that people who are orphans are all like that! Just this one in particular I based off someone I knew <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Then theres those games where a GM treats everyones character as some disposable plot device to drop in a meatgrinder and you sort of wonder why you bothered spending the last 2 weeks of your spare time piecing together something interesting only to have it completly ignored. Still, if they get mangled beyond recognition I dont bother to give them anything Im attached too after the next game, if I bother to play.As a GM Im a real meanie for people who opt out for the 'easy option' of doing up a character background that is open in terms of family background. Sort of what would have happened if Uncle Ben didnt tell Luke about Leia...</blockquote>

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