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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6425414" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Many fantasy CRPGs also start your character out as rootless vagabonds. They did it back in the old gold box days of AD&D Pool of Radiance, and the Elder Scrolls games are pretty pointed about telling you during the starting area/character generation tutorial that your background is irrelevant and all that matters is the adventuring you are doing right now. I haven't played anything more recent than Oblivion, but I doubt the trend in CRPGs has substantially changed.I think the idea that an RPG hero should actually have a backstory and connections is a newer idea than the rootless vagabond assumption many of us grew up on.I prefer a deep backstory, but it makes perfect sense that that is a rather novel idea to people first being exposed to it.</blockquote>