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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Chaosmancer" data-source="post: 8710102" data-attributes="member: 6801228">I have never even been able to create a character without a backstory. To me there is literally nothing more boring. I actually remember... two characters like this, that I had to DM for. One was a human fighter named Brick. He was a human fighter. The player occassionally rolled dice to see what Brick's emotional reaction was to things. The only thing I remember from him was that he rolled dice to charge a dragon once, that turned out to be an illusion. That game ended up with them defeating Orcus, destroying a tome of dark knowledge, the bard sacrificing his fey-child and becoming a fey lord, and the Cleric and Paladin niece/Uncle pair returning to their family abode to continue their vigilance against the undead. I don't even remember if Brick was still playing at that point, he was so utterly uninteresting to everyone. The second character was a ranger. I remember he was a ranger because of having to rework the character sheet. They encountered an Aboleth who offered everyone their deepest desires. This ranger, whose name I cannot even recall, had nothing. Literally, the only thing I could think of about his character was that he always was looking at the job board to make extra money. So the Aboleth offered him a chest of platinum. He said yes, and retired the character and made a... I think the monk was before the ranger? I literally have no idea what he played next. I can't play these sort of characters. I can barely run games for them. The idea of making "Hi, I am dwarf fighter" just makes me shudder. There is no role in that, there is just a suit of mechanics. I need to create some sort of backstory. That sorcerer I mentioned who died, his nemesis was his former slave holder, it was a Darksun game and playing an escaped slave was a fun idea. But I can't be "an escaped slave" if I don't know anything about my backstory. I can't be anything.</blockquote>

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