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<blockquote data-quote="Koloth" data-source="post: 9849284" data-attributes="member: 6706231">So, kind of like real life.&nbsp; How many high school varsity sports players quickly discover that despite being good in HS, they are at best, walk on quality for the college team?&nbsp; Same for the cheer squad.&nbsp; And that HS valedictorian is a middling academic in college.&nbsp; Plus there is the ever present, &quot;I found something I like doing better then X.&quot; Backstory is just that, the past.&nbsp; What the character does next is determined by how the player plays it.&nbsp; But the backstory can provide some useful info for how to start playing the character.&nbsp; That HS softball star that can't make the college team may still make use of softball skills once hired on with a company that engages in softball games with other companies.&nbsp; Or that character that did a lot of sailing in childhood may find those skills useful if the cargo ship providing passages sinks and the character is left with others in a lifeboat.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Backstory avoids the problem of &quot;What did your character do before being here?&quot; being an unknown.&nbsp; It doesn't define what the character does next.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Koloth, post: 9849284, member: 6706231"] So, kind of like real life. How many high school varsity sports players quickly discover that despite being good in HS, they are at best, walk on quality for the college team? Same for the cheer squad. And that HS valedictorian is a middling academic in college. Plus there is the ever present, "I found something I like doing better then X." Backstory is just that, the past. What the character does next is determined by how the player plays it. But the backstory can provide some useful info for how to start playing the character. That HS softball star that can't make the college team may still make use of softball skills once hired on with a company that engages in softball games with other companies. Or that character that did a lot of sailing in childhood may find those skills useful if the cargo ship providing passages sinks and the character is left with others in a lifeboat. Backstory avoids the problem of "What did your character do before being here?" being an unknown. It doesn't define what the character does next. [/QUOTE]

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