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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiQuinn" data-source="post: 9771057" data-attributes="member: 4871">So I think all of that is too highly specific to obviously be accurate for everyone, but I’m sure there’s plenty of people who do follow that trajectory. Speaking for myself, my POV is creating a character that’s going to fit well with the group and support the DM’s world. If they say they want to run an old school dungeon crawl, then yeah sometimes I’ll ironically play an edgelord character or generic archetype, often because I don’t plan on that character sticking around too long anyways in that sort of game. And I agree that there’s often a stage where everyone wants to play something outside the box or with more depth to it, possibly emulating a character they’ve seen in fiction (or taking a page from a Critical Role character).I’ve kind of gone the opposite direction. I don’t worry about backgrounds so much as I rely on a few tropes and a general idea of a backstory but I want to keep the details nebulous so that I can ask the DM when we meet an NPC who seems like someone this character may have known in the past, we could riff that in the moment rather than have it all pre-planned. I find it much easier all around for both me and the DM then trying to write up something intricate.</blockquote>