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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cybertalus" data-source="post: 1859792" data-attributes="member: 4400">Gneech, I hear you about not getting character backgrounds when I DM.  Which is a shame, because usually at least one or two of my players also DM, and I'd really like a chance to show them how cool it can be to have a DM integrate bits of their character background into the game.Quasqueton, I've been totally guilty of the overly full character background.  It took me a while, but I finally figured out I was trying to give my DMs hints about things I'd like to do with my character.  Not that necessarily wanted the DM to do things exactly as I had it written up, but things with similar themes and situations.I've also created a character and thought he would play a certain way, only to find out that something in the campaign world or other PCs would send him off in an entirely different direction.  Or sometimes I will sincerely think I can play a certain personality, only to find in actual play that I'm so horrible at it that I need to change how the character behaves.  It's not malicious or trying to vex the DM, it's just how things turn out.It seems that a lot of this comes down to how much influence and perhaps input the players have on the direction and storyline of the campaign.  As a player I much prefer to feel like what I and the other players want to do makes a difference.  All too often I've played in games where I've felt that the DM had a story he wanted to tell and it didn't really matter if the players wanted to do something else entirely different.  While that's probably true of a lot of campaigns, it's more enjoyable for me as a player when there is at least the illusion that I have some influence.</blockquote>

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