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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 8216307" data-attributes="member: 50987">Maybe I'm in the minority, but I kinda like a bit of railroading from my players.  I encourage my players to give me all the backstory they can muster...entire paragraphs, pages, essays even, so that I have ample fodder to work with.Later, offline and over several weeks, I'll work with the player to incorporate various elements of that backstory into the campaign.  I'll look for ways to stitch the backstory of Character A into Characters B and C, and over the course of a year or so, everyone will be amazed at how they have all grown together over the story.That's the goal, anyway.Every now and then, we have one of Those Players, who will try to skillfully write away certain restrictions and exceptions through clever backstory.  Like a warlock who conveniently is his own patron somehow, or a wild magic sorcerer who has conveniently learned to control his wild magic, or the character who isn't technically a (insert restricted race/class/subclass here) but is equivalent in every way except name, and carefully explained through My Special History[SUP]TM[/SUP] or whatever.  I have to be pretty watchful for this stuff, because my players are pretty clever when it comes to circumventing restrictions.</blockquote>