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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5752009" data-attributes="member: 9037">As a DM I want some kind of back story. I really dislike characters that basically lived in a pod and emerged from the pod on the day the adventure starts. That being said unless you are bringing a character in at a higher level it does not have to be an elaborate back story. I would like to know did your character grow up in a city or a village, does he have siblings and are his parents alive. Why is he choosing this moment to go out into the world. Things like that. A back story can be something like this. Gerrold grew up in a small farming village and comes from a big family he hates farming so he went out to see the world. If your character is a wizard I would like to know did you study at a mage school or were you taught by single wizard. If you are a cleric when did you get the call has it been something you have felt since you were a child or is it something new.Now players who do take the time to give me a more elaborate back story will see that back story mined for ideas and plot hooks in the game.</blockquote>