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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zelda Themelin" data-source="post: 5752047" data-attributes="member: 167">Well Elf Witch, if we were playing together I might still have motivation to create more backstory. But, alas, as it stand people who I am actually playing like it very short, or even less.Any new game in my current larger group starts with short description what character looks, and what gear s/he is wearing. Then if we have agreed to know each other we come up some bits about personality, and some weird habits if any. Then we proceed.Sometimes I feel quite uninterested until game starts. Sometimes I have lot more story in my head, I will share during the game at some moments.Sometimes we use pre-made chars, with open personality-slot.Sologames I am playing or smaller group games I dm, are ones where I do background for character, I ask some questions, they are happy with that. "You invent it for me" is common request then we go back and forth about some details.I used to have this long questionere chart for 'important' questions ranging from "what is your favorite color" to "what is vilest thing you would do in the name of love".Takes too long time, people I play with are not that interested in characters or invested in pre-creation.I can easily morph my game style from die-rolling hack-slash to some more talkey game style. I have moods for both, and groups for both styles.But single most important thing why I don't do bg esp. with dm:s I don't know, is becaue I don't know the style. I want to little bit watch the game first, so I can swim in those waters. And I don't want burned dm with too much intersting stuff, and thus I tend to write about "boring life stuff", which is boring. Or I go overboard, and I do that epicly.So, I keep game backround-lite and write stories instead to amuse mostly myself and intersting audiance of maybe 2.Sometimes I would like to find other people to play with. I know people but I am lazy to travel, and they don't play through internet. We are old-fashioned like that.</blockquote>

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