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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 4592172" data-attributes="member: 11">This is exactly how I do my campaigns, except I dictate the terms to the group within a certain frame and then let them create characters within that frame.For example in this campaign, all the PCs are young nobles of low birth signed to an &quot;adventuring charter&quot; to gather wealth and prestige for their families while doing some exploring saving their nation.&nbsp; I even gave incentives for characters to have previous bonds and connections (two sets of cousins, one character's older sister is the widow of another's decease older brother, two are from related churches, one is from a rival noble house from two of the cousins, but they have the same liege, etc. . .)Somehow all this stuff did not work out the way I expected. . .In my last campaign (&quot;Out of the Frying Pan&quot;) the characters all had the requirement of wanting (for whatever reason) to get out of being conscripted in a major war going on in the setting. . . I used this to get them all going in the same direction and driven together by consequences.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 4592172, member: 11"] This is exactly how I do my campaigns, except I dictate the terms to the group within a certain frame and then let them create characters within that frame. For example in this campaign, all the PCs are young nobles of low birth signed to an "adventuring charter" to gather wealth and prestige for their families while doing some exploring saving their nation. I even gave incentives for characters to have previous bonds and connections (two sets of cousins, one character's older sister is the widow of another's decease older brother, two are from related churches, one is from a rival noble house from two of the cousins, but they have the same liege, etc. . .) Somehow all this stuff did not work out the way I expected. . . In my last campaign ("Out of the Frying Pan") the characters all had the requirement of wanting (for whatever reason) to get out of being conscripted in a major war going on in the setting. . . I used this to get them all going in the same direction and driven together by consequences. [/QUOTE]

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