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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 8436409" data-attributes="member: 23751">So I'm going to say that you and [USER=6855114]@Helldritch[/USER] are both right and wrong.First you.  Can a PC have been beaten in another village jail by a corrupt sheriff, escaped and fled to somewhere else?  Yes, absolute.  As a background it is very plausible.  There are a variety of ways that you could have been beaten and escaped without being killed or imprisoned for the rest of your life.  In that you are correct.  Where you go wrong is that this is Helldritch's game that you are making that backstory in, and he is well within his rights to say during session 0, "You are all from the village that you are starting in," which it sounds like he does.  Some DMs like to run campaigns entirely in smaller areas, so a PC from outside doesn't fit.  Some like to start in smaller areas and expand outward as the PCs level.  Insisting on coming from the outside in those kinds of games is wrong.Now Helldritch.  You are correct in your ability to dictate where the PCs start from and a background that steps outside of that isn't a proper background.  The players are presumably aware of where they will be starting and any restrictions about where their PC is from prior to backgrounds being written, so Chasomancer's background is out of line with that.Where I think you go wrong(and it's still your call as DM), is that you have an overly narrow view of the possibilities of being beaten by a sheriff and escaping.  The corrupt sheriff might have someone in the cell beaten and a more powerful prisoner escapes some time later and the PC gets out that way.  The PC might have friends that bust sneak in tools through a window and the PC escapes under the cover of darkness.  There are lots of ways that it can happen, so it's not nearly an impossible scenario.I can say that I almost never restrict PCs to coming from a certain area, so with respect to the sheriff(I haven't followed every bit of that background), I would allow the beating and escape.  It's plausible, even if unlikely for most people.</blockquote>

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