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<blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 5721360" data-attributes="member: 22779">Elf Witch - totally, totally agree.&nbsp; Ironically enough, in our current game, I was the only one to have a family in his character background, and, sure enough, by the fifth session, my family was dead.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; However, in this particular case, it was a lot of fun and totally made sense.&nbsp; Certainly no hard feelings.But, I have seen the other side where any sort of lever the players leave out for the DM to abuse, the DM will invariably abuse it.&nbsp; I happened to see a lot of new players in my campaigns for a while - we ran into a period of rotating players.&nbsp; Almost every single PC that came in was an orphan with absolutely no ties.&nbsp; It became a running joke that that rest of the group identifies new group members by whether or not their families died horrible deaths at some point before joining the group.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hussar, post: 5721360, member: 22779"] Elf Witch - totally, totally agree. Ironically enough, in our current game, I was the only one to have a family in his character background, and, sure enough, by the fifth session, my family was dead. :D However, in this particular case, it was a lot of fun and totally made sense. Certainly no hard feelings. But, I have seen the other side where any sort of lever the players leave out for the DM to abuse, the DM will invariably abuse it. I happened to see a lot of new players in my campaigns for a while - we ran into a period of rotating players. Almost every single PC that came in was an orphan with absolutely no ties. It became a running joke that that rest of the group identifies new group members by whether or not their families died horrible deaths at some point before joining the group. [/QUOTE]

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