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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samothdm" data-source="post: 367536" data-attributes="member: 5473">Very true.  For my group:They had picked their characters:*Three Rogues (all three of whom were "agnostic")*One paladin from a faraway land and foreign religion*One orc fighter (aetheist)*One Cleric of the main campaign intolerant monotheistic religion*One Ranger (woodland spirit worshipper)Then I surprised them with "You're starting out in one of the most religiously intolerant cities in the western world.  They persecute and imprison non-believers, which is everybody except the cleric.  How do you all know each other, why are you adventuring together, and what are you doing in this city?"Half the group were first-time players and they sent e-mails back and forth for about a week and developed this really complex, rich background to tie all of their characters together.  It included one of the rogues not trusting the cleric, one of the rogues "cross-dressing" to hide her real identity, the paladin and the orc having to wear hooded cloaks to mask their noticeably different appearance from the religious zealots, and more.  They even came up with a really cool plot device (the theft of a sacred object that the cleric was supposed to deliver to one of his church superiors in the city) that I'm still building off of over a year later.  I was really happy how it worked out.</blockquote>