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<blockquote data-quote="tardigrade" data-source="post: 7319078" data-attributes="member: 6874311">As a DM, I expect a short paragraph but don't insist on it, and encourage them to run ideas by me so we can tie details to My players are fairly new to D&amp;D and we're playing (roughly) a published campaign (SKT), although I'm modifying it more than they've realised, so some of them haven't really realised that I'm willing to build background details into adventures.As a player I try to stick to the same - a few lines to tie background, class and race together and give the DM a few hooks. My only current character is a winged tiefling fighter-rogue who was originally bodyguard to a Red Wizard until he was convinced by a group of adventurers to join them and turn on his former employer. He then captained an airship raiding Zhent slave caravans for a few years before the Time of Troubles - during the 'blackout' his ship crashed but, having nonmagical flight, he was the sole survivor.My other character was a fairly vanilla dwarf bard - he and his brother were among the few escapees from a dwarfhold overrun by (DM's choice). They grew up as refugee orphans on the streets of Calimshan. He fell in with a thieves' guild; his brother became a paladin, led an expedition back to their homeland last year, but has not been heard of since. He was invited to go but bottled it and now feels guilty about abandoning his big brother. He's now trying to keep the tales of his homeland alive while recruiting adventurers to go and find out what happened to the last guys.Some bits in both for DMs to run with if they want, but neither did so that's as far as they went. Both were still fun to play though.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tardigrade, post: 7319078, member: 6874311"] As a DM, I expect a short paragraph but don't insist on it, and encourage them to run ideas by me so we can tie details to My players are fairly new to D&D and we're playing (roughly) a published campaign (SKT), although I'm modifying it more than they've realised, so some of them haven't really realised that I'm willing to build background details into adventures. As a player I try to stick to the same - a few lines to tie background, class and race together and give the DM a few hooks. My only current character is a winged tiefling fighter-rogue who was originally bodyguard to a Red Wizard until he was convinced by a group of adventurers to join them and turn on his former employer. He then captained an airship raiding Zhent slave caravans for a few years before the Time of Troubles - during the 'blackout' his ship crashed but, having nonmagical flight, he was the sole survivor. My other character was a fairly vanilla dwarf bard - he and his brother were among the few escapees from a dwarfhold overrun by (DM's choice). They grew up as refugee orphans on the streets of Calimshan. He fell in with a thieves' guild; his brother became a paladin, led an expedition back to their homeland last year, but has not been heard of since. He was invited to go but bottled it and now feels guilty about abandoning his big brother. He's now trying to keep the tales of his homeland alive while recruiting adventurers to go and find out what happened to the last guys. Some bits in both for DMs to run with if they want, but neither did so that's as far as they went. Both were still fun to play though. [/QUOTE]

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