Oryan77
Adventurer
My long time friend is starting up a 4e game and a few of us have been creating our characters. The DM has taken it upon himself to completely write each of our PCs history himself.
I've never done it like that myself when I DM. I'll give ideas or inform the player of details that don't work in the setting I'm running so they can tweak it. But overall, I let them create their backgrounds.
The DM has been very enthusiastic about writing our histories. I guess I'm ok with the 3 pages worth he wrote for my PC. I probably would have come up with something a lot different, and I'm not really sure I like being told that my PC was in love, but overall, it's not a bad background.
It just got me to thinking, how often do DMs do this? Are people ok with this in general? It seems like it crosses that line of controlling the PC, but for PC backgrounds, does it really matter? Sure, I'm told that my PC was in love, but once I start to play the PC, if I ever met that lover, I could bash her head in if that's what I chose to do (not that I would do that).
I've never done it like that myself when I DM. I'll give ideas or inform the player of details that don't work in the setting I'm running so they can tweak it. But overall, I let them create their backgrounds.
The DM has been very enthusiastic about writing our histories. I guess I'm ok with the 3 pages worth he wrote for my PC. I probably would have come up with something a lot different, and I'm not really sure I like being told that my PC was in love, but overall, it's not a bad background.
It just got me to thinking, how often do DMs do this? Are people ok with this in general? It seems like it crosses that line of controlling the PC, but for PC backgrounds, does it really matter? Sure, I'm told that my PC was in love, but once I start to play the PC, if I ever met that lover, I could bash her head in if that's what I chose to do (not that I would do that).
