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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 9811851" data-attributes="member: 22779"><img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤷" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f937.png" title="Person shrugging    :person_shrugging:" data-shortname=":person_shrugging:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />  All I can do is report my experience.  I mean, you talk about a background being "due" a week before the campaign starts.  Are they creating those backgrounds in collaboration with any of the players or only you?  Are they creating those backgrounds in collaboration with you or are they presenting you with a fully formed background for you to approve?  Which, if they are, then they are bringing pretty much just a random character.  They come to you with a completed background, subject to your approval, and, presumably so long as it doesn't contradict anything in your setting notes, that's a given.  Which is pretty much exactly what I was talking about.  Everyone comes to the table with a fully formed character that has zero connection to any of the other characters in the group because all the characters were made in isolation.  I think that we're probably having the same experience, but, spinning it in very different ways.Let me ask this.  You posit a fairly standard Sword Coast campaign.  Say Hoard of the Dragon Queen.  I come to you with a human fighter from Beregost who happens to be in Greenest on a holiday.  Is that enough?  Or do I have to sit down with you and/or any of the other players and collectively collaborate on my character and background?  Because if my character is okay, then, that's precisely my problem.  A fully formed background created with zero input from the DM or the other players.</blockquote>

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