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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rob Kuntz" data-source="post: 8243440" data-attributes="member: 7015759">Well.  I see the whole as the same.  Without a  character you can have no back story, really, because all roads lead back to attaching back story for "What?"  Back story assumes there's something that it attaches to and thus without that specific "something" contriving a generalized back story is not of itself definitive.  The way you develop back story "is" relevant, and that, as noted in many instances up thread, involves in situ development (through play defining in-roads and byways for that) or incremental, starting with base facts and then adding or refining as one sees fit as furthered through play and/or by emerging proclivities (player insight).</blockquote>