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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8462230" data-attributes="member: 20564">I try to stay away from the "I'm an orphan/family killed/abandoned/sole survivor" type of backstory, though used judiciously it can still be fun.  If my family comes into play is more up to the DM.Some recent 5e characters:Jillian Briarfoot - talked about his grandmother whom he was named after, the best cook in three counties.  But he came from a far away island reminiscent of Eberron Talenta halfling after some civilization, and the party never went there.Erevan Majarra - Noble of Waterdeep, his family came into play (usually putting obligations on him) with some frequency.Droozh - Loxodon with a large family, which came into play when he got embroiled in political maneuvering that branded him an outlaw.  Including avoiding his very stern mother who was a servant of the law, convincing his elder brother who was following in his mother's footsteps, trying to work ut if he could go to his younger sister after he had been framed for an explosion killing soldiers in the legion she was part of, etc.Vaeris Lianon - masked androgonous elf that every assumed was a man, turned out to be a horribly scarred woman who lost her child and husband in a black dragon attack.  She then took up martial magics.  She never talked about family until near the very end of the campaign.Duris of the Sacred Heart Tribe - one of the other players was his big sister, and our mother was a big NPC from an earlier campaign in the same world.Padraig ap Liam - sucked away to the mists of Ravenloft, no chance to meet his family.  But talked about both his father and mother frequently.  They were both alive.So, one who avoided even talking about family, two who talked about them but due to inaccessibility (distance, The Mists) they didn't enter play, and two whom enter play enough they had plot points.</blockquote>

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