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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8437812" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>I generally set up all the PCs in private discussions in the days or weeks leading up to the first session to establish their character's recent history, goals, some rumors about their particular characters, and things of that nature. When I do that, there's generally a reason they're all going to be working together. Sometimes there's a central agency directing them (Local Lord, School, Etc) but usually each character has their own directive to join.</p><p></p><p>In a recent campaign, two players were guards for a mining consortium who sent workers cross-nation to work in a dangerous place. One was an agent of the king, himself, a secret bastard relative given a mission that would take him far from court, and a druid in a campaign setting where druids are basically terrorists came to learn what happened when a Circle near the city, who had been keeping the locals from expanding their town out into the surrounding swampland, had gone silent...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8437812, member: 6796468"] I generally set up all the PCs in private discussions in the days or weeks leading up to the first session to establish their character's recent history, goals, some rumors about their particular characters, and things of that nature. When I do that, there's generally a reason they're all going to be working together. Sometimes there's a central agency directing them (Local Lord, School, Etc) but usually each character has their own directive to join. In a recent campaign, two players were guards for a mining consortium who sent workers cross-nation to work in a dangerous place. One was an agent of the king, himself, a secret bastard relative given a mission that would take him far from court, and a druid in a campaign setting where druids are basically terrorists came to learn what happened when a Circle near the city, who had been keeping the locals from expanding their town out into the surrounding swampland, had gone silent... [/QUOTE]
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