From: gmkeros@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/7/2025 8:52 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:   
      
   >   
   > Oh, most of ours weren't as bad either. But it did happen, more than a   
   > few times, that a player would come in with an excessively detailed   
   > history (and sometimes I was that player, I admit). Alternately, the   
   > player might have a fairly basic backstory, but over the course of   
   > several adventures we'd fill it in with more and more details.* Either   
   > way, one way or another a few characters had pre-adventure biographies   
   > that probably could have filled several fantasy novels ;-P   
      
   I think Critical Role gave people the idea that all character   
   backstories needed to be so complex (although that of course always was   
   happening)   
      
   I am more in the camp of: "your proper backstory starts from level 1"   
      
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