Maybe you should google how to think for yourself, mother fucker
*I'm not talking about MMOs by the way, y'all don't wanna see my fully unhinged, 
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I'm going through a terrible time and am feeling compelled to share my aggressive thoughts 
Meta-gaming is a fucking blight, death to America
Yeah, I think that's generally the case (though not explicitly stated). Writing the basics of everyone's characters should be a group effort, with some amount of buy-in from each player for each character. The idea of 4 completely independently written characters coming on the same adventure is.... It feels archaic, like we're all playing weekly D&D with completely different people and everyone has different amounts of XP etc.