One of my biggest annoyances is when people make a 3 page long retelling of all the feats and battles their charater went through as a backstory... at level 1. Mind you, I personally think even a high level character being created shouldn't have a massive backstory, but it is specially jarring when your badass battle hardened veteran gets ganked by 3 goblins.
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This isn't a "character concept" but a friend of mine once had a habit of putting random sexual assault mentions in their backstories, to make them more tragic or something. Thankfully after I realised that it was a recurring theme I asked them to, you know, maybe tone down the sexual assault in our lighthearted adventure game, they got it and stopped with that:::
Yeah pretty much every game I’ve been it started at level 5-6 just cuz the DM said that would let players have more justifiably badass backstories. If you’re really starting at level one your character should be a fresh off the boat peasant, maybe with some mild combat training. But everyone wants a cool backstory so just start at a higher level.
One of my biggest annoyances is when people make a 3 page long retelling of all the feats and battles their charater went through as a backstory... at level 1. Mind you, I personally think even a high level character being created shouldn't have a massive backstory, but it is specially jarring when your badass battle hardened veteran gets ganked by 3 goblins.
CW:SA
This isn't a "character concept" but a friend of mine once had a habit of putting random sexual assault mentions in their backstories, to make them more tragic or something. Thankfully after I realised that it was a recurring theme I asked them to, you know, maybe tone down the sexual assault in our lighthearted adventure game, they got it and stopped with that:::
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Yeah pretty much every game I’ve been it started at level 5-6 just cuz the DM said that would let players have more justifiably badass backstories. If you’re really starting at level one your character should be a fresh off the boat peasant, maybe with some mild combat training. But everyone wants a cool backstory so just start at a higher level.
Oh damn you were in a game with Alan Moore?