Every Backstory Ever in Dungeons and Dragons
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The Dm's worst nightmare is one of my friends he's written as one of his backstories before: Adventuring seemed fun.
And then there was me sitting in the corner of the room staring at him wondering why he did that.
you forgot the meme background, you know the one which dm's and other players fear the most, or rather it annoys them the most.
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The Doofenshmirtz: "Everything started on the day of his birth. Both of his parents failed to show up."
When do we get to the Ocelots?
@@adilrahman6881 BEWEGEN SIE NICHT!
@@adilrahman6881 That's before balloony due to the smell of pork emanating from him being so bad that nobody would come near him.
Actually have a similar backstory for my character XD
Mom! Tobias Reinhold is making a Phineas and Ferb reference!
(Also, more Phineas and Ferb! Yay!)
It's not just a smile, it's when the DM's lips curl up Grinch style the more you describe your background that should frighten you.
"You're a mean one, Mr. DM..."
I just nod and listen intently with a casual expression the whole time and ask question after question while my player slowly folds in on themself in worry
Fully integrated player background is the way to make the most enjoyable campaign possible. The world should revolve around the intended story for the campaign but the character's individual worlds should revolve around their own backstories
Player gave me free reign over his family. Suffered a bandit attack where only his brother and sister survived. And now he went out to bring in money for his family.......
@@tymoore2117 I find working with them in tandem works better when they say they give you free reign. I did that with one of my players and now he killed his only sibling and was so traumatized that he just blacks out whenever he does a barbarian rage.
If you let your dm come up with a backstory for your character with amnesia, then while his job does get quite a bit harder, you know that your character will have at least one twist that probably involves at least one family member being evil.
Surprise! Your Dog was the BBEG the whole time! Fluffy the Furrious Fights Foes Forging Foundations For Furrious Federation!
Could also become like Goku/Kakorat and he is sent to conquer a world and ends up getting hit on the head and turning good
I was going to comment on how the "amnesia" backstory was not present, but your comment is better xD
@@KitomiKotiri EXACTLY! Shame that your brother will quickly be forgotten about in the story though.
Jokes on them, my first character with amnesia was just so I'd have time to develop the backstory at a later date.
Then I was the one who made a family member evil.
You missed mine which was "the self aware"
Mine was basically he was a student trying to become an artificer and a sage and it was taking him too long and he was annoyed with school and he realized if he became an adventurer he could learn it and level up his artificer much faster
That's actually one of my players past.
He tried to become a wizard but realized real world experience is the best way to learn.
Also he created a spell to help him to still learn in school and be adventuring at the same time. It's a feather that can disguise itself with an illusion as his character and he can mentally ping it to search up for any information he needs during their adventures
i had a changeling struggling to find what kind of person they want to be/should be. which turned out to be a terrible plan because they didn't have a clear personality since they were trying to find one, and i ended up putting too much myself into it, and in the end of the day i just play myself which isnt fun😮💨
@@garak_on_b5679 Congratulations! You played yourself! 😆
One of the DM’s campaigns I was in had a rogue pirate. This pirates weakness was that she would do anything for her crew. So we’re in the final boss, and he he slaughtering us. She decides to try and sacrifice herself, and rolls a Nat one on persuasion. So everyone died except for her, character trauma!
Revenge arc!
@@commonviewer2488The best arc
"Please, just kill me already! You can have me, not my party! I'm one of your enemies, too, aren't I?!" "Nah."
If I interpreted it correctly... I AM HAPPY FOR BOTH OF YOU!
🤰
I'm happy I want the only one thinking it
I once played a Fairy Barbarian who I was planning on giving the Noble background, but the Session 0 adventure ended up forcing the Feylost background on her because she was kidnapped by a Hag. As to why her parents never went looking for her, her father was scheming to have her twin brother inherit the throne by going even as far as falsifying their birth order, so he made sure that any search-and-rescue attempts were doomed to fail.
That's a bad DM if they forced that!
Anyway I have a Drow Feylost Death Domain Cleric sworn to the Raven Queen that I created and it was an actual deliberate choice. She was very curious and when a portal to the Feywilds opened up randomly she chose to enter it. It was guarded by people to prevent anyone from entering it but was also during an equinox celebration so she slipped past the guards while they where distracted by the celebration. She entered it and had a fairly happy time, she fell in love with a Rose Nymph and spent quite a while with her. Then encountered a traveler in the Feywilds who taught her to play the Bagpipes and gave her a set of them. Then he decided to move on, Rose Nymph gave my character a ring. My character and the traveler then traveled to a city in the Feywilds, he entered the city but my character didn't and continued on her way past it and eventually encountered the Raven Queen's Mansion at the edge of the Wilds. My character she then knocked in the door and was bid to enter where she spoke with the Raven Queen for a while and was offered the choice to become a Cleric of her's. My Drow said yes, and was then trained for a while before the Raven Queen opened a portal back home for my character on a solstice and reconnected with her family after 45 years being "lost" in the Feywilds. My character then fully reconnected with her family and the townspeople. Also during the time my character was "lost" her family had become the second wealthiest/influential family in the town. Her siblings also are achieving things within the town/area. So after another 10 years of doing all this reconnecting she finally adventures out of the area before she even can start in a campaign.
@@morrigankasa570 It's a feature of the Session 0 PDF for The Wild Beyond The Witchlight. Players can potentially get their characters kidnapped by the Hags in the module. Don't blame my DM for adhering to the story when my player choices led to my character having their background changed. If anything, my DM is incredible because he was able to adjust elements of an entire chapter in the module, allowing for my character to be privy to information regarding certain NPCs and locations.
@@brandongalvan6603 I get your point, but to me D&D is mostly about the unlimited potential and modules/campaigns are more like "guidelines" and you can ignore/adjust/create things as you want.
@@morrigankasa570 if the player is fine with it there shouldn't be a problem, dont make up problems for them.
I gave my character a tragic backstory that left him with a fear of horses.
My DM then added a new character to my backstory because I told him he could.
Oh god...
Please tell me it was not a werehorse....
@@forgerofsouls9126 no it wasn't.
@@jakec5186 Thank the gods, I could only imagine your character's horror.
What was the character?
I love pulling the "my family are wonderful, loving, supportive, and not at all toxic!" one. The pure joy in the DM's face and the utter bewilderment on the other players' faces when they find out are worth every horrible twist of fate!
Reminds me a character i made in a chill DnD discord server. A simple man who grew in a village with his family and joined the army because of conscriptions. Since he is pas 30 he accepted death to become a thing and has some good relations with his brothers and sisters sometimes brawling and drinking with them.
Right now he lives in a poor part of a city and tries to teach kids how to form a militia and regularly beat them up to train them how to take blows and dodge.
Love how the childhood trauma wasn't 'enemy killed my camp' it's clearly just the players trauma
Personally, I actually work with my DM to write my character's story and because he lost a lot of his memory at the start of the game, I worked with him to flesh out his past.
working with your DM is usually the best way to go
My first character had the book and the tragic backstory, it was SO long and with SO much blood that I think I run out of it, every character I had after was kinda non tragic and happy. My favorite is a tabaxi warlock that when he was a kitten he was playing in a forest, when an Archfey looked at him and thought "Oh cute, now it's mine", now he uses his powers to learn about the world with his group.
Now I need to see fanart of the Archfey adopting this little kitty
That's kind of cute about the warlock
You forget the “created by a god or deity for there origin because they have a small case of divine destiny syndrome + issues with parents irl” I say this from experience
The non tragic backstory where the dm is smiling hits me so hard because the main one I play under (there's one that's running an off an on session) loves to make things tragic even though it doesn't need to be.
Not many sane people fight monsters
"He has a family and his family....is family and-
Ah, the Vin Diesel backstory!
"This is Kongol. He's a goliath barbarian seeking an adventuring party to call family."
I got that reference!
Me too!!
i don't get it
@@derpy_goat PS1 game, Legend of Dragoon.
I'd probably be the one who'd write a whole books worth of backstory for my characters. 🤣
Tried to do that dm got annoyed and convinced me not to do that
As a DM, I love that. As long as it fits within my world still.
@@bigHURRdontCURR yeah, I do a back and forth with my DM to build out a book worth. I ended up building 4 backup Characters too
@@bigHURRdontCURR until you realise there's a part 2 once you've spent 5 hours reading the first one
I demand more cleric content! Hail be to Lathander!
Yes Glory to the dawn brother
Go forth Dawnbringers
I have to physically restrain myself from writing a whole book sometimes, it’s great
Same 🤣
My last character, a Kenku, was born into a family of thieves. He never got but a glimpse of normal society and was shunned away by people for being a thieve and shunned away by his family and the local thieves guild because of his desire to be normal. He ran off into the woods at the age of 7. He re-emerged as a 15 year old man with a staff connected a a forest god and a pet crow. He rebuilds his life under a new identity as a cleric as a way to cleanse himself after being a thief. He tries to act like a normal person. He doesn’t really know how though because he’s been a thief his whole life. His goal is to really just burn his past as much as possible so that no one knows his origins but his party.
You know, Killer McStabYouToDeath does technically cure world hunger if his last name is indictive of what he does.
His name is edited toMcStabToDeathThePoor.
My cleric character has the most abusible backstory ever. A loving mother and step father, a wonderful connection to her temple and everyone in it, and a brother who died of a mysterious illness nobody could cure that led my character to become an adventurer, still grieving her brother.
My DM was very excited to use my backstory against me.
I made the mistake of writing a really long, tragic backstory, with everyone my character hates still alive, and my DM has now decided that my character has voices in her head, and is having her try and find her dead sister's ghost. So, yeah, my character has had to deal with people that she hates, and people that love the people she hates in order to find her sister's ghost, whom she likes. I instantly regretted having my backstory something that my DM could use to further traumatize my character, and now she can't sleep because she's having PTSD
Whenever I write out a really good backstory, the second the DM says “introduce your characters” I become the Last Minute
There’s also “my backstory is actually someone else’s backstory” like my paladin Renshik, whose youngest sibling had a near-death experience while he was vibing at art college and now he feels guilty about not being there to help them recover so he found a new group of people to take care of. Nothing bad ever happened to him though like even when his parents divorced they got back together along with their new partners
i created a character who's purpose was finding is best friend who was captured during a raid on his village and sold into slavery, then the next campaign i played as the best friend who was captured and ended up being a catalyst for a crossover event between my two campaigns lol
making your backstory last second/not making one at all is just a surefire way to end up with an amnesiac and a dm who is actively keeping your own secrets from you
I can't believe ad-barian didn't make an appearance in the "hiding an announcement" backstory
I somehow feel personally attacked for every single one of my characters...
I missed "The heroic feat" or "The BBEG's minion, but now his doom" back storys
Having played various characters, written many characters, and run multiple campaigns, I still think my first character's backstory was the best.
Ragnar was a mountain dwarf who, as a young dwarf, was mining with his brother. There was a mine collapse and Ragnar was not strong enough to lift the massive beam that held his brother in place.
Ever since then, Ragnar's personal quest in life was to get hella swole, so that he would never let anyone down again.
However, Ragnar was convinced that on that day, out of the corner of his eye, as he struggled and failed that he saw a goblin. This goblin, made of shadow and darkness, used some sort of foul magic to sap his strength when he needed it most. Ragnar dubbed this unknown creature, the Gains Goblin, and always kept an ear out for any leads on such a creature
After the "No" at the end i just want to hug him!
I wrote one of my character with an absentee parent they didn't know. My DM still brought them in and then killed them, but I had access to gentle repose. Now my character only need to get high enough level to learn how to cast resurrection, since their other parent's head got mailed to them in a box.
I have a character who decided to become an adventurer because risking his life in dungeons seemed better than another day in customer service
I currently have a wizard where I straight up told the DM "she is young, she only knows the society she grew up in, and screw it I'm always standoffish so let's play the most trusting and naive little cinnamon roll you can imagine" the DM straight up told me that I'm a horror protagonist and my wizard can now add to the constant backstory 'immediately dying, resurrection, soul bound to a relic, and won't stop getting downed by animals even when I improv-ed being an animal lover'
I guess my backstory is kinda the Royal one mixed with the ”DM Gift” for I am next in line but gave up on it for love and gave the dm 2 gifts 1 lover go missing what happen 2 split me mentally between party, family/tribe, and lover
The DMs worst Nightmare: "His name is Old Man Henderson..."
I let my GM write most of my backstory for my last character, within a background I provided (adventurer who died 100 years ago and came back to life via unknown means)
The result was my mostly mysterious, slightly tragic backstory turning into something that would've made Guts say "that's rough buddy"
The evil laugh is my DM. I felt this so hard.
I recently added a fail condition to my characters backstory and am currently walking on a very tight line between failing and succeeding. I love it
Dam I didn’t think you could make a backstory any more tragic but you stabbed my heart with the dog leaving because it didn’t want to be his best friend
2:07 When there's no one to starve, there's no world hunger *thinking emoji*
OK, out of all my characters, I might have written 2 of those...
That last option sounds really close to my Gladiator Wizard though...
"Thi- uh- this is, Snarf, he- uhm... he lives in the hills, the-thehm, the west side of the hills, he has a family... and his family is... *struggles to remember script* ...his family, and he likes... to be... yeah."
I feel personally attacked by this one
God, the secretive is me. Got a gnome and an elf who went to college together, and a human druid who is a former streamstress. DM wanted us to introduce our characters in character.
Gnome and elf explained how they met in school, continued to college, are very close, are from a different country, learned their toolsets (AKA their classes) and are on a kind of abroad studying trip.
Human druid explained how her workshop and warehouse got burned down for reasons she still doesn't know, and out of spite decided to live in the forest. Also because there weren't any tailors or shops in the first town we went to, one of us joked that the fashion police had gone through the town and confiscated any tailoring stuff and arrested tailors, so now it's canon that the fashion police burned down her workshop.
My character, a half-elf, just introduced herself as Willow. That's it. The kicker is, her name isn't even Willow. It's a pseudonym.
I ended up with the amnesia one because the first time I played, I didn't know we were supposed to HAVE a backstory and panicked. LOL. Now I have it fleshed out into a pretty good story and it tracks my personally because I had memory loss from a concussion, so I can play the "I have a vague memory knocking at the door" perfectly because I'm used to it IRL
Oh my gosh are you two having a tiny human? If I caught that right CONGRATULATIONS! So happy for both of you!
Creating a back story where you're enemies with your family, is a good option. The DM can use that, but your character doesn't care about them, so they can't be hurt to get to the characters emotions.
I made a character with a tragic backstory, but it happened 1,000 years ago. At the time of the campaign she was in, any trauma had long sense worn away, and her main motivation was trying to get enough money to start a clothing shop in a town where her thirst for blood wouldn't be a problem.
Well mine was just 300 Years... with a pit of torture in between
My first background was very vague but it was my first time ever playing D&D so used amnesia as an excuse for stupid mistakes I make like breaking laws or not knowing general information about the world....most backgrounds I see are tragic 😂 I remember my second D&D characters background was that they went to prison for stealing, broke out which caused their mother to be killed in the crossfire of his recapture to where he murdered many guards to then be sent to be hung but escapes again to be recaptured to be burned at the stake....and escape again 😂 another character was excommunicated after losing a duel for the hand of the mayor's daughter.....then there was the grandma character who had an epic violent life as a youth but everyone thinks she is a sweet old lady which she of course uses to her advantage to poison enemies with cookies
“His family is, uh… … his family! And he likes to… y-yeah!”
I've got a Loxodon bard. He's on a 100 year rumspringa from his tribe who he still loves very much. He learned to be a boatman, running a cargo barge up and down the rivers of the continent, playing for the people wherever he goes and making people happy, sometimes doing a bit of light smuggling as well.
I really like this character, but I'm sad because the campaign is going to end early because the DM is going to have a baby in January.
Omg 1:07 is so totally me!! My current genasi wizard character, Ember, has a Character Document that's roughly 120 pages long
I swear our dnd party is literally everyone having a childhood trauma where they were orphans except our wizard who might be a rich boi but no one knows BECAUSE HE NEVER MADE IT
I'm propably a combination of the normal and letting the DM decide. I try to explain who they are and why, but I like when the DM uses some ties to the story and hooks my character with it. Sure, that means I do know my DM is smiling villain style but frankly, I found it fun when my character ended up having lots of unexpected turns like being adopted and some royal throne heir but wanted because of it. The only condition I always tell the dm is to not make my character amnesic.
Sir Duke of the house of OneShots I cordially ask that you make the oath of throwing it back paladin a playable subclass
One shot I have a request for a sketch. Can you make a video of the pain of being the DM for players who are artist? Not only the question of what's their name and background but having them want the details of specifically how they look. I love your humor and would love to see your spin on this idea!!!
Ever played Prey (2017)? I made a version of Morgan who's a town guard sorcerer exploring to find a home for the remaining townsfolk in his hometown after a mysterious raid. He was on a quest when it happened (he's level 3, so it works) and didn't see even the bodies of who attacked upon his return. All the townsfolk left don't know who did it, as they hid at the first sign of trouble. Either no attackers died or those who survived took the bodies with them. Now he looks for homes and jobs for those who hid and survived the raid.
1:43 This backstory could have been shortened to "I made a rogue."
mine was the tragic until my dm was like "so um actually you were kidnapped by pirates" and yeah. we don't let him dm anymore
Although I've never played DnD, I do have a few character concepts I'd like to try if I ever get into it.
The 1st is basically the stereotypical tragic backstory of "warlock forced into a pact because cult shenanigans." I would wait until I have experience with the game and know the group well before doing this though, since I don't want to unintentionally be so edgy it's problematic lol.
2nd is Abralamb Shepherd, a seemingly wholesome firbolg farmer who secretly leads a cult. Obvious inspiration from Cult of the Lamb, but a "I was actually the Big Bad all along" kinda twist might be kinda interesting if the DM in that scenario were on board with the idea. And of course, no way would I use this until I have enough experience to pull it off.
3rd is more of a joke character. The plasmoid race looked interesting so I figured I'd just flavor it as an ooze that suddenly gained sentience and is pretending to be human, but it's really bad at convincing people since, y'know, it is literally made of goo and came from the sewers. No amount of saying "I am just a gunky flesh and bones man" is going to convince people unless they're blind.
I currently play as a gnome with a gab of 60 years in my back story where the DM can put small fun things in. The only thing certain is that I was in waterdeep stealing diamonds. The rest is up to the DM
A while back me and a group of friends wanted to try dnd, I was the only one who had actually played before. One of the players (I dmed ) wanted to play a gnome and part of his backstory was that his parents were sold in Home Depot when he was young which we reworked into them being sold into slavery
The solidify tragic backstory my character became a adventurer to help people and find stories because she is a bard and doesn't like bullies but one of her friends wanted to protect her from his enemies so was going to make a deal with the bad guys she took there place put under a curse but it just solidify who she really is and what she wants to do he a adventur protecting and helping others.
I always bring the whole book 🤣
But always "secrets" that the DM can fill in. Which gives them that evil smile.... :P
I don’t like how you described my life with, genuinely, 100% accuracy at the end.
The book backstory player had me laughing my guts out, because that is literally me with every character I make
Congratulations Duke to a very different kind of adventure ahead
I think my favorite backstory was for an aasimar bard I played years ago in Pathfinder. Made it back before they adjusted the age range for aasimars, and they grew at the same rate as half-elementals (reaching adventuring age at around 80-90), and may have rolled in a background generator for rough ideas.
Ended up being the son of two performers from a circus troupe, raised lovingly with his half-orc half-brother. Decided he wanted to set off on his own as a performer,.to make others happy, and had been gallivanting around for a couple decades before the adventure started. Parents both died peacefully of old age, brother was an elderly and friendly man living in the capitol city of their home region, while the bard looked like he was only in his early 20s.
Probably the most well-adjusted character upbringing I've had, mostly stuck with the party because it sounded fun and like it would help people. Pretty much stuck unilaterally to non-lethal weapons (namely a sap and a blunted shortsword) and used nonlethal metamagic effects on combat spells.
The whole party sent the DM each of our backstories so he can build some of the campaign around them. I also told him that there's a certain aspect of my backstory that he can take full freedom with and I'm scared because he's already told me he's probably going to make me cry at the table at some point. And after a session some weeks ago where something interesting happened with my character, I have a sneaking suspicion that my character is schizophrenic but doesn't know it, and it is TERRIFYING
If that's something you can vibe with, then cool! But you can and should always tell your DM if there are topics you are uncomfortable with. And everyone else on the table should of course also be okay with that, especially if it is a potentially triggering topic like mental illness.
Kangol, the Goliath barbarian, looking for an adventuring party to call family. Don't think I missed thar legend of the dragoon reference. Well played.
Ive come up with some cool backgrounds for many different games, yeah im pretty sure other people have thought of them but whatever here they are in case you feel like reading:
SW5E character: Family had a pitch black kyber crystal passed down through the generations until one could figure out how to use it, bad people showed up and the rest of the day got blocked out as a part of trauma survival (you can add whatever as that is kinda a placeholder), now on the search for the only other black kyber crystal aside from the darksaber.
Regular 5E Warlock: War vet. During his service his fort was being steamrolled and begged from the bottom of his heart to be saved, patron maliciously accepted and as a result, wiped his family and ancestors from history, now hes on a quest to kill his patron to steal his power and bring them back.
Cyberpunk Character (yeah its not dnd but idc): Was apart of a crime family, went on a successful heist with a crew but the other members got stupid with their money and made the leader worried, so he put a hit out on all the members including him, he survives and sets out to become the new big boss of crime.
DB Character: A hit race who acted as a bodyguard for bulma up until the buu saga in which he terminated his contract with her to take care of the the menace known as kid buu.
M&M Character: An old vampire spawned from the ancient sumerian tale of dying violently and being improperly buried. Now is a passive observer happily floating through life before being roped into a bunch of shenanigans.
Yeah im playing all of these games simultaneously dont @ me
Was that "Kongol" character a reference to Legend of the Dragoon? Because if it is I absolutely love it!
The DM’s Worst Nightmare is actually what I want for most games as a DM.
Loved the Legend of Dragoon reference with Kongol the Goliath
When your Player's chosen backstory unintentionally fits in really well with part of the story you had planned so you rewrite your campaign to fit with his backstory.
I just wanted to give you a hug after the last one.
My backstories are mostly normal but with some outlashes here and there. My Eladrin Druid burned some people to death because they were treating the forest without respect but normaly she is a bubbly happy person.
my kobold battle smith is a wholesome cinnamon roll who sees everyone as a potential friend. Everybody is welcome wherever he's staying so he can share tales from his den. he sounds just a liiiittle bit like Stitch (he's also blue, which is pure coincidence) and his favorite food is rocks. he also happens to be running through CoS, and the party is DETERMINED to protect him from harm. he is essentially the party's precious bean.
his motto: "there is no evil, just misguided goals."
Killer McStabyoutodeath honestly sounds great, ending world hunger is one of the biggest achievements one could have
When it comes to the backstory I'm definitely "The Dungeon Master's Worst Nightmare" but not because I wouldn't want them to have a backstory, I'm just really horrible at coming up with backstories and such.
When I made my first character I just wanted to make a short old dude who plays music.
His friends died around him, he abandoned his life of adventure, settled down, grew a family, then near the end of his life decided to do something, repaired a flute, and left his home to find a new party, leaving behind just a letter to his wife explaining, but no word or warning besides that.
His name was Olaf Bloodthorne, the Gnome Bard and I loved him more than anything. Favorite character I ever made.
1:08 In one game I’m in, all 3 of us did this (the DM even referred to our backstories as theses), and, since the DM made the game anyways, he included all of our backstories into the main plot. It’s my favorite game!
No matter how hard I try I’m always the book one, I put way too much detail into my characters.
Pal-Addin
Nah, the DM's Worst Nightmare is this: "So I was inspired by this one guy called Henderson?"
Letting the dm decide on the backstories is extremely funny when the party of 8 decides to let the dm write it because its everyones first time. 2 years in and tomorrow is my final session of dm' ing before college and I couldnt have been happier with how it turned out.
It's funny because my main character's backstory started as a mixture of the simple and the non-tragic
Ahahah! But that was 4 years ago. He had plenty of adventuring since then, and took a LOT of emotional damage
KONGOL! IS THAT A LEGEND OF DRAGOON REFERENCE?! if it is that's awesome, I'm actually writing a campaign based off of it(still keeping it original tho)
Well, OBVIOUSLY the serial killer solved world hunger so that he'd have more victoms at his disposal.... lolol
The “I’m pregnant?” Absolutely slayed me
My barbarians backstory in D&D is that he was a dragonborn baby that was adopted by a tribe of barbarians who only had alcohol and no water he does not know what water is
I believe it was Taliesin Jaffe who said he likes to leave a big gap in his backstory for the DM to fill in. That's how you end up ruling an entire city.
For my first D&D character I ever made, her backstory was that her parents didn’t want her, so they sold her for a sack of potatoes…I miss that character
I recently made a backstory that has a LOT of names, an organization, fit the campaign, and even had an unknown parental figure that no one ever talked about that I gave my DM full control over... its going to be a fun campaign
Currently playing an exploitable and secretive backstory. My character is a 12 year old Triton who grew up surrounded by a loving merchant family and had an happy, comfortable childhood being "Mom's little fighter"- the same mom who secretly had promised his soul to his Warlock pact patron, which his patron is planning to reap pretty soon, leaving him nothing but an husk with a desire to kill.
One half's exploitable, and one half's a secret between me and the DM.
You forget "massive, deep and convoluted backstory for 1st lvl character for one-shot adventure"
I didn't choose the sad tragic back story! The sad tragic back story chose me!
Its our first time playing DnD, so we all had to make characters. We chose our races by what looked cool. Rolled our stats, picked pour spells, chose our names, etc. Then came the time to make our back stories and actually do some research on our races.
Yeah, I wanted to be a changeling that openly loved being themselves. :/
Like, just walking around in their normal form. :/
Then I did research. :/
We played a few games of city of mist and it's amazing. I played as Jesus the bar owner along with the Pied Piper who was a divorced musician and hobo Sherlock Holmes hahaha