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  • As a player I use the backstory of my character mostly to make reasonable reactions to given situations, if my GM pulls from the backstory (like NPCs I’ve described) then that makes me more happy but I’m content with just the former.

    As a GM I tried to involve the backstory and also the actions of my players into the narrative/storyline; not just because I’m currently running Kingmaker 2e, which is a vast sandbox with the players run kingdom being a focal point of the entire campaign.

    The biggest Issue I have to embed Backstories of Player Characters comes when they Characters are from far away lands, so that NPCs or what they described that belongs to their character culture and thus just don’t make much sense. for example a character was born and raised in a country that is 6 months away… by airship! How would ANYTHING from that backstory influence the storyline here?