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• Dray

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:46 PM EDT

  As well as backstory.

• Ponty

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:48 PM EDT

  I really don't think backstory comes into it, you spend most of your time in-game hitting people. If the combat is the same as another build you're still hitting people the same way.

• Dray

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:53 PM EDT

  Not backstory, but what the build is based on, what he/she wears (Armor/Clothes).

• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:54 PM EDT

  So my hard work in my CB backstories is a waste to you Ben?

• Mason

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:54 PM EDT

  I've read the '...crossing the border...' backstory too many times, if I see it in a build I refuse to continue reading, it's become an instant turn off for me.

• Vazgen

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:54 PM EDT

  I agree I usually make my own backstory for the characters I play. I'm mostly interested in gameplay

• Dray

  

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  March 29, 2013 7:57 PM EDT

  You walk into a bar.......and see an elephant in a fedora, drinking a glass of milk with a dog in a human suit. There are more. You wake up on a carriage......, Opening your eyes....

• Matt Feeney the New Guy

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:00 PM EDT

  But Mason, you've gotta love the ole' "When I was a kid, vampires/Thalmor/necromancers killed my parents..." Zzzzzzz...
• xivTECO

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:01 PM EDT

  I'm here for the ideas and feedback. I'd like to post a build but honestly everything has been done to a certain extent, so I'll just put a little of this one and put a little of that one and I'll keep my build all to myself.
• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:01 PM EDT

  @ Dray  I bet Mason read it until then...

• Mason

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:05 PM EDT

  Backstories can potentially kill a build because the more character details you explain the more choices you remove from anyone wanting to play it...

  You have to provide enough information to make the character interesting without removing options for a player.

  The funniest backstories I've seen are for stealth classes...

  "This character is an absolute shadow, nobody sees him coming until they feel the sharp tip of his penis in their back......

  ......he got caught crossing the border, and so his story begins"

• Vazgen

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:07 PM EDT

  LOL, Mason you just made my day 

• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:09 PM EDT

  Mason, I'm not going to be able to sleep night now....dreams invaded by penis shadows....

• Mason

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:19 PM EDT

  Ah yes! I hate those ones as well Matt...

  "As a young child..."

  "...training with a bow since he was a boy..."

  "...Thalmor shagged his mother...."

  Oh fuck offffff!! I don't want to relate to my toon as an infant...

• Skyler

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:22 PM EDT

  It's all fun and games until your thief gets caught sticking his things where they don't belong when crossing the border.

• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:22 PM EDT

  'Thalmor shagged his mother'

  mate that is weird.... Elenwen you sick bitch....

• Ponty

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:25 PM EDT

  "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled of elderberries... they went missing when you were young, and you were caught crossing the border searching for them."
  

• Bryn

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:25 PM EDT

  Why do you have to ruin the characters I like?
• Mason

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:29 PM EDT

  Hey Brynjolfs here...

  Lets see what creative way he smegs the thread up this time....

• Mason

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:30 PM EDT

  "...you told the imperials that you were looking for your fathers big berries but they wouldn't listen..."

• Bryn

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:33 PM EDT

  Smegs?
• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:35 PM EDT

  ensnared by Bryn's smeg....

• Bryn

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:36 PM EDT

  You all are trolls
• Nelaf

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:38 PM EDT

  Bryn but you do have a certain well known way to always divert and smeg up the discussion....

• Kyrielle Atrinati

  

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  March 29, 2013 8:38 PM EDT

  "...and when you mentioned your mother's love of hoarding Breton sausages in her bedroom, they decided they'd had enough and went looking for her instead."