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then what's the difference between a CRPG and a PnP module played off the shelf? nothing. when you played Keep on the Borderlands or Tomb of Horrors or Slave Pits of the Undercity, did the DM work in your personal backstory into the plot? no, i didn't think so. and yet many PnP DMs approach writing campaigns in much the same way as they would be writing a module for the world in general, not as a bespoke effort for their friends' PCs.

you miss the point. most DMs in PnP could work character backgrounds into the campaign if they badly wanted to. but most don't, because they've got their own story to tell. and besides, ain't there something badly solipsistic about players who believe that the adventure should revolve entirely around their own personal history?

huh. freeform PnP is a nice idea but it rarely works out that way. the standard division of labour in PnP (the DM creates the world and the adventure, the players create the characters) means that there's typically very little use made of the PCs' backstories: the quality of the backstories varies wildly (e.g. farmboy with lust for adventure, parents killed by orcs, etc); and DMs prefer to push the story they have written. conversely, where DMs do get involved in working PCs backstories into the campaign, then they tend to railroad players every bit as much as CRPGs do ("you can be anything as you like in this campaign, so long as it's either a human from the great kingdom named Thargos, a half-elven assassin from hyborea, or a gnome illusionist from the secret gnome city.") let's face it - most PnP sessions don't actually involve that much roleplay anyway.

so they are planning on being Bio's butt monkey. it's a start, i guess.

seriously: is there any evidence for this? or is folks just speculating wildly? and wouldn't obsidian rather their first PC & console game to be something original rather than being the butt monkey for LucasArts and Bio?

i don't think spam counts as a talent.

though these boards seem to be barely 1 month old. it's good to know that Volourn's already established himself as a well-known intellectual.

if there aren't any details about the project, other than that it's titled 'project delaware'? just curious.