Remember when people complained about The Phantom Menace describing Darth Vader's origins? How people said that you don't need to know how he was a bratty slave kid on Tattoine then a misanthropic youth? Well, you don't and you didn't, but that doesn't mean those movies couldn't be interesting if done better. Enough words and video has been wasted on this topic, enough to fill a million volumes. Bad things make more content and contention than good, that's obvious. No, I want to talk about tabletop gaming, at the table character stuff, preparatory stuff, and my favorite buzz word ever, VERISIMILITUDE. 1. Why are you doing this? So this is the classic question that story game masters want answered, why are you out on the road bashing gobbos in the head with a mace or slicing wolves up instead of safe in bed with a spouse and a turnip farm? This is a good question, it sets up a good answer and is vaguely accusatory. It also makes your character...