But it sort of runs counter to the D&D experience for me. The thing that makes you special is the adventure you're on NOW. You don't START OUT super-duper special. You don't show up at adventure day 1 with a long intricate and complicated story of friends and enemies made, battles won and lost, etc. That's... that's the story you're about to set out on
That's a good point. If someone is in trouble with some demon from hell chasing after him, it would be nice to see it happen and not just know it happened in the past because you were told about it in camp.
