OOTS #1220 - The Discussion Thread

[Dion]

But part of being a monster in a D&D setting is that we don't question its backstory too much.

But the monsters they’re fighting in this book (redcloak and Xykon) have huge amounts of backstory!

And in the last book, they fought Crystal (with a backstory), Durkula (with a backstory), giants (with a backstory), and.. the poor wyrm (who admittedly didn’t have much of a backstory, but still managed to have a tragic character arc.)

The only character who showed up without any reason or explanation was Not Thad, who is not a monster.

I’d say Not Thad disproves your hypothesis that people have backstories, but monsters don’t :-)