Quote Originally Posted by KingVic View Post
I'm making a wizard for an upcoming campaign and I'm having trouble thinking of a interesting background. For some reason, all I can think of for wizard backgrounds is "I was trained in arcane arts and I want more power".
That's a fine background. It just needs details.

Who trained you? How'd you meet them? Why did they agree to train you? What were their methods? Did the training work or was it overly difficult? Now that you've graduated, how do you feel about your training? When you say you want power, what does that mean exactly?

In short, I'm asking you to tell me about Yoda. If Luke's background was that he went to Degobah and came back a Jedi, nobody would care. Meeting and interacting with Yoda made for an interesting story though. I'm not saying that your D&D character should interact with Yoda per se, but you need to create a character who fills that role in order to define your own character.