1001+ ways to screw with your DM/Party

[FidgetySquirrel]

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Oh, I get it now. Thanks!

513. Encourage your players to write copious backstories listing all of their contacts and family in their home town — start the first session with their home town being destroyed pompai style with them escaping somehow.

My party once made some pretty detailed backstories, then the DM Pompeii'd our entire world and threw us into a parallel universe. Needless to say, we were all pretty peeved.