The one time I played 13th Age there was a player like this. We each hod to come up with some background, the One Unique Thing or whatever, and she simply couldn’t. No amount of coaching helped, even explaining that she could literally say anything she wanted, any cliche, and it would be okay, no judging. It’s just a freakin’ one-shot. Her response: “Maybe if I had a week to work on this at home.”

I know I should not be judge-y, but honestly it just reminds me that there are a lot of people in this hobby who are probably doing seriously dysfunctional shit in their home games that would totally horrify me.