Player wrote my campaign for me in his backstory /u/whywhywhythrowaway12 DnD: Roll for Initiative!

I have recently encountered something that I have not seen in many years of DMing and I’m not sure how to deal with it. To give you the basics, I have recently made a homebrew world and campaign for a group of friends which is mostly composed of entirely new players or ones with little experience. One of the players claims to be quite experienced, claiming to have played dnd, lots of bg3, and even attended DMing classes. I will call this player Jacob.

Now a week ago I sat all the players down to create characters, during this nobody spoke much about backstories instead we were mainly focused on building the character sheets. The day after I posted a small premise text to the group serving as a starting point for the campaign, essentially just “you all are at place X and are travelling to place Y because of Z”. The players at this point don’t know anything about place Y, just that they’re travelling to it.

This is where Jacobs backstory comes in. It is long, essentially a small novel. In it he speaks of his characters backstory, which is all fine and dandy. However, he also characterizes, names, and genders other players characters and involves them into his own backstory without any consent or communication with those players. This made at least one person who found out slightly uncomfortable and we made Jacob change that part which did seemingly upset him a fair bit (this was before I had read his full backstory). Now not only has he written other players characters but he has also disregarded the stated premise in favor of his own idea, and most concerningly written the future of the campaign before it has even happened. Including quests, character interactions, events, and general landscapes of place Y.

As a DM, I could just to rewrite or remove the problematic parts but I want all of your opinions. This is just something I have never seen before, especially from someone who claims they know how to play DND.

I have recently encountered something that I have not seen in many years of DMing and I’m not sure how to deal with it. To give you the basics, I have recently made a homebrew world and campaign for a group of friends which is mostly composed of entirely new players or ones with little experience. One of the players claims to be quite experienced, claiming to have played dnd, lots of bg3, and even attended DMing classes. I will call this player Jacob.

Now a week ago I sat all the players down to create characters, during this nobody spoke much about backstories instead we were mainly focused on building the character sheets. The day after I posted a small premise text to the group serving as a starting point for the campaign, essentially just “you all are at place X and are travelling to place Y because of Z”. The players at this point don’t know anything about place Y, just that they’re travelling to it.

This is where Jacobs backstory comes in. It is long, essentially a small novel. In it he speaks of his characters backstory, which is all fine and dandy. However, he also characterizes, names, and genders other players characters and involves them into his own backstory without any consent or communication with those players. This made at least one person who found out slightly uncomfortable and we made Jacob change that part which did seemingly upset him a fair bit (this was before I had read his full backstory). Now not only has he written other players characters but he has also disregarded the stated premise in favor of his own idea, and most concerningly written the future of the campaign before it has even happened. Including quests, character interactions, events, and general landscapes of place Y.

As a DM, I could just to rewrite or remove the problematic parts but I want all of your opinions. This is just something I have never seen before, especially from someone who claims they know how to play DND.