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Will Player Character Secrets Ruin Your RPG Campaign?

What gives RPG players feelings of power? When they have secrets the rest of the party doesn't know.

Secrets: Are they powerful character-building tools or TPK time bombs waiting to destroy your RPG campaign? We’ve seen it go both ways, from character background secrets that added depth and immersion for the player to secrets pacts that saw PCs murdered in-game by other PCs. Is that second one a failure? That depends on your group, but it certainly wasn’t what the DM had in mind.