writing
"There's no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you"
-Maya Angelou
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Not having family ties makes sense for a person doing weird dangerous adventures.
No family ties is one thing if there's a compelling reason for it that creates further storytelling opportunities. My problem, after a great deal of experience, is people reading Baby's First Drizzt or something and inventing, ex nihilo, the brooding cloaked assassin with no ties to anyone or anything, who has no particular reason to join a part and no particular motivation to do anything at all except brood. Making people sit down and think about who their character is and why leads to more interesting characters, both for the player to play and for the other players to interact with.
I've let people do brooding assassin types in my games previously, and I'll continue to do so, but my only requirement is that they give a reason for why they're like that and how they got there. Maybe their child is being used to compel them to act, maybe they've been wronged by society and they've Become The Joker, maybe they're literally cursed with bloodlust and avoid forming relationships due to the risk. I've seen all those. They worked great.
There are forms of writing that arent for tabletop games