I made a bunch of Human Male Fighter / Paladin / Cleric's because the party needed one and the DM wouldn't just give us potions or scrolls. I don't care about them really. I got nothing to explore if I gotta just be the stoic version of myself for the sake of the table.

The generics tended to have short backstories. A lot of my fighters were variations on the same guy, Kain of Salansia. Sometimes spelled different, this was just a more stoic version of myself that required little roleplaying and would go along with the meta of the group.