I have a custom-made setting I could pull out for this if everyone's fine with it. Character-driven stories and plot-driven ones are both fine by me, though I like to have some sort of overarching plot in place either way. I have never gone for the "you all meet up in a tavern" introduction as that personally feels a bit tacky. In the same town, sure, for whatever reason your character is in town for.

Alternatively I'm fine with some of your characters having history together prior to the beginning of the campaign. Or even all of you if you wanted to make this a Friends roleplay.