IMPORTANT: Should we require biographies?

[toboggan]

here’s my way of seeing things.

for one, it would eliminate the characters who want to be vague, and mysterious.

how could one write a mini-snapshot about their new character if their character’s traits are supposed to be as bleary as possible?

characters like that develop icly, not oocly. it allows the community to learn about the character over time.

to force someone to play a character in a way that’s not up to them, such as make a biography for someone if they don’t want to, is a big no-no. bob’s one of those sites where people should come to write their feelings away and express themselves - and even as small as this change would be, it’s just a needless extra-step for everyone’s creativity.

this change would not have an effect on me. i love writing bios for my characters.

but i know this to be not the case for everyone. and for the sake of that, i’ll be a no.