EDIT: Chill out, Darkmatter. There is no reason to be responding so hostile-like. @Terminal: You might still have plenty to write about after posting your sheet. Sure, you may have a bottomless chest of ideas to write about. If so, good on you. But, [i]clearly[/i], that is not the case for everyone else. If you were all full of ideas, your roleplays would last. It may suit you to make lengthy sheets, and you may still have plenty of things to write about after. But let's not set sheets like yours as prime examples of what is to be desired, because clearly that is not working. Let's not perpetuate this endless cycle of roleplays where everyone exhausts their creative energies filling sheets up with numbingly-stupid information, when they could be using that energy, and those ideas, to make good IC posts. I am speaking based on what I have seen. And that is people talking, dick-waving, and sometimes arguing about things for stupidly long periods. Then, when the roleplay starts, they post once, maybe twice, and the roleplay dies because everyone's already exhausted and out of ideas. Again, you may be an exception. But clearly this is not the case for everyone else. Therefore we shouldn't pretend the length of someone's sheet has any bearing on their skill as a writer. Let's not encourage people to join in and waste their time writing sheets that are 70% fluff anyway. Let's instead encourage people to save their energy and creativity for IC posts. I find it is preferable for someone to make a lengthy, detailed post in IC, than a mind-numbingly long sheet. The IC is what matters; that is what determines a good writer. But as I said, I am not targeting anyone. If you took personal offense, then that's on you. I am not criticizing people out of spite. I am only offering some advice. A suggestion, really. That being 'make smaller, to-the-point sheets and save the goods for IC, where it matters.' Maybe then you'll have something to post about. To clarify, though, the reason you haven't seen me around is because, frankly, I avoid roleplays like the ones I described above. I will not claim to be popular though, anyway. I tend to stay low. And again, I am speaking generally. Some of the people I may be thinking of may not be here, but they are in other roleplays where the same problem persists. But to each their own. PS: Let's also not get mad, or consider it "impolite" when someone doesn't read a sheet worthy of a World Wonder classification for its sheer size alone. Not everyone has the time, or interest, to read them, and you can't blame them. It's your job as a writer to interest the reader. Your writing (in-character) should be what makes a reader go "Oh, man.. this is interesting. I want to learn more!". You are failing to do that unless you are making posts that prompt that kind of reaction. And if your posts don't do that, you can't honestly expect someone to care to read a ridiculously-long sheet about something they have already deemed boring.