Nyxira

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Well, I was going to tell you that I would write my bio how I had in mind and let you see if you approved of how it was done after that, but I can see that you really don't want to even experiment with that.

I am sorry that you feel that I am somehow insulting your ability to tell a story, but I believe that it is actually you who has been constantly hurling insults about the way that other people write and do things. It's a bit distasteful, really, and while it is very sad to me since I was very interested in the story and have already put a great deal of care and thought into planning out a character for it, I do not believe that I would like to be involved in an rp if there is going to be such strong negativity in the OOC environment.

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Honestly, from the premise of the rp, I was expecting that you, the GM, would be affecting the backstories. Since you were expressing that things may not be as they seem, and that something about the town seems off.

There is a great opportunity there to throw the players some really interesting curve balls.

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@Sonnenschein It isn't about power play for me, but rather the enjoyment of the story that is being created together as a group. I want to enjoy the story, and if there are too many spoilers, it just isn't as fun and takes away from the intrigue.

It is a bit unfair and unkind to assume that people are not creative or are lazy just because they don't like to have absolutely everything about their character immediately available to look at, though. It's just different from what you do. Different is not equivalent to wrong or bad.

And all of these opinions of mine have come from ten+ years of experience in role playing as well.
I do like a certain level of complication, because it adds more layers to an rp. Rp is not just about characters interacting to me, it is about stories being told in a dynamic, interesting, and collaborative way.

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What I am saying is, yes it is probably important, but would it maybe be better if that stuff was sent only to you as the GM so that it's not ruining the intrigue for the other players? For myself, I want to learn about the other characters over the course of the rp, not just from reading about their whole life story. Because they don't remember it, so I want to enjoy the process of them learning it as they are. It's like when you read a book. It kind of takes away from the intrigue if you already looked up all the answers about the characters, or skipped to the end.

But if you are dead set on having all of the history in the bio, I will do my best to comply.

[edit:] Also, it may be a bit much to be assuming that people are being lazy, or even that a character with a backstory that does not include their entire life story is blocking other people from rping with them. A good character bio should still include some key information, personality, etcetera, and the bios provided have an awful lot of slots to fill for anyone to not be able to learn something about the character from them. I am not saying anything to the effect of "I don't want to fill out the backstory".

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Prior to whatever the next plot point is, of course.

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Okay, so what is it that we are rping, if not the characters rediscovering their pasts?

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Hmm yeah. I guess I just like to give other players a chance to enjoy the storytelling experience. It's fun to learn things about characters during the course of rp.

I personally like knowing what they are like, and important backstory bits that are integral to a character, but if my character doesn't know things it sometimes feels more appropriate to not have that out in the open, because... well, it's not yet integral to the character. It's what will be important when the character learns, but is not important while they don't know.

Sometimes if it's important AND best if kept secret, I'll send that info to just the GM to make sure it checks out (and to contribute to plotability), but in this case I'm not sure how important it is.

I'll see what I can do to make it fit both standards.

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I am wondering if it makes any sense to write a backstory for before the events of the battle if my character doesn't remember anything from before? And feel like it could take away from the in-rp process of discovery a bit to have everyone just know about it already... What should I do?

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@Sonnenschein Awesome,thank you! I will get to work on the written part, then.

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Stayed up all night drawing my character concept, so I will work on the bio tomorrow.

Retracted

Essentially my concept is a guy with very destructive powers (something like a death touch which doesn't sound very heroic at all), who wonders how he could have possibly used such a thing to help people, or why he would ever have made an agreement with a celestial for a power like that.

A guy who doesn't understand who or what or why he is.

That too much?