Re: Character Backgrounds
well as for myself I have always enjoyed wrighting short stories and I genrely make a charter with all skills, poewre and disadvantages and then tell of how they came to be and some motivation for them to be a (hero/villan) I require all my players to have SOME sort of background and It they are unable to wright on I have found that most gamers can atleast tell a good storie. so I get out teh tape recorder and have them tell me about there charter. once that is done it is a symple matter to just type it up...ofcourse in my case it is vital to have a spell check:P
when I sit down to wright a storie I get the genral gist from the charter sheet and then just rest my fingers on the keyboard and allow the storie to be told. it's almost like the charter tells me the storie and I mearly allow my fingers to move while I read what they have to say.
hope some of thea helped
