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Message: <blockquote data-quote="arwink" data-source="post: 558800" data-attributes="member: 2292">I disagree with Fourecks.  I've had pretty good success with a question sheet and general list of, admittedly optional, things people can choose to do to enhance their background.  The trade-off I make for people who are willing to do this is the chance to further develop their own little portion of the world and enough XP to start their character at second level.  I don't require it of people, but more often than not, a larger proportion of the players will choose to do so, and those that don't usually have a pretty good grasp on their characters anyway.My advice, however, is to keep them short.  In terms of questions, I don't use more than twenty and keep them as varied as possible.  I usually try for things that generate interesting responses and can answered in character, rather than a straightforward list of "What's your family like..."If the Players's resent it, I'm sure Capellan will be along in a few moments to tell me so <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>