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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6064390" data-attributes="member: 2067"><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?331161-Rules-Rulings-and-the-Paradox-of-Choice" target="_blank">Paradox of Choice</a>. Give someone a list of blank traits, and they'll faithfully fill them in, and others will look at them. Give someone an empty box and the word &quot;description,&quot; and it'll be a whole lot of empty, or filled with things no one ever reads. A character sheet should contain relevant information. If a physical description of the character is relevant, there should be room on a character sheet to accommodate that. A character sheet that doesn't have room for that is a game that doesn't care that much about character description. Which can be fine -- not everybody gives a fig what color eyes your elf has. But especially for new players, bits of description like that can help anchor the reality of the character. &quot;Oh, she's got purple eyes, I wonder how that looks with her chocolate skin and bright red hair?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 6064390, member: 2067"] [URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?331161-Rules-Rulings-and-the-Paradox-of-Choice"]Paradox of Choice[/URL]. Give someone a list of blank traits, and they'll faithfully fill them in, and others will look at them. Give someone an empty box and the word "description," and it'll be a whole lot of empty, or filled with things no one ever reads. A character sheet should contain relevant information. If a physical description of the character is relevant, there should be room on a character sheet to accommodate that. A character sheet that doesn't have room for that is a game that doesn't care that much about character description. Which can be fine -- not everybody gives a fig what color eyes your elf has. But especially for new players, bits of description like that can help anchor the reality of the character. "Oh, she's got purple eyes, I wonder how that looks with her chocolate skin and bright red hair?" [/QUOTE]

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