I like it when a CS asks for a writing sample with a prompt for the scene. It helps me fine tune my character's behaviors, get into the setting of the game, and it's more fun to write and to read than a standard backstory about yet [i]another[/i] orphan.

[sub]I also dig bullshit like theme songs, quotes, and character pictures, because I'm a bad, bad person.[/sub]

[quote=@Ellri]
We also don't force people to stick exactly to our provided templates. Some might wish to add extra fields, after all.
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I'm fine with people adding extra, but nothing irks me more than when they take away mandatory information or don't follow the requirements set by the GM. Hell, I've been in a game where somebody never put the appearance of their character in their sheet yet still got accepted. It made it quite awkward when I tried to describe my character meeting him: [i]"Um, he looked like, um, a, uh, guy, I think, at least that was the pronoun he used, for all I know he could have been a she, or was becoming a he, or was not even human but a dog that talked, I, I, I don't really know."[/i]