[@shylarah] 

	What do I mean by transparency? Well, if you want to understand what I mean by transparency just saunter your way over to any one of the role playing categories on this website. All matters of character sheets - the big, the small, and the terrible. All sorts of extensive background work, pictures, and maps for role playing threads. So much is known before you even get to it that you already know where you are trying to go before you even get the opportunity to allow the being you are writing for make that decision for themselves. 

	When I began role playing, to put this into a better context, the profile sections of our accounts allowed for age, sex, location, and a short desciption off maybe 100 or 150 characters? If that much, I remember it begin four or five short lines in a text box that was barely a fourth of the width of the one we type our new replies in. You had your character and your little bit of information you could fit in that tiny box and the rest your character had to find out for themselves. Sure, character pages from free internet pages slowly crept in as time moved on and the internet was more widely active but overall everything was enshrouded in mystery.