[quote=Rtron]
Writing a personality. Asking me to give a few quirks and traits, fine. Two paragraphs describing how my character typically acts? I hate it with every fiber of my being. It sounds simple. But it is not.
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Generally a test on behalf of the GM when a limit is stipulated. Can the player write two paragraphs? It's arbitrary and generally pointless, but it's asked for for a reason.

[quote=SyrianHamster]You try to explain to them that the world isn't suitable for an anime character, and they take it to mean you hate the genre.
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I may have already bitched about this (it's worth a rebitch anyway), but I once launched an RP based on an animé world, but an explicitly and fundamentally 'realistic' version of it - that was, basically, the point. The first post I got was complaining that it wasn't animé.