I, like many others here I believe, came from a site where we didn't make character sheets and just effortlessly jumped into the narrative and got on with things. But it was also a much smaller community where everyone knew each other and knew what to expect. I dislike writing character sheets and, like Lillian, prefer to keep it short whenever I request them, but as others have mentioned I think it's important on this site at least to have them as a way of guaging who might or might not be a good fit for the rp. This site is much, much bigger then most rping sites and has a broad range of users to the point where I think not having CSes might cause difficulties in some games because rping skill levels can be all over the spectrum. That's not to say it's impossible to do an rp without, but they're definitely a helpful tool.