>I prefer characters have their backstories revealed as play goes along, but that requires a lot of planning, which might turn some people off. Trust me, if you pants the majority of your RP you'll probably never have time to work in quieter moments in which said histories can be explored and developed - mainly because you're too busy going from one scene to the next without much forethought. You have to manually make time in the plot for those, but not everyone likes that kind of approach.