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Hidden backstories, are they a good idea?

So there I was, making bios for a bunch of NPC's in my PM's for a future rp I'm working on, when I had the passing thought: "Wait a second, how would the players know all this?"

So I had the idea that for this up and coming RP that I'd try something a little different, that being, I'd have the players make their character sheets, but have the backstory section cut out in the OOC section, and have them PM me a complete version with their backstory in it. I would also do this for NPC characters, and reveal it once time has passed, they ask the NPC about their life, hear about it from someone else, etc.

To me, it wouldn't make sense for the players to know everyone's life story. I can't walk up to someone and suddenly know everything about their life. I feel like doing something like this would encourage players to interact with each other, as well as the world around them. It might even help to form relationships where you wouldn't originally think to look.

Some problems I do have, however, are that it can eliminate starting relationships, and to some might make just seem lazy, or even alienate some players due to its oddity. These fears might be totally unfounded, but it's still something I'm wary of. Though I suppose there is a solution for the first problem by merely having two (or more) players say something like "Hey I like your character, do you want to have our characters know each other?" And then they can send each other the relevant information to perhaps add some more details into their backstory, or even just to start off knowing someone.

What do you guys think? Does this sound like something interesting and different? Or do you think that it seems pointless, and to just rely on suspension of disbelief? Or perhaps something in-between? Let me know what you think?

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After all was said and done, it looked like it was going to be Akira versus Asumi. He didn't expect two girls to be going at it but here he was. Actually, he now realized thar since Kenzan left, the girls outnumbered him 3 to 2. He and Masashi would have their work cut out for them.

Asumi would be going with E. Honda, at the suggestion of Hoshiko. Chen never was any good with him, he much preferred characters like Ken or Akuma. And it looked like Akira would be... hitting his shelf and knocking over a pile of SNES games. Chen quickly picked up the cartridges as Akira began apologizing. "Hey, no worries. These old things are pretty tough to break. Wouldn't be the first time these things got knocked over."

Setting the games back on the shelf, Chen looked back at the screen. Looks like Akira was going with Vega. Not a bad choice, all things considered. Yet just as the match was about to start, a loud THUNK alerted him as he looked towards the source of the noise. It was his window, witch now had a large smudge on it. Either a bird flew into it or someone was throwing things at his house for some reason.

Asumi jumped up, exclaiming that she was going to go go check to see if one of the birds hit the window. Before he could object, however, Asumi was already out of the room. The next few seconds felt pretty awkward as the Street Fighter soundtrack continued playing as if nothing had happened.

Just as quickly as she left, Asumi appeared once more with her sweater holding something inside of it."Please tell me you didn't--" His comment cut short by Asumi revealing that she had, in fact, brought the bird inside. It looked about as dazed and confused as a bird could get, but to Chen they always kind of looked like that. There was one strange feature though, a purple band wrapped around its leg. Didn't that usually mean that this was someone's pet?

His train of thought was interrupted by talking from both Asumi and Masashi. "How the hell did you manage to sneak that past my dad? And what if it starts flying around, squaking and shitting on stuff?" He was about to continue complaining when Masashi's comment finally registered. "Wait, You mean the ramen place? That Kuro's? Why would one of their crows be all the way over here? And why do they have crows?" Chen put his head in his hands for a brief moment, before finally putting his head back up. "Well, if that's the case, then we should probably go take it back. We should be able to make it there in back relatively quick if we hustle."