One primary purpose of most RPC wiki pages is to facilitate RP with the character, yes?
[The other being documentation of past RP developments, but that's not what the OP addresses.]
I think the aim is to strike a balance between providing enough information to hook people in to wanting to RP with you, without oversharing and defeating the point of anyone ever talking to your character.
I try and mentally run by "will this add to new RP partners' experience of this character, or take away from it?" before I add a detail or section to a character's page. For me, this means leaving off a lot of backstory stuff and just focussing on what's possible for people to find out about my characters; for someone else, this might mean providing the full backstory and history and social networks so it's easier for potential partners to find an "in".
As far as including the Garlean thing or not is concerned, I think it depends on what tone you want to take towards it as your character develops.
Do you want it to be a genuine OOC secret that people find out in play ("FOIP" is a shorthand lots of my larp friends use for if someone's being too nosy OOCly about an IC secret, haha) through leads and hints you place, with a dramatic reveal at a plot-appropriate point?
Or is it something you're open to being approached about by other players for advance plotting purposes, e.g. someone messaging you and is like "hey my character is Garlean too, could they possibly know each other", "hey my character is a Grand Company agent, could we run a plot where they're on your trail but ultimately fail to convict you", etc etc etc.
You definitely don't have to fall into any trend if you don't think that suits your character and their situation, so think on what you want out of the page's existence and make the decision based on that.
[The other being documentation of past RP developments, but that's not what the OP addresses.]
I think the aim is to strike a balance between providing enough information to hook people in to wanting to RP with you, without oversharing and defeating the point of anyone ever talking to your character.
I try and mentally run by "will this add to new RP partners' experience of this character, or take away from it?" before I add a detail or section to a character's page. For me, this means leaving off a lot of backstory stuff and just focussing on what's possible for people to find out about my characters; for someone else, this might mean providing the full backstory and history and social networks so it's easier for potential partners to find an "in".
As far as including the Garlean thing or not is concerned, I think it depends on what tone you want to take towards it as your character develops.
Do you want it to be a genuine OOC secret that people find out in play ("FOIP" is a shorthand lots of my larp friends use for if someone's being too nosy OOCly about an IC secret, haha) through leads and hints you place, with a dramatic reveal at a plot-appropriate point?
Or is it something you're open to being approached about by other players for advance plotting purposes, e.g. someone messaging you and is like "hey my character is Garlean too, could they possibly know each other", "hey my character is a Grand Company agent, could we run a plot where they're on your trail but ultimately fail to convict you", etc etc etc.
You definitely don't have to fall into any trend if you don't think that suits your character and their situation, so think on what you want out of the page's existence and make the decision based on that.
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