Cool Backstory Syndrome

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Game authors should be aware that they're writing for a game, not writing a milieu novel, and help make it fun for everyone, not just the GMs.

I would add that it isn't just game authors, us GMs tend to do this type of thing too, we write backstory as if we were writing for other GMs, but the truth is most players get information overload if we give them a brief which is intended for a GM...