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woodwwad
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 13 Jan 2010 : 00:14:03
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"Do the characters you create reflect the person you are in real life?" I tend to put one aspect of myself in each character, often exploring a path not taken. The rest of the character is largely different from myself. I like creating a highly developed psychological profile for my character, so I can really get into the deep aspects of playing a personality. I'm not big on the playing yourself style you see from certain new or basic players, that defeats the purpose of rping to me.
"Are there certain personality quirks, backgrounds, or beliefs that you possess which tend to bleed into everything you create?" the top quirk that comes to mind is finding a character attractive. Are group uses a lot of pics and other props, so there is a lot of texture and subjects like romance, sex, marriage, ect are covered at times, this being said, the quirk I have a lot of trouble with is not subjecting my views totally onto a character as to what is attractive. Such as I find this npc pic really hot, but my character should have a different view, I know that sounds small, overly complicated or just odd to some but it is a detail that is difficult to divorce yourself from, at least for me.
Also, I like every character of mine to have a religion of some kind, at least in a fantasy D&D type setting. I myself however have no belief. But adding belief to a pc adds an interesting level to that character. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
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Laerrigan
Learned Scribe
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - 13 Feb 2010 : 03:37:40
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Originally posted by Icelander
Nazren: A quiet, studious boy who looked like he was bullied when he was a bit younger. Always respectful towards his parents. Was studying wizardry, but at the age of 23, when most of his fellow students had chosen to either make their way in the world or seek out masters to improve their Art, he was to all appearances not ready for either. Well, appearances can be deceiving. Nazren was a diabolically clever young boy who had been mastering a tome of necromantic lore he'd discovered among dusty tomes in the ill-kept library and soon enough he found himself falling heir to his parents' modest fortune after their oh-so-natural deaths. He struck out as an adventurer then, using his funds to finance various expeditions. His fellow adventurers were, let us say, rather less successful than he was. Their players, you see, had a rather different impression of Nazren than they would if they'd have been allowed to see his real character sheet.
Awesome!! (so long as everyone enjoyed it, lol) Evil characters don't have to be the least bit obvious about alignment, goals, or even their true power. Sometimes they're much more effective that way.
I'll say again that my ongoing character (my CK namesake) definitely reflects me, though not always in belief or outlook (a large part of which is a matter of my RL faith/worldview versus FR's pantheon---I think my beliefs and outlook would be much closer to his if I lived in FR, and his would be much closer to mine if he were in my world).
Fun tidbit about my PC reflecting me: I've also recently discovered he and I share a disorder (though I'm not sure I see it as such---Asperger's syndrome, for anyone geeky enough to Wiki it, like me) which includes a whole interrelated array of fundamental traits in processing information and relating mentally, physically, and socially to the world. I was quite excited by the discovery, and I still laugh to think how much it went into Laerrigan from the start. Yet it's not part of any of the other characters I've played or written about.
Morgaen, whom I've only recently started playing as an adult in-game and at CK, seems to represent what hard-headed but level-headed confidence, personal force, encouragement, and bluntness I may have. She's what I've sometimes wished I could be a little bit more like, socially. But not in the matter of, um..."relationships" (thanks, Alystra...)  . That's purely a matter of the FR setting and her life experience. I can argue extensively on whatever side my characters may take, and I enjoy exploring perspectives, but I definitely don't always express my own feelings or inclinations at all in doing so (unless you take it as "In FR, I say <XYZ>"), lol.
Wizard is definitely my class, overall, for self-representation....braniac bookworm artist-philosopher with odd trivia about all kinds of crap....The DM for the TT game where Laerrigan began just rolled his eyes and shook his head and awarded me the skill Knowledge (misc.) for random, slightly-useful stuff that didn't have a huge impact on the game  . |
"Your 'reality,' sir, is lies and balderdash, and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." (Baron Munchausen)
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was not made for this world." (C.S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy") |
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Hellblazer
Acolyte
Canada
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Posted - 23 Feb 2010 : 05:33:21
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| I love my Human Fighter/Rogue(Assassin) who is very similar in many ways with Artemis Entreri.However, I'm not an evil person in real life and love my friends :) I agree with people who said that playing the opposite of your character is more fun.I enjoy the things in game that I cannot do in real life :) |
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
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Posted - 25 Feb 2010 : 21:37:24
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Ha! you're welcome, Laerrigan- I think. I've played several other PC's over the years- my stuffy, over-zealous palidin Palax and his polar opposite twin Vala, are two of the most fun. She is the kind-hearted one who wnats to "rescue" everyone, and he just wants to smite evil all the time. It's fun to play them together, cause they squabble back and forth, and I don't look silly talking to myself.
Then there's my human wizard/monk Petrius, who is (ahem) my interpretation of a certain web-slinging superhero as a D&D character. He's a riot to play- always making quips, and likes to go into the dungeons by crawling on the cielings to avoid most traps. He's also fond of flashy entrances in battle, and instead of damaging spells, he uses his magig to hamper and annoy the enemies, while he pummels them with his monk skills. And oddly, the base character's infamous "Parker Luck" seems to hold true for him in-game. When he tries something, often it goes awry, but when an enemy does something to him, he is often saved by sheer chance!! Go figure... |
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Do your characters reflect you?
