Making a character has always been difficult for me. I am not the most creative person so I find it a hard and long process to really scrap out all the details of just who my character is. For me, lining things out, then slowly narrowing how just who or what my character will be, can be a trial. While I was tinkering with new Sundren ideas, I got to wondering how other people make their own characters. I mean, there has to be a better way to get the creative juices flowing than the way I am doing it. As it stands right now I got to wait until the moon is full and do a little dance while I try to catch a chicken to sacrifice. Seriously... it is horrible when you are a naturally lazy person.
I guess I was just curious about how other people go about making a character. I thought I would tell you how I do it, and hope desperately that someone else will share a better (and easier) way to get to the awesomeness that is THE character.
1. Pick a religion: Picking a religion gives me my left and right limits. It is the basic structure I use to form my characters personality. I know FR is a world of polytheist but making a religious toon sort of lets me ... well... kind of cheat. Most religions have a basic structure and I use this as a foundation to build my toon on.
2. Pick a class: Again, this lets me narrow things down. I am a pretty simple person. I need simple concepts.
3. Back ground: Yeah... I suck at this. Often I use 1 and 2 to frame my back ground. It lets me have a frame work to try to establish why my character would have this or that personality.
4. Procrastinate: Seriously... this is always a part of my process
5. Attempt to understand local lore: This isn't as easy as it sounds. I want my characters to fit in. To do that, you sort of have to know the lore at least a little bit. So, a lot of the time I will really try to find out as much as I can about where my character is going to hang out and the groups or factions my character hangs around with. This is difficult cause I can be easily confused.
6. Try to have cool faults: So.. I will just point out that what I think is cool, has been known to suck... LOL. But I like to have faults in all my characters and be consistent with them.
This is kind of simplified. I don't want to write a book because I am hoping someone will give me some advice on how to do things better. I know there are a lot of threads on writing. I think I am just not connecting the doing with the actual planning if that makes any since? Hopefully someone will and can help.
PS: DM Hades is awesome!
I guess I was just curious about how other people go about making a character. I thought I would tell you how I do it, and hope desperately that someone else will share a better (and easier) way to get to the awesomeness that is THE character.
1. Pick a religion: Picking a religion gives me my left and right limits. It is the basic structure I use to form my characters personality. I know FR is a world of polytheist but making a religious toon sort of lets me ... well... kind of cheat. Most religions have a basic structure and I use this as a foundation to build my toon on.
2. Pick a class: Again, this lets me narrow things down. I am a pretty simple person. I need simple concepts.
3. Back ground: Yeah... I suck at this. Often I use 1 and 2 to frame my back ground. It lets me have a frame work to try to establish why my character would have this or that personality.
4. Procrastinate: Seriously... this is always a part of my process
5. Attempt to understand local lore: This isn't as easy as it sounds. I want my characters to fit in. To do that, you sort of have to know the lore at least a little bit. So, a lot of the time I will really try to find out as much as I can about where my character is going to hang out and the groups or factions my character hangs around with. This is difficult cause I can be easily confused.
6. Try to have cool faults: So.. I will just point out that what I think is cool, has been known to suck... LOL. But I like to have faults in all my characters and be consistent with them.
This is kind of simplified. I don't want to write a book because I am hoping someone will give me some advice on how to do things better. I know there are a lot of threads on writing. I think I am just not connecting the doing with the actual planning if that makes any since? Hopefully someone will and can help.
PS: DM Hades is awesome!
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