Comments on: Character Creation 101

By: Dee

Dee — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:57:46 +0000

Going? Oh, okay you’re actually expecting to get decent RP in Furcadia. Yeah, about that, y’see, ’cause, like… yeah. Unless you’ve got some friends as an ‘in’ or are just after some cheap textsex in FurN… it’s hard. Very hard. There are some big name RP dreams in each realm but it’s been a while and I’m not sure what they are currently. TGT in FurN, maybe Draygans. Furc forums will probably be more helpful than me.

Or do you mean going character wise, as in development?

And: Porsche is a brand name, thus a proper noun, thus must be capitalised.

By: Upton

Upton — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:50:29 +0000

Now, see…

I stumbled upon this by accident, hunting for a way to flesh up my new character.

What I’m curious about is… where you’d recommend *going* (Furc. related) once you’ve gotten your character up, running, and purring like a textual Porsche. On a side note, spell check has deemed that Porsche absolutely HAS to be capitalized.

By: Dee

Dee — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:55:45 +0000

Heh, well as always it’s worth taking this stuff with a rather large grain of salt (after all, it’s only one person’s opinion on characterization).

But as always I’d be honoured if anyone took my crap seriously, and I’d love to see your characters.

By: Kanna Sireyu

Kanna Sireyu — Mon, 28 May 2007 15:10:13 +0000

Thanks for putting this up. I was looking for some stuff fom my new character, and I wanted her to be better than all my others, and then I will update all of my other stuff to bring the others up to her level of detail. Maybe I’ll put the link up oneday so you can see.

By: Ceres

Ceres — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:20:35 +0000

I just wanted to say thank-you. I usually do this myself, subconciously, but this was actually very helpful. I usually run by trial and error, aka: place my chara in several small rp’s until I find a personality and past that suits them. Anyway, this was very informative, and I felt I should thank you for taking the time to write it all out. ^^

By: Dee

Dee — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:29:26 +0000

Well, I’m a ‘writer’ (a-hur hur) so RP is just a kind of natural extension to that. Though it depends if you’re talking roleplaying or rollplaying; I’ve done both, but rollplaying I’ve found is much, much, much more prevalent in tabletop RPGs. If you’ve got a character sheet and some dice and a GM-driven plot it’s highly likely you’re rollplaying. The difference is kinda nebulous, but roleplaying is more like writing a collaborative story while rollplaying is more like playing a standard computer game but in the Really Real World. Rollplaying is generally hard for the GM, but easier for the players; roleplaying ideally spreads the effort around a little more.

Back In The Day we used to roleplay White Wolf World of Darkness games; when I went to university and met http://1337thing.com ]” class=”username”>Mat, I started rollplaying DnD with his group which is where I realised the difference.

Both playstyles can be fun (or unfun) though; just depends on the people.

By: tnin4u

tnin4u — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:34:33 +0000

I didn’t realize you were an RP geek. I tried to RP with my friends a bit a while ago but I don’t think I have the imagination to really get into it. And they played something different every week. I found it difficult to keep up with everything that was going on in all the various storylines that were playing out.. My favorite that they played was Legend of the Five Rings, a kind of fuedal japan era RP.