How do I go about...

Post » Mon Jul 02, 2012 3:21 pm

Hello, I have recently gotten the courage to actually post on this part of the forum after lurking in it for well over a year or two before creating an account recently due to finding out that many posters are more amiable than previously assumed. I have been impressed continually with the content on this thread time and time again, but each time after I would lust to become a part of it. Recently I had aquired an account, and, well, here I am. I have been intimidated by the large amounts of Role-Plays that have spawned out of the blue as result of Skyrim.

But more to the matter-at-hand, I wish to be able to be a part of the Role-Playing. I have already read over multiple compositions of "Play", as well as criterion for standard Role-Playing, in the serious sense. It is just once I converge on creating a character, my heart races at speeds my mind can't comprehend, my hands become clammy and limp, and my mind as dull as an butter knife. I suppose it is a type of writer's block, but I just ask these questions to you, the reader:

What was your first successful Role-Playing character?
How did you come about creating them?
What is your favorite kind of Role-Play setting or format?

If I can read some of these comments, as a sample, I might pick up a slight idea of character, though, I shan't base it anything from your characters, I just want to see what you have created and why. Thank you. :happy:
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des lynam
 
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Post » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:14 am

Amiable? The Artwork and Fan Fiction peeps? You've been royally screwed!


Just kidding, welcome to the forums. :bunny:




As for your questions, I suggest reading the guides for starting out RPing. Such as this: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/747418-so-you-think-you-can-rp/

Now, let's see if I can answer the question with my subjective approach.

Q: What was your first successful Role-Playing character?
A: All my characters so far have been "successful", in the sense that I personally liked them. I don't know if others liked them, but that is not the point. The point is to find a character you feel connected to the most. I've been an Orc warrior, an Orc blacksmith, a Breton pirate, a Breton acrobat and most recently a Khajiit which I haven't RP'd with yet. Currently tunning the smith, the acrobat and the khajiit at the same time in three different RP's. I like all of the characters, however I'm unsure if I like the khajiit or not. It's different from anything I've RP'd before, so I've got to research on the way of speaking and such to truly be a Khajiit.

Q;: How did you come about creating them?
A: I like creating character-sheets, a lot. Every single char-sheet I've made has been built from nothing and finished in about half an hour. It's a very spontaneous way of creating a character, without too much thinking. Not sure how others create their characters though.

Q: What is your favorite kind of Role-Play setting or format?
A: The small adventure RP's with normal people (not demi-god warriors in daedric armor) is the most fun.

Q: How does one go about creating a mood without giving too much information?
A: Sorry, I don't understand the question... :ermm:




Remember to watch out for the mudcrabs now, mmkay?
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Post » Mon Jul 02, 2012 5:37 pm

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Q: How does one go about creating a mood without giving too much information?
A: Sorry, I don't understand the question... :ermm:

I have already viewed the thread you suggested, but thank you.
Also, thanks for your input. :biggrin:

To clarify: When creating a setting of Role-Play, as in the backstory, the gist of the situation , pretty much, how much information is too much information. As in when creating a story, where is the boundary between interesting, and stale. Though I think I recently came across my answer, I am going to remove that specific question now, though.

On a site note: Dealing with writer's block is a painful. :wallbash:
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Post » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:21 pm

I have already viewed the thread you suggested, but thank you.
Also, thanks for your input. :biggrin:

To clarify: When creating a setting of Role-Play, as in the backstory, the gist of the situation , pretty much, how much information is too much information. As in when creating a story, where is the boundary between interesting, and stale. Though I think I recently came across my answer, I am going to remove that specific question now, though.
Detail is always good. Writing the things your character is feeling at any given time can become stale if you repeat yourself, or write it too simple without explaning why he/she felt that way.
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Post » Tue Jul 03, 2012 12:36 am

Detail is always good. Writing the things your character is feeling at any given time can become stale if you repeat yourself, or write it too simple without explaning why he/she felt that way.
Well, after re-visiting that link and thinking over the past few minute I might have actually already realized what I was looking for.
Much appreciated, friend.
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Post » Tue Jul 03, 2012 2:11 am

Amiable? The Artwork and Fan Fiction peeps? You've been royally screwed!


Just kidding, welcome to the forums. :bunny:
He's not kidding. We will eat your soooul

(cough) I mean, yes, welcome. http://media.photobucket.com/image/fishy%20stick/Enoil/ImperialFishyStick.jpg And stuff :P

What was your first successful Role-Playing character?
I suppose that was Manfred Flyte, the Lord of Anticlere way back during the Siege of Sentinel, in the sense that he was successful by managing to fit into the RP and find interaction without me being burned at the stake for heresy or anything of the sort. However, mostly because he's such an old character I've never been quite entirely happy with him since I couldn't exactly pin down his personality for the longest time while having to contend with what he's already done and make it all consistent somehow; usually I don't consider a character 'successful' until I have their 'true' personalities pinned down and I'm comfortable with them. Which character of mine was first successful in this respect I'd have a hard time of saying, since I forgot half my characters by now - mostly because they were overshadowed by the quite large numbers of recently created ones that I had/am having lots of fun RPing.

How did you come about creating them?
Usually I just wait for a character concept to come to me. There's any number of very vague ones floating about in my head most of the time, things I always wanted to try but never could because they didn't fit the RPs on offer at the time or because of other reasons. When such a vague concept gets picked up, I'll usually just think about it for a bit, iron out some details, cross it over with another concept perhaps or draw inspiration from similar characters from other sources. After I arrive at a good idea of what I want, I'll get started on the character sheet.

At which point I'll groan and moan a lot, take an hour debating what hair colour would best suit them and forget the end product in a week anyway and disregard half the information in it for the rest of the RP.

What is your favorite kind of Role-Play setting or format?
Grand-scale RP, or Political/War RP as they may also be called I suppose. RPing countries/factions instead of just one person gives me a much wider range of fictional people to work with and lets me create lots of smaller, more minor characters all over the place in addition to a handful of more developed main ones.
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Post » Tue Jul 03, 2012 4:20 am

Welcome to the forum.

I'll go straight ahead and answer the questions.

What was your first successful Role-Playing character?
Pft, I'm not sure I've had any successful characters as such. I think my most unique character duo was/is Andros and Charles back from the re-boot of the first serious RP I was in. Andros was admittedly a little bland to start with but Charles, (a floating skull that followed him around) added something nice. I've also had, a rare subspecies of the Argonians, a house-cat sized Khajiit, a one thousand year old mage (sort of), several imperials of varying uselessness .


How did you come about creating them?
Glorious accident. I usually see an RP I like get all excited, ask for a place to be reserved for me and realise that I don't actually have a a character to use. I usually start with the character idea or some part of them that I like and build a character around that.


What is your favorite kind of Role-Play setting or format?
I enjoy most kinds. One of the ones I'm in now is a large political RP with the writers controlling whole armies and factions, that's a nice change. If it's done well any RP can be fun.
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Post » Mon Jul 02, 2012 7:12 pm

First successful character? going with Gorbad on this one, as in first one I truly liked.

I've admittedly reused some of my characters, re-tooling them to fit a new role each time, something I'm trying to stop so I can have more varied characters.

First was an Argonian with a name that sounded badass at the time but upon reflection could have been way more creative. except for the name, I loved every little bit of his character. then I have a couple iterations of Sae-Kas, once he was an argonian warlord suffering from Dissociative identity disorder. That was fun. Then Itan-Ru, whose first iteration was an argonian thief who heard the voices of objects scattered about due to a daedric curse. Now Sae-Kas is a smuggler and Itan-Ru is a priest. Times have changed indeed.

Process for creating: it used to be 1. take sae-Kas/Itan-Ru....2. change sheets until it fits 3. done. BUt i got tired of doing that because I felt like I was limiting myself, so they now have permanent characters. My now normal process, believe it or not, is to create a character in-game and play as them until they get a personality. For instance, I now have at least 5 characters floating around, each one has a different race and personality.

Role-Play setting: I've tried my hand at war Rps, and I've found I prefer more adventury type RPs, such as my own (self-advertising, sorry). exploring has always been a major part of how I interpreted the world, and that still applies in RPs for me.
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