Angel of the Scrapyard
Group: Admin
Posts: 77
Member No.: 46
Joined: 29-October 07
|
Character Creation
Your character is everything in Slayer city. This tutorial is here to help you make an effective character if this is your first time on a role play website. For this tutorial im going to be using the character sheet template that can be found in the Getting Started section of the help options. This sheet is what all characters in slayer city are built around. Lets take a look at it.
| QUOTE |
-General Information-
Name: [What is the true name of your character. Of course in some cases, you may wish to not have a real name. Perhaps to have some secrecy, thus you will fill in the next field (Alias)]
Alias(es): [Some characters have more than one name that they go by, perhaps have a code name. In this section you can provide any alternate names your character has.]
Alignment: [Good, Neutral, Evil, Good-Chaotic, Evil-Chaotic, Undecidable. In this field you would enter which alignment or moral code your character follows. Is your character going to be negative impact on the board, or is he going to help Predia. Remember some of the evilest of people have the sweetest of intentions]
Class: [You have for options in all, reaper, gunner, rogue and of course witch-crafter. For more information about the specific classes please review "Class Info" thread.]
Occupation: [Does your character have a job, or any duty or role that he/she plays in Predia. It doesn't have to be offical, it could be just a job or a title which he or she has given to himself/herself.]
-Physical Details-
Age: [In most cases, you can enter the physical age of your characer into this thread. Of course if you wish to refine your character in more detail, you may also add how old your character is mentally, or by how old they may appear to be.]
Sex: [What gender is your character, of course if you truly wish you may also put what sex your character is attracted to.]
Description: [This is a very broad field which focuses directly on what your character looks like. Try to imagine it from the way that other characters on the board, and what they would notice in particular. Adding where your character stores his/her weapons can often help fighting situations, or improve the level of reality of the RP.]
Weapons: [Weapons are a touchy subject on Slayer City, and is one of the key elements which holds some character sheets from behind accepted, nothing too major, perhaps just enough to survive. In some cases more potent weapons may be accepted, depending on the history, the personality and also their goals within SC.]
-Psychological Details-
Asperations: [Everyone has some form of purpose or a reason that they have created behind their existence. Within this field enter any goals that your character has. Imagine what you wish to accomplish with the character. King of Predia? Dark Lord of the Olymus? There is no limits to what your character can want from the future.]
Personality: [Once again, this can be rather lengthy if you put enough detail into your character. But this field is used to understand how your character responses to particular events. Try to be creative with how your character inacts, we may always have our own little quirks in our judgement which may cause a suprise from our average reactions.]
History: [Likely the most important part of your character, some choose to turn their characters history into a mini-novel, others just like to give a quick over-view. We can understand in some cases you like to keep things hidden, but remember to add enough detail for your character to be understandable.]
-Misc Details-
Feats/Notes: [Everything else that you feel we need to know about your character, perhaps weaknesses and strength that he or she has. Or items which the character possesses which may not be considered to be a weapon. If you have a lot more details to add, you may just wish to create some extra fields, creating by yourself.]
|
Now the first part is easy peasy. Your name, your name for your character should be in full and the same as your account username.
E.G. Name: Itsu Spiran
You should be reading this before you sign-up, but if you have already signed up with a name such a "lord66" or "cooldude2007" then you can change it. Check the introduction help sheet for details. Same basis for any alias
Now its time to choose your alignment. Are you a good kind paladin or an evil war-lord set on destruction, maybe your neither. Remeber to choose carefully, you can change during roleplaying but it remains the same on your Character sheet.
Now the most important choice you make for your character is your class. You can't change your class at any point ever. So think carefully before choosing. To see what options are avilable check the class info sheet.
Pysical Details
Age and sex are self explanitry, however with the age try and keep it realistic. You cant be 3000 years old. A good range is 13-60.
Occupation is an interesting choice to make. Most players will strive to be a wise noble or a bounty hunter. But that choice is entirely up to you, you can even be a babysitter if you wish. Your occupation doesnt need to hinder your characters abilities it could even be a disguse, but please make sure you state that.
Description, this is where you tell us what your character looks like try and give a good discriptive overveiw, but dont go mad and have a whole paragraph about what your face looks like. Now try to make your character as human like as possible. There's nothing wrong with being different but try and keep it human like.
Weapons, Your weapon must correspond to your class, its very simple. Witchcrafters never use swords. It's frowned up any class to use the weapons of another. Even if your character is defiant. it just doesn't happen in Predia.
Psycologoical
Asperations, every character has a lust for something more, where does your character wish to be in the future? A characters asperations can be vast or simple, it depends on who they are and who you want them to be.
Personaility, this will be one of the biggest sections. You want to try and explain eveything abut the way your character behaves. Your character may be very emotional or weak-hearted they could be brutal and blank. Try give us a good impression of what your character is like as a person.
History, now this is the big one. This is the most creative area you can shine in. We want chracters historys to be interesting, in depth and different. Try and pin out different stages in your chracters life and describe what happened and why. This is a good chance to reveal any family issues, bonds or problems with certain people you might have. The possibilities are endless.
Finaly the fears and notes. There may very well be some elements of your character that you havn't explained anywhere else, so this is the place to put that information. If theres anything you want to add to the fears and notes later on you can do by contacting an admin or mod and PM your request.
Now thats all there is to it to creating your character.
To submit your character first sign up, Then find the sheet template, copy it. Then go to the main page. Find the OOC forum Charcter submission. Enter this forum then click Post new topic. Paste the template on the post topic screen and fill in your information then click post topic. Allow some time for your character to be processed. Whne its been accepted you will recieve an email and PM confirming your acceptance.
WARNING! your character may not be accepted. If not you will be given reasons for this. Usual cases of this are being to brief, using explit language or if you already have 3 other characters. There are other reasons you can be peanalised for. but dont let that put you off. we accept 99/100 Character sheets.
Happy Role playing
|
How to create a character
