| From: | kawaii kawaii@********.org |
|---|---|
| Subject: | How do you make your characters? (Was: Dwarves in Shadowrun) |
| Date: | Mon, 19 Jul 1999 06:44:29 -0400 (EDT) |
> > I think that you'll find that Elves & Trolls are the most
> > popular metatype because they are the ones that
> > tend to attract munchkins for the in-game benefits
> > that you can milk from them. I'm not for a minute
> > suggesting that ALL people who play Trolls and
> > Elves are munchkins but I can surely say that I
> > can guarentee that all munchkins have at some
> > point played a maxed out troll. Thankfully SR3
> > has made this a little more expensive in the
> > priority based character generation system.
> >
> > Personally I tend to avoid the MetaHuman races
> > as a PC. I prefer to play humans.
>
> This was from Manx... and it got me thinking...
>
> When I make up characters, I like to write out (or at least think out) a
> character story a little more detailed than ug... troll... ug, ug... big,
> strong.. ug, ug, ug, big gun! :)
>
> For instance, my most recent character is a human female cat shaman. She
> comes from seattle, lived in the upper west side sprawl most of her life.
> Came to the magic later than avg. (at approx 26). This meant she learnt
> most of her spells using fetishes or exclusivity.
> She is well educated, but poor now that she has left her prior job as a
> corp secretary. She lives in a high quality housing area, wears high
> quality or tres chic clothing, grooms constantly.
> Ive also written a full visual description.
>
> How do other people make their characters? Do you do the stats and then
> throw together a story to go with the stats? or do you "think before they
> roll" so to speak?
>
> What other ways have people come up with to design characters?
>
> GreyWolf
>
>
Coming from an online MUX experience for character creation, I usually
have an extensive background written up, including basic astral form and
physical description. I have found that sometimes, it makes it easier to
determine what the character has gone trhough and various plot twists
within your background if there is a sheet nearby that you can reference
to..
Ever lovable and always scrappy,
kawaii
