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30 Day Writing (RP!) Meme: Day Nine
9. How do you get ideas for your characters? Describe the process of creating them.
Used to be, back in PokeMUSH days, I was a big believer in applications (and thus getting a complex personality and full background down on paper before you start) for RP... and, in some respects, I still am. However, character creation is no longer one of those reasons. (Quality control? Still a big yes on that one. Nothing like applications to weed out the sucky people.) Nowadays, I like the process to be... some word I can't think of at the moment. Natural. Evolving. Abstract? Loose. Just starting with the vaguest idea ("grumpy death knight", "light-hearted rogue", "druid stuck in bear form"), and let the character grow and develop through RPing with others.
Though, thinking back... I wonder if I was really a believer in apps in PokeMUSH days or if I just wanted them for quality control. (Or, perhaps, was a believer in them for everyone but me.) Sly started as an NPC, I played him for a week or two before applying to turn him into a PC. It worked really well learning his character through RP before writing his app.
One of the big things that stops me from returning to MU*s is the application process. It seems like too much work to write one (I know I can RP! I know I can make good characters! Why should I have to prove it to others? I just want to RP!), but more than that, it seems too hard to come up with the background and full personality until I've RPed the character enough to learn it. (However, that being said, I know just how important applications are to keep up quality. It's one of the big, big, big issues with WoW RP. I'd never argue for games to stop requiring them.)
List of all 30 questions here.
Used to be, back in PokeMUSH days, I was a big believer in applications (and thus getting a complex personality and full background down on paper before you start) for RP... and, in some respects, I still am. However, character creation is no longer one of those reasons. (Quality control? Still a big yes on that one. Nothing like applications to weed out the sucky people.) Nowadays, I like the process to be... some word I can't think of at the moment. Natural. Evolving. Abstract? Loose. Just starting with the vaguest idea ("grumpy death knight", "light-hearted rogue", "druid stuck in bear form"), and let the character grow and develop through RPing with others.
Though, thinking back... I wonder if I was really a believer in apps in PokeMUSH days or if I just wanted them for quality control. (Or, perhaps, was a believer in them for everyone but me.) Sly started as an NPC, I played him for a week or two before applying to turn him into a PC. It worked really well learning his character through RP before writing his app.
One of the big things that stops me from returning to MU*s is the application process. It seems like too much work to write one (I know I can RP! I know I can make good characters! Why should I have to prove it to others? I just want to RP!), but more than that, it seems too hard to come up with the background and full personality until I've RPed the character enough to learn it. (However, that being said, I know just how important applications are to keep up quality. It's one of the big, big, big issues with WoW RP. I'd never argue for games to stop requiring them.)
List of all 30 questions here.
