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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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This image is free to use for RP purposes only. You may use this image to represent a character, create a character avatar, banner, signature. You may use this image to create a forum header, forum graphics, or RP site graphics. You must credit Pinkatron2000 or GreaterRealms somewhere on the website it is used, or within your character(s) profiles if using for avatar/signature use. Thank you.© Pinkatron2000/GreaterRealms
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Stormy - Character Signature
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Tenebris posted a gallery image in Graphics Showcase & Discussion's Graphics Showcase
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avatar Paul Wasilewski - Character Avatar
Tenebris posted a gallery image in Graphics Showcase & Discussion's Graphics Showcase
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Valerie Modeste - Character Signature
Tenebris posted a gallery image in Graphics Showcase & Discussion's Graphics Showcase
From the album: Forum Signatures & Other Gfx
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It plagues the mind of a roleplayer. It's a common insecurity that many of us hold. Our fears and insecurities wiggle their way into how we manifest ourselves in these imagined worlds, and we're forced to face them on a regular basis. Is my character... one-dimensional? It’s difficult to reason your way out of it. The definition of “one-dimensional” shifts based on who you ask. For some, it’s a specific archetype. For others, there’s a convoluted set of conditions that must be met for it. There is no one, definitive answer to what a one-dimensional character is. One's definition of a great character will be another's definition of a character who would be zero-dimensional if such a term were applicable for writing. Is Harry Potter one-dimensional? How about Aragorn? The Wicked Witch? How about that one really cool orcish character from that tabletop session six years ago? Some will say yes. Some will say no. How do you figure it out? When considering your character’s potential lack of complexity and nuance, you may be better suited by answering the questions below. Further explanation is provided in the spoiler tags! 1. When reading their history, is every event a moment of triumph or catastrophe? 2. Are their interactions with others rigid and unyielding? 3. Are their weaknesses more than footnotes unceremoniously added as an afterthought? 4. Does their personality clash with your writing style? There are also pitfalls as a writer that may contribute to how others perceive a character. Perhaps on paper your character is varied and has a boatload of nuance. This doesn’t matter if you make certain mistakes. Your character, in practice, will be interpreted differently than how you intend. Someone who is a lowly grunt in a decrepit business cannot be all-knowing about sensitive secrets (metagaming). Someone who has failure as a dominant personality trait cannot be momentously victorious all the time (god mode). Someone with questionable morals cannot make the right, ethical decision time and time again in a way that ensures everything goes ‘just right’ for those involved (higher self). Indeed, a one-dimensional character can sometimes be a writing style problem instead of a character problem. Self-awareness and being cognizant of your weaknesses can go a long way towards ensuring that your contributions to this collaboration of writers is stellar and a treat to digest. Did you learn something about your characters and how you present them to your fellow writers? Do you think something is missing from this guide? Feel free to let me know!
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It seems that people have interest in writing only certain characters, or only certain aspects of the characters' lives, while a story implies writing several character types in several circumstances which make sense for their lives. E.g. a Navy officer has in the story not only the role to charm ladies at a party, but mainly to take part in battles or to lead work scenes as well... to show only a few aspects. He should interact also with his superiors, with allied officers, he can lead an exploring team, enforce the law under his competence, etc. And among the Navy officers, if they were chosen for example, there can be (and should be) a diversity of personalities as well: the ambitious perfectionist, the drunkard/ gambler who can be blackmailed or can blackmail others into betrayal or extorsion, the womanizer (or soft lover, because he can be sincere too) who spills a secret to his lover by mistake, the one wh o isn't professionally good but he has the right upbringing and patronnage and power thirst in order to advance stepping on corpses.... So if the story needs these aspects/ scenes/ characters and nobody else is willing to write them... somebody has to. We are all here, first and foremost, to write an interesting story together, immersing ourselves in the right setting through this. it seems I will always be this 'someone', because I could never say/ think 'I have no interest in writing this character/ scene.' if it is a part of the story i love and it makes sense in our setting, then I should clearly do all research and everything possible to make the story happen. ...And this is how some people get with more temporary characters than others, and with writing for more NPCs than others who don't have interest in them or who see them less of a character because they have less writing time. They aren't less. There had been a while when I was regretting everything others didn't do, just because I was convinced that, since i am writing with others, everything should be shared. Now I don't care anymore about this, neither about other people's rants that people shouldn't have so many characters or NPCs. They are there because they are needed in the story and nobody else was willing to write them. That's all, folks. Somebody has to do it in order to have a well-rounded story, a well-rounded portrayal of the world we are writing about.
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I understand that not all the characters are religious. However, if a religion is mentioned in a character's bio, one should use it at least a little - even if it means to highlight that he has evolved and doesn't believe anymore, and that his current beliefs aren't the same with the ones he was taught in childhood. Not to have it written in the bio, then act as if it was never mentioned. Why bother then to mention it in the first place? This is twice as valid when it is about somebody hiding his religion. There might be the desire to blend in, to seem unconspicuous and to deliberately not show any trace of the hidden religion. It makes perfect sense - but in the character's thoughts, there has to be this deliberate choice; an inner conflict, from time to time, between what he had been taught initially and what he has to do now. Or minor, delicate little things which still pertain to the hidden religion, even if they can't be directly traced to it. For example, there are two NPCs, one muslim, one Jewish - in a time where Inquisition still existed and... burned. The muslim one still believes in Allah as he had been taught, just that he can't say it in the open. He doesn't pray all 5 times a day, at least not visibly, but he surely says the prayer in his mind when he can. He gets up earlier than the others he lives with, for the ritual ablutions. This means he is cleaner than others, and a little teased for it, but nobody makes the connection between a strange (for that time) desire for cleanliness and religion. He does abstain from eating pork as much as possible; but when he crossed the sea (and not as a passenger) to the colonies, he had to eat what the others did. Salt pork and hard tack was the general menu. As he is isolated from any other Muslims, he doesn't keep any holidays because nobody can tell him when they are (moon-based religious calendar). The Jewish is a sailor; again, he does abstain from eating pork as much as possible; but when at sea, he can't. He eats with the others, so the notions of kashrut had to be forgotten. Even so, I think he'd never mix dairy and meat at the same meal, and he'd prefer drinking strong drinks or ale instead of wine (which, according to kashrut, is sacred and should have been only grown and harvested by Jews according to kashrut provisions). He also doesn't gamble, because he remembers from his bar mitzvah (the only torah studies he had ever done) that it is forbidden. He doesn't know much more than the basics about his own religion, so other precepts he might infringe in good conscience, without knowing. He also tried to avoid medical control aboard the ship whenever he could. At the transfer to a new ship he couldn't anymore, so he trembled what would happen when the doctor would discover the pledge of Abraham carved in his flesh. Fortunately for him, that particular doctor didn't care and didn't report. These aren't much. Just little details to flesh up more a character over time - and taking into account that these are NPCs, even more than needed. But still something to make the characters more rounded and more believable. I wished others would do the same. The Jewish sailor's sister never had a moment of thinking about God, of conflicting thoughts or anything. My Catholic characters, more or less believers, show their religious thoughts (or contempt towards them, for one who doesn't believe anymore). There is one who was once Catholic but turned Anglican because it was bad for business to be Catholic. He isn't much religious of any nature, still there are some inner conflicts within him between what he had learnt in his first school years with the monks and what he is doing now. My point is that if you gave your character a religion, show it a little in his thoughts, deeds or habits.
