Kylewayne
06-20-2004, 10:35 PM
Characters in Role Playing Games and Stories
RPG are very fun, but a bit confusing when you first get started. This tutorial is designed to help you.If you are a current member and would like to work on improving your character skills.
HOW TO BE A NEWBIE IN TWO EASY LESSONS
First for starters, you need a character.
Creating a character
1) If you create a character from scratch please read this awsome tutorial that helps you in what to do when creating a new character.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html)
When creating or playing a character, it is important to keep in mind that the person you are playing " is not only a personality, but they are experiences, hopes, joys, passions, and foibles all rolled into one little package. For a writer you must not only create these in yourself, but for several, if not hundreds of other people as well. Those with the fullest detail, I have found, are actually far easier to write about then those who I know nothing about."
Quote taken by author & writer : Crissy Gottberg from Elfwood tutorials for the FARP section at :
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html)
Playing an existing character
2) When playing a character that already has a history, you must know their background and what makes them tick. Know every little detail about them. Most of all, when role-playing pretend that you are actually them. Get under their skin and try to think like them. For example, look at how I play Catwoman/Selina Kyle in “ Batman RPG” at World’s Finest. Notice how I try to act and be her, the reason is because I become her when role-playing, personality and all.
Batman RPG example: (1 of many Catwoman posts)
Catwoman
The trendiest nightclub in Gotham, dark, noisy, not well light and women dressed as sluts while bouncing up and down to the music. Also known as the meat market of Gotham. Every one who is out looking for fun and is looking for a one night stand ends up there. Outside, the line is long. The bouncers, tall, rugged, handsome and beefed up select their "clientele" . If you have the look ... then you're in and a part of the so called " In-Crowd".
The music is blaring but soon all eyes soon drift to the door as a GORGEOUS YOUNG WOMAN enters. She's in her mid-twenties wearing black Gucci sunglasses, a stylish Valentino leather halter top dress and to top it all off, Armani leather knee high boots. She doesn't look like she belongs, but feels right at home. She sits at the bar, orders a drink. and scopes out the club. She catches a handsome man staring at her. She smiles at him, and signals for him to come over. He looks surprised, but shyly makes his way over. "Let's dance" She says. He looks surprised as he escorts her to the dance floor. "I don't bite." She tells him in his ear as she licks his earlobe. "I only scratch" She adds after a long pause. He just smiles and can't believe his luck.
While dancing so close to him. She wraps her right hand around his neck With the left hand, she wraps her arm around his waist. She pulls him closer to the point where their bodies are stuck on each other and moving to the beat. "Your place or mine?" She says grinning. He looks at her with lustful eyes as she kisses him on the lips, long and passionate. "Who ARE you?" He asks her. She grins. "Your fantasy coming true"
At the appartment. I smother him with kisses while he carries me to his bedroom. As he lays me down. I notice a piece of paper on the dresser with the info: Pier 17, June 24. I make a mental note of it and file it away to memory. As he come on top of me and start pulling on my shirt. I wrap my hands around his neck. With my claw-like nails, I scatch him gently on his back. I grin at him while he is continuing to undress me slowly. I count to 10 in my head and that is when he passes out cold. "It's about time" I thought to myself. The poison on the tip of my nails worked wonderfuly. "Sorry, honey, but a gal's gotta work." I immedietly start collecting in a bag his valuables and his collection of pricey cat statues. The mother load is hidden elswhere but soon will be mine. For now I am content with my find. Before I leave I fix my clothes and leave the building as I came in disappearing into the night.
Alrighty, It’s time for fellow members to participate. Each member must write up a Catwoman post of there own, portraying her the way they SEE her and ACT. Get into her skin and be Catwoman for a day^^!
PS : Remeber to keep it G rated
RPG are very fun, but a bit confusing when you first get started. This tutorial is designed to help you.If you are a current member and would like to work on improving your character skills.
HOW TO BE A NEWBIE IN TWO EASY LESSONS
First for starters, you need a character.
Creating a character
1) If you create a character from scratch please read this awsome tutorial that helps you in what to do when creating a new character.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html)
When creating or playing a character, it is important to keep in mind that the person you are playing " is not only a personality, but they are experiences, hopes, joys, passions, and foibles all rolled into one little package. For a writer you must not only create these in yourself, but for several, if not hundreds of other people as well. Those with the fullest detail, I have found, are actually far easier to write about then those who I know nothing about."
Quote taken by author & writer : Crissy Gottberg from Elfwood tutorials for the FARP section at :
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/thewriting/crissychar/crissychar.html)
Playing an existing character
2) When playing a character that already has a history, you must know their background and what makes them tick. Know every little detail about them. Most of all, when role-playing pretend that you are actually them. Get under their skin and try to think like them. For example, look at how I play Catwoman/Selina Kyle in “ Batman RPG” at World’s Finest. Notice how I try to act and be her, the reason is because I become her when role-playing, personality and all.
Batman RPG example: (1 of many Catwoman posts)
Catwoman
The trendiest nightclub in Gotham, dark, noisy, not well light and women dressed as sluts while bouncing up and down to the music. Also known as the meat market of Gotham. Every one who is out looking for fun and is looking for a one night stand ends up there. Outside, the line is long. The bouncers, tall, rugged, handsome and beefed up select their "clientele" . If you have the look ... then you're in and a part of the so called " In-Crowd".
The music is blaring but soon all eyes soon drift to the door as a GORGEOUS YOUNG WOMAN enters. She's in her mid-twenties wearing black Gucci sunglasses, a stylish Valentino leather halter top dress and to top it all off, Armani leather knee high boots. She doesn't look like she belongs, but feels right at home. She sits at the bar, orders a drink. and scopes out the club. She catches a handsome man staring at her. She smiles at him, and signals for him to come over. He looks surprised, but shyly makes his way over. "Let's dance" She says. He looks surprised as he escorts her to the dance floor. "I don't bite." She tells him in his ear as she licks his earlobe. "I only scratch" She adds after a long pause. He just smiles and can't believe his luck.
While dancing so close to him. She wraps her right hand around his neck With the left hand, she wraps her arm around his waist. She pulls him closer to the point where their bodies are stuck on each other and moving to the beat. "Your place or mine?" She says grinning. He looks at her with lustful eyes as she kisses him on the lips, long and passionate. "Who ARE you?" He asks her. She grins. "Your fantasy coming true"
At the appartment. I smother him with kisses while he carries me to his bedroom. As he lays me down. I notice a piece of paper on the dresser with the info: Pier 17, June 24. I make a mental note of it and file it away to memory. As he come on top of me and start pulling on my shirt. I wrap my hands around his neck. With my claw-like nails, I scatch him gently on his back. I grin at him while he is continuing to undress me slowly. I count to 10 in my head and that is when he passes out cold. "It's about time" I thought to myself. The poison on the tip of my nails worked wonderfuly. "Sorry, honey, but a gal's gotta work." I immedietly start collecting in a bag his valuables and his collection of pricey cat statues. The mother load is hidden elswhere but soon will be mine. For now I am content with my find. Before I leave I fix my clothes and leave the building as I came in disappearing into the night.
Alrighty, It’s time for fellow members to participate. Each member must write up a Catwoman post of there own, portraying her the way they SEE her and ACT. Get into her skin and be Catwoman for a day^^!
PS : Remeber to keep it G rated