Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by The Jack » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:14 pm

Kashin wrote:
The Jack wrote:Another couple of questions; What do you mean by "class" in the first part of the sheet? As in for example "upper class" or "academic"?
A'yep. That would be social class. Wastlander would be an applicable answer.
The Jack wrote:And, what is an "unconscious action"? And while on that subject, what do you mean with "clean up"? Actually cleaning something? *being clueless*
How do they instinctively handle stressful situations. do they fight (directly oppose) hide (try to avoid the threat), deal (make sacrifices to remain safe), Clean up (ignore it and try to make there life more orderly to cope), seduce (try to make their tormenting force like them) this is whatever the characters base instincts tell them to do, not what they actually do.
The Jack wrote:Oh, yeah, and what's the deal with the question "Where does he/she usually wake up? "
Why is that question there? What is it's function? Why does anyone need to know that? xD
The only thing I can come up with as a proper answer for that is "Usually where he fell asleep". xD
How frequently dose BJ wake up where she gos to sleep? It actually says a good deal about a character whether they sleep in a bead, on the couch, or in the street (for the wasteland I would be more along the lines of, sleeps in the dirt, puts together crude bedding or insists on finding a prewar ruin for a bed).
Hurrrrr. Very good point you have about the sleeping thing.
More thought needs to be sunk into this.
On a semi-related sidenote; BJ would probably answer that question with "Preferably, in a bath! With booze!" xD

I love this sheet; it makes me think about the character in ways I didn't think of before xD

EDIT:
Hmm.
I find it disturbingly difficult to find flaws in this character. That cannot possibly be good. Any tips on how I can find them more easily? There's bound to be SOMETHING that is flawed with him...
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by Kashin » Tue Nov 08, 2011 5:46 pm

The Jack wrote:EDIT:
Hmm.
I find it disturbingly difficult to find flaws in this character. That cannot possibly be good. Any tips on how I can find them more easily? There's bound to be SOMETHING that is flawed with him...
Well I personally build my characters around their flaws. I am a very formulaic person so by all means vary from this. I build a character from four personality traits, 2 positive and 2 negative with one of each being detrimental.
Example from a D&D character (I'd use Ocher but I might slip some spoilers)
Flaw 1: His temper gets him into a lot of trouble with his piers and enemies alike.
Flaw 2: A very ambitious man his desire for power and achievement is what keeps him going through his difficult trials.
Virtue 1: His steadfast loyalty earns him respect quickly.
Virtue 2: His love for his family is frequently used against him, it is his ultimate Achilles heal.
For a pre existing character think of what it would take for them to forsake their ideals or morals (everyone has their price, no matter how stalwart). Take that weakness and have the world exploit it to no end.
For more mild flaws, everyone has personal desires that can interfere with others lives (take Ocher's ogling of Maple, if that happened when he needed to pay attention to something there could be disastrous results. or BJ's impatience).
So overall I would suggest finding their personal vice and pick out any virtue that would cause more harm than good (Honor before reason, Pip's curiosity, Fluttershy's naive compassion, ect.).
And as one final note on flaws. Some of the worst imaginable things have been done for one reason, love.
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by The Jack » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:10 pm

Hm. *Thoughtful*
I'm rather annoyed how similar my character is starting to sound to LittlePip. Though, I know they would be completely different characters, they do share a few characteristics.
:pipshrug:
We can't all be perfectly unique xD
Besides, "curiosity" is way too important to let out.
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by Kashin » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:16 pm

The Jack wrote:Besides, "curiosity" is way too important to let out.
it is one of the only four methods I can think of to imitate player behavior.
Curiosity: Littlepip
Boredom: BJ
Greed: Ocher
Sociopathic: Too may
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by The Jack » Tue Nov 08, 2011 6:23 pm

Kashin wrote:
The Jack wrote:Besides, "curiosity" is way too important to let out.
it is one of the only four methods I can think of to imitate player behavior.
Curiosity: Littlepip
Boredom: BJ
Greed: Ocher
Sociopathic: Too may
So if you play your game like Ocher would, you'd end up as one of those guys with shitloads of caps and a house full of valuables? Cool xD
I'm the kind of guy who (like Littlepip) loves to go spelunking in every single room I see. I hate walking past a room unexplored xD

On a sidenote, "spelunking" is a hilarious word xD
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by Rippedshadow » Tue Nov 08, 2011 9:51 pm

Kashin wrote:
The Jack wrote:Besides, "curiosity" is way too important to let out.
it is one of the only four methods I can think of to imitate player behavior.
Curiosity: Littlepip
Boredom: BJ
Greed: Ocher
Sociopathic: Too may
What about psychopath?

My "player behavior" can be described as "nicest psychopath who ever lived". Because walking into a vault filled with fiends, idly chatting with them, then killing their leader and murdering everything else on the way out is kinda... "Eccentric".

Meanwhile I'll go to an NCR or neutral town and be super careful not to piss anyone off. Inconsistent? Who cares! I'm still buying that massive gun and killing deathclaws for no reason whatsoever. Oh, and legionnaries.
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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by otherunicorn » Tue Nov 08, 2011 10:39 pm

Rippedshadow wrote: What about psychopath?

My "player behavior" can be described as "nicest psychopath who ever lived". Because walking into a vault filled with fiends, idly chatting with them, then killing their leader and murdering everything else on the way out is kinda... "Eccentric".

Meanwhile I'll go to an NCR or neutral town and be super careful not to piss anyone off. Inconsistent? Who cares! I'm still buying that massive gun and killing deathclaws for no reason whatsoever. Oh, and legionnaries.
I think my player character is a little "nicer" than yours. Upon getting into the vault filled with fiends, as soon as she could get the fiend to shut up, she blew her head off. Oh, and she keeps on shooting Ceasar's messnegers. "Your crimes against the legion are forgiven." Drat. I better start on them again. Bang.

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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by Kashin » Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:17 pm

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Re: Invaluable Charicter Creation Tool.

Post by The Jack » Sat Nov 19, 2011 8:01 pm

Could you add that one to the list at the first post if you haven't already? I'm totally going to be using this for random background characters xD
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