Well, I haven't developed a character for tabletop in many years, so I am a bit rusty at the practice.
With Ancel, he started out as a Gladiator, and I wanted to main Paladin. I looked the the nations of Eorzea and thought, from his perspective, "who needs it most?" It seemed that Gridania was leanest on this type of fighter, so he threw in his lot with the Order of the Twin Serpent.
At this point, I only had a vague idea of what this character should be, plus there wasn't much public RP on Ultros. A few months into the relaunch, two different issues, namely network latency and GPU woolliness, started making tanking an impossibility. So I took a hiatus, chalking it up as a serious injury which required time for Ancel to recover.
Once I moved and got a new rig, I had to rethink how I wanted to play. I was way behind on the tanking meta and had forgotten most of the dungeons, so I decided to hang up my Paladin hopes and start from scratch. The only class that seemed to fit was Bard, so that's what I went after.
From this, you can see that the character started out only as a sketch and that responses to gameplay circumstances were central to filling in the story. In Ancel's case the background elements were all fleshed out retroactively and piecemeal.
I would like to have a more well-planned RP character, but finding room on Balmung is problematic, to say the least.
With Ancel, he started out as a Gladiator, and I wanted to main Paladin. I looked the the nations of Eorzea and thought, from his perspective, "who needs it most?" It seemed that Gridania was leanest on this type of fighter, so he threw in his lot with the Order of the Twin Serpent.
At this point, I only had a vague idea of what this character should be, plus there wasn't much public RP on Ultros. A few months into the relaunch, two different issues, namely network latency and GPU woolliness, started making tanking an impossibility. So I took a hiatus, chalking it up as a serious injury which required time for Ancel to recover.
Once I moved and got a new rig, I had to rethink how I wanted to play. I was way behind on the tanking meta and had forgotten most of the dungeons, so I decided to hang up my Paladin hopes and start from scratch. The only class that seemed to fit was Bard, so that's what I went after.
From this, you can see that the character started out only as a sketch and that responses to gameplay circumstances were central to filling in the story. In Ancel's case the background elements were all fleshed out retroactively and piecemeal.
I would like to have a more well-planned RP character, but finding room on Balmung is problematic, to say the least.
