I've done this with many old characters in other games. Â (WoW, a few NWN persistant worlds used mine after I was done with them. Â I get to reprise one every so often for a larp as well.) Â
There's a lot of history created with a character over a the years, especially if you run them more like living breathing parts of the world than a protagonist/antagonist in a plotline. Â If you just stop playing and leave the character intact instead of removing the character like some do, it's a bit odd for that resource the character has become to just vanish from everyone else's stories.
On my WoW character, I played him for a decade and he became firmly entrenched in the server's specific lore along side a few others. Â It's amusing every now and then to have someone ping me going "Hey, how would Asherrean act if we brought this to him, I want to make sure we're getting it right?" or to get asked to NPC him for someone else's story line here and there, either directly or through handwaved background action.
With the NWN servers (Two now) I've had characters that became permanent parts of the NPC casts in games. Â I no longer have any creative control over them, but it wouldn't be fair after getting them to the points they reached to have them just vanish and leave a gap for the DM's to sort out. Â One (until the server died) was a vizier for a city and turned into a quest giver. Â The other's is an npc hermit they move to random places in the hill/country side that spits out random cryptic prophecies as the DM team needs him to. Â
With the Larp, my character was a lorekeeper (this is a trend with my characters) and after turning over my notes to the plot crew, they use him on occasion to give some of that info out to player groups when it becomes relevant again in return of odd favors done. Â So he's still around in writing facilitating story like I used to do when I was playing him. Â As a bonus, when I show up, I get to actually play him as an NPC for plot.
Erah'sae? Â Well... I haven't really played him enough to where he'd warrant much of an NPC unless someone needed a name to drop for who they hired to deliver something. Â His 'job' as a chocobo courier in Eorzea is usually hand-waved as an 'unimportant detail' for most stories/plot-lines. Â Maybe he'd end up like one of the Fate escort NPC's running a chocobo load of goods from Gridania proper to Ala Mhigo or some such?
Though for now, I'm still exploring him. Â He's still growing, and I'm sorting out his story. Â I wouldn't be opposed to NPCing him out so to speak when I quit/fantasia/rename out of him if someone had a use for him.
There's a lot of history created with a character over a the years, especially if you run them more like living breathing parts of the world than a protagonist/antagonist in a plotline. Â If you just stop playing and leave the character intact instead of removing the character like some do, it's a bit odd for that resource the character has become to just vanish from everyone else's stories.
On my WoW character, I played him for a decade and he became firmly entrenched in the server's specific lore along side a few others. Â It's amusing every now and then to have someone ping me going "Hey, how would Asherrean act if we brought this to him, I want to make sure we're getting it right?" or to get asked to NPC him for someone else's story line here and there, either directly or through handwaved background action.
With the NWN servers (Two now) I've had characters that became permanent parts of the NPC casts in games. Â I no longer have any creative control over them, but it wouldn't be fair after getting them to the points they reached to have them just vanish and leave a gap for the DM's to sort out. Â One (until the server died) was a vizier for a city and turned into a quest giver. Â The other's is an npc hermit they move to random places in the hill/country side that spits out random cryptic prophecies as the DM team needs him to. Â
With the Larp, my character was a lorekeeper (this is a trend with my characters) and after turning over my notes to the plot crew, they use him on occasion to give some of that info out to player groups when it becomes relevant again in return of odd favors done. Â So he's still around in writing facilitating story like I used to do when I was playing him. Â As a bonus, when I show up, I get to actually play him as an NPC for plot.
Erah'sae? Â Well... I haven't really played him enough to where he'd warrant much of an NPC unless someone needed a name to drop for who they hired to deliver something. Â His 'job' as a chocobo courier in Eorzea is usually hand-waved as an 'unimportant detail' for most stories/plot-lines. Â Maybe he'd end up like one of the Fate escort NPC's running a chocobo load of goods from Gridania proper to Ala Mhigo or some such?
Though for now, I'm still exploring him. Â He's still growing, and I'm sorting out his story. Â I wouldn't be opposed to NPCing him out so to speak when I quit/fantasia/rename out of him if someone had a use for him.
