I'm that guy that peruses the Player's Handbooks for DnD and has a ton of random character ideas pop up in his head as he flips through the pages. I've a smattering of notes here and there with often little more than one-line blurbs about a character I want to try later.
"Bard whose 'instrument' is a songbird, refers to it as his maestro."
"Summoner who paints his minions in an art book, pulling them off the page and into the real world." (Not unlike FFXIV's Arcanists, now that I think about it...)
It's no different on FFXIV. I read threads, I listen in on RPs, and ideas flit into my mind unbidden. I've seen alts and NPCs and all sorts of interesting ideas, and so I thought I'd bring up a bit of general discussion.
Do you have an NPC (or future alt) idea rolling around in your head that you want to use?
Have you had a bit character you threw into an RP that has evolved beyond just as a stage piece in your mind or in your RPs?
How much detail do you put into them before/after having using them?
I just think it might be fun to be able to share those sorts of things, have a place to see if people would be interested in knowing about others' NPCs and flitting ideas. To open, I present the latest one of mine, which developed as a little (surprisingly wordy) spiel on a Notepad file:
Cenric "Flatfoot" Stay
Where there are laws, there are those that break the laws. Those that break the law needs must be detained or summarily executed. Men of both sorts also needs must be held somewhere as the lawmakers decide what to do with them. This requires a prison, a gaol, a holding cell. And such places need men to stand watch over them.
That is Cenric's role in life - he is a jailer. He watches wanted men go in, he watches over them, he watches them go out. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don't. He never had much in the way of empathy towards those he guards and, even if he had, the Midlander would've lost it over the passing of the cycles. It is naught but a job for him, and he performs it with a calculated indifference.
Yet, this is still Ul'dah, and one doesn't simply coast along unless they have quite the ample coin in their coffers. There have been more than a few detained who have either somehow escaped their confines or died suddenly in their sleep to unseen complications. Even with the posting of additional guards, it seems as if a phantom descends on the imprisoned and either spirits them away or leaves them lifeless. Meanwhile, the man whose flat feet make him both ill-suited for combat and silent as death itself, merely pockets a few extra coin he's found lying about somewheres.
"Bard whose 'instrument' is a songbird, refers to it as his maestro."
"Summoner who paints his minions in an art book, pulling them off the page and into the real world." (Not unlike FFXIV's Arcanists, now that I think about it...)
It's no different on FFXIV. I read threads, I listen in on RPs, and ideas flit into my mind unbidden. I've seen alts and NPCs and all sorts of interesting ideas, and so I thought I'd bring up a bit of general discussion.
Do you have an NPC (or future alt) idea rolling around in your head that you want to use?
Have you had a bit character you threw into an RP that has evolved beyond just as a stage piece in your mind or in your RPs?
How much detail do you put into them before/after having using them?
I just think it might be fun to be able to share those sorts of things, have a place to see if people would be interested in knowing about others' NPCs and flitting ideas. To open, I present the latest one of mine, which developed as a little (surprisingly wordy) spiel on a Notepad file:
Cenric "Flatfoot" Stay
Where there are laws, there are those that break the laws. Those that break the law needs must be detained or summarily executed. Men of both sorts also needs must be held somewhere as the lawmakers decide what to do with them. This requires a prison, a gaol, a holding cell. And such places need men to stand watch over them.
That is Cenric's role in life - he is a jailer. He watches wanted men go in, he watches over them, he watches them go out. Sometimes they return, sometimes they don't. He never had much in the way of empathy towards those he guards and, even if he had, the Midlander would've lost it over the passing of the cycles. It is naught but a job for him, and he performs it with a calculated indifference.
Yet, this is still Ul'dah, and one doesn't simply coast along unless they have quite the ample coin in their coffers. There have been more than a few detained who have either somehow escaped their confines or died suddenly in their sleep to unseen complications. Even with the posting of additional guards, it seems as if a phantom descends on the imprisoned and either spirits them away or leaves them lifeless. Meanwhile, the man whose flat feet make him both ill-suited for combat and silent as death itself, merely pockets a few extra coin he's found lying about somewheres.
