On a scale of "Mundane to Mary Sue" JJ scores a "JJ"!
When creating your character, how do you balance between being too boring and too snowflake?
If you got a basic outline of how you want your character to be, roll with that and see where it leads you. I recently had to sort out ohhhh a whole character in the span of five minutes based on a couple notes I liked as traits and was happy with what resulted out of it. I am talking about JJ's son, Alex. A botanist and alchemist by profession, but has some pretty in depth hand-to-hand training.
When role-playing with others, what character traits, personalities or actions have you found to be interesting and enjoyable to RP with and/or what have you seen just not work or appear too boring to engage your character?
I'm interested in most anyone's RP unless it's clear abuse of lore. Even "cookie cutter" stories are fun (in the end, pretty much every story is cliche). I especially enjoy the dynamic my character has with people that tout their rank or title as that my character (JJ) doesn't give a crap about that kind of thing. Respect by actions not titles!
Where do you find the line and when do you think it can be easily crossed while still being within the lore? What kind of advice would you give given your past experience.
(This is a mix of my XI experience and ARR stuff)
To be honest, I totally have made JJ a larger-than-life-badass-warrior-dude-with-crazy-ass-power. However, the majority of the time, JJ is a bumbling silly idiot. It's only in combat that his fright comes out. Even then, he can still be a bumbling silly idiot... he's part insane, part crazy and mostly all JJ. He's not one to boast his strength in any fashion, even taking verbal and physical abuse (smacks to the head, full-on slaps, having moonshine dumped on him... all usually because he's rather blunt or rude in some fashion) does not change that. He's had a stupidly tragic life. Parents died at 2, killed his first person at 13, burned his head at 16, lost his eye at 22, lost his wife, lost whatever home he had like three times and a bunch of other boo-hoo stuff. But JJ just keeps getting back up. Can't keep JJ down. (Yay! TMBG song! "Can't Keep Johnny Down")
In the long run, the past incarnation of my character in XI left a lasting impression on me and those I'm returning to. So I guess I did something right? I just had fun with it. If those around you are having fun with you then you're doing something right.
Sorry for double post, I must mention that when I first started RPing, I went through so many revisions because I didn't know what the hell I was doing. JJ XI was my first RP character. Ever. E>
When creating your character, how do you balance between being too boring and too snowflake?
If you got a basic outline of how you want your character to be, roll with that and see where it leads you. I recently had to sort out ohhhh a whole character in the span of five minutes based on a couple notes I liked as traits and was happy with what resulted out of it. I am talking about JJ's son, Alex. A botanist and alchemist by profession, but has some pretty in depth hand-to-hand training.
When role-playing with others, what character traits, personalities or actions have you found to be interesting and enjoyable to RP with and/or what have you seen just not work or appear too boring to engage your character?
I'm interested in most anyone's RP unless it's clear abuse of lore. Even "cookie cutter" stories are fun (in the end, pretty much every story is cliche). I especially enjoy the dynamic my character has with people that tout their rank or title as that my character (JJ) doesn't give a crap about that kind of thing. Respect by actions not titles!
Where do you find the line and when do you think it can be easily crossed while still being within the lore? What kind of advice would you give given your past experience.
(This is a mix of my XI experience and ARR stuff)
To be honest, I totally have made JJ a larger-than-life-badass-warrior-dude-with-crazy-ass-power. However, the majority of the time, JJ is a bumbling silly idiot. It's only in combat that his fright comes out. Even then, he can still be a bumbling silly idiot... he's part insane, part crazy and mostly all JJ. He's not one to boast his strength in any fashion, even taking verbal and physical abuse (smacks to the head, full-on slaps, having moonshine dumped on him... all usually because he's rather blunt or rude in some fashion) does not change that. He's had a stupidly tragic life. Parents died at 2, killed his first person at 13, burned his head at 16, lost his eye at 22, lost his wife, lost whatever home he had like three times and a bunch of other boo-hoo stuff. But JJ just keeps getting back up. Can't keep JJ down. (Yay! TMBG song! "Can't Keep Johnny Down")
In the long run, the past incarnation of my character in XI left a lasting impression on me and those I'm returning to. So I guess I did something right? I just had fun with it. If those around you are having fun with you then you're doing something right.
Sorry for double post, I must mention that when I first started RPing, I went through so many revisions because I didn't know what the hell I was doing. JJ XI was my first RP character. Ever. E>
