^ Click here to remove ads! ^

First RP tutorial!

Submitted by Daemon_Panda on Mon, 10/15/2007 at 5:19am.

I noticed my RP was becoming a little mixed up so I am giving a free step by step RP tutorial!

The first step is to think up a character. I will use my RP character, Loki Felborn, a panda shifter.

Next you write a character profile, for example;

First name: Loki

Last name: Felborn

Gender: Male

Age: 24

Race: Human 

Height: 5' 9"

Weight: 150

Skin color: a slight tan

Hair: none

Eye color: Blue

Clothing: Long, loose black pants but no shirt. He also carries a very large pack where he keeps various items.

Class(This deals with your character's... job, so to speak. There are many classes, some having sub-classes; warrior, cleric, bounty hunter, mage, and so on. It is common for a character to have multiple classes, but don't make him a great-at-anything-can't-be-beat type of person, a weakness is essential to a great RP character): Warrior/panda shifter, medium weapons class (Weapons class is often divided into heavy, medium, or light, I think you can figure out what weapons go where. *smiles*)

Weapon(s)/ability(A weapon isn't required in all RPs, but in this RP I suggest your character has someway to defend him/herself, even if the character is really agile and excells in hand to hand combat): Home-made pistol that can be set to full auto and can have a two foot long blade attached.

History:

Loki has spent several years searching for the people who destroyed his city where he lived. During the fight where the city was destroyed, someone cut his face and ruined his right eye. After several painstaking days of recouperation two of the survivors, a smith and a mage, constructed an artificial eye for him. As a final request, they adjusted the eye so it could work like a sniper scope, it could zoom in and out. But since it was a last minute idea, the internal mechanisms could not be re-calibrated, as a result, the eye sometimes blacks out for a couple of seconds.

Motives:

He wants to get back at the people who destoyed his home and his eye.

Personality:

He likes attention so he tends to show off. He doesn't know how to interact with people so, sometimes, his attitude during conversations changes drasticly. He has a very difficult time interacting with females, but he realizes all these things about himself and he is trying to change. He also likes to travel. He is very alert and pays attention to everything he senses, with his eyes, ears, hands, or gut; a byproduct of his insecurity.

The next thing you want to do is write your first post. Make sure to include as much of your character profile as possible, as well as a detailed description of your location, the climate, the weather, and so on. Try to explain your characters motive/s in the first post as well.

 

 

IF YOU COULD POST YOUR PROFILES ON THIS BLOG i WOULD APPRICIATE IT.


» posted in Daemon_Panda's Blog
 

Comments:

by Daemon_Panda - 9 months ago
Coconut Grove , Fl United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 915
hmmm... for some reason that seems a little familiar... just a little... ah ha!! I remember from another RP I once read, this girl had an extremely powerful spell, but once used, transform and lose all her memory. And his personality is a little like my own :) Very cool avi though
by plus_0 - 10 months ago
Eastern Seaboard United States
Member Since: Oct 2007
Member Points: 37

"IF YOU COULD POST YOUR PROFILES ON THIS BLOG i WOULD APPRICIATE IT."


Sure, I can do that.

 

First name: Brand

Last name: Thunor

 

Gender: Male

Age: 19

Race: Human 

 

Height: 5' 9"

Weight: 170

 

Skin color: Brand is fair skinned, but with a medium tan

Hair: auburn and sunbleached.

Eye color: Blue

 

Clothing: Long, loose green trousers and shirt. He also also wears light armor made of leather and bone.

 

Class: Ranger/Warrior, light weapons class

 

Weapon(s)/ability(: Brand carries a two-handed, double bitted, bearded axe. He also carries a long bow and a quiver of mixed arrows. The arrows consist of standard steel broadheads; igniting arrows which explode on impact and deliver burning shrapnel; fire arrows which are lit prior to firing. These burn hotly to the target and will set soft targets on fire.

 

Brand is a capable marksman, though not perfect. He is practiced enough to fire two arrows at once, but not at separate targets. With his Fathers axe, Brand is supremely vicious, but reckless. He has actually been killed many times charging headlong with it high overhead. Luckily, resurrection was a practiced art in his world.

 

History:

 

Brand was the first of his clan born in the new land. His people, pirates retiring from their life of pillaging to find peace in an unknown land to the West. All was peace and joy until Brand's seventh year. It was then that a traitor took advantage of Brand's first hunt to kill his Father. He failed to kill Brand, but the boy became hopelessly lost in escaping.

 

Those who found Brand were tribal natives. They took the boy in and taught him the ways of nature and the bow. Three years later, a clansman found the boy and returned him home. Home though was no longer peaceful and joyful. The traitor had blamed the natives for Brand's Father's death, then claimed the man's property. This included Brand's Mother and Sisters.

 

There had been war with the natives for these past three years. Brand's telling of the truth exploded the clan and destroyed paradise once and for all. Fighting and death ensued, ending in the only way it could. The traitor and those who sided with him, were exiled there while the rest of the clan returned to the sea...and pirating. All mourned the lost. Brand most especially...as his Mother and Sisters were among them.

 

From age ten to sixteen, Brand grew up as a pirate and mercenary aboard the clan's pirate ship. The bow was forgotten. Brand's Father was a Warrior and so would he be. The Axe took the bows place in his hand and he learned it well.

 

There came a day, in Brand's sixteenth year, when the clansman who found him among the natives recieved a Kings summon. He was known to this King, whose kingdom was being invaded, and so this King sent for him. The man had raised Brand, so going with him was not even a question.

 

 The two ventured far inland and to the North. There they found the first battle of the war...and a girl. Eloa, a fourteen year old Necromancer and mage became the love of Brand's life. When she fled from the crushing defeat of this battle, Brand tried to follow. He had died in the battle and she was gone before his resurrection. A Monk brought Brand back to the bow and his Ranger abilities.They travelled far South to find Eloa and lay on sandy beaches...to hunt in steamy jungles. The couple became trackers, hiring out to travellers who wished to hunt. Much happened in those happy few years. Even a civil war could not disturb Brand and Eloa's happiness very much...then...while out hunting alone, Brand became involved in something he still hasn't figured out. He came to the aid of a man who was being chased. This wound them up in deadly combat with giant spiders. During the battle, Brand was swallowed up by the mists and dropped into a future world not of his understanding...and that brings us up to now.

 

Motives:

 

Brand wants to get back to Eloa. Nothing else matters.

 

Personality:

 

Brand is still a child in many ways. Impulsive, yammering, stammering and sometimes stupid. Hard years have tempered this somewhat. He is now able to stop and reason, but only after a few moments of impulsively stupid yammering and stammering.

 

He is friendly to most, but very attuned to nature. Things being out of place  with people, places or things, sends him into combat mode readily.

 

Note:

For deaths I'm doing something unique with Brand (unique to me at least). If he is killed, the mists will deposit him anew. He will have no memory of his previous time in this timeline. As it is now, his last memory will be of the giant spiders he was fighting in the past.


by Daemon_Panda - 10 months ago
Coconut Grove , Fl United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 915

Also take chances, let your character go. If it reveals something about you, let it. Let your avi show your strengths and weaknesses, let it show your anger or sadness. If it makes you seem what you percieve as stupid, don't worry.

One example is an avi a freind of mine created. It had the ears and tail of a cat and a nose that was human/armadillo looking. The rest was human. So what if some people thought it was weird, since me and my friends are in an arts school, most people thought it was cool. It didn't matter.


by Daemon_Panda - 10 months ago
Coconut Grove , Fl United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 915
Don't always use big words to describe what is going on. Even for the extremely literate, it can become difficult to read and hard to follow.
by Daemon_Panda - 10 months ago
Coconut Grove , Fl United States
Member Since: Jun 2007
Member Points: 915

You also want to read everyone else's character profiles, as well as their entries, very, very carefully. You don't wan't to confuse someones location, make a mistake in your entry, and then have everyone scramble to keep up... I won't name any names... *cough* Daemon_panda *cough* *cough*


 

Add your comment:

Join Chess.com for free to add your comment! Already a member? Then login now to comment.