Character profiles or something?

[Lydia]

The number one question new players seem to have is "what's already being played?", and while I don't think anybody should stop themselves from playing something they love even if there's a lot of those already, it'd be handy to have a resource they can go to to check that sort of thing out, and learn a bit more about the character!

I'd be willing to draw busts or something of everyone's characters so far to post with profiles on a page here, or maybe on the weebly site you made back in the day, Danny. What do you think?

Alternatively, we could just provide online copies of the character sheets-- that way people can kind of see what sorts of folks are running around town-- with the character concept included in that. I do think that a profile would still be better, but maybe something like this would work too?

Name: Maric Fletcher || Age: 42 || Align: LE || Class: Ranger
STR 12 || DEX 16 (18) || CON 11
WIS 8 || INT 10 || CHA 12
Weapons of choice: Longbow, battleaxe
Magic Attack: N/A

An ex-Marshal who has declared war on the Iron Ring Slavers.

QUOTE: "Alchemists need all sorts of unsavory ingredients for their potions, and you're the only alchemist in town I know. That makes you the prime suspect."

Edit: I seriously can't remember what Con or Cha Fletcher has off the top of my head, but the others have all come up, haha.

[Danny]

I think this is a cool idea and will add a section to the forum for it once I'm back to a real computer, later today!

I'd prefer if people stick to the less numeric elements of characters, though, so less of things like ability scores, experience total, level, gold pieces, etc, and more name, description, class/profession, quotes, likes, dislikes, etc.

I'll probably call the section "Character Profiles" unless a better name is suggested!

[Lydia]

Sounds good to me!

Yeah, I just threw the numbers in to make it look like a silly fighting game stat page, or the profiles of the Finders in Abraxus or something.

Cool, I'll look forward to it!

[Dustin]

Dangit, I need to get some image server space for this graphic

Edit: Nevermind, this is fine. Here's your stat graphic for your Abraxas profile.

[Dustin]

Since the point of these is to help people decide which class based on other people's characters, but we want to make people do it kind of in character, maybe there should be a section like a resume where you explain to the adventurers' guild how you would benefit adventure teams or something?

[Danny]

I'm fine if people want to put a 'resume' in their character profile, but it's not a requirement! It's mostly an OOC thing to give us quick "at a glance" information about the characters!

[Kelz]

Danny, did you ever decide if this was something we should be doing or not?

[Danny]

It's totally up to you, but I love reading the character profiles, so if you want to add one, just start a new thread here: sweetgrove.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=profiles

I wrote a really bare bones template for Charlie, but it looks like most people based their's on Fletcher's