Character Creativity Questions

[_Grease_Bxby_ 12]

I'm curious as to whether or not I'm allowed to have a character that has been involved in odd experiments, therefore leaving their body that of a sort of living ragdoll.

 

I'm also curious as to whether or not it's not allowed to sort of base your characters off of characters that already exist ((Not characters in the LotC universe, I mean from just the internet in general)) because I had a good idea to base a family of characters off of a 'family' in a webcomic I read.

[CheekyNolan 5420]

We have lots of spineless characters, yes

[marimbamonk 1501]

39 minutes ago, Cecil The Karkitten said:

I'm curious as to whether or not I'm allowed to have a character that has been involved in odd experiments, therefore leaving their body that of a sort of living ragdoll.

 

This is possible in-game, at least somewhat, but it would have to be through some sort of existing magic on the server. Maybe take a look through a few of the magics on the Lord of the Craft wiki and see if you can find one that could possibly lead to your character being left as a "living ragdoll"? You should also clarify what you mean by that, and using existing magic to clarify it is even better. 

The next step in making it really official would be to write a lore post about it. Talking to Lore Masters about making your idea work with the existing lore on the server will ensure that you don't get people saying "How come your character is like that? Is that breaking the rules?"

 

39 minutes ago, Cecil The Karkitten said:

I'm also curious as to whether or not it's not allowed to sort of base your characters off of characters that already exist ((Not characters in the LotC universe, I mean from just the internet in general)) because I had a good idea to base a family of characters off of a 'family' in a webcomic I read.

 

We all base our characters off existing people and ideas, to some extent. Our own characters are an extension of ourselves.

This depends on how far you intend on "basing" your character off an existing one. If you simply like the personality or mannerisms of a webcomic character and you want to emulate that in your own character, that's fine! The only thing that could possibly be going too far is making your character a one-for-one copy of that other character, especially if doing so would end up breaking server lore.

 

A good example I can think of is Sherlock Holmes. We had an organization on the server a long time ago called "Holmes", it was a detective organization. That's as far as the direct reference went, though. They didn't go around shouting, "I live on 221B Baker Street!" or "Elementary, dear Watson!" They were just emulating the style of Sherlock Holmes (detectives, magnifying glasses, pipes, etc.) in a way that could still be seen naturally on the server.

 

If that helps.

 

[Praetor 1550]

3 minutes ago, BGBuster said:

 

This is possible in-game, at least somewhat, but it would have to be through some sort of existing magic on the server. Maybe take a look through a few of the magics on the Lord of the Craft wiki and see if you can find one that could possibly lead to your character being left as a "living ragdoll"? You should also clarify what you mean by that, and using existing magic to clarify it is even better. 

The next step in making it really official would be to write a lore post about it. Talking to Lore Masters about making your idea work with the existing lore on the server will ensure that you don't get people saying "How come your character is like that? Is that breaking the rules?"

 

 

Disregard all that and log in and play. Enjoy the game, don't waste time writing useless stuff.

[marimbamonk 1501]

15 minutes ago, Praetor said:

 

Disregard all that and log in and play. Enjoy the game, don't waste time writing useless stuff.

 

This also works.

 

It can be fulfilling to try to come up with cool and interesting stuff to tack-on to your character, but often it becomes just that: a tack-on. 

It's up to you. If you're into writing, and you study up on the lore for the server, what you're writing doesn't become useless. But unless you're willing to commit to it and work with other people to make sure it won't become an unnecessary addition to your character... it will become an unnecessary addition to your character.

 

At the end of the day, if you find yourself writing too much because you want something to enrich your RP, just stop, log in, and play, as Praetor said. As someone who often does what you're trying to do, I've forgotten about that side of things. Often the fulfillment that you're looking for by creating some new, cool thing could easily be achieved by just RPing with other people and creating a storyline that develops your character naturally.

 

Thanks Praetor for your simplistic words of wisdom

[OzYmandi 647]

24 minutes ago, Praetor said:

 

Disregard all that and log in and play. Enjoy the game, don't waste time writing useless stuff.

[Man of Respect 5471]

1 hour ago, TheKrazehSoviet said:

Quiet, brazilian, I'll make you angry with two pictures

[Wendigo 786]

Moved to the Archive. It shall be sorted into the appropriate category shortly.