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08-29-2009, 09:08 AM
It been almost 10 years since the marvelous event that brought me to a star trek website where I discovered I could play different species on different ships.
My choice was easy I wanted to play on a klingon ship with a klingon character. But before I could even could do that. I had to apply and fill out some basic information about your "other" self.
Most of the ships ask for some basic info in terms of looks, description and history/biography.
Many players tend to go ahead and fill out these questionares without thinking about the more important factors.
what are those important factor? Well in my boook they are relevance, empathy and ease of writing?
If I have lost you do not be afraid. It took me a while to understand this too. But in reality its fairly easy. You have joined a new game, are unsure of the rules and the last thing that you need is for that character to be hampering your efforts to play because of some quirck you thought sounded cool. So creating a character that has attributes that are relevant to gameplay is good (so probably saying that he hangs out in his quaters all day long is probably not a good trait for your first character, especially if by nature you are outgoing and will end up engaging the other players).
In order to write it is important that you have empathy towards your character and that you are able to relate to him or perhaps to the plight that has befallen him. It is important that the writer be able to write about a problem that the character has to face and overcome. This will give the player an opportunity to further develop a character on his own or with the help of other players. Perhaps you have an over bearing parent and would like to write or perhaps you are an outsider who just moved to new school, or a newcomer at a job. All those things are thing you could write about.
This leads into the ease of writing. Whenever deciding to create your character, think about how difficult it will be to write about that character. Dont pick a character with attributes or backgrounds you dont know anything about. The last thing you want to do is create somebody whose background you will have to constantly research or worse where the premise of the character is implausible.
My choice was easy I wanted to play on a klingon ship with a klingon character. But before I could even could do that. I had to apply and fill out some basic information about your "other" self.
Most of the ships ask for some basic info in terms of looks, description and history/biography.
Many players tend to go ahead and fill out these questionares without thinking about the more important factors.
what are those important factor? Well in my boook they are relevance, empathy and ease of writing?
If I have lost you do not be afraid. It took me a while to understand this too. But in reality its fairly easy. You have joined a new game, are unsure of the rules and the last thing that you need is for that character to be hampering your efforts to play because of some quirck you thought sounded cool. So creating a character that has attributes that are relevant to gameplay is good (so probably saying that he hangs out in his quaters all day long is probably not a good trait for your first character, especially if by nature you are outgoing and will end up engaging the other players).
In order to write it is important that you have empathy towards your character and that you are able to relate to him or perhaps to the plight that has befallen him. It is important that the writer be able to write about a problem that the character has to face and overcome. This will give the player an opportunity to further develop a character on his own or with the help of other players. Perhaps you have an over bearing parent and would like to write or perhaps you are an outsider who just moved to new school, or a newcomer at a job. All those things are thing you could write about.
This leads into the ease of writing. Whenever deciding to create your character, think about how difficult it will be to write about that character. Dont pick a character with attributes or backgrounds you dont know anything about. The last thing you want to do is create somebody whose background you will have to constantly research or worse where the premise of the character is implausible.