Today I wrote up the creation of a sample character, Edward, Lord Hinton. Trivia mentioned not long ago that she wanted to make sure we had fewer plots in which the player/storyteller had his own character kidnapped and in need of rescue. Accordingly, I'll be making up some NPC hostages for just this reason; I really do think that players kidnap their own heroes more out of laziness than anything else. After all, you seldom have any NPCs on a MUX whom you have authority to kidnap, especially if you would like your heroes to have some personal connection to the victim. Kidnapping another PC, even one made to be kidnapped, is notoriously boring for the victim. Click on the title of this post to see Edward on a small pbwiki I made to hold my notes until a more robust version comes on board.
In other notes, I found an excellent biography of Doctor Nikola, master criminal, Bond-villain-prototype, and wielder of occult powers, which you can find HERE and my copy of Marcus Rowland's Forgotten Futures is acting up, but I hope he can get me through it.
Friday, September 21, 2007
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2 comments:
I doff my hat to you, sir! Edward looks simply perfect, even I can hear him crying out to be kidnapped. What does he look like, if I might ask? =)
For some reason I keep thinking Robert Taylor. Just put him in more of a Victorian proper outfit.
http://silverscreensirens.com/galleries/hunk07.htm
Taylor does make a pretty good gentleman, doesn't he. Thanks for your kind words.
Edward's hardly a masterwork, though; the point of the long post is to show people how to make a character, and to illustrate that it is very easy and does not take very long. You're right: I'll expand his background and give him a proper description when we get a permanent wiki up.
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