Difference between revisions of "CharGen"
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− | <center><font size=5 face=Gaelic color=#00004C>'''CharGen Help Guide'''</font><br><font size=3 face=Gaelic color=#00004C><br>'''We understand that CharGen can be tough on a new site, so we're always willing to help. This guide should give you some easy to follow steps for making it as painless as possible to get started on your own.'''<br><br>'' | + | <center><font size=5 face=Gaelic color=#00004C>'''CharGen Help Guide'''</font><br><font size=3 face=Gaelic color=#00004C><br>'''We understand that CharGen can be tough on a new site, so we're always willing to help. This guide should give you some easy to follow steps for making it as painless as possible to get started on your own.'''<br><br>''Please remember as you play that we use [http://www.evilhat.com/home/fate-core/ Evil Hat's] Fate System, including '''Fate Core, Dresden Fate Accelerated, and The Fate Tooklit''' at this site.''</font></center> |
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|style="color:#000;"| {{tab}}This first room is where character creation begins. Here, you decide and define the basic character ideas which will guide you through the rest of the process. | |style="color:#000;"| {{tab}}This first room is where character creation begins. Here, you decide and define the basic character ideas which will guide you through the rest of the process. | ||
− | While in this room, type ''+show'' to see the current layout of your Mantle, High Concept, | + | While in this room, type ''+show'' to see the current layout of your Mantle, High Concept, and name. For those intending to have multiple Mantles, please choose your primary Mantle in this room. |
:*If you are creating an Alternate PC, please see our rules regarding Alts here: [[Alts]] | :*If you are creating an Alternate PC, please see our rules regarding Alts here: [[Alts]] | ||
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This is the limit of what can be done in The Beginning. To do more, please use +concept to submit your concept and once it's approved you can move on to the next room. | This is the limit of what can be done in The Beginning. To do more, please use +concept to submit your concept and once it's approved you can move on to the next room. | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#03104F; font-size: 120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #D4D4D4; text-align:left; color:#D4D4D4; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">Step 2: Background</h2> | ||
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+ | | style="color: #000;"|{{tab}}Once your concept has been approved, you can move on to the second room of CharGen, the Background room. This room is where you define your character's background and personality, in more precise detail than given by the relatively simple combination of Mantle, High Concept and Trouble. This is where you work through the five sections. Each is a defined section of your character's background, a part of your past which has formed who you are now. | ||
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+ | We do ask that you avoid adding characters from the Dresden Files books, or being from Chicago, since this messes with the plot staff. | ||
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+ | Note: We only require that you add background sections 1-3 to your Character's page. Sections 4 and 5 will occur naturally during the course of RP on the site. | ||
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+ | The background sections are to be set up in the following sequence: | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin: 0; background: #03104F; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #D4D4D4; text-align: left; color: #D4D4D4; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">BG 1: Where did you come from?</h2> | ||
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+ | | style="color: #000;"|{{tab}}This section asks some questions such as: Where did you come from? Which nation? Who are your family? Are they rich, poor, isolated, educated? How well does your character relate to his family? | ||
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+ | ''+bgadd 1=I was born in 1945, a time of change for the world in several ways, in Indiana. My family was a small one to begin with, and depleted early through death. I was left alone and chose to vent my fury by joining the army. Vietnam was my next stop, where everything changed for me, my discovery of my werewolf nature happening during that hell.'' | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin: 0; background: #03104F; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #D4D4D4; text-align: left; color: #D4D4D4; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">BG 2: What shaped you into what you are now?</h2> | ||
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+ | | style="color: #000;"|{{tab}}This is the part of your character's life where your High Concept first truly came to the fore, showing when they most clearly defined who and what they were. | ||
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+ | ''+bgadd 2=My coming of age coincided with the Vietnam war, and I went there a boy, lacking in faith and wisdom, and returned as a man, complete in my spirit and my Beast, as one. I changed during a battle, at a moment of stress, when all was lost. When I came to myself I had slaughtered not only the enemy but those around me.'' | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin: 0; background: #03104F; font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; border: 1px solid #D4D4D4; text-align: left; color: #D4D4D4; padding: 0.2em 0.4em;">BG 3: What was your first adventure?</h2> | ||
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+ | | style="color: #000;"|{{tab}}This was the first true 'adventure' in your character's life. If you imagine your character as an action hero, then this would be the first movie you starred in. While the Rising Conflict was when you defined your High Concept, the Story is when your character first really lived it. You'll need to come up with the basic details of this story, but this can be kept simple, perhaps even in the format of a 'story skeleton': | ||
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+ | When (something happens), (your protagonist) (pursues a goal). But will (your protagonist) succeed when (antagonist provides opposition)? | ||
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+ | While simple, this skeleton is also quite powerful when put into effect. For example: | ||
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+ | '''Example:''' | ||
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+ | When a series of grisly supernatural murders tears through Chicago, wizard Harry Dresden sets out to find the killer. But will Harry succeed when he finds himself pitted against a dark wizard, a Warden of the White Council, a vicious gang war, and the Chicago Police Department? | ||
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+ | ! <h2 style="margin:0; background:#03104F; font-size:120%; font-weight:bold; border:1px solid #D4D4D4; text-align:left; color:#D4D4D4; padding:0.2em 0.4em;">BG 4: What's really important to you?</h2> | ||
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+ | | style="color: #000;"|{{tab}}This might seem like a simple question, but the things we value most in life tend to define us in very specific ways. | ||
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+ | '''Example:''' | ||
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+ | Joe has collected a huge amount of memorabilia for the last 3 centuries, all of which is based around the Chicaco Cubs. The most important item he has, however, is his signed baseball glove from when he was a child. The entirety of the 1987 cubs signed it after a particularly great game, and the memories keep him quite happy in his worst moments. Of all the things he could lose, that one thing would harm him the most. | ||
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