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    Feeling Regret

    A good way to round out and "get to know" your characters is to put them through various situations and figure out how they would deal with them. In this exercise, choose a character, and write a scene where they deal with feelings of regret. The rest of the details (such as whether or not...
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    Song Girls #1: Janine

    Welcome to Song Girls! this is a series of challenges wherein you create characters based on the ladies from songs with lady name titles! We're starting Canadian and using a Trooper song for installment number one: Janine Think about: Why does she stay silent? What is her relation with...
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    A Character Finds Out They're Pregnant

    A good way to explore more about a character can be to write them in different situations to see how they would react. Doing this, whether in a roleplay or in a side piece, can help you learn more about how they tick. In this challenge, write a scene where a character discovers they are...
  4. Falcon

    The One Word Test: Character Interview #10

    I will ask a series of questions. Your character is confined to single word responses. One word only. The point of this exercise is to convey as much about the character with as few words as possible. Need an example? This video should help explain. Remember you can answer questions...
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    The Protagonists's theory of Flawed Characters

    So, as we know, a character without flaws is a bad character. Typically, the reason why is that "a character without flaws is unrelatable". I actually have an alternative theory: Characters without flaws tend to be bland and predictable. For example: Everybody knows that Luke Skywalker isn't...
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    Meta Knowledge (or '"Sensing" things')

    An uncanny number of roleplay characters seem to possess a sixth sense which allows them knowledge of things they should be clueless about. When ESP is a thing in the roleplay, or when there are subtle clues that the character could feasibly pick up on unconsciously which would make them feel...
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    Dynamic (Changing) Characters

    Flexibility is an important part of roleplay. You need to be able to adapt to twists, new players/partners, and think on your feet - er, fingers. This extends not just into trying new genres and characters, but into the characters themselves! If a character stays the same through the entire...
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    Music Challenge Reboot #2

    Continuing on from last week's music challenge, here is yet another song to use as inspiration for a character! The mood of this song is a bit less cheery, and rather emotional. Hopefully still inspiring though! The objective is simple, and the same as last week; create a character that...
  9. fatalrendezvous

    LESSON Creating Compelling, Engaging, and Relatable Characters

    This is a lesson that I think many writers kind of intrinsically know, but don’t apply often enough. I want to try to educate folks on it because it can DRAMATICALLY change the way we approach and think about roleplay, and enrich our roleplaying experience by creating characters that are much...
  10. Falcon

    The One Word Test: Character Interview #9

    I will ask a series of questions. Your character is confined to single word responses. One word only. The point of this exercise is to convey as much about the character with as few words as possible. Need an example? This video should help explain. Remember you can answer questions...
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    Music Challenge Reboot #1

    It's back in action! Inspired by a previous series of this nature that has since faded out with time, the music challenges are hopefully to be rebooted with new challenges for you every week! Songs will of course vary in mood for some diversity to work those creativity muscles, but this start...
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    5 More Bad Character Personalities (& what makes t

    Dedicated to @Snowday's 5 Bad Character Personalities (& what makes them bad) Thank you for frankly telling all the Citizens of Iwaku the biggest problems in making a Character without a hint of aggression. ____________________________________________ Making Bad Personalities in our RP...
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    Where the Money Goes

    It doesn't matter which genre you are in, your character has to deal with money in their life. How money comes in to their life and leaves it can reveal lots of great details about your character's upbringing, feelings, and skills with money. For this exercise, What does your character do with...
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    Pets

    Pretty simple idea here really, this is an exercise to think about your character's pets! Rather it's a mythological setting with pegasi and talking serpents or a modern setting full of cats, dogs, and fish galore, your character probably has some pets (or at least opinions on them!). In this...
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    Kids of The Apocalypse

    I have a challenge for you! Have you ever thought what it would be like to be a child/teenager in the apocalypse? If you haven't here's your chance! I want you to build a character between the ages of 8-17 that have either grew up in any short apocalyptic world, or has either entered any short...
  16. Brovo

    Characters 101: Roles, relationships, combat, and

    Note: Keep in mind, this is tailored for role plays, not literature! What makes a good character for a player dealing with other players and a GM isn't always true for a single author tale and vice versa! Special thanks to people who attend my roasts: They're in a Skype group and are too...
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    Various Fey

    fair·y ˈferē/ noun a small imaginary being of human form that has magical powers, especially a female one. pix·ie ˈpiksē/ noun 1. a supernatural being in folklore and children's stories, typically portrayed as small and humanlike in form, with pointed ears and a pointed hat, and...
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    Create a Role Model

    The title says it all. Create a profile for someone that people would look up to as a role model. This doesn't necessarily have to be a morally good role model, and xe doesn't actually have to be as good as people think xe is. The character can come close to OP, but please try not to cross...
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    Secretes to Creating Characters Who Are Actually G

    GOOD MORNIN' IWAKUUUUUU!! :-) In case you couldn't figure it out by the title, I'm going to write out a nice little tool for GOOD character creation. We all have those moments when you want to reach through your computer screen and just strangle the living sh*t out of a certain user...
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    Exploring the Archetype #2: Villains

    Roleplayers often strive to make their roleplays as far from archetypal and stereotypical as possible, some even avoid it like the plague. What people sometimes forget is that it's possible to make a perfectly enjoyable story out of archetypes, and that characters don't always have to have...
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