- Invitation Status
- Posting Speed
- 1-3 posts per week
- One post per week
- Slow As Molasses
- Online Availability
- Afternoons and evenings, some weekends.
- Writing Levels
- Intermediate
- Adept
- Advanced
- Prestige
- Douche
- Adaptable
- Preferred Character Gender
- Male
- Female
- Primarily Prefer Male
- Primarily Prefer Female
- Genres
- Fantasy, Science Fiction, Post Apocalypse, Horror, Romance, Survival...
@Staff: Keep in mind that (with Diana's permission and Astaroth overlooking it) I'm posting threads in GC first, leaving them there for a week, and then moving them to RP Help & Discussion after! This way, my demographics threads can have the widest breadth of community input without asking for unfair administration favouratism. Thanks.
Special Thanks: @Hana & @RedWillow who are helpers on the Demographics project.
Credit goes to @RedWillow for creating the banner.
Question: How much depth do you load your characters with from the start of a role play?
Clarity: That is, how much information do you put into your characters from the beginning? Do you fill them with tons of expository dialogue, a biography a mile long, and 6 different information fields about their eyes? Or do you make characters with a minimalistic amount of information, where the only thing people know about them is their name? This question does assume that you have the choice whether or not to put a large amount of detail into your characters from the start.
Additional Questions
Special Thanks: @Hana & @RedWillow who are helpers on the Demographics project.
Demographics threads are, essentially, an attempt to record the community's thoughts and feelings on RP-related subject matter via a series of votes. Iwaku's tastes, habits, et cetera. If you want further information on prior demographics threads, you can find the demographics hub thread here. (There are twelve other Demographics Polls to check stats on & vote in so far!)
Demo threads are not an appropriate place for hardcore multipage debates. You can ask questions about each other's positions, but keep them professional in tone. Otherwise, the spirit of the demographics threads will be lost. They're meant to sample the community and put it into an easily digestible form of numbers that anybody can look at later when creating their own RP threads or when curious about Iwaku's general demographics. If you're really interested in discussing the subject matter, create your own discussion thread. I would be delighted if demographics threads started to spawn further topics of interest by the community itself.
Demo threads are not an appropriate place for hardcore multipage debates. You can ask questions about each other's positions, but keep them professional in tone. Otherwise, the spirit of the demographics threads will be lost. They're meant to sample the community and put it into an easily digestible form of numbers that anybody can look at later when creating their own RP threads or when curious about Iwaku's general demographics. If you're really interested in discussing the subject matter, create your own discussion thread. I would be delighted if demographics threads started to spawn further topics of interest by the community itself.
- A. Pace: 2
- B. Politics: 2
- C. Mechanics: 1
- D. Power Levels: 3
- E. RP Completion: 3
- F. Character Depth: 6 (Winner--Most votes!)
- G. Romance: Pursuer vs Pursued: 2
- H. Good vs Evil: 3
- I. Surprise me: 1
Question: How much depth do you load your characters with from the start of a role play?
Clarity: That is, how much information do you put into your characters from the beginning? Do you fill them with tons of expository dialogue, a biography a mile long, and 6 different information fields about their eyes? Or do you make characters with a minimalistic amount of information, where the only thing people know about them is their name? This question does assume that you have the choice whether or not to put a large amount of detail into your characters from the start.
Additional Questions
- Q. How long was the most detailed character you ever created?
- Q. How much value do you put into details at the beginning?
- Q. Do you reveal all the details of your characters from the start, or keep some things secret but developed, or let your characters develop over time?
- Q. How detailed do you like character sheets to be?
- Q. (1x1 RP's): Would you say that you make your characters with more or less depth in the beginning of RP's than most of your partners? Do you like this, dislike this, or does it matter at all to you?
- Q. (Groups RP's): Would you say that detail in a character is a factor to whether or not they would be approved? Why or why not?
- A. Pace. (How fast RP's go/how fast you and the rest of the community post on average.) (Single-choice poll.)
- B. Politics. (New topic expansion: Polling to see the community's general interest in how politics manifests in role playing.) (Single or Multiple choice poll.)
- C. Mechanics. (New topic expansion: Polling to see the community's general interest in how artificial mechanics like dice rolls and stats influence role playing.) (Single or Multiple choice poll.)
- D. Power Levels. (As a follow up to "Genres" and "Character Archetypes." Has to do with the average level of power player characters possess.) (Single choice poll.)
- E. RP Completion. (As a follow up to "Longevity." Has to do with how many have successfully completed role plays, and/or how many completed role plays they have.) (Single choice poll.)
- F. Romance: Pursuer vs Pursued. (Specific follow up to "Romance." Has to do with whether someone prefers to be pursued or do the pursuing in romantic arcs. Will be gender divided for further clarity and curiosity.) (Single choice poll.)
- G. Good vs Evil. (Specific follow up to "Villainy." Has to do with the proportion of characters created which players perceive to be good or evil, or who fall somewhere in between.) (Single choice poll.)
- H. Relationship Types. (Follow up to "Character Depth." Has to do with the types of relationships characters can get involved with and their general popularity.) (Multiple Choice.)
- I. Surprise me. (None of the above.)