Character Submission Guidelines
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1. When telling your character's background, please try to be as descriptive and thorough as possible. I'm afraid that DM's are not going to be able to use a character which has only one or two lines of description. They could've just made up Bob the Botanomaner on the spur of the moment rather than look here. So, in order for the archives to be as useful as possible, please try to give, at the very least, a couple of good paragraphs. Any submission that is only two or three sentences long will not be posted. 2. Tell us what is unique about your character. What are your character's driving goals, his ambitions, his darkest secrets...make us want to use the character. I'm afraid submissions that simply state something along the lines of, "Bob was a good kid who learned to be a botanomancer from a kindly, eccentric gnome. After several years of study, he set forth in the world to make his way as a professional botanomancer. Now, he travels with his companions doing botanomancer-like things." will not be posted. Again, this is not something which will be useful to the average DM. They are going to need a more involved, unique background in order to either use them effectively as inpromptu NPCs or develop a storyline with the character as a pivotal NPC. 3. Please do not bother submitting any character whose sole purpose is to screw anything that lives, breathes and walks. I am trying to keep this website at a PG level and sex fiend characters are going to shoot it straight into the X rating. I do not have a CGI script which posts these submissions automatically. I must go in and add each one by hand, so you are not going to be able to slip a sex fiend past me. If you do send me something like that, it will simply be deleted from my list. 4. Don't be afraid to submit fun characters! A character does not have to be a nasty, all-powerful killing machine to be interesting. A well written, first level, pacifist priest is going to be posted way before a badly written, two dimensional, 20th level fighter/mage/thief/priest. It's not about level or power....It's about the character himself. 5. Don't be afraid to submit because you feel that your spelling or grammar isn't good. I understand perfectly that some people, while highly creative, just have a hard time with spelling. I'll be sure to double check all the mechanics of the language and correct them before posting. |
