Character Creation philosophy

[made]

First I pick the portraits that most closely resemble my favorite fantasy heroes (Raistlin, Drizzt, Conan, etc.) then I assign them a class and customize their stats to match the character (like, Raistlin is very smart, but has low strength and stamina). It puzzles me why anyone would do it any other way.

 

[Mastermind]

First I pick the portraits that most closely resemble my favorite fantasy heroes (Raistlin, Drizzt, Conan, etc.) then I assign them a class and customize their stats to match the character (like, Raistlin is very smart, but has low strength and stamina). It puzzles me why anyone would do it any other way.

The characters I make up are vastly superior to the other shit out there, both obscure and mainstream.

Too bad virtually every game other than Arcanum and Daggerfall have shit character creators while those two are virtually unplayable.

 

[made]

First I pick the portraits that most closely resemble my favorite fantasy heroes (Raistlin, Drizzt, Conan, etc.) then I assign them a class and customize their stats to match the character (like, Raistlin is very smart, but has low strength and stamina). It puzzles me why anyone would do it any other way.

The characters I make up are vastly superior to the other shit out there, both obscure and mainstream.

I call bullshit on that claim. Raistlin > any character you could ever conceive.

 

[Shannow]

I make a character that is as powerfulcompetent as possible in the role he supposed to have.

 

[Radisshu]

Depends on how the RPG is designed

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

"I try to make interesting characters and enjoy watching the game unfold based on the character I made (classical RPG player)"

Storyfag option also occasionally. Most of the time I just make a character and gimp myself in some way on purpose just because I want to play a pure fighter or pure wizard or whatever the hell. Last time I made a character purposefully as powerful as possible was when I was playing KotOR1 7 times I believe. Was doing smuggler for sneak attacks and jedi-fighter for leap so I could leap sneak attack.

 

[TNO]

Out of all the games you could try and power-game, you pick KOTOR? I bite my thumb at you sir. I'm pretty sure you could win any combat on normal with auto-attack.

 

[Mastermind]

Last time I made a character purposefully as powerful as possible was when I was playing KotOR1 7 times I believe. Was doing smuggler for sneak attacks and jedi-fighter for leap so I could leap sneak attack.

Wouldn't it be better to go scoundrel -> consular so you can stun them and turn every subsequent attack into a sneak attack?

 

[Excidium]

Much cooler to train double-bladed lightsaber and flurry. It's like being a ventilator of death.

 

[Oriebam]

I make characters thinking of power/meta-game and LARPing... but in general I find the character systems in every game a bit disappointing, kind of like when you meet an invisible wall or some sort of map boundary, know what I'm saying?

 

[Sceptic]

Four would be nice, but since so few games actually let you do it I can't pick it up as an option.

I'm somehow between 2 and 3, with more shift towards 2, unless the game is heavily geared towards story. I think PST is really the only game I play as 3 actually, even with Fallout I played as a combination.

 

[mondblut]

b) Did play BG2... all of which had full party creation and were released past '97.

 

[Jaesun]

Depends on how the RPG is designed

This.

 

[cogar48]

I'm always a storyfag who dumps all points into social skills.

 

[hakuroshi]

While I like to follow classic RPG approach, my first characters are always munchkins so I picked egofag option.

If I replay a game, then I may create a different build which is not nesessary powerful or efficient.

 

[Multiple Sarcasm]

If there were still cRPGs made that accommodated option 4 in meaningful ways, I would've picked that.
But since the best to hope for in character builds is entertaining yourself with combat, I just go for the Option 2 (tacticsfag), so I don't fall asleep performing the same 1-2 maneuvers through the whole damn game.

And "control over the story"? It may sound all edgy and stuff, but I can't recall a single game in the last decade the story of which gripped me enough to make me want to willingly take part in it. It's all either boring old cliches or uninspiring attempts at epic emofaggotry. Bleh.
PS: VtMB had an okay - if themepark-ridiculous, by WoD setting - story. But the player had pretty much no control over any of it, bar the epilogue, so it's irrelevant to the 3rd option.

 

[Multi-headed Cow]

Much cooler to train double-bladed lightsaber and flurry. It's like being a ventilator of death.

Yeah, I did that too. Pissed me off when Obsidian nerfed attacks per round in KotOR2

 

[Wyrmlord]

I make a character that is as powerfulcompetent as possible in the role he supposed to have.

So you don't necessarilly want a mage that may be better in fighting than a fighter but bad in spellcasting?

But can't that sometimes be a good idea? You start out the game thinking that spellcasting is the way to go and defeat early enemies with spells. Once things change, you decide to put on some plate armour and longswords.

Frankly, that's how I think many RPGs were meant to be played. In my first playthroughs of Daggerfall and Fallout, the character I had halfway into the game was very different in purpose from the character I was building at the beginning.

 

[DwarvenFood]

First I pick the portraits that most closely resemble my favorite fantasy heroes (Raistlin, Drizzt, Conan, etc.) then I assign them a class and customize their stats to match the character (like, Raistlin is very smart, but has low strength and stamina). It puzzles me why anyone would do it any other way.

The characters I make up are vastly superior to the other shit out there, both obscure and mainstream.

I call bullshit on that claim. Raistlin > any character you could ever conceive.

“‘Raistlin! You have on black robes! How wonderful! Can I touch them? Oh, all right. You needn’t glare at me like that. It’s just that they look so soft. Say, does this mean you’re truly bad now? Can you do something evil for me, so I can watch? I know! I saw a wizard summon a demon once. Could you do that? Just a small demon? You could send him right back. No?’ Tas sighed in disappointment.”

Anyway,

I seem to always create the same (main) character in every game I play, be it true RPG or ARPG or Hack n Slash.. Just trying to come as close as I can to that ideal character that I have in mind. It changes slightly over time, Ranger, Ranger/Thief.. back to pure ranger.. with maybe different alinements to see what would work best storywise and for what I would hope to see unfold during gameplay.

Never been much of a power-player, I usually go for what feels right and then if I'm not allowed to use that super powerful Good-only sword, then so be it.

 

[made]

“‘Raistlin! You have on black robes! How wonderful! Can I touch them? Oh, all right. You needn’t glare at me like that. It’s just that they look so soft. Say, does this mean you’re truly bad now? Can you do something evil for me, so I can watch? I know! I saw a wizard summon a demon once. Could you do that? Just a small demon? You could send him right back. No?’ Tas sighed in disappointment.”

Indeed. But let us marvel at a few select quotes from the Master Magus himself:

What magic exists that could be powerful enough to banish the knowledge from my heart that I had once been loved. Not even death can do so much.

I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment in my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.

So dark. Endless darkness, eternal. It was not the absence of light that was so frightening as the absence of thought, of knowledge, of comprehension. Our lives, the lives of the living will go on. The sun shines, the moons rise, we will laugh and talk, and he will know nothing, feel nothing. Nothing. So final. It will come to us all. It will come to me.

In my sight, it is always winter, always night.

Someday, fat innkeepers will bow to me.

And bow they did.

 

[ChristofferC]

Storyfag or egofag depending on the game.

 

[Demnogonis Saastuttaja]

I like versatile characters, fighter/mages and such.

 

[ChristofferC]

b) Did play BG2... all of which had full party creation and were released past '97.

??? BG2 does have full party creaton and it was released past '97.

 

[Mastermind]

Much cooler to train double-bladed lightsaber and flurry. It's like being a ventilator of death.

stasis/insanity + sneak attack does not preclude double-bladed lighsabers and flurry. In fact they work quite well together.

 

[mondblut]

BG2 does have full party creaton