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Re: Anthony-esque (was Re: Sigh... boredom)
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Mon, 5 Feb 2001 08:29:46 GMT
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In lugnet.castle, Anthony Sava writes:
> In lugnet.castle, Ed T. Toton III writes:
> > > Yeah, I'm an action too. Anthony-esque - to wantonly fill your website • with
> > > thousands of useless characters. :)
> >
> > Mine must be quickly becoming "anthony-esque" then.. For
> > instance, I think I have too many mages.. I only got about half
> > way through them before I ran out of ideas for their bios. I'll
> > probably think of something tomorrow (too tired and sick
> > right now), but I really didn't want to get into something like
> > "this is another powerful mage" and "this is yet another mage,
> > blah blah blah" :)
> >
> > --
> > -Bones-
> > = http://www.necrobones.com/ = NecroBones Enterprises
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> I've had that problem many times, coming up with new characters and having no
> clue what to do with them. Though my real problem lies in coming up with
> names, sometimes I do have problems coming up with a bio for a character. So
> if you want, I'll give you a tip. Like everyone is just DIEING to know how I
> come up with it all.
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> Anyway, my trick to coming up with a new character who is different from all
> the other characters (hopefully) is to do either one of two things.
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> One trick, though I don't use it too often, is to model a character around
> someone I know, or another character. I try no to do this just because some
> people don't like being characterized and most pre-existing characters are
> copyrighted in one way or another.
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> The other trick I use, which I use most commonly, is to find a single character
> mental or physical feature, say like a hatred for clowns, or a nervous twitch
> or a large disfiguring scar, and writing the character around that. You'd be
> surprised how much you can come up with for a charcter this way. After all,
> that character must have gone through some pretty hairy stuff to hate clowns,
> or what kind of battle he got into to get his scar.
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> As for my names, I'll be frank, or maybe I'll be Pawel just this once, I know
> I'll be Joel sometime next month. I come up with most of my names by just
> stamping my fingers on the keyboard and pulling out letter combonations that
> look or sound good and build on them. Though I do try not to have too many
> characters with their names starting or ending the same. But when you have as
> many characters as I do, that gets hard.
One great source for names, is get a baby name book.... they're great...
most have a meaning for the name and origin too.... : )
Being that Myself and Andrea... my wife... are very into early medieval
stuff, we have aquired alot of great books, just picked up a book "
Arthurian, Myth & Legend - An A-Z of People and Places" Which is the
GREATEST.... it has medieval names of people and places, and a detailed
history and description on who what why and when.... Plus we just picked up
a 5 book series of Witches & Witchcraft, Goddesses, Celt's, Merlin and Myths
& Magic... or then there's numerous websites....
Kev... : )
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| (...) know (...) that (...) many (...) have as (...) Myths (...) That Arthurian book sounds good. I think I've seen it before, and now I might have to add that to my collection of medieval and renaissance books. I've been meaning to get a baby-name (...) (24 years ago, 5-Feb-01, to lugnet.castle)
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