02-23-2014, 03:04 PM
I don't mean to intrude, I was linked to this thread.
If I may just throw in my two cents, I would like to say I love creating characters. While I love compelling and rich settings, the actual process of creating them is not something that enthralls me. Rather it's actually populating the settings that I love to do. I love to take the events, politics, histories, and other "rules" of a setting, throw them in a slot machine, pull the lever and see what comes up!
If I may, take most of the Vault Hunters from Borderlands. All of them are a bizarre combination of build, skill, quirks, and motivation. Gaige is a robotics child prodigy who was expelled from school for her science project killing a classmate. Salvador is a steroid abusing native of Pandora out for revenge. Maya is a formerly worshipped telekinetic looking for answers as to her true nature. I could describe them, other residents of Pandora, and characters from other franchises in paragraphs without mentioning their names.
In many ways, I'm thankful for OA's breadth, because it allows possibly thousands of character archetypes to fit into the unmentioned places in history.
If I may just throw in my two cents, I would like to say I love creating characters. While I love compelling and rich settings, the actual process of creating them is not something that enthralls me. Rather it's actually populating the settings that I love to do. I love to take the events, politics, histories, and other "rules" of a setting, throw them in a slot machine, pull the lever and see what comes up!
If I may, take most of the Vault Hunters from Borderlands. All of them are a bizarre combination of build, skill, quirks, and motivation. Gaige is a robotics child prodigy who was expelled from school for her science project killing a classmate. Salvador is a steroid abusing native of Pandora out for revenge. Maya is a formerly worshipped telekinetic looking for answers as to her true nature. I could describe them, other residents of Pandora, and characters from other franchises in paragraphs without mentioning their names.
In many ways, I'm thankful for OA's breadth, because it allows possibly thousands of character archetypes to fit into the unmentioned places in history.