Character Biographies

[Tiernan]

One of the many things I enjoy about Armageddon are the stories that we share with other players about the characters we played long ago.  The one about your Byn Sergeant who was killed by his own men on a mission, or that time when some evil defiler trapped your character in a stone tower, unleashed a horde of jakhals and watched as your body was ripped limb from limb... ah yes, the memories.

We, as players, tend to put a lot of time, thought, and energy into developing our characters.  We have a background that we construct that starts to tell the story of his/her life.  It's really the first chapter in their biography.  Often there have been times when I wish I had put down in writing some of the really enjoyable moments in my character's life story.  To add another chapter to his biography at a point where everything was still relatively fresh in my mind and the story could be told with all the passion and excitement still with me.

It's with that intention in mind that I've spent the last few weeks working on a fairly robust coding project that would allow us to add new chapters to our character's biography.  I've invested a great deal of effort into getting this system implemented and I sincerely hope that it is welcomed and used in the spirit in which it was designed.

The 'biography' command syntax is outlined in this help-file.

[Delirium]

I LOVE YOU.



That is all.

Edit: Because it didn't look big and bold enough.

[Marauder Moe]

Holy crap!  You guys rock!

It's going to take me forever to enter all the stuff I've already written about my character, though.

[Puppet]

Absolutely fantastic! I've been waiting for something like this. It is immensly appreciated from my end, Tiernan.

[Tamarin]

Wow...amazing.  I'm so glad I've logged 95% of my current PCs game play, so now I can go back and write up a history and put it in.

Is there any maximum character or paragragh length for individual biography entries?

[flurry]

Hey that's really cool.

Just curious: will the bio entries be included in that Wiki history project?

Edit to add:  I think LM just out-Venomzed Venomz (below).

[LauraMars]

THANK YOU, GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ibusoe]

Wow wow wow, muchos gracias.

[rishenko]

Will benders be able to read these biographies?  It would be interesting if they could skim the person's mind, flipping through the mental pages of their past, looking for useful information.

[Hexxaex]

Thanks for giving me a seizure Laura.

[Gaare]

Eyvallah...

[Seeker]

I love this idea.  The best part, if the IMMs choose to read these, is how comically innaccurate they will be from what -really- happened to the PC.


Seeker

[Vesperas]

Snuggly!!!!

[Yokunama]

So, we would write entries as if they were a background?

[Delirium]

I plan to write them like little snippets of flashback stories, myself.

Which I figure you could do for a background as well.

But yeah, you're supposed to write them as if the intended audience was someone learning about your character's backstory.  So, background style.  No using them to keep notes and OOC logs, stuff like that.

[Morgenes]

According to the documentation, these should be written in the same style as backgrounds.   So third person.

[Delirium]

Is there any maximum character or paragragh length for individual biography entries?

Wondering what the character limit is as well.

[Kronibas]

This is an aweosme who to the game.  Yes!

[EvilRoeSlade]

According to the documentation, these should be written in the same style as backgrounds.   So third person.

...

I don't write my backgrounds in third person.

[LauraMars]

Thanks for giving me a seizure Laura.

YOU'RE WELCOME

[Morgenes]

*looks back at the backround text that's shown when characters are created*

*looks at the background examples on the website*

Well, alright apparently there isn't a third-person requirement, that just seems to be the majority of what we get.  So until we make it a requirement, I'd say that just keep it consistent.  If you wrote your background in 3rd person, use 3rd person in your bio entries.  And vice versa, if you used 1st person in the background, keep using it in your bio entries.

[EvilRoeSlade]

Well, thanks for clearing that up.

[Bebop]

Awesome, not to mention this will lessen confusion for an IMM if they pop in and think why is this person doing this?  It helps outline the slow progression of a character from beginning to end.  That's really awesome.

[Cyrian20]

Can mindbenders read them?

[Marauder Moe]

I don't think anyone should ask or tell what mindbenders can or can't do.