Characters you like to play..

[Ritley]

The topic from ask the staff made me interested, in what people like to play, and how they play them.

Personally, I prefer magickers. They're great fun.. love 'em... but since I don't have much karma, I go for warriors, rangers, and assassins. (never played a pickpocket, and only one burglar) I like clans, but also like being a unclanned solo character. My favourite clans, tend to be the great houses of either south or north. Not merchant houses like Salarr. I like playing rough struggling to live types, just comes across as Zalanthian to me...


Favourite race is Dwarf.. easy. Love 'em.. had me best times with 'em. Love their focus.. and if I can RolePlay one thing really well, it's the dwarven focus. (No means to boast) but.. I'm not at all good at roleplaying merchants, or half elves... or city elves, although I'm pretty good with the odd Delf.

How about you?

[mansa]

I like to play Burglars who pretend to be merchants or who pretend to be guards.

[Xygax]

I consider dwarves and desert-elves among the -most- difficult races to play correctly.  Racially-speaking, I -love- humans.  They have such a wide array of possibility on day one, and a human warrior can aspire to nearly anything; something many other race/class combinations cannot lay claim to.

That said, I do love to occasionally play a stealthy type, and I very much enjoyed the one semi-short-lived merchant I've played (also human).

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[Marauder Moe]

I haven't played enough characters to really say what my favorite type is.  All I know is that my current PC is my favorite.

[LauraMars]

Favorites? I haven't tried them all yet!

However, I notice I've a tendency to lean towards Skulking Folk, deviants, and social outcasts, or some combination of these.

Definately not a clan type of girl at the moment, and haven't really been since my first character - which is not to say I haven't played in clans.

Mages have been good to me, fun-wise, but I haven't played enough of any class or race to pass final judgement...

[Larrath]

I'm a magick whore.  The only reason why I haven't tried, like, every kind of magicker out there is that I'd feel guilty about doing that.

Other than that, I usually tend to focus on more social aspects of the game.  I'm a low-combat high-social player, but not by choice.  Give it time, and then I'll plot against the clan you've been building up for eight months and kill you in person.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

I'm very open to all roles except stealth-heavy roles (pickpockets that are actually pickpockets, burglars that are actually burglars). They seem quite difficult, but mostly, the whole fantasy archetype of the artful trap-disarmer never really appealed to me.
The fantasy archetype I've always loved, however, was the magician, the sorcerer, the enchanter. So I love me some magicker characters... but I do make a conscious effort to play non-karma based characters, and honestly, the no-karma characters are definitely just as fun.
If I'm busy, and need to make use of that desert-quit, nothing beats a hard-drinkin', hard-workin' indy ranger.
I enjoy all the races, except muls and half-giants, but I like humans because their accessibility allows me to make them a bit more three-dimensional.
My longest-lived characters are usually clanned human warriors. If I want a real bildungsroman sort of character, I'll make one of those.
Yeah, that about sums it up for me.

[LauraMars]

I'm a magick whore.  The only reason why I haven't tried, like, every kind of magicker out there is that I'd feel guilty about doing that.

I'm going to grow up to be just like Larrath.  I just know it.  :oops:

[ThirdEye]

One word: 'Rinth.

[Larrath]

I'm a magick whore.  The only reason why I haven't tried, like, every kind of magicker out there is that I'd feel guilty about doing that.

I'm going to grow up to be just like Larrath.  I just know it.  :oops:

Most likely, yeah.

I think this means LauraMars' favorite character to play is Larrath.

[marko]

I like playing.. hmm

Political roles.

In-your-face-outrageous roles.

Sometimes I get a desire to be a magicker.  

I guess I like trying a broad spectrum of different roles - I've done everything from a magicker who didn't realize they were a magicker all the way to nobility and templars.

My desert elves were fun.  I played a bard that I enjoy an insane amount (again, if anyone has any desire to speak poems and the like try out a born Circle bard - it's incredibly rewarding).  I've done a few shady types that were successful.  

Typically, the character I like to play after my last one is one that is really different.  So, if I played a noble I go on to a desert elf.  If I played a a Desert Elf I switch to a social role like a bard.  From there I go... well, you get the point.

It's easier to say what I don't enjoy - and that is dwarves.  I really dislike dwarves.  I have a hard time wrapping my mind around their focus and ways.

[Medena]

I don't think I've had enough characters yet to have developed a favourite type. So many characters to play and so little time! I mean, I may only be playing this another 20 years or so.

Until quite recently all of my characters were human, mainly non-combat, mainly stay-in-the-city types.  And now that I have varied from that there are about 100 more characters I want to play.  I've yet to play a magicker and perhaps I should be afraid of the day I do. I don't want to be Larrath and LauraMars. No no no no.    :wink:

[jmordetsky]

Rinthis,Rinthis,Rinthis,Rinthis,Rinthis.

I love rinthis. Love the gangs, the crime, the lingo the culture the knowing someone can kill you whenever they want. Love all of it.

After rinthi, city elves. I like being hated.

After city elves, human or half-elven Bynners.

After that, ungemmed Magickers. But not too much.

Desert Elves bore me. I just don't get dwarves and Gemmed magickers (really magickers in general) just don't float my boat.

[Ktavialt]

I'm sorta big on rogue magickers myself.

[Tamarin]

All my characters are vain attempts to portray the subtle archetypes that make up mansa's psyche.

[Delirium]

I like playing characters that are complete 180's of my last ones.

I like trying out brand new concepts.

So I guess I don't really have a favorite race or class.

What I do love is playing through conflict.  Without conflict, I get bored.

[Intrepid]

I loved playing a psi and I really want to again.

Wind mages...I may have played too many of these, actually.  There is
a great modicum of freedom in playing one, especially when they're
rogues.  I really got a kick out of playing a lightning mage once as well.

In the mundane categories, I love stealthy pcs like Assassins.  Burglars
and Rangers I love because of the sheer grab-bag of skills they have for
seemingly any occasion.

Race-wise, I prefer human, elves of both stripes and half-elves.

In regards to location...Allanak, Cenyr (if I can find it) and especially
Red Storm.

For concept types, I like being in a clan but having some freedom to
move, either as an explorer or a forward agent of some kind.  If worse
comes to worse, I will be a free agent, but I prefer to have some kind of
membership to support an existing clan.  Unfortunately, most of the
classes I choose do not lend themselves well to being political.  If I had
the chance, I would love to play a political psi someday.  Or even a Nilazi
in the political arena.

I know, a crackdream.  But you can't stop me from dreaming.

[Dakkon Black]

I make chars pretty wierd. When I need one I sorta just start flipping a coin to see what comes up, and start picking things, filling in the blanks as I need.

If I could pick just one class though. Mmm, I'd have to go Elkrosian.

[Maybe42or54]

I love to play things that have an overall idea of what I can't do IRL.

I love to play nasty, dirty, Pcs, because I can't be dirty, or nasty.
I love to play Homosexual tendency, "Get it where you can," types, because I don't IRL.

Humans and elves are all I've really played for right now, and all I currently like.

[Kalden]

I pretty much play only 'rinther shady characters and desert elves these days. I've played enough of the others to know that it's not for me. One of these days I'll get the urge to do a human warrior again, but it's just too much time invested at such a slow pace in the clans.

I prefer the classes assassin and ranger, respectively.

[Angela Christine]

I like to wander around.  It is like movement commands are my favorite kind of commands.  That means a lot of rangers, and some magickers who can go different places or see different things.  It also means that my characters live an average of three weeks.   :cry:   If I have a character restricted to the city I've been comforted by wandering around inside the city, if I can come up with an excuse to "patrol" the city on a regular basis.  Spending all my time in just 3 or 4 locations bores me to tears.

While wandering around, I like to make maps with graph paper and pencil crayons.  Not so much to have a map of places I've been, though I do hope to someday compile all my map fragments and make a wall map of the known world, because that would be cool.  The real reason to map is to make the blank spots where I've never been  more obvious.  I try to avoid using text on my maps and just fill them in with colours or tiny drawings, so as to make them more like a map you might actually find in Zalanthas.  I tried Zmud's automapping, but even when I could get the automap to work right it just didn't feel as satisfying as a messy paper map that I can hold in my hand.


Angela Christine, virtual cartographer

[John]

I like playing new character concepts. Political characters from Allanak were a favourite of mine, but lately I've been having so much fun just playing different characters in different locations, I'm going to keep at it for a while. Now seems to be the best time to live in somewhere besides Allanak. Red Storm is lively (for Red Storm) and Luirs Outpost is even livelier. Tuluk I'd say is on par with Allanak.

So yeah, completely new character concepts is my favourite at the moment. Although yeah, I do have my next political character concept in mind and ready to roll, I'm having too much fun outside of Allanak at the moment. That Desert Elf trader? I hope to make him very soon (well, not very soon, but in one or two characters time). And lots of others too, but I don't want to give the concept away

[jstorrie]

I often think I like to play crafters and sneaks, and create them comparitively often, but tend to not enjoy the roles. I like leadership roles as long as they are participatory - so sergeants much less than nobles. I like merchanting if it requires a lot of exploring and wheeling-dealing, but not if it requires tavern-sitting and spam-crafting dresses. I seem to have the most fun playing rangers yet create them the least.

The characters I enjoy the most are the ones who differ greatly from their surroundings, and thus have a complex relationship with their environment and peers. Cowardly or sneaky Bynners, extremely honourable or dishonourable soldiers, thinkers of all types, and heroes or villains. I don't need to stand out externally - one of my favourite characters was essentially the paragon of an obedient Nakki sheep citizen - but I like the potential for active conflict or cognitive dissonance.

I generally prefer characters who have a wide range of freedom, which unfortunately makes the regimented drudgery of nascent soldiers, crafters or magickers very unenjoyable for me. Conversely, when there are a plethora of interesting directions to explore, such as for an independent trader, skilled caster, powerful warrior, or experienced ranger, I am at my best. For about three days, anyway, until I see the mantis and start from the bottom again.

[amoeba]

I like to play characters with either external or internal conflict of some kind.  I don't care much for the chatty social types, mine tend to have a very independent streak about them in some fashion or another and tend to not fit in well with the group. I enjoy exploring, finding things I haven't seen before.

I enjoy playing half-elves because of the limitations the world places on them coupled with their particular mindset.  I enjoy playing desert elves because of their mobility and the tribal culture, the ability to dig into and explore their culture.  I also enjoy how they are so disconnected from the cites and their inhabitants, the culture clash is interesting to me.

I like playing magickers not because of the powers necessarily but because it is so easy to build conflict into them.  Both internal, coming to grips with who they are, and external, being almost universally hated and feared.  Keeping an independent one alive is sometimes quite a challenge.  I also enjoy the discovery aspect of them, seeing what they are capable of.

I'm not much into raw combat. Sparring tends to bore me.  Hunting I do a little better at, but after a point it is too easy to predict the code.  I am not much of a PK'er. I've killed a couple, been pk'ed three times, but it is not what I seek to do.  That being said, I -love- a manhunt. Either hunting or better yet being hunted.  It is the outsmarting another player that I find enjoyable.

The races that don't interest me yet are dwarfs, as I haven't come up with a cool concept yet, and half-giants.  I still can't get a really interesting, playable concept for a half-giant.  I need to try a noble once.  I thought I never would, but I'm slowly warming up to the idea.

[jhunter]

I like to play alot of different things. I sometimes come up with oddball concepts that are really interesting and (I think) interesting for others to interact with. Unfortunately these ones don't last long.  

Sometimes I model pcs after movie/book/tv characters and those are pretty fun too.

Strange thing is that none of my interesting creations last very long. My longest lived pcs have been the most completely blah pcs I've created IMO. Sure, they might've grown over time but they started out really uninteresting.