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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: FuSoYa on February 10, 2009, 09:38:28 PM

Title: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: FuSoYa on February 10, 2009, 09:38:28 PM
You read the title so you know what to do...

I think I'm going to be swang-a-lang-danglin' my ass back into Zalanthas and I need to get the link to that old, sometimes broken website that had all words and synonyms for various parts of the bodies and what not.  Anyone got the link lyin' 'round?

Brandon
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Cutthroat on February 10, 2009, 09:39:27 PM
This one?

http://web.archive.org/web/20010803151936/http://www.ci-n.com/~darklyn/armageddon/char.html
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: FuSoYa on February 10, 2009, 09:44:08 PM
Ahh!

That's the one, I really do love that site.  Thanks Cutty.

Brandon
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Vessol on February 10, 2009, 09:46:37 PM
On the other hand, you don't need to go to web archive to view it.

http://www.ci-n.com/armageddon/char.html
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Qzzrbl on February 10, 2009, 09:50:12 PM
We really should have a link to this somewhere on the main site.
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: SMuz on February 10, 2009, 09:54:21 PM
Uh, please don't randomly pick out descriptions. Rather, get something that suits what you want to make. I've seen a few characters IG that have two seemingly random adjectives pasted together and it looks.. weird.

The jaundiced-eyed, spiky-hair half-giant. Ack. Hmm.. perfectly normal PC description, though.
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Archbaron on February 10, 2009, 09:56:11 PM
Quote from: Qzzrbl on February 10, 2009, 09:50:12 PM
We really should have a link to this somewhere on the main site.
We should have a community activity where we revamp the list, add and remove stuff, the publish it publicly to go with mansa's guide. We can make it a whole guide to making a character, since the guide on the web site is outdated (it still says that applications asks for keywords).
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Archbaron on February 10, 2009, 09:57:14 PM
Quote from: SMuz on February 10, 2009, 09:54:21 PM
Uh, please don't randomly pick out descriptions. Rather, get something that suits what you want to make. I've seen a few characters IG that have two seemingly random adjectives pasted together and it looks.. weird.

The jaundiced-eyed, spiky-hair half-giant. Ack. Hmm.. perfectly normal PC description, though.

the effeminate, brutish-muscled man
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: FuSoYa on February 10, 2009, 09:58:38 PM
Quote from: SMuz on February 10, 2009, 09:54:21 PM
Uh, please don't randomly pick out descriptions. Rather, get something that suits what you want to make. I've seen a few characters IG that have two seemingly random adjectives pasted together and it looks.. weird.

The jaundiced-eyed, spiky-hair half-giant. Ack. Hmm.. perfectly normal PC description, though.


You talkin' to me hombre?

Jus' cause I prefer to pick my characters descriptions by throwing darts at my adjective wall don't make me any less o' a man.

Brandon

P.S.  Your link didn't work for me Vessol.

EDIT: It worked when I copy pasted.
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: RogueGunslinger on February 10, 2009, 10:05:42 PM
Quote from: SMuz on February 10, 2009, 09:54:21 PM
Uh, please don't randomly pick out descriptions. Rather, get something that suits what you want to make. I've seen a few characters IG that have two seemingly random adjectives pasted together and it looks.. weird.

The jaundiced-eyed, spiky-hair half-giant. Ack. Hmm.. perfectly normal PC description, though.


Your sdesc is basically how people will see your character, for their rest of their lives. Picking what you want to be perceived as is a good idea.
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Majikal on February 11, 2009, 04:01:54 PM
It does make me hurl when I see that fella way off by the roadside with some funked up word that's a vague reference to a synonym of a latin word translated in spanish and randomized and I have to do a google to see if the guys a short scrawny piece of shit, a muscled brute, scarred and nasty or his sdesc merely references his ponytail.

Ps- everytime I see some ridiculously wierd word in a sdesc.. know that for 5 seconds all I can think about is dropkicking you into a cactus... then it passes.. and all is good again.

/rant
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: spawnloser on February 11, 2009, 04:11:44 PM
Quote from: Majikal on February 11, 2009, 04:01:54 PM
Ps- everytime I see some ridiculously wierd word in a sdesc.. know that for 5 seconds all I can think about is dropkicking you into a cactus... then it passes.. and all is good again.
QFMFT

"the longitudinous, pulchitrudinous man" FTL
Title: Re: Fishing for a web-fish.
Post by: Morgenes on February 11, 2009, 04:44:28 PM
Question has been answered, locking.