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I've always hated RP's that ask you to state your personality in the profile, and has been one of the main things which has turned me off of RPs. The problem is that by asking for a personality type it sets things down in stone, and forbids extenuating circomstances and character developement. I don't so much worry about Power playing (What you would call Ms Cleoing), mostly because someone saying "You look like this sort of person!" doesn't seem like as big a deal to me as them going "You're weak to this! Ha! I know all!"

And for the most part stats are a pain, but only when you go with a concrete number system. I actually helped build two site wide RP's in the past, one which used a number system and another where we tried something different. For the stat system everything was a hassle because we had to come up with formulas for every type of damage as well as damage bonuses for every single weapon we could think up or had suggested to us. We soon found out that dumping all your points into strength and endurance made you a beast in combat, and that broke our entire system.

The other RP we made (Also site wide. This one never really passed the conception stage, so we ended up remaking the sites old Arena) used what my friend called the Special system. Basically, you had a list of attributes such as strength, agility, intelligence ect ect and you just went through and chose one stat that you were exceptional at, two that you were good at, several which you were average at, and I think it was two which you were bad at. It was designed to help people think through their character and how they would approach a fight (Intelligence/magic, Archery/speed, Melee/speed, or melee/strength ect ect) and set guides for their character without making this huge hard to maintain system.

It also allowed for change to happen, because thats what should happen during an RP... Change.

And I have no idea why there is no birthsign included... I just put mine next to my name.

And I have problems with Alignments for a completely different reason than you do. My problem is more that you're once more setting a pair of rails for your character to follow. You're forcing him to follow a track that he might not want to take.

That and Oblivion wasn't really set up as Good Versus Evil, and though I might have problems with aspects of the game (Including its realism XD I am going to mention this alot in the future to be annoying.) I respected the fact that its side quests weren't designed as GOOD VERSUS EVIL! And that the main quest offered a sense of ambiguity, because both a good and an evil character would want to keep existence from ending.

And I always saw class as more of a "What do you think he is?" rather than a skill set. Because not all knights used sword and shield. Some liked the axe, some were better at archery, some liked the spear and maul, and others were pure horsemen.

I could post it one paragraph at a time if that would make it easier to read XD

Going by that butchering of my format, its so plain and boring xD. At least the appearance format within there had it where can slowly describe things on their exterior. No one ever wears the same s**t, so a clothing sense is never a bad or really revealing thing to put out.

Obviously Faction and Rank are good to have. On rank can enlist your standings in each group your aligned with. If it comes to disclosing info, then why state the rpc's Gender Preference?

"The way I view a profile is basically something you could find out by looking at them" - With this statement are you telling me, automatically you know their preference gender wise? Not to be rude, but just saying in terms of the current profile format.

Yes not necessary but a good factor was my lil weapon information format. Yes you can say what it is, but with more detail on the weaponry, people can visualize it better at times. Same could be said if you make one for armor.

Anyway I'll drop the subject if anything, however I plan to make my profile in a more in depth way. Keep it mostly in how Cold made it, with a few modifications of my own. If people take advantage, so be it!

Are you suggesting that for only me or everyone? Because if its the latter that is completely understandable, allowing the mods access the full information. I would regardless save it somewhere, considering I would like to view my full profile xD.

This would likely be the theme for my character, Krazs Gro-Barog

Sounds like something sagacious, but yeah I would say its benefical. Guess it's up to the higher ups, but if they agree could make one up to how they want made. Simply have fun crafting characters, so profiles are easy for me.


Have no problem stating it, my character is a hand to hand combat expert/master. He says screw weapons, he uses his fist. As to how it would go in a rp, guess gonna see for yourself xD

edit: My true theme song for him xD

Why do I feel like posting big right now? This worries me. I'm turning into... into... ROBERT JORDAN!