Today we are going to look into character background but if you are new to this series here’s the deal. From The Ground Up is a series of blog posts aimed at helping you create a roleplay character from the ground up. These guides are mostly geared towards creating characters for roleplay within the World of Warcraft, but the basic principals could likely be used for character creation for a variety of different games both online and on table top, perhaps even for fiction writing. You can find the index for this series here for easy navigation of the other parts. FTGU Series Index
Beyond Basics Series Index
Beyond Basics is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of roleplay beyond the basics of character creation within an MMO setting. For our purposes this setting is World of Warcraft but it can be useful in others too. This series will look at things like plots, storylines, and conversations. As well as the world and community around you as a player in an MMO. Explaining how you can best make use of that; and how it might differ from roleplay on tabletop games for example.
This post stands as the index page. Below you will find an indexed list of links to all the parts of this series to make it easier to find what you need. If you would like to keep up to date with all our upcoming posts you can sign up to our mailing list on the right-hand side of the screen or at the bottom of this post.
From The Ground Up Series Index
From the ground up is a series of blog posts aimed at helping you create a roleplay character from the ground up. Additionally, these guides are mostly geared towards creating characters for roleplay within the World of Warcraft. But the basic principals, generally speaking, could likely be used for character creation for a variety of different games; both online and on table-top.
Venerable Villains: The Basics of Bad Guys
Venerable Villains is a series of posts that delve into different aspects of playing a bad guy in roleplay. Villains and bad guys come in a vast range of shapes and formats, but they are rather rare, and to find them done well is even rarer still. They are also essential to any good story-line or plot for breeding conflicts and tensions. We are going to talk about all kinds of villains and how to make them work. If you want to catch up with any of the other sections of this series you can find the index here: Venerable Villains Index Page.
Within World of Wacraft, you can happily and easily content yourself with Blizzard’s pre-made Bad Guys in the form of the Legion, the Scourge, the various cults, and so on. But some folk look for and desire something on a more close and personal basis. Something that can develop and grow, change and adapt to suit their story and within their time frame. This leaves a desire and/or a need for player character (PC) villains; for that personalised and touch and the ability to adapt with a story-line.
As such occasionally people will create a character to stand in as a bad guy for various plots and stories for themselves, their friends or their guilds. And some people will just be drawn by the idea of playing a bad guy even if they don’t have a pre-set need and slot for the character. We are going to talk about all kinds of bad guys here so buckle up and stay tuned.
FTGU: Character Class
From The Ground Up (FTGU) is a series of posts based around character creation and roleplay, building from the ground up, obviously. In this post we’re going to talk about your characters story and their development and how to do that. But if you have missed any parts this far you can catch up with them here:
If you’ve been keeping up with the From The Ground Up series then you may have an idea in mind for your character concept, you may even have a decently fleshed out character at hand, perhaps you have rolled up an avatar perhaps you haven’t yet, but in this installment I’m going to briefly touch the surface of how avatar ‘class’ can reflect into your role-play. If you haven’t caught the previous installments you can catch up below: