New character/Player to Avlis (eep!)
Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2004 8:53 pm
Hi this will be my first full roleplay experience (which I'l do my best not to look to nooby at 
) and I was wondering if anyone could send some advice my way to do with character creation.
As it stands my character will be called Velek Auron, and be a half elf ranger.
Valek grew up in the forest with a family of elves, always trying to pitch for a more adventurous life, but sheltered by his father from the outside world. His mother died at the age of 2, and to this day he can not remember her face.
It soon became apparent though to him that he was 'different' to his friends and family. His features were darker, and rougher than his father, and he quickly out grew them in height. He was the outcast of the elvish families he knew, and never found his place.
Once, on one of his regular strolls around the forest he decided that he was going to find the edge of the forest, and the boundary his father had warned him to avoid. He bid his father farewell and set off on an adventure. After days of walking, he found it. Beyond his home was a world to explore, and all sorts of people lived there, not just elves, but dwarfs, gnomes, and humans. It was then he realised finally what he was, a half-elf half-human hybrid, outcast to all.
Now what I'm mainly asking, is this sort of character, too much of a 'basic' character, 'tried and tested' idea? Obviously this being my first jump into Avlis, I want a character which isn't too hard to roleplay, but which holds some interest in his personality.
A human fighter I would probably say would be the hardest to roleplay due to the fact that its hard to be original enough to create an interesting personality and backstory for one. Whilst an Orc mage requires less of an ability to write backplot for and more of an acting skill to pass off. So I'm trying to strike a happy balance between the two.
So in short any suggestions for improvements, etc. Is this character to overly played, or does it strike a balance I'm looking for?
) and I was wondering if anyone could send some advice my way to do with character creation.As it stands my character will be called Velek Auron, and be a half elf ranger.
Valek grew up in the forest with a family of elves, always trying to pitch for a more adventurous life, but sheltered by his father from the outside world. His mother died at the age of 2, and to this day he can not remember her face.
It soon became apparent though to him that he was 'different' to his friends and family. His features were darker, and rougher than his father, and he quickly out grew them in height. He was the outcast of the elvish families he knew, and never found his place.
Once, on one of his regular strolls around the forest he decided that he was going to find the edge of the forest, and the boundary his father had warned him to avoid. He bid his father farewell and set off on an adventure. After days of walking, he found it. Beyond his home was a world to explore, and all sorts of people lived there, not just elves, but dwarfs, gnomes, and humans. It was then he realised finally what he was, a half-elf half-human hybrid, outcast to all.
Now what I'm mainly asking, is this sort of character, too much of a 'basic' character, 'tried and tested' idea? Obviously this being my first jump into Avlis, I want a character which isn't too hard to roleplay, but which holds some interest in his personality.
A human fighter I would probably say would be the hardest to roleplay due to the fact that its hard to be original enough to create an interesting personality and backstory for one. Whilst an Orc mage requires less of an ability to write backplot for and more of an acting skill to pass off. So I'm trying to strike a happy balance between the two.
So in short any suggestions for improvements, etc. Is this character to overly played, or does it strike a balance I'm looking for?
I took the idea of being a half-elf outcast from the nwn manual which says: "they are outsiders among both cultures", but I kind of over looked Avlis being so tollerent of them 
hehe
