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The Anti Munch Project is all about roleplay awareness. With the onset of poorly skilled roleplayers growing larger all the time, we need this thread to show them where they are going wrong.

This AMP thread lists first the types of roleplayer (all my own definitions by the way), and then the various types of Muncher/Godmoder/Godmodder. These are mostly as they were in the old AMP, but I added a couple terms that I forgot to include in my backup of the previous thread. User input of new terms is a valued thing, and contributions ensure at least a little bit of fame and recognition.

The types of munching have now been ordered alphabetically. I tried to go for 'seriousness of offence', but it was too difficult. I'm open to suggestions.
As of February 27th 2006, I have also included the 'Munch Scale'. Collect five coupons and send them in a self addressed envelope to receive your shiny cardboard wall-mountable Munch Scale poster!

As you can see, the Munch Scale, or Scale de Munch in France (coupons from France not accepted), consists of 1 - 10. A rating of 1 means that an act is not really munchy at all, a rating of 10 means you must bring out the Anti-Munch Intercontinental Ballistic Nixx Missile. As you can also see, munch is always at least a little annoying.

The Munch Scale
1 - Not very munch, not very annoying.
2 - Not very munch, a tiny little bit annoying.
3 - Not very munch, slightly annoying.
4 - Slightly munch, somewhat annoying.
5 - Definitely munch, annoying.
6 - Seriously munch, very annoying.
7 - Annoyingly munch.
8 - Annoying and inconvenient munch.
9 - Annoying, unfair, and inconvenient munch.
10 - The be-all-and-end-all of munching. Avoid like the plague.

Aimbotter: Especially annoying when using NPCs, as NPCs don't get to argue about munch.
Munch Rating: 7
A: Three hundred seventy of my trained assassin gymnasts crest the hill, sight you, and rush toward you.
B: Luckily, I have three hundred sixty-nine bullets in my chain gun! I quickly mow them all down, each taking a single bullet to the head, and peg the last one with a rock in the sternum.

Augustine: Far, far too prevalent. They try to carry something from one RP into another, just because they're in the same sub-forum.
Munch Rating: 8
A: Given that this RP's technology base is medieval, I happily drive my cart to the market to buy some maggot-ridden meat.
B: Too late! I already got there in my Gundam and blew up everything with my insanely overpowered weapons! And don't start whining, because my Gundam's already pre-approved in the "This Is Not a Medieval Technology Base RP" thread.

Baghdad Bobbit: An advanced (or is that "degraded"?) form of Puppetmaster and Aimbotter combined. These people soon become bored of anybody with a lick of skill, and wander off in a huff because the RP will take too long for their precious, precious time.
Munch Rating: 5
A: I fire at the stationary target, hitting twice but missing with my remaining four rounds.
B: I get tired of your realistic RPing style and poke you in the neck, collapsing your trachea. You die writhing in torment.

Boa Constrictor: Threads that have a long list of rules that prevent any characters except their own from roleplaying in that thread. No example will be given here, since that would be suggesting rules that shouldn't be used at all, and used separately these rules would be fine.
Boa Constrictors most commonly like to ban most forms of magic, guns, NPCs, technology, 'special' abilities etc. The result is, as I said, a thread in which very few characters can venture.
I do emphasise that threads should have whichever rules they want, within fairness to other roleplayers. Lists of rules which prevent too much are too, let's face it, n00bish.
[Suggested by oxymoron_02]
Munch Rating: 4

Daydreamer: Not exactly munch, per se, but it does get annoying. They manage to turn seemingly coherent RP into a mad ramble about totally unrelated things. Which is not to say that adding a little insight in the middle of an RP is bad; but try to make it only a few lines, three at the most, as anything else just distracts from the current events taking place.
Munch Rating: 3
A: In the middle of the intense shootout, I dash across the narrow alley, ducking and weaving in hopes to avoid getting hit. I'm unsuccessful; two bullets peg me in the shoulder, throwing me back into a Dumpster.
B: The bullets make me think back to my days as a youth, when I had to melt down tin soldiers to use as musket balls against the Redcoats... or was it redskins? I can't remember. Anyway, I had to walk uphill all three ways to school and back, running from glaciers all the while. It was torture, lemme tell ya. And then there's the story of how I met my first wife...

Gaseous Snake: A combination of McFly and Lucky Irishmen. They will often attempt to alter the RP right after the fairly playing RPer has made a post that will see the Snake's demise. They are not, however, as desperate as McFlys in what they change.
Munch Rating: 6
A: I walk to the door and open it.
B: Being a fellow with a bit of foresight, I hooked that doorknob to a car battery an hour ago. You're thrown across the room.

Godmoder: A rather broad term, basically covering a character/roleplayer who can overcome any situation. They will often have flashy powers, ignore just about anything you say and do, and somehow manage to be completely unaware of their own unfairness (otherwise known as stupidity).
Munch Rating: 8
A: Now that you're strapped to the end of a naval cannon, I fire it.
B: Whoosh! I nimbly dodge, somehow forgetting the fact that I'm restrained by three-hundred-pound chain!

Hi-jacker: These are intensely annoying for thread creators. They are often members of that thread, also. These are the people that take over a thread they are roleplaying in, and either add things in, or perform actions that affect everyone roleplaying in the thread. [Suggested by oxymoron_02]
Munch Rating: 5
(Real example)
A: Ok! Our base is under attack and we have to defend it!
B: *Goes and activates the base's self destruct* Everybody run you have three minutes!

Hiver: So named after such things as the xenomorphs from Aliens, the Klendathu bugs from Starship Troopers (which both use hives), and the teeming hoardes they generally are. These hoardes are always fearless, will battle until dead, and quite often have some excessive weapons and/or armour. Alternate names are Beehivers or Ants.
Basically, it's the guys who have too many NPCs. [Suggested by oxymoron_02]
Munch Rating: 7
A: *He sat alone in his one-man fighter ship, quickly scanning the radar for hostiles*
B: *He sat aboard his giant flagship, with his other 1000 ships around him. He ordered them all to attack the tiny fighter in front of them*

IDKFA: Most likely people attempting to emulate Solid Snake or some other cheesy spy-novel hero. They never run out of weapons or ammo, or anything else that leads to them being victorious.
Munch Rating: 8
A: You're all out of ammo for all five of your Ingram submachine guns. Since you're buck-naked, I know I can now safely step into the open and begin returning fire.
B: Ha! Little did you know, I have twelve shuriken hidden within my afro!

Ironclad Sentinel: This is fast becoming a problem, and refers to when a thread's subject organisation/corporation/military has too many defenses, or defenses that are unrealistically powerful or just plain 'modey. [Suggested kodachi3]
Munch Rating: 7
A: I am attacking with a battalion of thirty tanks, air support of twenty gun-ships, and three submarines off the coast with Tomahawk cruise missiles.
B: Defenses - Forcefield that blocks everything but lets our weapons out, invisibility shield around the base, 100 SAM turrets, 100 machine gun turrets, 1000 guards with machine guns, 200 space fighters, 200 tanks.

Lucky Irishman: A mixture of McFly and Augustine. A person whose character performs an action at chance (with no knowledge of the way it will tip the balance) that turns events to their favour, despite the chances of such a thing happening being incredibly slim. [Suggested by Suddenly Depressed]
Munch Rating: 5
A: With your character totally surrounded in a section of corridor, my ten skilled ninja prepare to slice him to pieces.
B: My character backs up to the wall, inadvertently tripping the base's alarm.
A: ((If I'm going to be honest and fair here, I have to tell you that the alarm would trigger the corridors to be sealed by blast-proof bulkheads.))
B: ((Oh, oops. Guess my character's safe then.))

McFly: Declining in numbers now, these will alter situations (and usually first posts) drastically to give them an advantage in roleplay.
Munch Rating: 7
A: Ha! Now that the force field is down, I run inside your evil lair!
B: Um... um... there's also a super-secret second force field which causes you to die instantly! I just didn't say anything about it because... um... I had to do my laundry! Not because I just thought of it now! Honestly!

Min-maxer: Not a lot of those running around here, thank goodness... that's more of a DnD-style paper game issue. Their own strength:weakness ratio is off the charts.
Munch Rating: 8
A: I've successfully broken into the facility which gave you your incredibly 1337 power armor. Now I pull up the file on it. What does it say about weak points?
B: The metal of my armor is... um... allergic to praying mantis urine.

Miss Cleo: They use Out of Character knowledge to their own advantage.
Munch Rating: 8
A: ((OOC: There's a secret switch hidden in the lamp.))
B: I suddenly think to myself-- why not check the lamp for hidden switches? Call me now for your free reading!

NIMBY: The people who quite readily attack others' threads, but then stop all attacks on their own thread.
Munch Rating: 6
A: They attacked us! Let's go and get them!
B: *Deletes any posts related to an attack and/or b*tch to a moderator*

Oblivious Oaf: People who don't explain how what they are using works. Now this is fine to an extent; you're not expected to know the exact functioning procedure for a gravity-spewing railgun, but at least give a vague idea behind the mechanism. [Suggested by Colonel_Commissar_Gaunt]
A: Hahahahahaha my ultra shield deflects any projectile weapon
B: ((Dude, how does that work? I need some info))
A: ((Ahhhhh uhhhhhh.......it....uses......some.......weird substance......that like...........does.....something......and then it like.....deflects all projectiles! Thats how it works, its not like I never explain my gear its just that I just came up with that explanation now, I mean I just had trouble explaining it.))

Overcompensation Stroking: "Quality over Quantity" or "Quantity does not always mean quality" . This kind of ties in with the daydreamer but not necessarily. Basically I'm talking about someone who thinks that the longer their post is, the better it is. It's rare to see this, but there are people out there like that.
Munch Rating: 7
A: Not even going to give an example.

Oxymoron: Luckily rare. (And no relation to me. I think) They manage, somehow, to be completely contradictory in their posts.
Munch Rating: 4
A: I'm a farmer with a shotgun.
B: I'm a black hole which emits blinding pulses of visible light!
(For those of you not familiar with physics, black holes allow nothing out of their immense gravity. Not even light can escape.)

Prosecutor: People who claim every one else is Munching when they, in fact, are the only one who is. [Suggested by Asmodeus The Crow]
Munch Rating: 8
A: My character is a fire mage who casts a two-turn fire spell that will launch a fireball.
B: My character is a five year old salamander named George, who makes a funny noise when he walks. George, despite being a normal salamander, is immune to fire, and also capable of devastating mages with a single swipe of his four inch long tail.
A: Well if he's a normal salamander, he can't be immune to fire, and if he's immune to fire, he can't be a normal salamander...
B: WTF STFU N00B U CANT SAY THAT HES MY CHARACTER NOT YOURS OMG WTF FUHKIN HAX GODMODE

Puppetmaster: Another overly common occurrence. They basically take control of others' characters, often to extremes. It is usually ok to make tiny little changes to another person's character; for example if your own character launches a fireball at a tree, it is safe to assume that other characters will probably watch the tree get hit, and thus you can comment on that.
Depending upon the extent to which they puppetmaster, this is not necessarily a form of munching.
Munch Rating: 4 - 9
A: I step carefully into the room, peering around for occupants.
B: Suddenly a dragon pokes you in the eye. You run screaming from the room, whereafter you go home, make a pickle sandwich, and call your mother to cry about how she ruined your life.

Quaker: They can magically 'spawn' anything. Having a character which can retreive things from pocket dimensions is not an excuse, unless said pocket dimension has a previously listed inventory which can be checked.
Munch Rating: 9
A: My character is wearing a form of armour only vulnerable to a drop of water from a holy well in South Dakota.
B: *He pulls out the vial of water from a holy well in South Dakota* "I don't know why I always carried this, but I knew it would come in useful one day."

Revisionist: Another prevalent problem. They are akin to a McFly, but rather than trying to be an a*****e OOC, they try to be one IC instead. Their characters change their mind, thus causing an annoyance, but not necessarily munching.
Munch Rating: 4
A: You chose the blue pill? Ooh, tough luck.
B: Red! I said red!
Don't go pulling that "I can read your previous post" mind game crap, either!

Romeo's Tragedy: The character who instantly falls in love with a character who has a crush on them even despite their families hating each other. Not always annoying as long as it doesn't happen too often.
Munch Rating: 6

A. The Akimichi girl stepped out her door and then froze seeing the Hyuga boy she's been crushing on the past four years walking past her house.
B. He hated the Akimichi clan. They were all stupid and fat and a disgrace to the village. Suddenly he spotted one staring at him and a blush ran to his cheeks thinking how beautiful she was all of a sudden.

Shoe elf: Pretty obvious.
Munch Rating: 10
A: ((OOC: Well, gotta go to bed. Big neurosurgery test tomorrow.))
B: Ho, ho, ho! Now that the loser's gone to bed, I can strap his character to a cross and peg him with rotten fruit!

Speedhacker: One of the worst we have to deal with.
Munch Rating: 10
A: I walk to the door and step outside.
B: Suddenly, twelve men grab you, carry you off to my secret lair in Tibet, and torture you for weeks. When you finally die from the agony, we bury you in the frozen wastes. Hundreds of years later, arhcaeologists discover your frozen body and try to determine if you're another Lucy.

Trinity: The knowledge downloaders, the omniscient Billy Joe-Bobs. [Also known as Zoicites]
Munch Rating: 8
A: My character was raised by a gang leader in the harsh conditions of a slum. From this, he learned to wield small firearms fairly effectively and has limited driving abilities.
B: My character was born on a remote jungle island and can fly or drive anything and use any gun with perfect aim.

Twink: Sometimes allowed in certain RPs. If the RP isn't specifically about invincible deities and such, a simple rule is that if the strengths aren't counterbalanced with relatively equivalent weaknesses (or if the reasoning behind the phenomenal cosmic powers isn't eloquently and appropriately explained), you're dealing with a twink.
Munch Rating: 10
A: A punch coming, eh? Well, seeing as you're a seven-year-old child and I'm riding in a twenty-meter mecha, I won't bother dodging.
B: Fooled you! I have the power to DESTROY EVERYTHING when I punch it! I'm just like an X-Man, and therefore require you to suspend all logic when RPing with me! Oh, and I have the power to steal your girlfriend, too.

What You Should Do: Good Character Development

Posted by ZeroKirbyX on charas-project.net

Wait - What?
I have explained bad characters to you in the 'What not to Do' thread, but that is not what this thread is about. It is about the search for good characters, and this point on will express what is 'good', and not as much of the bad things.

Good characters help enhance everything in a Role Play. The setting flourishes under a good character's footsteps, the plot thickens around a good character's actions, and the Role Players tend to Role Play better with a good character.

This good is not referring to the good-evil scale, but a well-developed character that has balance. What is balance, you ask?


Balance

What is Balance?
Balance is the trait of a character that equals out strengths and weaknesses. This is the fundamental part of a character.

All characters have their own strengths and weaknesses. But how much of them is extremely important.

Let's start of with the strengths of a character. This is what your character can do well, and any good skills he/she has. These skills should be a good size; they can't be too big. Imagine if there was a currency with your strengths. A good strength costs $5. A super strength costs $15, and a godly strength costs about $50. You do not have any money, but you can have a tab in the Strengths and Weaknesses Shop. You decide to buy an amount for your tab. Note that it is hard to get off a high tab. Naturally, you want a good amount of strengths without going too far into debt. So purchase skills for around $10-20. This is a good place to start off a character.

But right now you have a character with all these strengths and no flaws. What kind of good character is that? A bad one. To get you out of debt, the store manager decides that if you take some weaknesses, he can take away money from your tab. A good weakness is $5, a strong weakness is $15, and a godly weakness is $50. What to buy? Your goal is to get $0-5 on your tab, so you should have about as many weaknesses that are as big and noticeable as your strengths.

Do not get the godly weaknesses or strengths. These can make Min-Maxers, as seen in the Anti-Munch quote. You should stay within a budget.

The strengths and weaknesses should compliment each other and flow together well, like good upper body strength and bad lower body strength. They are conceivable together.

While Role Playing, your character should maintain this balance. They should not do anything in the Anti-Munch Quote box, no matter what. Keep that balance, and you have a major trait in a good character.



Tipping the Scales: When and Where To Use Balance
Editorial submitted by omgtehsuiso

Part One: Balance of Self

As detailed by Roka, balance is terribly important in your character. However, being realistic about what you use to keep the scales even is equally paramount. For example: a pirate RP I joined awhile back had a system of points you'd allot in three categories. These were Ship Skills, Knowledge, and Fighting Skills. One point would mean little knowledge/experience with the subject and five was mastery. I developed a sharpshooter character, who will be referred to
here on in as Rae. Rae, of course, was an expert with rifles and strictly that. Most characters in the RP had maxed out their Dodge stat, but I decided to keep Rae relatively low in that area. Sharpshooters are, after all, kept far from the actual close-range fighting. Yes, this meant whenever someone was too close to him, he'd get hit, and it happened often. But it wasn't an annoyance at all. It was just another weakness.

In other words, weaknesses should match the strength their counterbalancing. A burly axeman shouldn't also be able to dodge like a quicker fighter would. Also, said quicker fighters shouldn't be as strong as a burly man. They can get more hits in, but normally, they'd be quick swipes, not huge blows. We're not talking disappearing and running across the room in an instant to deliver a lethal uppercut to the jaw. This would be something like your typical assassin, not Kenshin's Soujiro Seta. Watch the lightning-quick assassin cliche, though. When caught in combat, it would be odd to see an assassin actually fight. They rely on sudden, easy kills to get what they want done. The whole point is to make sure your weaknesses are realistic with your strengths. Being unable to drive a car should not compensate for being a master at shooting guns.

Part Two: RP-wide Balance

Often, larger roleplays will need several people to watch over the general roleplaying group. In the pirate RP mentioned above, we had three moderators, myself included. Of course, godmoding and the like were not common, as it was a literary roleplay. It happened, though. Members with low dodge rates would be able to dodge bullets, something impossible to do in reality, especially against someone trained to use rifles well. It was a great annoyance, and the RP slowly died because of it. A few members started going on a lengthy spiel about ghosts and spirits, something the creators never intended to happen. If you're going to roleplay in an organized manner, let the creators take the reins sometimes. It IS their plot and world, after all.

If you have an idea that you think might be controversial, ask the creators/moderators first. If you see someone else doing something that might affect the plot in an odd way, then yet again, let the creators know as well as the roleplayer. It can't hurt, and it'll help them roleplay better. Of course, they might get mad at you for it, but don't let it get to you. As it happens, most roleplayers are very prideful towards their characters. Make sure you're not harsh, though. Constructive criticism is the best type. Two positives for every negative and all that rot.

Part Three: Accepting Weakness and Death

We love our characters, but sometimes, others will be able to capitalize on their weaknesses and defeat them. Battles happen often in any roleplay, and are the main driving force behind them. Whether you're trying to stop the world from ending or just topple the wicked corporation, you'll be fighting a lot. Understand that your characters CAN be defeated, and even killed. Surviving every attempt on your life and coming out unscathed is virtually impossible, unless you're some superhero. And even then, Superman was weakened by Kryptonite.

Be careful with using weaknesses of other characters to your advantage. Your character won't be able to scan their brain and find every little flaw they have. It takes many battles and long analyses of their fighting style and habits to even begin to understand what can defeat them. The same goes for your opponents. If they magically know how weak you are against a certain form of attack, protest. Remember, this isn't Dragon Ball Z. You can't find out power levels. An exception goes to Dragon Ball Z roleplays. <3

Now to the fun part: Death. Yes. The end of life. Oh noes. It happens to everyone at any time. Did you read that last sentence? Someone died while you were. Now, we always see young, sprightly teens in roleplays, preferably 15 or 16. Why? It's easier for them to live, apparently, even if you're stronger when you're 30 and apparently wiser when you're 40. And besides, Cloud was cool. A bullet can still kill your hormonal friend. Did you know that a gunshot to the leg can kill someone, even without the blood loss? The shock does it. You don't need to score a hit in the head or the chest to take someone out. It's not really that hard. And even if they DON'T die, wounds like that take a long time to heal, and can still get infected over time. We don't have bodies made of kevlar. (Also, your shoulder applies to the leg rule, too. It seems to be the most common place to take a bullet.) If you're playing a character in the medieval days, a wound would normally be fatal. There was no real defense against disease then. They'd "let the
bad blood," but that never really helped, and made the infection spread to other areas. (Believe me on that one. I studied medieval medicine for a novel I'm working on.) Wounds from bullets developed just after the age of steel often took pieces of clothing with them, and made the wound fester quicker. Stuff happens. Poor Johnny can die.

Does this mean he has to die in vain? Of course not. He can go out nobly or just sort of die a slow and painful death. It doesn't matter. Almost any death will coax the characters to get moving. Remember, everyone loves revenge. How many characters have you seen with entire families/groups of friends who were completely wiped out by villainous people? It's in movies, books, TV shows, everywhere. Kill Bill, The Punisher, all that fun stuff. The motivation is always revenge, though the characters pretend it isn't.

If a character around you dies, the sudden reaction doesn't HAVE to be vengeance. Anger is one of the steps in grief, but it doesn't suddenly stop there. Besides, we've all seen revenge before. But it IS one of the great motivators in roleplays, and it works. Don't let deaths go unnoticed, but don't make them so absurdly important that your character angsts over poor Johnny every minute of their life, even if she was his lover. As Penden mentioned in "Keeping It Real," the
five stages of grief end on a positive note. Darth Vader's "NOOOOOOOooooooo" ruined the ending, mind you.



Keeping it Real: The Psychology of all Races
Editorial submitted by Penden


While it is important to study the aspects of any race you wish to create your characters from, even humans, there are certain psychological things that apply to all or most races. This is what makes a person read a book about hobbits, like the Lord of the Rings, and feel sympathetic with that character. You may love the idea of the race but some part of you still thinks of that character as just a person, not an elf, human or hobbit.

Now, the only people we know in real life are human beings. Animals don't exactly count because they can't speak to us, and any way if I included them in this rant it would have to be much longer! As for humans, though, they are what we use to compare most characters we read or create to, to see if they are realistic.

The first thing that a character needs to be is consistent. Even when people do unpredicatable things, their behavior over time is fairly consistent. If a character does something that the reader feels does not match up with either their past actions OR their beliefs, then your character is being inconsistent. Remember that the best predictor of a real person's actions are their previous actions, not their beliefs, and that actions can actually change a person's beliefs. This happens so that the person does not feel that their beliefs are inconsistent with their actions! However, if your character has the will power or the motivation, they can change their beliefs and then their behavior.

If a person changes their behavior, they are not being inconsistent but merely switching to a new set of consistencies. Pulling off a change in behavoir with your character and making it believable is hard. Your character needs a good reason to change their behavior. Most good reasons are internal, like guilt, but a character can also meet up with extreme outside circumstances that make them change superficially, like if the police are after them.

The next thing a character needs to be is 3D. This means that they need to feel and act like a complete person would, with conflicting emotions and a sense of past, present or future. A character who does not have a sense of these does not have a sense of consequences, and will do something stupid like pick a fight with some one ten times bigger than them for no reason at all. A person without conflicting emotions will become too predictable. This does not mean that your character cannot supress conflicting emotions very well in some cases, just as long as they don't do it all the time! Conflicting emotions come from relationships with other characters, past actions, and a feeling of guilt when a past action or feeling does not match up with their beliefs. This is why I mention them together, because they are related. For instance, a person who is afraid of dogs has probably had a dog scare or bite them in the past. But if they are an adult they are also well aware that lots of other people are not scared of dogs and that some dogs are nicer than the one that bit them. Therefore, they still feel fear but they believe that they should not, and may even feel affection towards a neighbor's pet even though they would never go near them.

You can put a heck of a lot of work into a character's past and personality to help cover these two main things. Just remember that a beautiful character sheet doesn't make your character a great character if you don't know how to play them! Pay attention to the likes and dislikes you give them and try to show as much as possible through action, because that is how the other players and their characters are going to get the best look at your character.

Over doing it--

As a final note to all you drama nuts out there, human beings are also very resiliant emotionally. It's true that there are plenty of people who aren't, but at the same time a person who is simply afraid of dogs can usually live their life very well despite it. Most people bounce back from failure and disappointment, even something very drastic like the death of a friend! If every one went around killing themselves over every little thing that hurt them in their lives, you would never hear their stories! Humans are usually survivors.

Note that the five stages of grief end on a more positive note:

* Denial (this isn't happening to me!)
* Anger (why is this happening to me?)
* Bargaining (I promise I'll be a better person if...)
* Depression (I don't care anymore)
* Acceptance (I'm ready for whatever comes)



Some Things to Keep in Mind

1) When a character has amnesia, explain what that character has forgotten in the Biography. Just because that character forgot, doesn't mean that the DM/GM should.

2) Try not to use trench coats. They have recently been terribly abused by n00bs, which makes you seem like one.

3) If you can, let their hair be a natural color. That does not mean that Bob can be born with blue hair, or Sally naturally has green hair.

4) Think about your characters hard. They should act and be as if they were real and be as realistic as possible.

5) Japanese names are overdone for non-Japanese characters.

6) Japanese weapons are over-done (like a Katana), except for when that is the only type of weapon available.

7) If you want an awesome character, try giving them a weapon not commonly used, like a Mace, Flail, Spear, Pick, or Chains.

8 ) You character does not have to be 'cool' in the dark, looming, always controlled way. Make your own cool, for goodness sakes.

9) In a magical world, opposite elements (light and dark, fire and water, etc.) coexisting should bring a conflict within the character.

10) BE UNIQUE!

RESERVED

ninja In case you all don't know, you can talk here about stuffs. Ya knows?

This is actually for the people in this guild. This isn't to make you aware that these people exist, but for you to scour your own writing and to make sure that you do the best that you possibly can. For instance, you yourself said that you've never godmodded before, but have twice in the Doom RP. Have you really never before, or were you simply unaware? I know I do things here, and I need to improve upon things myself. One may never be perfect, and thus it is ones duty unto theirself to constantly strive to improve whatever it is they may do.

Also, many of the characters in this guild are very similar in their backgrounds, their personality, their manner of acting, their appearance, ect. There are also things here to help you 'spice up' your character, to make them more unique, to make them more human.