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[PunchySporkk]

I ... sort of wing it? Like I'll sit down and as I'm creating my first character, I'll have some vague idea where I want to go with it but that can easily get thrown out the window about two seconds into the playthrough.

 

For example, my first warden? I was like, "Okay, dwarf noble lady. Probably no-nonsense, kinda conservative. Also likes using 2h weapons and uh ... yeah, we'll see." Her game started and I was like, "Oh wait, she can have a BOYFRIEND? And I'm a PRINCESS? And our love can never be? Well now she wants to reform the caste system because obviously anything that stands between her and her man is dumb, even though she was probably fine with it before that."

 

After my first playthrough I'll have a more solid idea of what kind of character I want to play and will tend to pick along those lines (THIS Hawke thinks mages Can't Have Nice things, THAT Hawke thinks both sides are dumb, etc). But that first playthrough, always gloriously winging it and being blown about. 

 

I was gonna write my own explanation, but yours is so perfect (I had that exact thing happen with the dwarf noble!) and it lets me be lazy.

 

I do a combo of 3 and 4 for my first playthrough.  It's less about putting myself in the game and more about making the character someone I relate to really well.  Like an AU avatar, I guess.  Snarky Hawke was pretty much perfect for me and I'm hoping for similar options in DAI.  

 

I actually find it kind of confusing that people can plan out characters before they play the game.  I can't do that until I see what my options, backgrounds, and so on are.

[Zjarcal]

I mostly just wing it depending on how the story goes, and I usually do insert a bit of myself in all of them (mostly the things that matter the most to me), but I do try to make em different.

 

Planning ahead doesn't work at all with me.

[Augustei]

Some sort of mixup of these guys is what I aim for:


 

[90s Luke]

My male Dalish mage Inquisitor will have a personality mixing those of Avatar Aang and Iorveth (from The Witcher series).

 

My male dwarven rogue Inquisitor will have a personality mixing those of Rocket Raccoon and Superman.

[Solrest]

My male Dalish mage Inquisitor will have a personality mixing those of Avatar Aang and Iorveth (from The Witcher series).

 

My male dwarven rogue Inquisitor will have a personality mixing those of Rocket Raccoon and Superman.

 

 A dwarf with the personality of Rocket Raccoon and Superman? Sign me up for your clearly necessary playthrough videos, that sounds great xD

[Jedi Master of Orion]

I actually often imagined my Dalish Warden speaking about war at the Arlthanven like Cesar did to his village in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, but since he probably didn't go, maybe my Dalish Inquisitor can do it.

[EmperorKarino]

1.)Do you usually base them off of a character from another series, (novels, movies, games, etc)

 

2.)Do you plan them from scratch days/weeks/months in advance

 

3.)Do you just wing it once you get a hold of the game

 

or

 

4.)Base them off of yourself

 

 

Personally i usually do a mixture of 1&2. Ill get a general idea or foundation of their personality from a character(s) i really enjoyed and want to build off of (Bane,Stannis Baratheon, Caesar from POTA) then ill change or add what i want in order to really make them my own character and also to make them fit the DA setting.

 

How about you guys?

 

a mix of winging it and based on myself. it really depends on the game. for dragonage, i try to be good/diplomatic.

[introverted_assassin]

It all starts in the CC. I flesh it out as I am playing the game. I may have only written a history of my protagonist once...otherwise, it's like water.

[Magister Caedus]

Quite an amalgam of all four for me. I like to plan it out at least a little bit in advance, and then decide how they feel about more specific things as those come up in-game, and act accordingly. For instance, I created my canon Warden after reading The Stolen Throne, and I decided that my Cousland would be the Loghain to Alistair's Maric. By the end of the game, the character in my head seemed quite a bit more like Tywin Lannister than Loghain MacTir. My canon Hawke was pretty much a self-insert character, as was my first Baldur's Gate character (1 and 2), and a couple NWN characters. My D&D characters though are all created before hand.

[AshesEleven]

I tend to self insert for my first playthrough.  I like to see how I would act within these worlds.  

 

 

[90s Luke]

 A dwarf with the personality of Rocket Raccoon and Superman? Sign me up for your clearly necessary playthrough videos, that sounds great xD

 

Yeah, my dwarf (Erasyl "the noble hero" Cadash) is an interesting character. Erasyl embodies what would happen if Rocket Raccoon tried to imitate Superman, for better or worse. He's basically mocking the "ideal hero" concept, being overzealous and snarky about the whole thing. I would have chosen another Marvel character, like Captain America, but I really liked the idea of mixing together Marvel and DC characters. I'm not a huge comic book fan either, so I went with what I know.

[SerCambria358]

Yeah, my dwarf (Erasyl "the noble hero" Cadash) is an interesting character. Erasyl embodies what would happen if Rocket Raccoon tried to imitate Superman, for better or worse. He's basically mocking the "ideal hero" concept, being overzealous and snarky about the whole thing. I would have chosen another Marvel character, like Captain America, but I really liked the idea of mixing together Marvel and DC characters. I'm not a huge comic book fan either, so I went with what I know.

 

Feast your eyes on the savior of Thedas

[90s Luke]

 

Feast your eyes on the savior of Thedas

 

"I managed not to get everyone killed today. Let's go get some girls and some booze to celebrate how awesome I am. I got dibs on Wonder Woman!"

 

 Make it happen Marvel and DC!

[LaughingWolf]

First character is always 'me'; I play them as I would act in those situations.
After that, for my canon I tailor the personalitys to what I think makes the best story.
The dark pragmatic soldier who always seems serious confident and aggressive even, but always strives for the greater good. Basically the dark hero.
The clever mage who just wants to do right by his family and friends, and always finds himself in scenarios bigger than him. Basically the lovable puckish rogue.
The inquisitor who will raise armies and lead them (and thus save the world) as well as weild incredivle power but never asked for it, and will have deep survivors guilt. Basically the reluctant hero.

[TaskCortez]

Usually i wing and sees where vthe story goes.

[Faerlyte]

I be myself. Because I'm awesome. 

[JAZZ_LEG3ND]

I sometimes go in with an idea, but it all comes together in the character creator. As I refine the look of my hero I review the defining elements. Typically I have two: 1) the hero’s pursuit, and 2) the hero’s method.

That said, waiting for Inquisition has given me a lot of thinking time, so what I have at the moment is: (for my first Inquisitor) male human mage. Short dark hair, blue eyes… some battle experience, maybe a scar, but very intelligent.

His pursuit will be “best outcome”. Not exactly “ends justify means”, because that is too global, too cold. He will be a sensible leader, someone able to make difficult decisions, but still put innocent lives ahead of monetary pursuits.

His method is rather literal. He is confident in his beliefs and abilities, and isn’t afraid to show it. If he sees something he wants, he goes for it *looking at you, Cass*, but he is perhaps more emotive than a lot of traditional heroes. He will deliberately show empathy when appropriate.

[Panda]

Mostly this:

 

2.)Do you plan them from scratch days/weeks/months in advance

 

But also some of this:

 

1.)Do you usually base them off of a character from another series, (novels, movies, games, etc)

 

I plan my characters in advance.. usually days but with Inquisition months advance since I can't play them yet XD

They usually have similarities to characters from other series or even same series (like Trevelyan I have planned is shares some traits with Sebastian) but I usually keep developing them to their own characters. Sometimes I do them completely from the scratch.

[Gervaise]

I suppose it depends how far in advance of getting the game I have to think about it.    With DAO I just bought the game, looked at the various scenarios in the booklet and went with Dalish Elf because I usually play elves and I was intrigued by the idea of some ancient artefact.    Then I pretty much played it as myself, with a mortality akin to my own, learning about stuff as I went along and adjusting my mind set accordingly.   

 

Having got some idea of the game world, subsequent run throughs I invented a character to fit the scenario and be more in keeping with the lore and customs they had grown up in, even if their morality/outlook would not normally be my own.    This was particularly the case when I wanted to develop a character that I could see sparing Loghain.    I found this difficult with my elven characters after the deal he did with the slavers, so I went with a male human noble who was always pretty ambitious, resented being the second son and therefore not going to inherit, although he always cared about his brother, and saw himself as just as entitled to the throne as Alistair, particularly since the latter stated he didn't want it and would never take the lead on anything.    I wouldn't call him an evil character, since most of the time he was compassionate and caring, but he was ambitious, politically savvy and could be ruthless when he needed to be, which is not really me at all.

 

For me DA2 provided very little scope for alternative character development because I don't do evil and the only real difference was whether Hawke was a mage or not.   So it was really about whether I was diplomatic, jokey or belligerent when talking to people and who I romanced.

 

For DAI I have been working on more than one character to take through.    I'm trying to get into the mind set of my first character by writing a full back story and thinking about how they view the world and their situation in it.   Call it method roleplaying.   The only problem I'm encountering is not allowing what I know about the world impact too greatly on my character's attitudes since I do know a great deal more about events than they would.  Beyond that, with my first character, their morality and outlook is once again going to be pretty much my own.

[Hadeedak]

I usually start with a 'default' personality that I throw at most RPGs (or things I'm unsure of), which is usually as square as a stamp and terribly big picture righteous. And then I mix that with whatever I get for my background. So I got a Casteless who would do anything for the greater good of the world (especially dwarves and her sister), who was inclined towards gallows humor and had pretty much been planning on throwing herself into the Legion before the whole Warden thing. And my Hawke turned out to be terribly naive and got a bit broken down by @#@^!*!*in' Kirkwall.

 

On future playthroughs, I branch out a bit depending on what I've found. I usually come up with one or two basic traits and reactions, then let it go. 

 

...This time around, though, I've decided I'm playing Rooster Cogburn, the female dwarf tank in Thedas. I decided the Inquisition needs a lot of grit.

[TheKomandorShepard]

I usually play character type that gives me most fun in my case it is chaotic evil with certain philosophy and then try to project that on my pc but it not always works for example in da 2 i couldn't pull that off because they already put ready character that still cared about his family and had other traits that i could change so i hope it won't be in case of dai.

[Solrest]

 

Feast your eyes on the savior of Thedas

Hahaha that's great.

[Knoppers]

I will wing it on the first PT, mostly because I don't know the variety of options we will be given. In DA:O, I could build a backstory/personality and reasonably stick with it, but DA2 & the Mass trilogy was much more limited, and I found it more fun to build up characters after the first playthrough, when I knew the range of character interactions I'd have instead of getting frustrated off the bat that the idea I had wasn't working. I know people headcanon around these things, but I find it infinitely more satisifying if I can select appropriate dialogue options in game instead of constantly going "Well, Hawke really meant it *this* way and then had a conversation with someone else later about it" blah blah.

Basically, I need to know what kind of roleplaying experience the game will offer before I define a role.

Yeah, this is my method, too. On the first playthrough i usually can't resist playing a super heroic guy that is best friends with everyone and solves all the problems easily. But i will try to play a more nuanced character for DAI nonetheless. I'm already mixing it up by going female first this time. For subsequent playthroughs i want to make the story decisions i didn't do the first time, so i make up a character that fits the choices that the game offers me.

That said, while waiting for DAI i couldn't help but think of a few character concepts, but i try (and fail a bit) to restrict those to things i know i will be able to do in the game (like romance options and which advisor to favor).

[ElvaliaRavenHart]

First play through as myself as much as I can.  What I'd actually do in those circumstances.  Other's I wing it and go with my mood with my responses and depends on what I'm being asked or what is going on determines how I respond. 

[Funny_chan]

I usually base the character off of my own personality. I know it may be boring to some, but I like to pretend how I would  act in a fictional scenario. It may sound weird but this kind of choice based games may help a person find more about himself/herself. Sometimes I'm quite surprised about what I would be able to do given the chance. 

 

Anyway... My characters (always women, unless the game doesn't let me choose the gender) tend to be goody two shes with a funny side, they value honor above all else, but don't try to shove their values on anyone. Their life philosophy is more or less "live and let live". If I had to compare their personality to that of a NPC I would say they are more or less like a female version of hardened Alistair, or perhaps a funnier Aveline.