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[Cody2Hottie]

This is something I'm very bad at doing...so all my characters--(when I was doing my Dragon Age series run) were all Shield Warriors with the same name. It's fine if you enjoy that playthrough but I sorta wished I made them different.

Like as I think about it now I wish I made Dalish Archer with a heart of gold, a ruthless Mage Hawke who wishes to protect this brother despite hating Templars. THEN! a Dwarf Warrior (right beside humans, I always find Dwarfs to be good at politics.)

[wildannie]

I do play around with classes quite a lot, and personality a bit (serious, assertive, shy etc) but tend to play elven characters and find it difficult to play male characters (when there is a choice)... I never can do 'evil' choices though.  I don't really reuse names, although I did used to. 

[coldwetn0se]

I love making different personalities/classes/races(where available*). But like @wildannie, I have a hard time doing truly evil or "douchecanoe" type choices. Granted, it varies from game to game, how many (if any) the game in question offers. In DAO there did seem to be a lot more of those type of options.

I do occasionally choose a "jerkface" option, IF it suits the PC I am rping. Being a "little bit of a jerk" sometimes, can be quite funny. At least to me....but then I am easily amused.

[ChoiceSpirit]

Not really. Well, it depends.

 

During my first playthrough, I usually play "good" characters.  I don't really enjoy beeing a total jerk, at least at first. Those playthroughs are usually my canon playthrough.

 

Anyway, I like my good characters to be different in a way. For example, in DAO, I played a noble female human (sword and shield) seeking for justice and revenge, tough on the outside, fun on the inside. In DA II, it was the male sarcastic Hawke (mage), always here for his friends and family and who wasn't affraid to get his hands dirty. And in Inquisition, I played a Dalish male elf (tempest archer), quite brainy, not really dalish nor andrastian, who enjoys good puns. Nothing really original.

 

So do I make sure all my characters are different ? Yes, even if they have all more or less the same intentions (trying not to die and help the needy). With all that diversity, I think it's kind of sad not to try different things but I understand one might enjoy only one kind of playthrough ; that was what I used to do.

[robertmarilyn]

All my characters are human so I'm not good at playing different races.   But they've been most of the classes and specialties, except reaver, templar, and necormancer. I might try templar someday for a character not romancing Cullen but I don't want to play a reaver or necromancer...reaver seems like it has a major "ick" thing going for it and I feel the same about playing a necromancer, although I must admit that Dorian is appealing. 

[Oswin]

I will play all the different types and always like creating indepth headcanons for them so they all end up as quite unique characters. I don't believe I have used the same name for a CC character across any game I've played. 

 

But eventually I will settle on a favourite and I may end up recreating them and playing them twice for a 'perfect' run to bring forward into the next game.

In Dragon Age that does tend to mean Elves happen. I have two favourite runs in DAI, both elves. One male (sarcastic archer who plays the fool but is pretty smart) and one female (aggressive mage. Started out lovely and sweet but lost her mind in the fade and now has no patience for anyone). My Hawkes for those two runs were both mages because I hate Bethany and male because I prefer him. One sided with Templars (sarcastic Hawke with Templar Carver) and one sided with Mages (Aggressive Hawke with GW Carver). Then my HoF's were both elves as well, and both female. Sassy Dalish Rogue and Sweet and fluffy Circle Mage.

 

So yeah, while I will start out trying all kinds of different characters I do end up getting predictable once I narrow it down to my favourites. Elves and sarcasm. I'm all about my sarcastic elves. I'm also more inclined to ranged characters so mages and archers are a favourite. Gingers always happen a lot as well.. I've cut back on that for the sake of not having every Thedas hero be a ginger.

 

But in my head they all have very different backstories  so they never seem to similar to me.

[Sable Rhapsody]

Definitely.  I don't have the attention span for more than two playthroughs, so I try to make sure that the characters are as different as possible.  But I still have to like RP-ing them.  It takes a particular sort of game for me to play a "bad" protagonist, and I can't do it in every BioWare game.  And there are certain choices I can never take.

[Nixou]

Did you make sure your characters were different?

 

 

Yes I did: what would be the point of having several protagonists is they are all interchangeable clones?

 

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like @wildannie, I have a hard time doing truly evil or "douchecanoe" type choices

 

 

The problem is that in many games with karma meters, evil choices are also stupid choices. For instance I'd have loved to play a Closed Fist character in Jade Empire, but the closed fist options are often so petty and stupid that it took the wind right out of my sails.

The same problem can be found in the Dragon Age series: Origins is structured in such a way that a smart Warden will make the same choices regardless of his/her alignment.

[Sable Rhapsody]

The problem is that in many games with karma meters, evil choices are also stupid choices. For instance I'd have loved to play a Closed Fist character in Jade Empire, but the closed fist options are often so petty and stupid that it took the wind right out of my sails.

The same problem can be found in the Dragon Age series: Origins is structured in such a way that a smart Warden will make the same choices regardless of his/her alignment.

 

IMO Mass Effect was a bit better about this.  While some Renegade choices are just straight-up racist or jerk-ish, more of them can be justified.

 

I found that a lot of the roleplaying changes lay not in the major decisions, but in the rest of the dialogue choices.  All the little things that led to characters making some of the same large choices, but for different reasons.  And you can always knowingly pick a sub-optimal outcome due to a character flaw.

[Forsythia77]

I do make sure to play all the classes.  Also give my Wardens/Inquisitors different personalities in as much as I can (I find it hard to deviate away too much from my own actual personality.  I can only be so much of a jerk before I just feel like an a-hole, so I I don't go down the rabbit hole that far).  I also try to make them act different and if I make one side with Caridin, I'll make the next side with Branka.  (I have a harder time doing the Templar stuff in DAI since I'm very much pro-mage and generally play as a mage).  For Hawke though, she is who she is and I don't tinker much with her default look in DA2.  She had a super cute hair cut by default anyhow.. no use messing with it. I tend to play her sarcastic with a touch of diplomacy. 

[drosophila]

My canon Warden (still in progress), Hawke, and Inquisitor all ended up being female mages. I've tried other classes, but don't connect to them as much. The Warden and Hawke are human, while the Inquisitor is an elf. Soo, I guess they're somewhat different?

 

They look very different though, and I try to RP them with different personalities, so there is some variety. Amell is an ash-blonde, baby-faced, noble idealist do-gooder. Hawke is a witty brunette who can't be bothered to take anything seriously. Lavellan is a clever ginger with a short fuse and the occasional bit of sarcasm. 

[riverbanks]

I will play all the different types and always like creating indepth headcanons for them so they all end up as quite unique characters. I don't believe I have used the same name for a CC character across any game I've played. 

 

But eventually I will settle on a favourite and I may end up recreating them and playing them twice for a 'perfect' run to bring forward into the next game.

 

This is me, too. I will play with races and classes and create individual characters with distinct names, personalities and beliefs and whole backstories for each one... but I will also have a favorite/main/canon character that I'll just go back and replay all the way through several times. Sometimes not even for a "perfect run," I'll have already perfected the choices as much I wanted the last time, but I still want to replay the same character again just for fun.

 

Eventually I'll usually come to a distorted headcanon where all my characters exist at the same time, but my main is still the hero, because I just get so attached to all of them that I don't want to think that my "alternates" don't exist. Like, I'll think that all my Wardens survived and helped fight the Blight but only my main was the Hero of Ferelden, or all my Inquisitors survived but they were all just allies or agents of the Inquisition and only my main was the true Inquisitor, etc.

 

But definitely I'll always play very different characters, never the same one across various games or series. I've never really repeated one same character, they're all their own little imaginary people.

[sjsharp2011]

I usually try to make each character different every time I play in fact my next playthrough wil have a character in each class as I'm going as a Female Dwarf Warrior for Origins a Female  rogue in DA2 and a male Mage Inquisitor for my next run. I've never played a female character yet in Origins, I've also never played a Rogue in DA2 either and as for Inquistion I've not done any male characters. So that'll be a good mix for me I think for trying new things. I play renegade occasionally but usually I prefer the Paragon path

[Knight of Dane]

I mix both. I play lots of different characters I make up, but I also replay old ones that I enjoyed. In Origins I really enjoyed the flavour of playing Cousland and Aeducan so I replayed my characters Kodin and Marcus quite a bit. I always liked those small things like having a Dwarven son or marrying Anora + having Dog from the start.

 

In 2 I mixed it more, but snarky male mage and aggressive male warrior, both with the default name, was my favourites to play.

 

In DA:I I have yet to replay a character although I have played as Mage three times with the same allaround builds, two KE and one Rift Mage. I am planning to replay the human female mage because I enjoyed the Cullen romance, and my dual wield rogue Qunari because he was the most fun in gameplay.

[Linkenski]

Almost 3 playthroughs under my belt. One was sword and shield Warrior tank, which was human male, the second was 2H DPS Warrior, which was also human male and right now I'm playing a female Dalish Elf Mage.

 

 

Hansard Trevelyan

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Maxwell

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and Elenna Lavellan

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[sjsharp2011]

I mix both. I play lots of different characters I make up, but I also replay old ones that I enjoyed. In Origins I really enjoyed the flavour of playing Cousland and Aeducan so I replayed my characters Kodin and Marcus quite a bit. I always liked those small things like having a Dwarven son or marrying Anora + having Dog from the start.

 

In 2 I mixed it more, but snarky male mage and aggressive male warrior, both with the default name, was my favourites to play.

 

In DA:I I have yet to replay a character although I have played as Mage three times with the same allaround builds, two KE and one Rift Mage. I am planning to replay the human female mage because I enjoyed the Cullen romance, and my dual wield rogue Qunari because he was the most fun in gameplay.

Yeah I enjoyed my female mage playthroughs as wellone was Human the other was an elf. I'm planning to make my male mage a Knight Enchanter so basically like a male Vivienne in terms of powers.

[coldwetn0se]

Yes I did: what would be the point of having several protagonists is they are all interchangeable clones?
 
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The problem is that in many games with karma meters, evil choices are also stupid choices. For instance I'd have loved to play a Closed Fist character in Jade Empire, but the closed fist options are often so petty and stupid that it took the wind right out of my sails.
The same problem can be found in the Dragon Age series: Origins is structured in such a way that a smart Warden will make the same choices regardless of his/her alignment.

 
 

IMO Mass Effect was a bit better about this.  While some Renegade choices are just straight-up racist or jerk-ish, more of them can be justified.
 
I found that a lot of the roleplaying changes lay not in the major decisions, but in the rest of the dialogue choices.  All the little things that led to characters making some of the same large choices, but for different reasons.  And you can always knowingly pick a sub-optimal outcome due to a character flaw.

I agree, that many of the more "evil" or asshat type choices, end up making your PC seem less intelligent. I had the same reaction as you did, when trying to do a second pt of Jade Empire, with a closed fist character. Bailed on that run through, as well.

I have purposefully played less-than-brilliant PC's before. But it breaks immersion (and the ability to believe someone hasn't just poisoned their morning gruel), if I choose more than an two or three of those type of options. Instead, I take advantage of dialogue options that simply add "personality" to my character. Let that define them a bit more, if that makes sense.

ME's Renegade choices, tended on the pragmatic side. This made it easier to rp such actions (at least in ME1 and ME2). I still fell more into the Renegon or Paragade path(s), over full on Renegade (or Paragon, for that matter ).

[Andraste_Reborn]

Yes. I try to make sure that Thedas isn't constantly being saved by the same race/gender/class, and deliberately set up my world states so there's a contrast. (With the exception that my 'canon' world state has all-female heroes because I always play as a woman first given the opportunity. So far I have:

 

Female human noble archer Warden > female two-handed warrior Hawke > female dwarf dual-wielding rogue Inquisitor (a.k.a. 'badass ladies save the world'.)

 

Female dwarf noble sword-and-board warrior Warden, male archer rogue Hawke, male qunari mage Inquisitor. (... you know, this one doesn't really have an overall theme. Until I make an elf protagonist for DA4, when it will be 'heroes of all nations.')

 

Male elf mage Warden, male mage Hawke, female human sword-and-board Inquisitor (a.k.a. 'mage boys who don't know when to shut up and the lady Templar that has to clean up their mess.')

 

Male elf archer warrior Warden > female blood mage Hawke > female elf mage Inquisitor (a.k.a 'a story about elves and too many blood mages.')

[Nixou]

ME's Renegade choices, tended on the pragmatic side. This made it easier to rp such actions (at least in ME1 and ME2). I still fell more into the Renegon or Paragade path(s), over full on Renegade (or Paragon, for that matter  )

 

 

Same here: My Shepard tended to be ruthless on the job only to mellow out a lot once inside the Normandy, mostly because my definition of a perfect run in Mass Effect is "Get all of Shepard's best lines"   

[DuskWanderer]

I had three different playthroughs and they all differed. My main playthrough has:

 

Syaries Tabris (dual-wielding hazelnut haired rogue who bedded Alistair and had slightly elf-supremacist views)

 

Percival Hawke - Snarky blond mage who liked teasing everyone, romanced Merrill, and supported mage freedom

 

Vitellus Cadash - Redheaded and scruffy-faced melancholic dwarf who supported the templars

[HallaGoddess]

Elissa Cousland - Rogue/Archer - Alistair's Queen 

Her personality was regal, honorable and kind. She strives to make her parents proud of her and be a just Grey Warden, worthy of the title and powers given to her. She's also unsurprisingly rather cunning and ambitious, like most noble-born. She married Alistair for love but it was also a really pleasant surprise to find out he had Theirin blood and she jumped at the chance to make him King and she his Queen. She felt like her parents could finally rest easy knowing that the Couslands weren't destroyed, with more power than ever, and their daughter happily married to the man she loved. 

 

Marienne Hawke - Mage/ Elementalist - Rivalmanced Merrill

Her personality was that of a joker, she rarely took things too seriously except when it comes to the safety and welfare of her friends and family. She is very much against blood magic and consorting with demons which is why despite being incredibly attracted to Merrill, Hawke refused to be an enabler. This caused Hawke to sometimes be rather harsh or blunt with Merrill. It pained her when Keeper Marethari died but she was relieved that it wasn't Merrill and happy when Merrill finally lost her obsession with blood magic. 

 

Rihra Lavellan - Mage/ Knight Enchanter - Cullenmance

Her personality is kinda bookwormish, she loves knowledge and her curiosity has certainly almost killed her many times. She's kind but rather sarcastic and her training as an Apprentice to the Keeper meant that she wasn't too overwhelmed by being placed in a position of leadership. Her open-mindedness to humans (something that caused a lot of disapproval from the elders of her clan and other clans) lead her to fall in love with one. Unfortunately, to her devastation, her clan would never be able to congratulate or yell at her because they were massacred. This event crushed her and formed her deepest fear: losing everyone she loved. Rihra is a strong believer of freedom and was a big mage supporter/sympathizer. 

 

tbh I would have made my Warden a mage too if she could marry Alistair and become queen. 

Modifié par HallaGoddess, 15 août 2015 - 05:00 .

[stop_him]

LOL, not really. I would make every protagonist a female elf if I could. I pretend DA2 was something I didn't actively have to participate in, me having ZERO interest in playing a human in a fantasy game. 

 

I do have a lot of various inquisitors though.

[GoldenGail3]

No, I'm so bad. I have a all human female Mage worldstate,but the rest of my worlstates are different, I might add.

DAO (male Amell), Conor Amell, a strong willed but somewhat synical man, he romanced Morrigan, Conor was a man with a plan, to get the strongest army Ferelden could produce at the time, he helped Redcliffe fight, and fought with them, and he earned Earl Eamon's trust when he saved his son from the fade, he killed Jowan and went to the Circle for help. He refused Cullen's request and sided with the mages. But he ruthlessly killed a entire clan of Dalish when he sided with the Werewolves. He also left the mad Branka alive, so that she could produce an army of golems for himself. He was very cunning man with a brilliant mind, and as such, at the lands-meet he killed Loghian and made Anora and Alistair joint rulers together while he ran off with Morrigan, he is a Spirt Healer, Arcane Warrior, Changeshifter, and Battlemage.

DAO: Elizabeth Amell- A once sweet healer under the apprenticeship of the Senior Enchantor Wynne, she got turned into a reclutant hero by forces working against her, or so she thought... Amell romanced a unhardened Alistair, who she left a Grey Warden along side herself, she pretty did everything good in game. She is a Arcane Warrior, Spirt Healer, Battlemage, Force Mage.

DA2: Avalon Hawke: Humourous, Friendshiped manced Anders, kept Anders alive, was hardcore on the mages side, is a Mage. Dead in the fade somewhere

DA2: Ryder Hawke: Humourous, rivalmanced Isabela, is a Mage, sided with the mages, killed Anders, is alive, Dis Hawke got lucky that it was stroud this time.

DAI: William Treveylan: A charming man that romanced Cassandra, but flirted with Josie a bit, he sided with the Templars, is a Templar himself, he killed Stroud, kept the Wardens around, and Leliana is divine, she is a unhardened Divine. He prefers diplomacy over violence and is very snarky in general, he hates politics and wishes simply for the Circles to be rebuilt so that he could return back to his life with his family.

DAI: Anastasia Treveylan: A sweet and rather scarscatic Mage, she romanced Cullen, she killed Avalon Hawke becuase she didn't want Elisabeth Amell to destroy the Inquisiton, she was BFF's with Dorian, Cole, and Cassandra, and Solas, but she does believe in the Maker and that she was the Herald of Andraste, she only wanted to go back to her simple Circle life though and was surprised to fall for a dashing blonde Ex Knight Captain.

DAI: Artemis Lavallen: A curious and humorous individual, he was once a first to the Lavellen Clan, until the Conclave, he doesn't know what to believe anymore, although he's leaning towards the Maker in turns of belief, he romanced Dorian.

Modifié par GoldenGail3, 23 août 2015 - 09:12 .

[Ashaantha]

I have a thing for human lady mages so.. Not really different characters in terms of race/class/gender, looks etc yes rather different but in the 3 DA games I play a human lady mage the most often. Female only because I struggle to play games where I'm playing a guy, that is all. Personal preference. Same goes for other races, I get more attached/comfortable when playing a human, since I can't imagine what it would be like to be a different race so role-playing a different race is a tad difficult for me.

 

My main world state features all female mages:

Talia Amell - no romance etc (she broke up with Alistair when she found out who his father was), tough but witty, didn't suffer fools.

Ashe Hawke - sarcastic and slightly idiotic. Fenris romance (friendship path), spared Anders blahblahblah

Kyrrah Trevelyan - Cullen romance, all sorts of things she's done. story isn't over yet!

 

As for DAI characters, I've finished the game (Killed Cory) with 14 Inquisitors, all different features (except 3 which are look-alikes), all female, 1 dwarf and 1 Qunari, 3 elves and like.. 9 humans, lol. I have tried each class and half the different specialisations but female mage knight enchanter is my beloved one.

 

I did finish DA2 with a rogue Hawke a couple of times but prefer mage-Hawke.

 

I did finish DAO with a non-mage and non-human twice. A human noble rogue and a dalish rogue. I did make sure to experience all the Origin stories but never finished the game with those.