Experiences Your least liked and favourite part of a Character Sheet to do?

[Jannah]

Side note: I'm tired of making CS's cuz RPs die so fast. A huge CS is a huge turnoff unless I know the gm is a gem.

As an additional side note, this is a huge reason why I don't do detailed and extensive worldbuilding in my RP's anymore. I'd rather save that effort for my personal projects as most RP's die so quickly. For RP's I mostly stick to already existing fandom universes (but with OC's) or the real world (sometimes with slight alterations if I'm playing in a fantasy or sci-fi setting).

 

[StrixDesmodus]

My RP group does freeform character sheets, and I like to write a character's resume or in-universe equivalent. Putting things into businessy language can add some humor - mucking stalls = "Maintained sanitation of therapy animals’ living spaces ". It helps me make sure I know how the character got their skills, about how old they are, and what life experience they would have had.

The most recent one I did actually starts with an email to his mom that implies she's been badgering him to change jobs, and he explains why he can't but sends an updated resume anyway.

I also like to have lists related to a character quirk. Nikki had the CDs in her truck, Sammy has the goofy patterns on his scrubs.

The people I RP with fill out some really basic stuff like height, weight and eye color, and I don't like having to figure out what my character weighs and stuff.

Those ideas are genius! They sound really fun.

 

[Yunalescaa]

I love everything except personality, likes & dislikes.

Personality is hard for me because someway, somehow, I feel like I end up writing the same personality for my characters over and over again. I think I'm also just my own worst critic so sometimes I worry when it comes to personality if I'm overdoing it. I'll worry they come off too nice, too mean, there's no balance, etc. I've had characters where the personality I intended them to have shifted as the roleplay progressed. Which I guess is just character development in real time. But then I feel like everything I worked for them to have it just meaningless now lol.

Likes & dislikes are just hard because I feel like 90% of the time they don't really come up in the rp. And sometimes it takes getting a few replies in with the plot to go "Oh they don't like that". If it's required, or if a partner really wants to know, I'll pull up a list of really common character likes and dislikes and pick a few I think fit the character.

 

[j33bie]

My favorite part of making a character sheet is creating the backstory for my characters and their personalities. I love roleplaying as characters with strong personalities full of quirks, and having them bounce off of other OCs that also have their own definitive personalities.

My least favorite part of making a character sheet is probably making visual aids to depict what my characters look like. I will admit that they're helpful— a picture is worth 1000 words after all, but if I could just provide a textual appearance for my characters I would.

 

[Paradox9]

Favorite part no contest is ability creation. Whether original, putting things together from a list, or adapting a fandom canon's abilities into whatever the rp is. Part of my joy when being a dm is the act of creating actions and mechanics for those actions.

The least... I don't have one as strongly as my like but I'll say it's appearance. Faceclaims are usually enough for me.

 

[Shoya]

I always struggle to settle on a face claim, whether because there's too many good options or none that are close enough to my vision.

favorite depends on rp, but usually something along the lines of ability, skills, etc. I'd go as far as to say it's part of what helps me decide on if I want to join an rp, if I have a cool idea.

 

[CHUUYAS_HAT]

L: Backstory
F: Personality/Race Abilities/FC

 

[Alien222]

Personality and backstory are two things I love cos I get to make my scrimblo truly my scrimblo but Names. Especially full names will forever haunt me

 

[Chiester]

I don't like making them, period. But i know its necessary most of the time...

 

[GreyHeron]

I'm exactly the same. hate writing about appearance.

I enjoy the personality and back story though and the bits that really makes my character who they are; guess it's not too surprising from someone doing a PhD in psychology!

 

[BuggaBoo]

Persona is still my fave!

But a new unfave: within persona, I actually don't like listing: Likes and Dislikes.

It's feels kinda redundant esp if you describe your persona with justification of why they act how they act. Like thinkin a Trivia section paints a better pic.

Oh! And like Fears and Goals categories paint great motivators yet always seem to be missing in Persona too.

 

[MrMuffin]

Backstories are the bane of my existence. I always feel like I have to write a profound and insightful background for them. But what if my character is your average Joe? This is why I’ve always made backstories optional in my past RPs.

I also hate writing the Appearance section. I’m really bad with words sometimes, so my brain just kind of shuts down when I try to describe something’s physical attributes.

My favorite thing to fill out, in contrast, is the name.

I am in love with anything related to etymology, language and writing (even though I suck at it). I would marry a dictionary and raise a beautiful little thesaurus together.

I love going into baby name sites to discover the meanings of names and surnames. The hidden meanings behind these daily-life, seemingly but not actually trivial monikers fascinate me. I love digging deep to find unique and beautiful names that fit my little bois. It’s so fun.

 

[Bacon is fluffy]

History, because there are always limitations on feats and skills. Thus there are limitations on how cool i can make my background stories.

 

[RedPyro]

The history/background; I can get a general gist out but sometimes it feels like I either write too little or too much