How many Active characters...is to Many?

[-=Styles=-]

I've noticed that some people have like...a plethora of active characters on TK. Not that it's a bad thing...but I have maybe four active charries, and that alone is a handfull.

How do y'all do it? I mean seriously, the mechanics of keeping track of 15, 25, 39 characters ALL ACTIVE is absolutley mind boggling.

Also, I've noticed that's it's almost a competition to see who has the most charries, active and inactive. The highest I've heard of so far is 76....I mean come on...be real, take out the throw away characters and what...you've got maybe 20.

And here I was getting scrutinized for having to many characters. HA!

Rampage
Ludross
-=Styles=-/-=Lynch=-
Majin_Buu

AND OOC PROFILES DO NOT COUNT

[Moondog]

I have 2, not counting characters for closed RPs and Dungeons and Dragons.

[Xachariah]

I have, like, two. I have a screenshot of somebody's profile, though, where they have a list of characters large enough for me to hold a 12-ounce soda can up next to it.

[Rosery]

I have had over my time on TK Somewhere between 200-300 characters, at this time I have about 12 active characters. That is including my characters for closed themed rps like Bleach and Kingdom Hearts.

[Ytts]

There are a certain number of people who really do juggle dozens of characters at a time and regularly come up with new ones while discarding old ones. I can't explain why they do so, perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots. There's probably more to it than that, though.

[Inquisitor]

I have Sid.

The only other char I have is Sleeze, who's for a DH game I'm waiting to come along.

[Soja]

Soja.

I find myself a mite too uninspired for more than that these days.

I have a couple more for closed RPs and the sort.

[Rosery]

There are a certain number of people who really do juggle dozens of characters at a time and regularly come up with new ones while discarding old ones. I can't explain why they do so, perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots. There's probably more to it than that, though.

I can just say for myself that its diffcult to find one character I enjoy so much that I don't need others, Morrigan for isntance i've had since before I joined the keep and still use her regularly. But through various Rp encounters she's become so powerful that rping with your average person is simply beyond the realm of the possible, Marilith are not famed for there civil manners anyway. So I have other characters to Rp with different kinds. And often I'll make a character but then find it's to hard to interact so I need a new one.

[Moondog]

There are a certain number of people who really do juggle dozens of characters at a time and regularly come up with new ones while discarding old ones. I can't explain why they do so, perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots. There's probably more to it than that, though.

I can just say for myself that its diffcult to find one character I enjoy so much that I don't need others, Morrigan for isntance i've had since before I joined the keep and still use her regularly. But through various Rp encounters she's become so powerful that rping with your average person is simply beyond the realm of the possible, Marilith are not famed for there civil manners anyway. So I have other characters to Rp with different kinds. And often I'll make a character but then find it's to hard to interact so I need a new one.

Hmm. My oldest character would have that problem, had he not mellowed down considerably as he 'aged'. =)

[Jason Baane]

[Silvermoon] isn't really mine, but I'm always the one who winds up logging on as it to host the room.

Jason_Baane
Grigori_Mattlov
Fredriq_Stormbelly
Cristoforo
Jacques-Pascal_Lalande

I also run various NPC names for my setting. This is way too many characters for me to juggle and it becomes a problem.

[Rosery]

There are a certain number of people who really do juggle dozens of characters at a time and regularly come up with new ones while discarding old ones. I can't explain why they do so, perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots. There's probably more to it than that, though.

I can just say for myself that its diffcult to find one character I enjoy so much that I don't need others, Morrigan for isntance i've had since before I joined the keep and still use her regularly. But through various Rp encounters she's become so powerful that rping with your average person is simply beyond the realm of the possible, Marilith are not famed for there civil manners anyway. So I have other characters to Rp with different kinds. And often I'll make a character but then find it's to hard to interact so I need a new one.

Hmm. My oldest character would have that problem, had he not mellowed down considerably as he 'aged'. =)

Morrigan only became more enraged and psychotic as she aged and more powerful, the older she gets the more insane and destructive she seems to get, for ever year that passes she finds some new person she swears to find and rip apart xD.

[KitDreamer]

There are a certain number of people who really do juggle dozens of characters at a time and regularly come up with new ones while discarding old ones. I can't explain why they do so, perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots. There's probably more to it than that, though.

No, really, there isn't.

I was one of those folks. I have a folder which has over 100 characters, all of which I created. Not very many were any good however. They were just quick little ideas which never had any basis of real design or concept.I hardly ever played ANY of them because of that.

[Jason Baane]

Morrigan only became more enraged and psychotic as she aged

Give her some credit.

She's not as overtly challenging Jason Baane anymore, and that's a step towards sanity in my book.

[-=Styles=-]

So then, active chars aside. How many characters do y'all have that are involved deeply in RP?

Like twisted into the skein so much that unwinding from the character itself makes you feel like you're missing something?

I can honestly say -=Styles=- is probably the only character that I play as closely as I could to my own  personality, and for some odd reason,  I find myself at odds when I don't sign onto him for a good ol' RP session. He's the one and only char that if he were to be abolished from RP, I would actually be severely disappointed...

He's going to go a VERY long way. I've already got the entire story behind him plotted and running. Some of it might require a tad bit of metagaming, but it is assured that it pertains to his person only....and that's the truth if ever told.

Most of the other charries I've had or made were throw aways. Rampage is basically going to remain story less, pretty much just around to fight in the arena. Ludross....well...I won't go there...but suffice it to say that I'm  embarrassed half-heartedly to admit to having been the creator of such a disastrous character. So convoluted and infantile in creation that I can barely accept the fact that something like the likes of him stemmed from my imagination.

I've since then worked on him a good deal, and am proud to say that he's come very far, but that notoriety will live forever, lol.

Majin_Buu, well, I mean I just got kicks out of using him for the most part. I had to get my fill of ass kickin' in somewhere, and yes, I do have to admit that the power game was fun to play with him...It's a very hard temptation to avoid, and now I can see why some would develop a god-complex. But also, he just happens to be right in t he line of characters I like to play, a krazy, psychotic son of a bitch!

XD

[KitDreamer]

I have one in a game of Nightfall, based on the Unisystem from AFMBE, a setting of a friend's own creation, I have one character for an Usagi Yojimbo RP that has so far been short lived, but very enjoyable, I have had one really awesome L5R character who was a kitsune, and another few who weren't so good, I've had a vampire character who I didn't put much thought into, I've had an Unhallowed Metropolis character who I thoroughly enjoyed playing too...

... oh you mean in tK? Sorry, I find this place counterintuitive to actual roleplay for me.

[Jason Baane]

derp derp derp

[Moondog]

I have one in a game of Nightfall, based on the Unisystem from AFMBE, a setting of a friend's own creation, I have one character for an Usagi Yojimbo RP that has so far been short lived, but very enjoyable, I have had one really awesome L5R character who was a kitsune, and another few who weren't so good, I've had a vampire character who I didn't put much thought into, I've had an Unhallowed Metropolis character who I thoroughly enjoyed playing too...

... oh you mean in tK? Sorry, I find this place counterintuitive to actual roleplay for me.

The Usagi Yojimbo RPG, much like JadeClaw and IronClaw has been criticized for being extremely lethal to Player Characters. As I've never had the chance to take a look at Usagi Yojimbo, what's your opinion on the lethality?

[Aurelia]

I have 2, and even then I usualy only use my main. If I go more than two I tend to neglect the others.

[Bane]

...perhaps they enjoy making the character more than playing out long-term plots.

This can be true, at least. I'm severely guilty of it.

A concept starts out exciting, becomes more concrete, involves a crapton of research (probably the main way I ever learn anything), occasionally becomes a little tiring, and then on completion just feels done and over with. And half the time I'm already involved with a new character.

And.
I use maybe two or three on a regular basis, in some order like Ruin/Jenn/Kade. Hope to add a few to that.

[KitDreamer]

I have one in a game of Nightfall, based on the Unisystem from AFMBE, a setting of a friend's own creation, I have one character for an Usagi Yojimbo RP that has so far been short lived, but very enjoyable, I have had one really awesome L5R character who was a kitsune, and another few who weren't so good, I've had a vampire character who I didn't put much thought into, I've had an Unhallowed Metropolis character who I thoroughly enjoyed playing too...

... oh you mean in tK? Sorry, I find this place counterintuitive to actual roleplay for me.

The Usagi Yojimbo RPG, much like JadeClaw and IronClaw has been criticized for being extremely lethal to Player Characters. As I've never had the chance to take a look at Usagi Yojimbo, what's your opinion on the lethality?

My opinion is that yes, the system CAN be lethal, but then it's part of the setting as well. Have you ever read an Usagi Yojimbo comic? People die in seconds in a battle. Protracted battles are very VERY rare, and never last more than a minute or two at the most in the setting (basically no more than a page or two really, from what I've seen at the very very most). So yes, you can die very quickly in Usagi Yojimbo, but then surely you shouldn't be trying to fight EVERYTHING. That's a sure fire way to get killed. It isn't lethal enough to utterly discourage combat, but it is lethal enough to make it known that you want to avoid combat if at all possible, and not do your typical D&D "HUURRRRR I HAV TEH SOWRD LOL BAB = 20+ I KEEL EVARYTHING".

So yes. It's lethal. It's meant to be.

[Moondog]

I have one in a game of Nightfall, based on the Unisystem from AFMBE, a setting of a friend's own creation, I have one character for an Usagi Yojimbo RP that has so far been short lived, but very enjoyable, I have had one really awesome L5R character who was a kitsune, and another few who weren't so good, I've had a vampire character who I didn't put much thought into, I've had an Unhallowed Metropolis character who I thoroughly enjoyed playing too...

... oh you mean in tK? Sorry, I find this place counterintuitive to actual roleplay for me.

The Usagi Yojimbo RPG, much like JadeClaw and IronClaw has been criticized for being extremely lethal to Player Characters. As I've never had the chance to take a look at Usagi Yojimbo, what's your opinion on the lethality?

My opinion is that yes, the system CAN be lethal, but then it's part of the setting as well. Have you ever read an Usagi Yojimbo comic? People die in seconds in a battle. Protracted battles are very VERY rare, and never last more than a minute or two at the most in the setting (basically no more than a page or two really, from what I've seen at the very very most). So yes, you can die very quickly in Usagi Yojimbo, but then surely you shouldn't be trying to fight EVERYTHING. That's a sure fire way to get killed. It isn't lethal enough to utterly discourage combat, but it is lethal enough to make it known that you want to avoid combat if at all possible, and not do your typical D&D "HUURRRRR I HAV TEH SOWRD LOL BAB = 20+ I KEEL EVARYTHING".

So yes. It's lethal. It's meant to be.

I see. Thank you.

[Aurelia]

So how many enemies does she have now then? :p

I had that with one of my original chara, Saphire, but I ended up toning her down only to have he killed a week after I did lol.

But back to what I was going to say: Where would the fun be if Morrigan was not already half way on her way to insanity? 

[Rosery]

So how many enemies does she have now then? :p

I had that with one of my original chara, Saphire, but I ended up toning her down only to have he killed a week after I did lol.

But back to what I was going to say: Where would the fun be if Morrigan was not already half way on her way to insanity? 

Half way? Morrigan hit full blown insanity many years ago <.<

[Aurelia]

And that's why we love her. XD