Uh, this is a character from a game I play occasionally with friends over a tabletop. With dice, character sheets, rulebooks, the whole 9 yards. I didn't mention the game system is called "In Nomine." The world Gherkin was played in was Victorian-era steampunk.
To clarify, what you do next is comment, maybe introduce a character you have played in a game outside this forum, maybe talk about the character idea that you have, so you know it better. I have 4th Edition D&D books on the shelf, so I could guide you though that character generation process, but you'll probably find most people who run D&D will want to sit through generation with you so they can make comments and suggestions about how your character could be tweaked to be more appropriate to the game they're running. Nothing wrong with getting some practise though.
Maybe you could quiz me more about Gherkin. She's quite an interesting character because she was based upon an incredible internal conflict. As a Malakite, she is sworn to destroy evil, but serving Novalis, she is asked to use violence only as a last resort when all other options have failed. Also, she is *incredibly* stupid and clumsy.
I recommend playing stupid characters. Partly because it is very difficult to play a character that is more intelligent than yourself, but mostly because it gives me great opportunities to make people laugh by misunderstanding things due to taking an overly simplistic view. As an Aspie, I do that anyway. It's nice that role-playing gives us a format to enjoy that part of me, rather than it being exclusively a problem.
Gherkin isn't Dokuro-chan, but rather my re-imagining of Dokuro-chan. If I can make a role-playing character from an obscure cartoon character, I can't see why you can't base a character on a video-game character.
I haven't yet decided whether or not to run a game on this forum, I hadn't even considered it before, but if people are keen to play, I'll bother the admins about getting me a forum space I can moderate.
20 Feb 2011, 8:19 pm
