Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen
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I prefer web-based, but echo what people have said about anything being fine so long as it’s clear and well-documented.
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web based is so nice. telnet travels on the devil’s whispers
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I want the machine to do the mathening. I do the storying, the machine does the mathening. That’s why we have the machine.
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As someone who prefers in-game chargen, web-based is by far better.
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Years ago, I used to be all about using MUSH Client and doing stuff in game. But after playing on a few Ares games, I was fully converted over to web based. A lot more flexibility with web based and the visual presentation was a lot easier to work with.
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web based. I never want to use a client again.
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Even as somebody who still plays on-client a fair amount, I wouldn’t want to do CG in a pure text interface again. It’s just so much easier on web to save things/proof things/edit things.
Also staff-side it’s way easier to make small changes if I need to, give notes to players, or see where somebody’s getting an error (either through user error or something screwy with the game).
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@Yam Well, there you have it, folks; this website’s least controversial post!
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@Muscle-Car
So, what you’re saying is, we should set fire to the trees?
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@Third-Eye I dunno about chargen, but on the fly pose editing in the webportal is amazing!
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Oh strap in I can make this thread controversial!
This extremely social hobby requires you to understand nuance in text, requires you to be able to read the room, requires you to take cues gracefully, requires you to be able to put yourself in another person’s shoes, and generally requires you to be GOOD at other human beings, which is actually kind of hard and involves actual work! COMMENCE FIGHT.
But it does appear that most folk prefer web. Telnet hanging on by a thread.
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@Yam what are we fighting about, being good at other people? on THIS internet?
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@Yam said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:
This extremely social hobby requires you to understand nuance in text, requires you to be able to read the room, requires you to take queues gracefully, requires you to be able to put yourself in another person’s shoes, and generally requires you to be GOOD at other human beings, which is actually kind of hard and involves actual work! COMMENCE FIGHT.
I don’t disagree with any of that, but I’m not following how that’s related to web vs client chargen?
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I can add in even more controversy:
I prefer physical paper cgen, mailed via certified letter to the head staff. Background documentation done as a series of IC interview posts on the game’s LiveJournal, and notes for any stats that need justification or explanation in unnamed Pastebins.
Proud Member of the Pro-Mummy Alliance
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@MisterBoring certified letter? who has that kind of cash!?
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There’s another thing. The CONTENT of the CharGen/Application. For 2k5 it was a big fat written app that was e-mailed. The length of it was determined by the specialness of the roster character you were picking up.
In contrast Arx was like “you want THAT weird old man that’s in the freezer? ok yam sure” which was oddly refreshing.
I’ve often wondered how much applications actually filter anything.
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@Yam
Picking up a roster on Arx was like that. Creating an OC was a fairly fiddly process that I gave up on the first time. Arx seemingly wasn’t really optimized for doing that, though, and being steered toward a roster was always kinda working as intended imo. You make your choices. -
@Yam A maximum word count limit for written backgrounds is the way to go. It’s great that you wrote that novel. Please send the link and I will consider purchasing. Summarize who your character is in a reasonable way.
Unrelated to the above opinion, I don’t think Arx should be our metric for OC apps. This is not intended as a critique. There are some things that game runners will be interested in policing, and some things that they aren’t.
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@helvetica said in Web-based CharGen or in-game CharGen:
A maximum word count limit for written backgrounds is the way to go.
By the same token, tell me what you want out of a background, so I know what to focus my limited time on writing. Or, better yet, give me a questionnaire to fill in.
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@helvetica People do be wanting to write a lot sometimes. I guess there’s a captive audience there, technically. On CoG we had a few folk complaining about the limit and then trying to find ways around it by putting it somewhere else on their profile. As a youth never in my wildest dreams would I have predicted that people actually want to write full novellas for their backgrounds. My goal was generally to get in there and exchange poses with other people.
@Pavel I DO prefer when there’s a little questionnaire provided.
