Character Summaries

[Daeher]

As we all know, there is an increasing amount of characters being created. And since out little sigs don't reveal much of the personality, I think there could be some form of a summary thread where everyone posts their characters with BRIEF descriptions.
The goal of this would be to familiarize yourself with characters you will be with during an rp

[drakarsepentrion]

I could say we have that already in everyone's character thread, but this is a lot easier than to go looking.

[Latte]

Yeah, clicking through all the character topics and reading them is a bit tedious, and it's bad for just reference. A quick summary thread might be good.

[KyahRyorin]

I'd have to talk to Kuro about it, though it does seem like a good idea. A simple thread explaining everyone's character quickly might make things a bit easier. I'll get back to you guys on it, or Kuro will respond in the thread. XD

[KuroNeko]

I'm leaning towards 'no', to be honest, but you might be able to change my mind.

I just don't see this as being extremely necessary or even that convenient. The character tags more or less give you everything you need to RP with someone - their age, gender, job, and race are all you basically need to know of someone.

What I'm saying is that even the Character forms are not strictly required reading to roleplay with that person. It wouldn't make a difference if I had never read Kai's character page, as my characters would still act the same around her. It doesn't matter what you know, it's what your characters know that matters - Jay doesn't know Kai's past at all, he would need her to tell him in an RP, so if Jay doesn't need to know it, why do I? And my knowing Kai's past doesn't really help Jay, because he doesn't automatically know everything that I know about a character.

So if even the long character forms aren't needed to be read to have a functional RP, why would we need a thread of short summaries?

Plus having all of MoM's characters' summaries in one thread would be hard to maintain once we had more members and they each had their five characters xD

So yeah, I'm not seeing this as extremely necessary, but I'm always open to these ideas so if you wanna elaborate (How brief these descriptions would be, how they would help, etc.) there's a good possibility I might change my mind.

[Tyrant]

I could see it working, but I don't think it's needed. Convenient maybe. I agree with Kuro, in that what you need to know about a character is what your own in game persona already knows. There are some things though, that it would be nice to have quick and easy access to. A description, for instance. If you ever wanted to describe your fellow Melodia'ers (New word. Hutzpah.) it would help some if you didn't have to browse all the way back to Character profiles (repeatedly) for physical information.

But I really don't think you need a brand new thread just that. Maybe just a little extra icon in your signature or something. My two cents! ;D

[KuroNeko]

I was thinking of adding to the Character sig code a link back to the members' character page, so clicking on, for example, Jaynus' character sig would take you to the post with his profile.

And Tyrant, I hear "Melodians" works pretty well

[Tyrant]

Duly noted. *thumbs up for idea*

[Daeher]

well, t'was but a suggestion, but your link-on-sig idea is a lot better.