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Customized Char's - Toshiro - 02-01-2005
Ok.. Do you guy's think having Customized Z charecter's is a bad idea or not? Post your idea's behind this.
Customized Char's - Kami - 02-01-2005
Anybody see the Southpark where they all get ninja weapons and Cartman is like "I'm invincible" and blah blah blah...when you have an RPG set up like this, modeled after a show, you probably want to stray away from the confusion of creating custom characters. A place like UD requires it for it to work.
Customized Char's - Toshiro - 02-01-2005
I don't mean for here.. I mean in RPG's in General. I mean even if it wasn't gonna be a DBZ one, what about a Naruto one or some thing. I'm talking about made up char's in the whole..
Customized Char's - Kami - 02-01-2005
It all depends on the format.
Customized Char's - Toshiro - 02-01-2005
If, per say, it was set like Chubbs, or to a lesser extent, Evo. I'm jsut curious s'all.
Customized Char's - Toshiro - 02-01-2005
Please don't spam this.. I really wanna know what people think on this issue.
Customized Char's - Tobias - 02-01-2005
Most of the time I prefer custom characters. Gives you more freedom; not to say chubbs doeant have freedom, it handles the no custom character thing well. For a DBZ RPG its hard because of the whole saiyans thing, but nartuo is an excellent setting for custom characters.
Customized Char's - Drake - 02-01-2005
This is why you have rules when making an rpg like "No joining as Goku/Vejita's son".
Given the way chubbs is run it'd be better to have Custom characters rather then using existing ones. One reason for that is if somebody leaves their character and a nother person joins you suddenly lose the storyline for that character. Like I know I am Trunks Unified, and I play it the way Reijin had set it up, but anyone else might not do that so then you have Reijin who's got this backstory that is heavily influenced from his interaction with Trunks, Goten, Gohan and what not and suddenly the three people he roleplayed with from awhile back are gone and their characters are being roleplayed by someone who isn't interested in playing along with Reijin's backstory.
There is also the inherient timeline problem, Vejita Jr and Goku Jr who really don't fit in with a teenage Pan and Bra. Unless like 6 or 7 of our characters are from the future.
Custom Characters are easier and tend to have more continuity then playing as existing ones.
Customized Char's - Yamu - 02-02-2005
I think there are definite pros and cons.
The problem with set charchters is that each have a set back story and aura from the shows that is bound to limit the roleplaying expierence. As Trunks said most charachters have already been played once and what happans to all that player did when another takes over and everything they worked for just disapeers?
On the other hand ,as has been said, most people are not creative enough to come up with an actual charchter but instead 'power game' and try to make a Goku-Vegita love child that can some how go to Oozoku level 8 or something. So theres the good, bad, and ugly.
Customized Char's - Raditzu - 02-02-2005
I disagree with Trunks, but only in a minor way.
I agree that Chubbs would probably be a bit better off with Custom characters. That said, I think Custom Characters are a bad idea for something along the lines of DBZ. When you have a stock storyline and universe, and such a wide cast of available characters, it's a lot easier to just say no custom characters. Now, I consider Chubbs a bit of an exception due to the degree of developement that has been put into... well... everything. This place has had enough facelifts that it we could change the title of the RPG and break completely away from DBZ if we really wanted to.
Now, custom made RPGs are another story altogether. I think Kami used UD as a perfect example. You can't not use a custom character in UD. Everything about it is completely made up, so there's nothing to pull a character from. Sure, you could base a character on, say, Kenshin, but it would still have to be customized in order to fit within the UD universe.
So... I don't think it's possible to make a blanket statement like "custom characters don't work as well" or whatever.
Customized Char's - Ruhiel - 02-02-2005
I voted against it.
Sure, it is a little more fun to rp a character you completely made up and did whatever you wanted to with what they looked like and all. But I just think that custom characters are too hard to keep up with. I don't know who half the people are, and that they actually were on the rpg. Other than that, I don't have any problems against them, it's just that I think it's hard for recognition of characters and more often than not, rpgs with custom characters don't last all too long. Sure, some do, but a lot just kind of wither.
Customized Char's - Yamu - 02-02-2005
If you already do not know who most of the charachters are then why would it matter if some were made up? I think it would only enrich the expierence...from most people. Like i said some 14 year old punk would ruin in through power gaming, just like D&D and Shadowrun. I voted for it.
Customized Char's - Android-18 - 02-02-2005
I agree with Rad.
I avoid DBZ RPGs with custom characters like the plauge, we would have a ton of Saiya-Jin and it would just be annoying
. Some people are exceptions, like Rei, because of situations.
Customized Char's - Burter - 02-02-2005
Before I became Burter I'd have made a saiyan, I admit. But now I can say honestly I would never make anything like it. More then likely, I would create something incredibly similar to Burter
Customized Char's - Hellfighter 17 - 02-02-2005
Quote:Originally posted by BurterSomewhat the smae here. I wanted somebody that was practically unstoppable in the show. HF17 isn't weak, but he could be taken out, in the show that is. For a DBZ RPG custom characters would pretty much kill it. I actually prefer non-custom characters, because then it is alot more fun molding them, as with a custom one you can make them howeve you want in a couple of days. Not saying it is impossible for a non-custom, but for them it would take more time and effort as some people when they first join they associate their character purely to how they were in the show.
Before I became Burter I'd have made a saiyan, I admit. But now I can say honestly I would never make anything like it. More then likely, I would create something incredibly similar to Burter
Customized Char's - Yamu - 02-02-2005
Like the King (Gohan?) said I saw a site now long dead that let you create customs, but every race had advantages and abilities. Since ost of the monkeys are not to right it took them much longer to learn and develop moves. Actually saiya-jins were only the strongest after years of gamely and roleplay. It had also leeld the playnig field by giving androids buyable upgrades to keep up. Humans on the other hand could create their own item instead of buying them. It is all a matter of creativity.
Basically I'm saying created charchters aren't all bad if used by veteran RPers.
Customized Char's - Zarbon - 02-02-2005
Erm, this sentence should help you understand my statement...
"FUCK! SO MAY GOKU JRS! CAN'T BREATHE! BAD RPING! BLOWING UP WORL- AHHHHHHH!"
Zarbon has spoken.
Customized Char's - Amadeus - 02-02-2005
I like the idea of custom characters, since that would give people much more freedom in developing.
But like 18 said we would have billions of Saiyans running around and I personally support divercity. I admit if custom characters would have been allowed, I would have joined as a Saiyan beacuse back then when I wanted to join I was blind about other interesting characters, so Im glad custom characters are not allowed. Today however I see the diversity and as such out of 4 RPGs i am a saiyan on only one:
Chubbs (Jackie Chun)
Evo (Cooler)
Paradise (Vegeta)
NEP (Cell Jr.)
I never found Roshi really interesting until I started Rping as him. Now I find him a very good character, so im glad I chose him from the roster.
Customized Char's - Banned Dana - 02-02-2005
I like the idea, however, it would become confusing, unless you had a sig and avatar matching your character then things would lighten up.
Ideas for rpg's in general. Loosen up on characters. Characters from shows simular to dbz should be alloud on DBZ rpgs...in my opinion.
Yu Yu Hakisho and Dragonball Z....very very simular.
Customized Char's - Hellfighter 17 - 03-27-2005
Umm...please do not revive old threads. Furiza did that by accident. Or so he says.