Chargen Help

Here are some suggestions on how to make Character Gen go by a lot smoother

Write your stuff out in a text editor first.

It is much easier on the app process when you break the task into more manageable pieces.

The key things you'll want on hand are the following:

Name:
Codename:
Gender:
Race: Human, Alien, Mutant, Metahuman…
Occupation: What do they do for a paycheck?

Biography: We don't require a full length essay. A few bullet points or paragraphs to get the basic gist of where your character comes from and how they came to be the person they are now should be sufficient. Lets be honest, no one reads the 5 page biographies before RPing.

Psyche: Otherwise known as the personality. If you get stuck on this, the bio you developed should give you a very good hint to the type of person they are.

Powers: Does your character fly or make things explode? Do they do something that a normal human couldn't possibly do? It goes here.

Flaws: What is it about your character that hinders them? This could be psychological flaws, enemies, or the weaknesses. If done right, this section can make for a VERY interesting character.

Skills: Does your character write, program, draw, sing, dance, or know some type of fighting style? That would go here.

Resources: Money, Allies they can call on for help, Property. That goes here.

Go to the Chargen Walkthrough Rooms.

The entrance to the Chargen Walkthrough room is just off of the OOC Lounge area. Chargen is a series of rooms, each of which has instructions for a certain portion of character set up. You are able to move back and forth between rooms so you can go back and adjust stuff if you need to.

Room 1 : WELCOME TO CharGen!
There's nothing special to this room other than moving your char into a less chatty area. If you want to be logged on but don't want OOC chatter while you write in a text editor, this could be a spot you go to. You'll want to proceed to the Next room for instructions for actual setup on the MOO

Room 2: CharGen Basics

In here, you have instructions for setting up your gender, setting up the description of your character as well as your first clothing description. We do have the capability of having multiple outfits stored but that can be set up at a later point after you have gotten your character apped.

Room 3: Finger information
This is where you set your name, age, whether you are an OC (Original Character) or FC (Feature Character), height, eye color, and weight. You do not have to set everything in here. But at the very least, provide the name and whether you are an OC or FC

Rooms 4 - 8: Personality Profile, Skills and Talents, Powers and Abilities, Background Information, Resources and Technology

The rooms each have descriptions providing prompts for how to come up with your writeup.
The respective commands to set up a section the first time through are as follows:

Personality @setpers
Skills and Talents @setskills
Powers and Abilities @setpowers
Background Information @setbio
Resources and Technology @setres

If you have already set up a particular section, you will need to enter an editor to alter what you already have:
The respective commands to do that are as follows:
Personality @notedit me.psyche
Skills and Talents @notedit me.skills
Powers and Abilities @notedit me.powers
Background Information @notedit me.bio
Resources and Technology @notedit me.res

This will essentiallly open up an editor.
To see what you've already written, type list
To delete lines you type del <# line you wish to delete>
To add a line to the end of what you currently have you use say <line you wish to enter>
When you are happy with what you have, you type save
If you don't want to commit your changes you use abort

When you're done, you can peek at what you have set up by typing their respective commands
Personality @psyche me
Skills and Talents @skills me
Powers and Abilities @powers me
Background Information @bio me
Resources and Technology @res me

Room 9: Finishing Stuff
Do you have a theme song, a url to share for this hero, or additional notes to add in? This is where you do it.
@themesong me is "Song That Never Ends"
@url me is "dailybuglerocksyoursocks.com"
@notedit me.plan — creates a note in the note editor by that name.

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