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Playing Multiple Characters
Love Interests
Character Development
Taking Over A Character From Someone Else
Playing Multiple Characters
Getting more involved in a game often requires taking on more characters. One should make sure to keep them to their characters different and not play them all the same way.
It is important when taking on more characters that you don't wind up playing with yourself. Playing your own love interest can result in many posts between yourself and after a while that can get a little dull and you may even run out of ideas. The idea of a role playing game is to interact with other characters and players and if you are only interacting with yourself, you might as well just write a story or start your own game because people are probably going to stop reading those posts after a while unless they are beyond interesting. You shouldn't take on more characters just to advance another character that you are playing. Or just to be a love interest.
Sometimes a character of yours can be put in a compromising situation and you play multiple characters in that particular game. It seems easy enough that another of your characters can be the 'hero of the day' and save that character but in fact, that generally doesn't make sense. It is an easy out of a situation that one should write themselves out of. It may very well make sense at that time but always keep in mind that characters cannot read minds (unless they happen to have that super power) to know that another character is in distress. It must make sense within a character's personality that they would come to that other character's defense. Motivation.
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Love Interests
While most games are going to have romantic situations, one should try to give their character more depth and a life of their own as opposed to simply revolving around their love life and who they are trying to snag next.
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Character Development
Just as in real life, characters in game will change and grow due to the events and experiences that they go through in the game. Opinions may change and alter as the game continues. A good character may go bad or vice versa. But when doing things that go against what has already been established for that character you need to have a reason behind it. For example: Link can't suddenly decide that he's had enough of rescuing Zelda without good cause for example.
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Taking Over A Character From Someone Else
There are many times that you will join a game and take over a character that has been previously played. While yes, it is now your character, you need to take into consideration that events and plot have been most likely in play long before you joined the game and while you are welcome to play the character in the way that you want to you need to try to at least make a transition from what the character was, into what you want them to be. Drastic changes in a character when there is a player change can cause big problems in a game with other players even if the moderator of the game is ok with the changes.
You need to know that things have happened to that character. Read the archives of the list or if there are too many or you don't feel you have the time, email the moderator of the game and ask them. It is their job to know what has happened and to help you. However, t is your job however to know your character and everything that has happened to them whether by asking the moderators, players, or by reading the archived messages. Sometimes there may be a plot summary for the game but even if there is, summaries generally aren't involved enough to include everything that has been going on with each specific characters.
So while yes, you can do as you like, as a courtesy to other players you should at least try to keep things flowing smoothly during the transition of players.
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