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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 956775" data-attributes="member: 5171">One thing that I've learned as a fiction writer is that it's okay to be ridiculous as long as you're ridiculous in a way that's appropriate to your character.Example:D-Bang, a d20 Modern biker, wears the leather vest and leather cap with the studs on it.  He's huge, has a pot belly, and is not averse to whooping butt when need be.  But he's not just a stereotype -- he's a stereotype with notes of ridicule. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Sample lines:"Geez, can we get this brawl over with?  I'm gonna be late for my Pilates class.""Actually, I'm a Wiccan.  Well, a lapsed Wiccan.  I only offer sacrifices to Odin on Christmas and Easter."D-Bang isn't just throwing out lines.  He really IS a Pilates student and lapsed Wiccan.  As long as you're true to that and not just saying it to be cute, it works.Stupid Name Example:"Ditty" Flying Coyote is a Native American martial artist and guitar player.  He's charismatic, good in a fight, quick with a song, and mysterious about his past.  At the point where someone asked about his past, he hemmed and hawed and finally admitted:"Well, I'm an Indian --  a small tribal offshoot of Cree, actually.  And you know that joke about how Indians name kids after what they see when they open the tent flap on the morning that the kid is born?  Well, my tribe is the source of that joke.  We really do that.  And my dad... well, he likes computers a lot.  A lot.  Really.  A lot.  So when I was born at home, my dad opened the bedroom door, looked out, and named me after what he saw."Did I mention that he REALLY likes computers?"So anyway, that's how I ended up being named Dedicated T-3 Flying Coyote."Please just call me 'Ditty' for short."</blockquote>

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