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<blockquote data-quote="Holy Bovine" data-source="post: 4845039" data-attributes="member: 203">To the OP - I know what you are experiencing.&nbsp; I have experienced and witnessed it as people make characters when the first thought in their head is - &quot;I want to do X&quot; where X is some combat tactic, spell, power or whatever.&nbsp; They most often turn into the most bland, cookie cutter PCs I have ever played or played with.&nbsp; For myself when I make a character my most common way is to base it off a character I have read about or seen in a movie or TV program.&nbsp; Not the most original thing I know but it gives me a good basis to build from.&nbsp; Most often these characters are minor in their primary subject material and I expand and expound upon the building blocks I get.&nbsp; For example one my current characters is based off of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbound" target="_blank">Planet Hulk</a> trade paperback more specifically Korg a rock creature who early on kills his brother Margus.&nbsp; I envisioned Korg and Margus as Goliaths and convinced one of my co-players to take up the position of my brother.&nbsp; I choose to play Margus and he Korg.&nbsp; From the little there is about Korg (and even less about Margus) I built a character concept that had him as a brash hot-headed man out of his element in the cities of the world.&nbsp; Korg is more of a stoic fellow but still has a great deal of resentment towards the civilized portions of the world.A simple example to be sure but it does, I think, show how a relatively minor character can lead to a bigger concept and personality.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Holy Bovine, post: 4845039, member: 203"] To the OP - I know what you are experiencing. I have experienced and witnessed it as people make characters when the first thought in their head is - "I want to do X" where X is some combat tactic, spell, power or whatever. They most often turn into the most bland, cookie cutter PCs I have ever played or played with. For myself when I make a character my most common way is to base it off a character I have read about or seen in a movie or TV program. Not the most original thing I know but it gives me a good basis to build from. Most often these characters are minor in their primary subject material and I expand and expound upon the building blocks I get. For example one my current characters is based off of the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warbound"]Planet Hulk[/URL] trade paperback more specifically Korg a rock creature who early on kills his brother Margus. I envisioned Korg and Margus as Goliaths and convinced one of my co-players to take up the position of my brother. I choose to play Margus and he Korg. From the little there is about Korg (and even less about Margus) I built a character concept that had him as a brash hot-headed man out of his element in the cities of the world. Korg is more of a stoic fellow but still has a great deal of resentment towards the civilized portions of the world. A simple example to be sure but it does, I think, show how a relatively minor character can lead to a bigger concept and personality. [/QUOTE]

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