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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7432001" data-attributes="member: 29398">How to make a character memorable regardless of its class, stats, or any other game-mechanics consideration:Personality - take whatever personality you've got in mind for your character and push it just a bit over the top.  Or, if you're me, completely over the top. <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=":)" />Catchphrase* - some otherwise quite forgettable characters have been long remembered in our crew just because of their personal slogan or catchphrase or quote.Signature action - similar to catchphrase, something you're known for consistently doing in the game (an example: no furniture remains whole once this character sees it).Theme - a longer-term thing where a character becomes associated with a particular theme e.g. longswords, fire spells, colours, pranks, or whatever.Craziness - if you're playing a character that you know or suspect won't last long anyway, make it bat-guano crazy somehow and let its shooting-star career be a blaze of hilarity.* - or if you're so inclined, a (preferably original) theme song that either you or the character sings at every opportunity.And note these suggestions are for making a character memorable, not necessarily likeable; as memorable and likeable can sometimes run at cross-purposes.  Often the best-liked characters in the here and now are the easygoing quiet ones - the same ones you'll struggle to remember at all in ten years.Lan-"you're the worst character I ever heard of - yes, but you have heard of me"-efan</blockquote>

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