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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Meek" data-source="post: 5397554" data-attributes="member: 78339">I find roleplaying spirits to be really fun and rewarding myself.For some of the <a href="http://spiritsofeden.com/the-world-of-adel/" target="_blank">spirits in my games</a> I like to take inspiration from medieval christian drama, stuff like in "Everyman" and "Wisdom." I took a course on medieval religious drama and I was charmed by the personified characters of the virtues and vices. A lot of times I make my spirits direct personifications of concepts and objects, and I think "what would Knowledge be as a person?" Then I try to tweak that to break any initial stereotypes and throw a couple curveballs. Anybody can think of Knowledge as an old man, but what about Knowledge as a young, eager guy who knows all this stuff, and really wants everyone to learn more, but is afraid of it all being abused, as it has been for untold centuries already?Though sometimes I just stick in a simple anime foxgirl or something <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />EDIT: I found a bunch of the texts if you want to suffer from REALLY old school drama.<a href="http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/playtexts.htm" target="_blank">http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/playtexts.htm</a>I also recommend the Digby cycle Mary Magdalene and The Castle of Perseverance, in addition to Everyman and Wisdom. All of those have personified characters, but I thought the vices and the kind of "cosmology of evil" present in Mary Magdalene and Castle of Perseverance were nifty.</blockquote>

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