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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Teo Twawki" data-source="post: 8955680" data-attributes="member: 7033305">The analogous equivalent would be the actors mentioned.In our group, we've been playing together long enough and have enough desire to roleplay that we often used characters issued to us or play characters constrained by stats or traits according to game world parameters. But that is hardly the same as skipping the process. There is still often discussion and consideration before play about who these folk are. We, as a group, tend to lean toward rping in the first-person, so we do like to know Ourselves... the whole (for example) you wake up with amnesia thing is only interesting once or maybe twice if the story and plot are really good.One exercise twist we've employed is the rp-initiation-rite of make-yourself-as-a-character is to then have someone else play the You you just created. Another variant on that theme is to have everyone else in the group make you-as-a-character and then you have to play You created as others see you (this might only work when everyone involved likes and trusts each other). Characters from songs is a popular source for need-a-character-now situations. They provide great jumping-off points for the player to begin immediately but be able to fill in as desired.But, again, skipping the process or excising it it seems--to go back to Hollyweird analogies--is like an actor signing a contract to perform as a character they know nothing about in a film that may or may not be detailed to an informative degree. Were I the actress involved, unless the gm/director is Stanley Kubrick (perhaps one or two others), I don't think I'd be very eager to get involved.  <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😎" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" title="Smiling face with sunglasses    :sunglasses:" data-shortname=":sunglasses:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" /></blockquote>

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