Hello, everyone. This rule changelog includes the following: Character Rule added concerning concept originality. This was a part of our original rules and accidentally overlooked during the revision process.
I know a few people play robots on the server (Ion, Proto 9, Servebot) that is, including myself, so, what's the policy on that?
He bathed in the blood of his enemies and now his clothes are permanently the indistinguishable colour of BLOOD OF PREY. IT'S NOT EDGY IT'S JUST COOL AND WORKS WITH HIS... DARK PAST.
How is character originality quantified though? I have a character "Johnny Jack O'Lantern," who arguably has the most generic first name in the history of nomenclature. I'm assuming names aren't the only thing being looked at though. I'd hate to have to start a new character. :<
Jack O'Lantern is referencing an object as far as I'm aware and not a direct or heavy rip-off of another character from another media source and is thusly okay.
Also keep in mind that while they're not banned, it's frowned upon to make a character with an overused or "snowflake" archetype, such as "Floran raised by Glitch to be civilized," or an assassin dressed in all black whose name is Darkmist Shadowcloak, or things like that.
Whew, I was worried I would have to discontinue my assassinations under my character Shadowmist Darkcloak. Dodged that bullet.
He does. He is a deep and sympathetical character, just no one knows it due to his mysterious nature. Even joking about this stuff makes me feel like a dirt bag.
Shark and Shadowmist are actually long lost twins, but Shark got turned into a sharkman after the Miniknog experimented on him and blanked his memory. I feel like we're somehow being very original by being deliberately unoriginal. Ironically.
