Character Mechanisms - creating character profile instructions (part 9)

This is part of a series of posts to create a character using Character Mechanisms using the Character Profile sheet.

From the last post, I created knowledge and career for the character profile information. I'll focus on the relationship first and do the dream second. If I can, I'll finish up with the remaining generators except that skipped one. Finally, I'll show the entire character profile sheet finished.

√Group A Important

√Group B Reliant

Except skipped combined action engine

Group C Flavor

√Knowledge Generator

√Career Generator

Relationship Generator

Dream Generator

Fact Generator

Modifier Generator

Group D

Sound Generator

1. Relationship Generator

Who does my character's know?

6

4

6 merchant

4 designer, lone wolf personality

This character knows a designer, probably a clothing or armor designer. This relationship fits in nicely with the character's social, acknowledgment & self-actualize, ugliness motives.

Style is everything.

2. Dream Generator

Who did my character dream about at night?

I'll roll for two and maybe a plot and/or twist if needed.

first symbol

11

1

11 character, role or aspect of self

1 mother, help, care, or sacrifice

second symbol

1

6

1 animal, instinct or motive

6 cat, create or luck

plot

6

9

6 temptation

9 prevent

twist

11

5

11 reversal of fulfillment

5 when, timing is perfect

3. Fact Generator

What does my character sense?

1

5

1 see

5 structure

4. Sound Generator

What does my character hear?

10

11

10, 11 swish

5. Modifier Generator

How is my character's dream modified?

2

10

2 degree

10 nearly

Unnamed character's dream which the character remembers constantly

So, bringing it all together, I think the dream is that the character's mother is trying to reach the family cat in the road to save it from the oncoming structure, a vehicle. A swish sounds out, however, something is preventing her from reaching the cat even though there is plenty of time. The mother is nearly escaping, but can't quite break free from a dark tentacle-like force.

The Final Character sheet.

This character can be used now, with high amount of detail, with a name, race, and maybe gender. Additional details can be added to this, if the character becomes more important.

Click to enlarge image of Dakota character profile.

I assigned an androgynous name, Dakota, so this character could be any gender or race — even dwarf. This is a sample character for the Character Mechanisms book which will go into the next update.

This finishes doing all of the random tables and engines found in Character Mechanisms, except the combined action engine. I wont do that skipped step since I don't have any real instructions in the current book edition. That would probably entail adding some more stimulus response actions based on the total known details.

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I'll next switch to something else for a while.

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Character Mechanisms - creating character profile instructions (part 8)

This is part of a series of posts to create a character using Character Mechanisms using the Character Profile sheet.

From the last post, I created dialogue foundation and communication function for the character profile information. I'll focus on the knowledge first and do the career second. 

√Group A Important

√Group B Reliant

Except skipped combined action engine

Group C Flavor

Knowledge Generator

Career Generator

Relationship Generator

Dream Generator

Fact Generator

Modifier Generator

1. Knowledge Generator

What does my character's know?

5

11

5 social science
11 sociology

A quick Wikipedia copy paste.
Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture of everyday life.

This character knows something about social relationships, culture, and interaction. Certainly this character is biased towards the character's motivation which was this.

This character's motive has already been generated: social, acknowledgment; self-actualize, ugliness. All through a charismatic-skeptical personality perspective. A life with a guilty past.

I could add more knowledge later if this character becomes more important, but having one good enough for now.

2. Career Generator

What does my character's do?

Two methods at this point can be tried. I'll try both and pick the more interesting result.

A. Random field in the sociology category, since knowledge of sociology has already been established.

3

3 a trader, supplier, distributor

Or

B. Random everywhere.

4

2

4 history, geography, and anthropology
2 archaeologist

I like the archaeologist which was randomly rolled better.

A dictionary.com definition of archaeologist.

Archaeologist a specialist in archaeology, the scientific study of prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, etc. 

Click on image to enlarge

I'll move on to Relationship Generator and Dream Generator next.

Most of the character is created already.