Tuesday, October 30, 2018

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. 

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

Most of the character is created already.

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