Character Creation Guide : How to Construct Great Fictional Characters, Paper...
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Character Creation Guide : How to Construct Great Fictional Characters, Paper.... Dramatic - Alias, Stakes, Persona, Instinct, Limit. TheCharacter Creation Guide shows you step by step how to create an iconic character essential to an engaging story. Behind the scenes the Kim’s RPG Master Class is actually a distillation of best practices from those various fields. Character Creation Guide : How to Construct Great Fictional Characters, Paperback by Lumbard, Kim E., ISBN 1503060500, ISBN-13 9781503060500, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The Character Creation Guide shows you step by step how to create an iconic character essential to an engaging story. It is intended for players in Role-Playing Games (RPGs) who want to develop an awesome character, or for authors with a story they yearn to tell. The guide can be used with any RPG and by any profession to raise your game to an artform. We'll gain a keen understanding of what really matters in role-playing and story-telling, so you can focus your design and play efforts more effectively. You'll spend less time and effort, and have more engrossing fun! Specifically, we'll learn about: How To Make a Character - in four phases: Inspiration, Concept, Mechanics, and Performance Fractal Blueprints for Great Role-Playing - the ideals, objects, and policies that really matterFour Cardinal Ideals - Direction, Structure, Emotion, and Synergy Five Objects Of Development - Plot, Premise, Character, Environment, and Theme First Design and Play Policies - Only create stuff that matters andOnly do stuff that matters Finding Inspiration - drawing from sources like Setting, Proposition, Exemplars, Archetypes, and TropesFour Qualities of Good Inspiration - Resonant, Specific, Original, and Promising Imagining Concept - gives us methods to design our concept and measures to test its qualityFour Qualities of Good Concept - Clear, Distinct, Engaging, and Interactive Designing the Character - With the concept designs that naturally develop action story structureThematic - Theme, Goal, Motive, Conflict, Destiny Mutual - Appearance, Links, Connections, Hook, Backstory Dramatic - Alias, Stakes, Persona, Instinct, Limit Cooperative - Aspects, Mystery, Belief, Lure Setup - Name, Gender, Occupation, Catalyst Planning Performance - learning enough to execute a character transformation matched with your storyStructure - Phases and points of an action story Portrayal - Managing clichés and imbuing dimensions Presentation - Unfolding your story over key scenes In addition, we provide specific Kim's RPG resources to help you create your character: Mad-libs and Questionnaire - Designed to prompt you through a useful character creation process Universal Character Concept Sheet - Usable in any RPG and easily customized to other fields Character Examples - Real characters drawn from the fantasy genre used to illuminate design Our approach for character creation is useful for far more than just role-playing games. It applies universally to any fictional character and their performance, so these same methods are of great interest to all story content creators and performers: authors from any field, actors of stage and screen, producers of movies, improv troupes, and even songwriters. Behind the scenes the Kim’s RPG Master Class is actually a distillation of best practices from those various fields.
