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Ask A Gamemaster / Re: Bio and metagaming

« on: May 04, 2007, 02:05:39 pm »

Ahh of course. Basicly I,  being simple man like Lynyrd sang, was under the impression the bio I state here must be the same in game. For some reason I was thinking the term "bio" as the examine sheet of my character. Which isn't the case and which allows me to stick to my normal not-too-much-info examine. Thanks all cleared up now.

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Ask A Gamemaster / About character age

« on: May 04, 2007, 06:40:05 pm »

Well hello again. Firstly, I'm not 100% positive this is the thread to post this into but ASK and GAMEMASTER in the same sentence sound valid to me.
 So here's another "question" for your annoyment:
 
I'm really having a hard time with the character bio, I'm very fond of playing rather seasoned human wizard type of character with a few minor alterations to the picture here and there.
 
Yeah a 47 year old wizard with 3 spells, a neat magical missile *3, makes sense ehh? As I strongly believe wizardhood is a life long thing, at least on my characters, making him start his wizardhood at an older age is out of the question.
 
It obviously does not make sense to write my biography in advance what will he be when he reaches certain level (say, 40? which might take a while). How do I play older character then? Or do I humbly start of as a 18-year-old wet-behind-the-ears teenager wizard with a bad temper and rp his aging? That might take a tad too long for my taste though. ( Also makes the population pyramid of Layonara very simple looking! As 99% of the population is ages between 18-24)
 
 At first the biography didn't cause any trouble at all but then I came to think everything I had written was what will he be at higher levels. And since you start from the square 1 I have no excuse to tell how he became this or that.
 
 Which leads me to another question: The time in Layonara, to reach ie level 20 with a character at a moderate leveling speed how many years is that considered in game time? Heh, mind boggling for me. Maybe too much so. However the player guides part about age didn't satisfy my curiosity.
 
There might be a simple explanation to all this gibberish I just wrote but I often fail to see them.
 
Thanks.

ps. Don't worry I have a nasty flu and after recovering from it I won't have this much time to spent in front of my computer thinking too much and not enough at the same time, simultaneously.

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Ask A Gamemaster / Bio and metagaming

« on: May 04, 2007, 06:20:28 am »

Howdy, I bumped into this PW world by accident and it seems like worth a try.  
  I read the new players notes and started creating a character via the character approval wizard, then I bumped into the bio part of the creation.
 One thing is really bothering me. How do you rp biography?
 I'm used to using my biography as a way to give other in cast players/characters hint about my in cast character with as little metagaming as possible. Ie my biography might say something about my characters seasoned looks or a very noticeable scar in his right cheek etc.
 But as I shuffled through the approved bio's it seems as it is required to give a life story or such. Doesn't this urge people into metagaming?
 Same thing with names, if you can see the name above the goofy elf standing before you that doesn't mean you know the stranger by name ic right?
 So in general i'd like to know more about how this server feels about metagaming. I couldn't find any notes about it.
 In game, should we just ignore biography which would make it more of a way to make the new players think about their characters character more carefully? That's not a bad idea either but clear things up for me please.
 Thanks.