Character sheet maintenance and retirement
May 6, 2014 5:05:32 GMT -8
Post by Forresst on May 6, 2014 5:05:32 GMT -8
Hlo!
So I find myself insomniac again, so I figured it was high time to clean up my character box and retire some of my old sheets. I dunno what retiring a character means to anyone else, and that's the core of my question. What, if anything do you guys do when you know you're never gonna play one of your particular guys again?
I am unbelievably persnickety when it comes to my characters-- I HATE messy character sheets, and I've been known to get really pissed off and type the "basic stats" bar on a character sheet even while I'm playing my guy. If I don't like a sheet's layout I make my own damn sheet. I put active characters in their own little plastic duotang, and I refuse to keep current hitpoints/wounds/harm/whatever, money, or things that change a lot on the sheet itself. My characters' backpacks are a stickynote pad stuck to the inside front cover of their duotang, any special stuff they have are printed on business cards that get stuck in a holder that goes after the character sheet in the duotang, etc etc etc.
So, when I won't be playing a character I really loved anymore, I retire their sheet. That means I put it in GIMP, type everything out (to provide a snapshot of what the character ended up being), type out a little synopsis of their story, list a few memorable quotes, a list of their final relationships, and a list of their cool treasure, and put it all in a hard-sided binder. Then I add any drawings that might be relevant to them, maps, all that stuff.
To me it's kind of a little solemn ritual I have. I know it's probably kind of ridiculous, but I like it, and I can go back and read the synopsis or show people who are interested.
Does anyone else do anything like this? At all?
So I find myself insomniac again, so I figured it was high time to clean up my character box and retire some of my old sheets. I dunno what retiring a character means to anyone else, and that's the core of my question. What, if anything do you guys do when you know you're never gonna play one of your particular guys again?
I am unbelievably persnickety when it comes to my characters-- I HATE messy character sheets, and I've been known to get really pissed off and type the "basic stats" bar on a character sheet even while I'm playing my guy. If I don't like a sheet's layout I make my own damn sheet. I put active characters in their own little plastic duotang, and I refuse to keep current hitpoints/wounds/harm/whatever, money, or things that change a lot on the sheet itself. My characters' backpacks are a stickynote pad stuck to the inside front cover of their duotang, any special stuff they have are printed on business cards that get stuck in a holder that goes after the character sheet in the duotang, etc etc etc.
So, when I won't be playing a character I really loved anymore, I retire their sheet. That means I put it in GIMP, type everything out (to provide a snapshot of what the character ended up being), type out a little synopsis of their story, list a few memorable quotes, a list of their final relationships, and a list of their cool treasure, and put it all in a hard-sided binder. Then I add any drawings that might be relevant to them, maps, all that stuff.
To me it's kind of a little solemn ritual I have. I know it's probably kind of ridiculous, but I like it, and I can go back and read the synopsis or show people who are interested.
Does anyone else do anything like this? At all?