How do you develop your character?

>>54268219
Pick a race and class, some abilities and gear, throw them to the dungeon. If they survive on second level, they'll earn personality based on how they made it.

>>54268219
During play, in accordance with the system's rules.

>>54268219
A line on general appearance, two or three lines on backstory, personality, and motivations.

Having seen this thread previously, I know this will be the point where someone will come in to tell me I'm cancer. Go ahead, fuckers. Fight me.

>>54268219
>conceive of rough idea
>tailor it to what I know about the setting and other PCs
>throw almost everything out in the first session because the group dynamics never turn out the way I assume they will
>settle into a definite identity around the fourth session
>finally start filling out background details, trying to seed personal conflicts that don't derail the overarching story

>>54268250
>If they survive on second level, they'll earn personality based on how they made it.
People like you are the cancer killing traditional games.

>>54269065
People like me -were- the traditional games, newbie, until you fucks came along and filled it with your "story-based" garbage.

>>54269148
Go play Rogue you goddamn rollplayer

>>54268219
I don't. I just roleplay him, and if he changes in the game - he changes in the game. Otherwise, he isn't.

>What class/specialization seems fun?
>Ok, where are they from in the world? What were the conditions of their upbringing?
>What kind of person do they want to be and desperately protray themselves as?
>What kind of shitty person are they really?

By this point I have enough to play with.

>>54268219

In play exclusively.

>>54268563
>>throw almost everything out in the first session because the group dynamics never turn out the way I assume they will

Nope. Once I roll up a character, depending on what the dice look like, I have a concept. Between the character creation session and the first session I flesh out the concept and create some backstory before the first session, and I never abandon it regardless of what the other players do.

I am who I am, and the group will just have to accept me warts and all.

>>54269148
That just isn't true. You are a "kind" among real TGers and you are hated for your cancer and lack of creativity and imagination.

>>54268219
Misleading title for image and thread.
That's a character CREATION checklist, which is for preparation before the game begins.
Character DEVELOPMENT, on the other hand, is what happens to your character as a result of their in game experiences, both in terms of skills and talents gained (leveling up), and changes in their worldview/ personality.

>>54268219
Race/class add some developments and details as the world unfolds (no sense being a sailor on Arakis). Outline future adds, but stay flexible

>>54269179
>>54270730
>how to spot the Dungeon World playing Koebelites who first picked up the hobby in 2016

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>>54270553
We probably have different expectations of the game, then. My group is big on collaborative storytelling, so most of us are open to making a few concessions in the interest of keeping the narrative consistent. I'm not suggesting everyone should play the same or have the same priorities as I do.

>I am who I am, and the group will just have to accept me warts and all.
Again, speaking for my own group: if there's no in-character reason for us to hang out with a PC, then we very well may just tell them, in-character, to fuck off. Making concepts work together is a two-way street.

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>Sex and/or gender

>>54269148
You are a relic of a bygone era, that's all you are.

>>54272562
>how DARE people not create eight pages of back story for a character who, odds on, will die in less than an hour

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>it's a badwrongfun thread

>>54268563
I genuinely wish I had more players like you.

>>54272620
>How dare people be unwilling to waste time creating a character that's just doomed to die soon anyway
There's a reason they no longer play your kind of games, old man.

>>54271309
I can't imagine trying to feel superior over when you first started playing a game of pretend with elves lol

What's your 1rm bench? What's your IQ?

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>>54272548
>Hair/mane color

>>54272548
Maybe the character is a robot with male programming, like C3-P0.

>>54272721
>It doesn't matter when I started or how long I've been here, we're all equal!
>Y-you're just being ableist!
They made a book about this. It's called Incompetence.

>>54272790
That mental flailing was all over the place, kid. You might want to stick to one point next time. I mean, really?

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>>54272749
God/Goddess/Deity

>>54269148
Stop lying. Especially to the young and impressionable.

>>54268219
>meet with GM and group and build characters together, working as a team to create an interesting story.
>but whoever dies or retires early is determined by rng.

>>54268219
Come up with a reason for them to have whatever skills they should have with their class. Come up with a reason for them to be traveling in an adventurer lifestyle. Build on that.

>>54270730
>If someone doesn't like to have roleplay in their characters they are doing it wrong

ok

>>54272721
>I can't imagine trying to feel superior
Trying to feel superior is a mistake. Do, or do not. There is no try.