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Character Development

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Getting Ideas
Manage your time, find ideas and use them.

Writing
Both how and what you write in your posts for your PBEM game is important, we show you how to do it!

Character Development
Giving your character life is complex, these articles will help you.

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Learn how to run your own game.

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A closer look at PBEM players and games.

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Other articles related to PBEM games or the gaming industry and community.

Explore your character and let it evolve into a real person with feelings and interesting quirks.

Don't limit yourself with bad choices for character background

our character's background is something that will follow your character and influence the way it acts. Therefore, it is important that you have a solid background already thought out for your character.When writing the background it is important to keep it believable. Although we have to remember that we often play characters that are among the very best. Therefore, we have to have the background true to who the character really is.

Remember who you are and who your character is

Most of us probably started playing a character that was rather similar to ourselves. No matter how it looked on paper, it was still played like an ordinary person. If you want to take your character to the next level you need to separate it from yourself!
Always remember who you are and who your character is. It is important to always keep in mind that the two of you are not the same. Make sure that when you write for your character you keep that in mind so that you do not project your own opinions and actions on to the character. Let it live a life of its own!

The importance of a character background

Your character’s background is something that will follow your character and influence the way it acts. Therefore, it is important that you have a solid background already thought out for your character.

Help the other players include your character in their posts

In your game, there are probably at least 5-10 other players. They all have characters, just like you do. But what makes your character stand out? It is hard enough for you to describe your character in your own posts, even harder for the other players!

Planning ahead

Once you have started to get to know your character, the game setting and your writing is flowing, it is time to start thinking about what your plans are for the future.

A PBEM game can continue for several years, so if you do not plan ahead from the start, you may very well be painting yourself into a corner. Just like with us, our characters never stay the same. They have a life of their own and their lives tend to take the most unlikely directions. In what direction do you want your character to evolve?

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