If you can't describe your character without mentioning their race/class, you're not playing a character.And that's okay, but it's good to be aware of
>>96767412>physical traits don't define a character! Other characters that aren't characters:>blind swordsman>one-armed boxer>any form of cyborg
>>96767412[Laughs in Unknown Armies]
You're a stinky shitposter OP.
>>96767412But if it takes you longer than a sentence to explain your character, you get called a story games faggot.
>>96767412The daughter of a cult leader who tried to sacrifice her to claim a devil's power. Ended up botching the ritual, trappping the devil in her. Now she and the devil are trying to seperate from each other.
>>96767412I liked liuskin's heretical milf becca.
>>96767412Those things matter if they help provide context to the rest of it though. Not in a "you couldn't explain it" way, but in a "this helps the person I'm talking to grasp it more easily/thoroughly."
>>96767641>you get called a story games faggot.By whom.
>>96767412I don't normally play class+race systems, but even if I did I'd still go through the same three step process before I even engage with the rules.>Half paragraph backstory that leads into the character becoming a PC.The youngest child of a interstellar trucking family who, instead of begging one of his big sisters for a spot on one of their convoys, decided to go join a mercenary army his family's been working with for generations.>AppearanceDue to generations of living in low-levels of artificial gravity, his entire family is very tall and gangly with creepy elongated digits. He is otherwise androgynally handsome, with long dark hair and very pale skin. His fashion sense leads him to usually wear an evac suit, a heavy cyberpunk jacket with ballistic lining, and cool sunglasses.>Personality keywordsDangerously curiousChemically assisted good moodYou are his best friend and he will die for you
>>96768007Nobody in the real world. The seething hatred of so-called story-shitting exists only in online circles infested with osrtards.>captchaYes captcha, most osrtards who aren't male hambeasts are sissy little homo manlets.
>>96767412>ambitious upper class knowledge seeker>outwardly nice and polite, ruthless and calculating on the inside>craves both personal and societal power
>>96767412By "class", do you mean: (1) the package of game mechanical abilities that you take at level-up and character creation, or (2) any vocation that exists?The former should be easy to avoid for anyone who isn't retarded. The latter would be downright retarded, but I can't be sure that you aren't retarded, OP.
>>96768168In the context of tabletop RPGs, there is only one definition of the term class anyone who isn't a retard pretending to be smarter than he really is uses. I'll give you some time to figure it out, you fucking mongoloid.
>>96767412>give too little>NOT A CHARACTER>give too much>THEATER KID FAGGOTthis board sucks. you all suck.
>>96767533Yes.>>96767641Yes.It's not difficult.>>96768034See?
>>96768056I mean storyshitters definitely exist, but having half a page of backstop for your character doesn't make you a storyshitter.
>>96768438Give me more than one sentence or yes, it's not an actual character. Don't give me a 9 page backstory or yes, you're a theater kid faggot. There exists an in-between and two things can be true at once you absolute melt.
>>96768657*backstory