Character Advice Collumn

Stuck on your character's background?

Don't know what to do with the bastard now that he or she has accomplished their most driving goal?

Having trouble finding the right "Voice" for you new alternate you?


Still reading in spite of the blatant cheese?

Yay! Ask for advice here.

ah come on! Someone's gotta have some need for advice!

Maybe we could just BS about the cool backstory and story elements we've come up with for characters recently?

 No one?

I didn't even know this thread was around. I didn't see any new posts.

I've got a cliche character concept to work with though...

Its basically a Necromancer (Wizard) that speaks only through his raven familiar. Its a vague concept I know but I think it could lead to some cool RP. Any thoughts?

The Raven speaks like Chris Rock.

Don't ask, just the first thing that came to mind XD

It would be really cool if the raven spoke in a voice that matched neither the necromancer nor the raven, like a young boy or girl. Not a plucky happy voice, but like young kids talk when they're somber, ya know?


Also, have you considered a broad brimmed hat?

Maybe a purple feather on the hat? Purple is a cool color for necromancers. And the raven's special voice should totally be Gilbert Gottfried.

It might be interesting if, rather than merely speaking through the raven, he has to telepathically communicate with the raven and hope it says what he wants it to. In other words, treat the necromancer as genuinely unable to speak and have the raven as an independently-willed 'translator', who sometimes accidentally-on-purpose gets it wrong or even says rude/inappropriate things without any input from its 'master' (leaving the poor necromancer to glare at it with a "WTF you stupid bird, you're going to get us both killed!" sort of look).

Alternatively, perhaps the raven is actually the real necromancer, whose soul is trapped inside a bird due to him screwing up the ritual that should have made him immortal (his soul went into his familiar rather than his phylactery?). The 'wizard' is just a convenient peasant/corpse/slave/mentally-handicapped-identical-twin the necromancer has mind-controlled (or paid) and dresses up in his old robes so nobody realises what's happened (because the ritual that went wrong is highly illegal).