~NAME~ Now you can choose a name for your character. Try to make your name unusual as most people use this name as their handle when registering  with EZboard. If the name is already taken you can try to modify the spelling or add numbers to it. Choose a race appropriate name unless you are prepared with a short story about how your name is so unusual for your race. It can be a single name or a full name including middle, family or geographical association, even clans or titles are accepted.	insert image here
~GENDER~ Most people tend to default to their own real life gender, be it male or female or even neither. Many role players of both genders have played opposite character genders, and quite successfully.  Many roleplayers can succesfully portray a chacrter that is neither gender, an IT , many times creatures and animals are roleplayed. This can be very fun and provides a unique oppurtunity  to be  extremely creative. It is not uncommon to occasionally be mistaken for the opposite gender when in a chat with a neutral character. Do not always assume that the character you are interacting with is the same gender as the person playing that role.	~RACE~   Elf, Dwarf, Human, Dragon, Griffin, Drow, etc. This is many times the first consideration because of all the rest of the character's traits and characteristics are effected by what race the character is. An Elf would not be short and stocky like a Dwarf and a Orc in no way resembles a Fairy. If you choose to be a Dragon or other such creature, keep in mind your size when you say you're throwing on a coat and running outside. Keep in race when you move around, consider speech patterns, shape and size. After you've decided whether to be human or not, you'll need to decide which gender to be. Many people  enjoy playing animals and they do it rather well too.
~ALIGNMENT~ By now you should decide or have decided if your character has a good or bad disposition. All manner of alignments are necessary for interest and variety in the games.  A balance of both essential for variety and interest. Often this is decided by the deity or religion a character serves or practices. Consider this when decided if your character is either good, evil or neutral.	~AGE ~ Now that you have gotten this far, you should determine how old you character is. Also, strange as it may seem, you should determine how old your character appears to be to others. The all time favorite has to be that one is thousands of years old and looks only twenty. Wonderfully enough there are those few, creative individuals out there who play varying ages well.
~APPEARANCE ~   Build, limitations, special conditions  and handicaps, this includes clothing, jewlery and weapons as well and usually depends on your profession.  By now an inner picture of this character should have formed and you should have some idea of what this character will look like. Is the character tall, short, thin, stocky, dark, fair, athletic, wispy? Draw or write what this character looks like. It would be a good idea to determine what special physical characteristics or afflictions it  will have.  Depending on the character that is taking shape will determine how simple or elaborate this is. Here many players include a personal Signature  or picture very specific for each charcter, it helps ease the strain of having to explain your appearance over and over.  Consider race appropriate clothing and weapons, the settings climate and the history of your character here. We roleplay in a  fantasy  time frame of the medevil ages, an Elven society amoung mortal lands of men.	~PROFESSION ~    If you are leaning in the direction of Soldier, Mercenary, Paladin, Assassin, Priest/ess, or associated professions you can go on to develop a history now.  What does your character do to make a living? There are even people who play the bartenders and wait staff in some of these scenes.  Be it Butcher, Baker, Beggar man, Thief... this determines further how your character will interact with others. Serving a deity or a cause is also a profession.  Sometimes a character will be a slave or subservient to another character, don't assume the player is like that either. Remember if someone is playing a role like this, that it is by mutual agreement between the players, whether or not it is by agreement between the characters themselves.
~DEFENSES/IMMUNITIES~ When developing a character it is just as important to decided what defenses or immunties it has, as it is its offensive abilities. Again your profession, race, and alignment usually play a very decisive factor in the development of defenses. Does your character serve a divine deity and therefor have a natural defense to curses and dark magics as bestowed by his deity. Is your character an elmental creature of the wind, and thusly winds and magical attacks od winds have no effct on it. These are just as important as your  skells and feats, maybe even more so.	~SKILLS/MAGIC ~  Great amounts of consideration should be placed on  what skills your character possesses. Is it a magic user, a fighter, a thief, a scout, an armourer or blacksmith even. Seems everyone wants to be omnipotent, more powerful than God and know every spell necessary to keep anything from happening to them.  These sorts of characters should be avoided during creation. Be fantastically realistic with your characters! Factors to be considered when deciding this are race, alignment, profession and even age and gender. Keep in mind that your character will also acquire skills and capabilities asit grows.
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