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DFRPG / Help with a couple of character aspects?
« on: December 15, 2010, 06:34:43 PM »
I'm kinda surprised there isn't a single topic on aspect help...anywho...
I have a character I'm having issues making aspects for. I know the basic gist of what I'm wanting, but condensing it into a single, decent phrase just isn't happening.
He's a former apprentice to a dark wizard trying to stay on the straight and narrow, despite a history of bloodshed. He's only had one encounter with the White Council, which ended with him escaping them without having killed any of them(And giving him the aspect "Striving for Redemption"). His trouble aspect is unabashedly stolen from Dresden, with The Temptation of Power. His other aspects are The Ivy Ring(Representing his unknown past, as a tattoo around one of his fingers), The Sound of Pulling Heaven Down(A phrase from his former master), and "Nice Trick, Now Let Me Try"(Showing his tendency to copy spells he sees cast).
The ones I'm having issue with are his High Concept, and the last aspect.
The High Concept started as "Recovering Killer Sorcerer", but that doesn't sound quite right. I changed it to Recovering Sorcerer, but still, eh. Also, it makes it sound like he's recovering from being a sorcerer, then a sorcerer who's recovering from something. Mystical Ex-Soldier has a certain ring to it, being as he was supposedly being trained for some great war he never got the details of, but that sounds more like a guy who's left the army and has some magic to him. Maybe "Stained Sorcerer"?
The second concept hasn't even gotten a maybe-name from me yet. The last concept is meant to show that he doesn't think he's worth saving; that he really is nothing more then some murdering monster that should be put down. It's an aspect meant to be compelled when he's given a step towards salvation and making up for his past crimes, and invoked when he stops playing with kid gloves and goes for blood.
Any ideas?
I have a character I'm having issues making aspects for. I know the basic gist of what I'm wanting, but condensing it into a single, decent phrase just isn't happening.
He's a former apprentice to a dark wizard trying to stay on the straight and narrow, despite a history of bloodshed. He's only had one encounter with the White Council, which ended with him escaping them without having killed any of them(And giving him the aspect "Striving for Redemption"). His trouble aspect is unabashedly stolen from Dresden, with The Temptation of Power. His other aspects are The Ivy Ring(Representing his unknown past, as a tattoo around one of his fingers), The Sound of Pulling Heaven Down(A phrase from his former master), and "Nice Trick, Now Let Me Try"(Showing his tendency to copy spells he sees cast).
The ones I'm having issue with are his High Concept, and the last aspect.
The High Concept started as "Recovering Killer Sorcerer", but that doesn't sound quite right. I changed it to Recovering Sorcerer, but still, eh. Also, it makes it sound like he's recovering from being a sorcerer, then a sorcerer who's recovering from something. Mystical Ex-Soldier has a certain ring to it, being as he was supposedly being trained for some great war he never got the details of, but that sounds more like a guy who's left the army and has some magic to him. Maybe "Stained Sorcerer"?
The second concept hasn't even gotten a maybe-name from me yet. The last concept is meant to show that he doesn't think he's worth saving; that he really is nothing more then some murdering monster that should be put down. It's an aspect meant to be compelled when he's given a step towards salvation and making up for his past crimes, and invoked when he stops playing with kid gloves and goes for blood.
Any ideas?