Character Template
Name: (Your name, duh! Not YOUR name--the person or persons you will be playing!)
Character Description: ( I know this a pain to some, but it's a necessary evil. I will need at least one 5-6 sentence paragraph description of your character. Build, eye color, height, weight, etc. Be descriptive though! Don't just make it a laundry list!)
Age: (Remember this takes place in 1917-18, the war started in 1914 and ended in 1918. I would prefer younger characters 20-30's but I can make exceptions if you impress me.)
Sex/Gender: (let's be reasonable. Just Male or if your FFL you can be a female. No gender-bending please and no no-binary. You can be androgynous, however. No discrimination intended here.)
Nationality: (Where did your character originate? What country does he identify with?)
Occupation/ Prior to WWI: (Your character was somebody before he was made into a soldier--who was he? What did he do?)
Occupation/ Position in WWI: (What role was your character in? Was he a line infantryman of the trenches, did he man the machine gun? Was he part of the calvary--literally horses and swords, was he essentially a 'sniper' though that term came more in use in WWII--WWI I think Sharpshooter was used. Was he a mortar or artillery crewman?
Side: (Just put 'Allies' as unless you give me a really good background, well-informed character--no one but me will be playing a German. The Aussies, Brits, Canadians, French, and Americans are all Allied Powers. However, if you want to make a really good character that's not of these nationalities like New Zealander, you will be apart of the French Foreign Legion.)
Weapons:(Here's the fun part: you can have your character have VIRTUALLY any weapon he that was available at the time--it does not have to be of your nation's design. But I am stating two rifles, a pistol, a trench club/ shovel, and maybe two grenades is the maximum you are allowed to carry. It will also depend on your choices. Subs are lighter than bolt-actions and definitely lighter than a Light-Machine Gun.
So if you choose Submachine gun as a main weapon you carry it, a bolt-action, and three grenades--maybe even a pistol. If you have an LMG you will only have LMG, a pistol, and two grenades. Lmgs are heavy--not as heavy as HMG which are generally used in fixed points on tripods. So Lmg, pistol, one grenade--maybe two.)
(I will add a list of weapons here, with links to them if they have them.)
Background: (You thought I'd forget this, didn't ya? Nah. This is what really makes a character who they are. Their experiences in life--good or bad--define them. It also brings in how your characters connect and give their lives meaning.
So that's generally it! You can add things like fears, likes.dislikes and so on, at your leisure. If you have any questions, concerns, or ideas--PM me directly.
P.S: Please highlight each of the characteristics and bold them and place a space between your answer and the colon. Also space them part from each other as I did. It's really hard to read things when it's all bunched up.
Requirements:
1.) Post Length: at least 2 5-10 sentences. They don't all have to belong and drawn out--some can be short and concise. But be descriptive and remember: Show don't tell! Although I'll be doing a bit of both as I have set the scenes, give out the details of historical facts and so on.
2.)Be fairly realistic; this isn't Call of Duty, your character can not take multiple gunshots and keep going. That's not what I'm going for here. Graze, sure--but if you charge No Man's Land--there's a reason they gave it that moniker. So, yeah.
3.) Character Deaths can happen. It must be thought out and talked with extensively and I must be privy to it so I can alter the story accordingly.
4.) I reserve the right to any and all changes and will give my players adequate time to restructure their characters, actions, and future interactions accordingly.
5.) Posting rating requirements: Intermediate, Advanced, Prestige.
Thank-you!