Ideas for BIO?

[jondread]

Hi, i'm pretty new to DDO, but one of the first things I noticed when I had started playing was this little window called the BIO window! Amazing, you can write anything in there... But most players seem to have it blank. However i've had the pleasure of reading some innocent bystanders BIOs in the Harbor and it got me thinking about writing one for myself.

Having know back knowledge of RP, or story writing, I was wondering; how does one go about writing a BIO? What are the things that I should contemplate including in this short paragraph about my character?

Should it be written in the sense that it is coming literally from the character?; "My parents were killed by wolves, for 10 years I was living in the undergrowth jungle of blablablabla (You get the point)"

Or should it be written coming from me?; "My characters name is Boxsmasher McDrunkface because he likes to drink beer and smash boxes, har har har"

Give me some little pointers in which direction to go with this, I think it's a really nice, personal touch to add to your character and i've been pondering over it all day.

Thanks

[Sir_Chonas]

Write a character that you want to play, or someone you'd like to be.

[binnsr]

simple..

for your first character, it should be 'logy'
for your second character, it should be 'graphy'
for your warforged character, it should be 'nic'

[JakLee7]

of course you could always try and be creative & change color every other word, that always makes it fun to read, no matter WHAT you say!

[Babumbalaboo]

Be funny. People aren't going to read your drawn-out background and comment on your writing prowess. They'll see a one-to-two line funny bio and send you a tell saying "lol cool bio dude", and that will give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside.

'Course, that's my experience. Remember that your bio space can be considered horribly small if you want to actually write out a somewhat detailed explanation of what you will. A paragraph or two at most, I'd say.

[QuantumFX]

Personally, I like my character biographies to be ominous… For example, I plan to True Reincarnate my main to a FvS and a Cleric eventually. When I do this I plan on adding all the “This person has died” messages from party chat. I hope there’s enough room in the bio…

[Mr_Ed7]

I am big on the origin story, plus insights into the characters pysche.

Perhaps character quotes and accomplishments.

What's cool is...that you do not have ot write it all now...

You can BUILD on it!

[jondread]

Ok thanks guys, this is all really really helpful. Just one thing though; Tilliak wrote that you can only use things occur in DDO. Without having an amazing background knowledge of DnD or DDO it's going to get pretty tricky for me I think. But yeah I like the idea of writing it from a 3rd person perspective.

[Tilliak]

Ok thanks guys, this is all really really helpful. Just one thing though; Tilliak wrote that you can only use things occur in DDO. Without having an amazing background knowledge of DnD or DDO it's going to get pretty tricky for me I think. But yeah I like the idea of writing it from a 3rd person perspective.

No no, I meant that you don't have to have a lot of D&D background or Eberron background. You can use stuff that you have only found in DDO. Granted, at a low level you may not have seen the Ruins of Gianthold, or Tempest Spine, but you can build on what you have already seen. Your bio can be whatever you want it to be. I always find it a bit odd for someone's bio to state that they are from Neverwinter, considering that that is another world entirely, but it can be whatever you want it to be.

[Letrii]

No no, I meant that you don't have to have a lot of D&D background or Eberron background. You can use stuff that you have only found in DDO. Granted, at a low level you may not have seen the Ruins of Gianthold, or Tempest Spine, but you can build on what you have already seen. Your bio can be whatever you want it to be. I always find it a bit odd for someone's bio to state that they are from Neverwinter, considering that that is another world entirely, but it can be whatever you want it to be.

They went through Sigil perhaps?

[sirgog]

One popular idea is to have information that helps you solve some of the game's more complex puzzles.

In particular, reminders for how to solve Shroud 5x5 puzzles are good there.