Character Creation & Levelling (2) Page 1 of Character Creation & Levelling HERE  What Character are you at the end of the game? Now do the same thing but imagining who you want to become. What do you look like? What do you have? How do others see you? What skills separate you from everyone else? Imagine that you are the RPG hero at the end of the game and truly allow yourself to draw a mental picture of that character. After RPGs have set these two very important beginning and end points, they give the gamer a set of interim points. Perhaps there’s the peasant, the rookie, the fighter, the warrior, the leader and the hero. These are just examples. What’s important is that RPGs give us a logical order of progression, little stepping stones up the mountain. And again,  these are fully realised, giving the gamer a vivid picture of the path they are walking. The gamer wants to go from A to B because they know that character B has the shotgun. They then want to go from B Read more [...]

Final Fantasy 13 Characters      Vaan, Ashe, Basch, Balthier, Fran, Penelo and other final fantasy characters all inspire: The positive psychology of RPGs.    The six main playable characters in Final Fantasy XII are Vaan, an energetic orphan of Rabanastre who dreams of becoming a sky pirate; Ashe, a determined princess of Dalmasca who lost her father and husband in the Archadian invasion; Basch, a disgraced knight of Dalmasca charged with treasonfor slaying the king; Balthier, a gentlemanly sky pirate who pilots his airship, the Strahl; Fran, Balthier's partner and a Viera exile whose knowledge extends to legends and myths; and Penelo, Vaan's childhood friend who accompanies him on journeys to "keep an eye on him".[25] The Archadian Empire is ruled by House Solidor, headed by Emperor Gramis.[26] The family also consists of two siblings, Vayne and Larsa, the former a military genius and the latter a charismatic seeker of peace. Judge Magisters, upholders Read more [...]