Some notes before you begin

You're always welcome to add more information, but this is a 'minimum' of sorts for #Anthro-RP.  You don't have to include everything - a character can have secrets, and putting them into the character sheet would make that a bit pointless  At minimum, you should include everything that someone would notice about your character when they first meet, and any information you could be expected to learn from talking to them for a little while.

Before you start, keep this in mind - the 'world' that this group is set in is an alternate dimension, of sorts.  Your character can't "go home" and pick up more stuff, and they shouldn't have a bunch of stuff that they wouldn't reasonably have had on them while they were out and about.  Because of this, please don't have characters with a massive wardrobe, or a room full of guns, or things like that - it wouldn't have been brought along when your character was pulled into this world

That's the only real restriction, though.  Other than that, you can have magic, or high-tech stuff, or be from medieval times, or be from an entirely alien dimension!  It's all up to you

_{^{If your character is a shapeshifter, you should include a separate section for each form your character can take, listing their "normal" form in the main section.  If they can take almost any shape, rather than just a few pre-defined sets, just mention this somewhere (species, maybe?)}}

Submission process

Once you've filled out the character template, below, post it in your deviantART account, either as a literature deviation, or in the description underneath a picture of your character.  If you posted it as a literature deviation, please include a link to a picture of your character (if you have one).  While posting it, you have the option to submit it to any groups, so at that point just be sure to submit it to Anthro-RP and you should be fine

If you didn't submit it to #Anthro-RP when you submitted it originally, you can also go to the deviation page and submit it to the group from there, on the tool panel to the right

Once the reference sheet is approved, your character's reference sheet will be in our gallery, and one of our mods or group admins will add it into the master character list

Character template

• Name:  [If you don’t know what this is, you shouldn’t be making a character sheet.]
• Species:  [Try to be as specific as possible.  In the case of hybrids, be sure to include anything that has any influence on the character's appearance.]
• Gender:  [Pretty self-explanatory.]
• Age:  [Doesn't have to be exact, but it's good to at least have an idea how old your character is )
• Body Type:  [Quadruped, humanoid, or anything else like that.]
• Appearance:  [Start with height/length/size and build, and include things like extra limbs - wings, tails, or anything like that.  Don't forget about hair/skin/fur/scale color, and other things like that ]
• Distinguishing Marks:  [Scars, birthmarks, lost limbs, and generally anything that stand out from the rest of your character.]
• Clothing/Accessories/Equipment:  [What does the character generally wear?  Any jewelry, or backpacks, or other things that the character always has?  Include any weapons that the character always carries (unless they're hidden ).]
• Demeanor:  [How does your character move and act in general?  Are they confident, or are they nervous?  Aggressive, defensive, or maybe they just seem tired or uncaring?]
• Manner of Speech:  [How does your character talk? Accent? Is there a gruffness or a squeak that you cannot represent well just by typing?]
• Quirks:  [Does your character do anything unusual? Little things that they always tend to do, and which would be noticeable to someone from just a casual conversation?]
• Brief History:  [Just a little information about yourself; whatever you might tell someone upon first meeting them if you struck up a conversation.]

(optional, for shapeshifters.  Repeat as needed, and add any of the above categories if they change as well when your character shifts between forms.)
Alternate Forms
• Body type:
• Appearance:
• Distinguishing Marks:

Hi, I'm new to the chat as more than a member and will hopefully be helping =Kirona come up with good new ideas for the chatroom to help boost regular numbers.

I've so far come up with a couple vague ideas:

creating a couple of seasonal regular events, so like in the build up to Halloween we have like a haunted house event? or something supernatural. Possibly continuing these for other seasonal events and things.

Having regular RP's hoasted by individuals, =HaleseenB already has one but we could have =Redfox5813 hosting one on perhaps a tuesday, and =Kirona hosting on a thursday? space them out but make them a regular thing.

Another idea I had was for perhaps an RP athon, having a themed RP go on all day, with mods taking over from each other throughout the day and keeping the action going. we'd have a plot, a theme, a setting and a couple of spanners to throw in now and then to keep it alive and keep track of where we are by relaying information from Mod to mod.

another would be a general spring clean of the chatrooms, including the OOC chat, and like a re-opening event of some sort, like anthro fair event of some sort? you know, some people selling burgers and roasted hog and so on and so forth.

Any comments on any of this is very much welcome, these are just the ideas I've come up with independently and I'd really like to collaborate and have other people involved too.

DV.

Hey everyone, =Kirona here!

I thought I'd let everyone know how the galleries of #Anthro-RP work, since we've had some more activity in them recently and I want to be sure everyone knows what's going on.

FEATURED Gallery
We'd initially discovered that the Featured gallery can't be renamed or removed, so we just left it alone.  However, that seemed to be a waste of space, so it was decided that we could use it to showcase art of the characters that people use in our RPs.  For organization and cleanliness, the following limits are in place:

  Any image submitted to the Featured folder has to portray a character whose reference/bio is in the appropriate character reference folder.  Other characters alongside them are fine, but images that don't have a player's character at all will be rejected.
  Only three images of any one character.  These can be by any artist, but we'd much prefer if the character's creator is the one who actually submits images to the gallery - it's their character, so it's their choice how they want that character represented.
  Images need to be relatively clean.  Understanding that this group works within roughly "PG-13" guidelines, we ask that nudity be kept to a minimum, and that images not be too violent - basically, if an image would need a Mature tag on dA, it probably shouldn't end up in our gallery.

BIOGRAPHY Galleries
These gallery folders in #Anthro-RP are split out to more easily organize players' character biographies, based on approximate species.  This is where character references go.  They have the following restrictions:
  Submissions are limited to character reference sheets - images or text submissions describing a character's appearance and general personality, along with any other information useful to a Roleplay setting.  Violent images are strongly discouraged, and we request that nudity be limited - show only what's needed for a PG-13 roleplay.
  Limit one submission per character, and three total per player.  This cap is across all of the character reference galleries - not three per folder, but three in total.  We appreciate creativity in character design, but we need to be able to get through the galleries at leat relatively quickly.

RP SETTINGS Gallery
This folder is where people can submit Roleplay settings and scenarios.  These give people options on where to start a new session, and can be either totally open and act only as a base, or they can be the introduction to a story-driven session, or many other things.
  Only RP settings and scenarios are accepted into this folder.  Character biography and art goes in the other folders.
  Please refrain from having locations that are too "adult" or violent.  We don't need to start out in a whorehouse, or strapped to tables in a torture chamber (combat scenarios may be okay, so long as the initial description isn't too graphic or brutal).

  Structuring of these folders may change over time - folders may be added, renamed, or deleted, based on content.