A "Supporting Character" (or "non-playable character", so NPC) in this case would be a character that you, a player, create to accompany the one you've actually signed up as in a roleplay.
I suppose most of us have done this throughout their roleplaying adventures, even when we were not Game Masters: come up with at least one brand new character that either appears only in a specific place and for a very small number of posts, or that acts as a recurrent presence and follows your main character around. They can be used for something relatively trivial, such as adding participants to a Pokémon Tournament or selling you a special magic wand in that one city, or they can be truly powerful ways to guide your main character through the development arcs you've planned for them. They can be very simple and easy to create, or can be nearly as detailed and interesting as the main protagonists of a roleplay!
So the question is, which Support Character you created is the one you like the most, either yours or created by someone else? Is there anything interesting that happened with them or thanks to them? How do you feel about adding them to the world and contribute to your main character's story- do you prefer to have them help out or do you try to not rely on them as much?
For characters that were created by the game master of the roleplay, for plot or worldbuilding reasons, you can check out this thread instead!
I suppose most of us have done this throughout their roleplaying adventures, even when we were not Game Masters: come up with at least one brand new character that either appears only in a specific place and for a very small number of posts, or that acts as a recurrent presence and follows your main character around. They can be used for something relatively trivial, such as adding participants to a Pokémon Tournament or selling you a special magic wand in that one city, or they can be truly powerful ways to guide your main character through the development arcs you've planned for them. They can be very simple and easy to create, or can be nearly as detailed and interesting as the main protagonists of a roleplay!
So the question is, which Support Character you created is the one you like the most, either yours or created by someone else? Is there anything interesting that happened with them or thanks to them? How do you feel about adding them to the world and contribute to your main character's story- do you prefer to have them help out or do you try to not rely on them as much?
For characters that were created by the game master of the roleplay, for plot or worldbuilding reasons, you can check out this thread instead!
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