Character Creation Guide

# Creature Craft Character Overview

## Creating a Player Character

A player character is a "main" character for the player; used in roleplay and anything in-character on the server.

Every player is allowed a total of **4** player characters at **maximum**; however they may have more **NPCs**. If a player wishes to have more player characters, they can only do so by retiring a previous character.

### Species and Appearance

All player characters belong loosely to an origin. ***Origins are NOT species in of themselves***; they serve as a framework of concepts and abilities for the player to work from! For example; an Elytrian can be anything that has wings or the power of flight! Get creative with it!

Because Creature Craft has a loosely **fantasy-based** setting, characters should adhere to it! While this concept is flexible (for instance, modern clothing such as hoodies or varsity jackets with zippers are allowed), technology in-universe is advanced only to the point of redstone and rudimentary steam power, mostly concerned with more medieval and magical-based designs.

Species is where you can get creative! Your character can be just about anything, with a few exceptions:

**SPECIES PARAMETERS**
* Anthro animals
* Sapient animals
* Magical constructs and animated objects
* Sapient plants
* Spirits or ghosts
* Undead
* Shapeshifters
* Sapient Minecraft mobs
* ²Deities
* ³Adoptables
* Dragons (for lore reasons)
* Modern or futuristic robots and constructs
* Meta-breaking characters (e.g just the player)

¹ (You are welcome to make your own species that are adjacent to those kinds of creatures! They just cannot be 1:1 Tolkien elves and referred to as such! Less specific fantasy and mythological concepts such as wizards or centaurs are allowed.)

² (Deities are allowed, but they are a more complicated topic! See the deity creation guide for more info. (Deity creation guide currently in progress!))

³ (Adoptables and such are allowed as long as they have lore which connects them to the setting!

### Lore and Backstory

Character backstories are loose and don't follow a very strict set of rules! Go crazy. Read more for how to make your lore fit the rest, though!

#### Lives, Time and Aging

All characters have **at most three lives**, as per the life system. Lives can only be lost in a planned manner. It is common knowledge that this is the case, and most people are taught that they have them. Characters CAN, however, have less than three lives, up to the discretion of their player, for various reasons.

Characters can have a range of just about any lifespan as long as they are **not immortal**.

If you find someone willing to do so, your character can be related to, or a child of, another character!

Characters can come from during or before the time of the Apocalypse, but this has to be accounted for with their lifespan. For example, you can have a character from pre-apocalyptic times, but if they've found themselves here, there had to be aw way they got here (e.g being preserved without consciousness somehow). Despite this, **there cannot be time travelers or characters who move freely through time.**

Setting and Hometowns
Characters can come from just about any location in any of the three dimensions. However, creatures born in the End cannot return there for the time being for lore reasons.

Characters **cannot** come from outside of the CCSMP universe (i.e get isekai'd in) and canonically **do not exist in a video game**.

#### Leadership and Royalty

Characters can hold leadership and royalty positions as long as there is something to back this up, and is relatively realistic.

*(E.g you cannot just say "my character is the prince of the most powerful kingdom in the world" while no one has ever heard of it before!)*

#### Magic and Supernatural Abilities

Characters may have the ability to use magic and hold supernatural abilities, within reason.

E.g Characters cannot bring a dead character back to life or conjure things out of thin air. Most magic is tied to something (enchanting, xp, curses, transmogrification) and has limits!

## Submitting a Character

You can submit characters in the **#player-character-intros** or **#npc-intros** in the Discord! Optionally, also consider adding them to the Character List and making a wiki page for them! Have fun :)