extracurricular althanas

[Helm_Ortega]

Does anyone do anything to further their characters or story off their computer?

I have a little green notebook I keep my family tree, npcs, etc in.

A lot of people are more artistically inclined, so you probably draw characters and whatnot.

What do you all do off the website to further your althanas experience?

[Hysteria]

I have a word document with all the planned skills I have, all the threads that have been completed and quest ideas. I sometimes write things down in a book, but I tend to just lose it.

[Zook Murnig]

It's all in my head, or in AIM chat logs.

[Troubled-Crow]

It's in my dreams. I get an idea, and if it's too big, I either save it, or water it down. Sometimes I just leave it alone.

[Helm_Ortega]

Deep.

I base a lot of things off a 3.5 D&D campaign I was running, so I have notes from that as well (and more importantly, maps) but sometimes D&D doesnt translate well to a forum that already has... canon? I think is the buzz word around here?

[Taskmienster]

Canon. That's the word for it. However, there are plenty of ways to translate your campaign and idea's into Althanas canon, since it's rather flexible at times. Feel free to hit me up whenever. I'm working to get all the stuff that affected it together and compile it, as well as give people opportunities to work within the environment and change it as well.

As for my answer to your question... I tend to doodle idea's I have. However, I almost never have idea's for my characters. Most of what I write (outside of Lugh and Ranger) is rather spur of the moment idea's that come to me through all sorts of mediums. Planning is all good and dandy, when I have a concrete character idea, but I tend to generally have rather open characters that I allow my threads and whoever I'm writing with to affect. Easier to write that way, also makes for interesting characters after a few levels of creating history with other people. :P

[Tainted Bushido]

I'm constantly going over different scenes in my head. Trying to figure out how the character would react, how to accurately word it ect. ect.

It makes the boring shifts at work go by real quick.

[Amoracchius]

I have a little green notebook I keep my family tree, npcs, etc in.

I resist the urge to troll. So. Much.
But anyways. I basically do what Dissinger -- I mean, Tainted, does. Keep it all up in my head. Sure, it's not as easy to keep track of, and it's not as efficient as putting it down on paper...but it's sure as hell alot more flexible than scrapping something you've been working on for months just because you noticed a fatal plot flaw.

Yeah. I've been there. It's not pretty.

[Skie and Avery]

I used to keep huge amounts of notes on my fictional races - the Dranak and the Moontae. I don't bother anymore, but sometimes I regret that. I'll come across something in the story that I want to reference, but I forgot what name I came up with with X dude or quite exactly what I said X legend was pre-crash, and that information is now lost.

I often draw my characters, and I'm currently working on a Zerith plushie for him, and a Tshael plushie for myself. :3