RPG Character Design

[shaggyd]

When you play an RPG game that features a character designer (eg. Oblivion, Dragon Age, Fallout 3, etc), what type of character do you build?
Is the character a reflection of yourself? Same eyes? Same nose? Even same manners?
Do you create a character that is a total opposite of you? Different sex? Evil/Good?
Or do you create a character that looks fun to play? Camp-looking moustache warrior in Dragon age? A stumpy, fat female Commander Sheppard in Mass Effect?
Post your piccies if you have any!!!

 

[shaggyd]

The main reason I started this topic was that I started to play Dragon Age for the first time yesterday and I created a warrior with long ginger hair and the biggest, camp tache that was available. The facial expression was constructed so that the character had a hell of a hooter for a nose and always smiled - infact looked like Obelix from the Asterix books.
But the suprising thing was that the start of the human game was all serious about warring families and brotherly love, but when the camera panned around to show my character I couldn't stop laughing!!!! You could almost compare it with a Hamlet play starring Borat in the lead role!!!
I'll post a piccie when I get home..