Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2013 21:28:49 GMT -7
I've noticed that the canon list is sort of... lacking. I greatly appreciate that the Staff has allowed us to apply for characters that are not on the list. In fact, both of my claimed canons had to be added after the fact (Rachel Grey & Shriek), so it got me thinking about starting a thread to add characters to the main canon list. This would serve two main functions:
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1.) It would give people more options to choose from. This is the obvious one, but on more than a few occasions I have seen players in the CBOX ask for ideas for characters to apply for. An expanded canon list would help with that!
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2.) It will help with new possible players to the site. Follow me on this:
Say you are a new player named Sam. Sam puts "Marvel roleplaying" in his Google search field (because seriously, who uses Bing?) and hits Enter. He sees this site pop up. He begins to read over the basic information, and sees the canon list link. He scrolls down and likely a lot of his favorites are already claimed. This is to be expected. But how does he feel if it looks like 90% of the list is taken? It creates three false perceptions:
False Perception #1: Players Are Character Hogs
With a short canon list, some of us claim many characters. Short lists emphasize how many characters individuals take, because they see the same names appear again and again, almost as if they are "hoarding" characters.
False Perception #2: All The Good Characters Are Gone
When only 10% of the list is available, it makes it look like there is nothing worth playing left, or that you are getting railroaded into playing only a select number of characters. A larger list gives new people to site a wider selection to get into the gaming spirit with us!
False Perception #3: This Site Has A Lot Of And/Or Too Many People
Wow, look at all these claimed characters! This site clearly has no room for me, right? Wrong. Obviously the more the merrier, and we would all like a wider variety of RP partners to round out our Avengers, X-Men, New Mutants, Masters of Evil, etc. When 90% of the roster is claimed, it looks like the site has more traffic than it really does.
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So my suggestion is that we use this thread to suggest characters to add to the official canon list. This isn't meant to zerg and spam names until the list is flooded with borderline fringe characters. But there are a few rather obvious names that we could add to make the list look more appealing. I have a few in mind, and will reply with my first batch of names shortly.
