Originally Posted by
Draconic
I really didn't mean it like that, but I suppose I should have worded that more carefully. Nevertheless, I was once put somewhere in the back while someone else was literally told they were in on pity, and nothing else, because the sheet was just that terrible. I don't understand the logic there. To tell the truth, I couldn't tell you what game it was or who had the bad sheet. I just remember the public review. Nevertheless, my sheet could have been executed better there and I wouldn't put the guy in now either. I can only remember that he had a lance, or something. And can't remember anything about his backstory that would help me remember what game it is, which kind of says something about how 'good' he is. And by 'good' I mean 'literary travesty against the Lord.'
I have no doubt Zikari and Express had excellent sheets. (Wait, did Express get in?) whatever the case, I've seen their work before.
There have only been three sheets so far that actually even have the capacity to be called 'superior' though: In the case of Ellie, I went berserk (twitchy-eyed, obsessive compulsive and irrational IRL behavior) in terms of trying to go so far overboard that she couldn't not be picked, which is why the spells had incantations, translations of said incantations, and a base with an actual floor plan, complete with furnishings and notes for how certain things functioned, as well as two mini-profiles for her sisters.
Whatever happened, I still do feel like it's bizarre that she wouldn't get in, but not because of anything you chose; it's just that I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. If Ellie with the character sheet equivalent of adding payed DLC stuff didn't get in, I despaired over the concepts of 'how much better were everyone else's? After all that effort, there were still people who worked harder than me?' I just didn't understand where I went wrong.
CROWNLESS, my character is good. Now, at least. But this doesn't really count. When I first submitted him, well, Kirby gave me a review, and you can see it in the thread. I'm on the wait list, and he actually has a chance of getting in with his reworked bio. I thought it was good when I submitted it, but I actually feel kind of proud of the 'post-production' stuff. I just wish I had started with that. Either way, if you put the original and reworked bios next to each other, the second holds your interest a lot more. And isn't a giant cliché.
My other two best were shunted out in favor of randomly picking names. Which hurt a lot, mostly because in both cases, I had spent hours agonizing over ways to keep my original artistic vision. Because in both cases, I had also pandered to the GMs' personal character preferences. The GMs in both cases did at least apologize, for picking someone else while I had been waiting for several months, but it was still too late.
I'm just very confused. If I try harder each time and still get put into the 'almost good enough' pile, a place I've been crawling around in my entire life, I just want to know precisely what I'm doing that's making my sheets, I dunno, in that place where one can take it or leave it, but either way it makes no difference.