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Compelling robot characters

Fitting into a new setting is not always easy, especially if you have little experience playing a type of character you're unfamiliar with. For many roleplayers, filling the boots of a robot in Eisa is just that; despite the hundreds of TV shows, movies, books, and graphic novels that have featured robotic characters, relatively few consider the everyday lives of machines built to assist humanity. Robot rebels, conquerors, and superheroes are far more common than machines that live and work with people in relative harmony, and as a result we frequently see characters who have taken control of their fates, are not meant to be understood (only feared), or have fundamentally individualist outlooks and total autonomy. The Second Renaissance, Terminator, and Ghost in the Shell are each an example of these types of characters.

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6 years ago by Samantha Wright

last updated: 2017-09-13 22:57:28 ยท link
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