To create a character, follow the guide below and submit a character using our submission form. If you have any questions about your character, feel free to come along to our character creation session (see when and where) or email the GM team at gm@underlings.oxfordlarp.com. Characters need to be submitted by Tuesday 23rd July.

• Character summary
• Your Villain
• Quirks
• Playstyle options

Your character's name and pronouns. You may also want to include a nickname if that's relevant. Names are very varied - this might be a common modern day IRL (e.g. Lucy Smith), or might be something more eccentric (e.g. High Priestess Ogronir, First Emissary of The Fierce One).

A short background of your character (you can choose to write a longer backstory, but the GM team won't necessarily read it all). This should include some of your character's backstory, what their current situation is, and how they ended up as an Underling. Feel free to include any important people to you character. Just like your Villain, these people may appear as NPCs during sessions if they become relevant to the plot.

This is also a good place to put any character goals you have (both IC and OC) if you have them, so we know what you or your character is hoping to achieve over the game. This of course may change completely during the course of the game, or you might not have any specific goals at game start, so no pressure to have to include anything specific.

Either make your own, or pick one of the main Villains in a genre.

Pick some quirks - what make your character special. Positive Quirks are tools you'll be able to use in the game. Negative Quirks are issues you'll encounter, throwing a spanner in the works. You start with 4 free points to spend on positive Quirks, but you can spend up to an extra 6 points (for a maximum of 10) by taking negative Quirks to balance out the additional positive Quirks. While you can only gain back 6 points by taking negative Quirks, you may, if you are feeling particularly masochistic, take up to 4 points of extra negative Quirks just for fun.

Select 1-5 for each of the playstyle options.

• Chances of Success (1 = low chance of success, 5 = high chance of success)
• Darkness of Themes (1 = generally happy themes, 5 = really dark themes)
• Ballgowning (1 = no ballgowning, 5 = yes ballgowning)