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HelpCAF With A Twist And A Challenge
I will post a picture and give a full name and age for my fictional person. I will then write a paragraph, give or take, about the person. The next poster will create a person that is related to the previous one in some way (it does not have to be by blood–it could be a neighbor, friend, coworker, anything).
However in this version, there are challenges! A challenge is a series of tasks that the next person must have for their character. There can be as few as 2 or as many as 6. After the writer makes the character, they add a new challenge for the next character.
Acceptable challenge task ideas:
Interests.
Appearance.
Talents.
Pets.
Anything involving their culture or origin.
Gender.
Sexuality.
How they feel about the above character. However you cannot force the next person to make their character too unlikable that they are a terrible person and/or incapable of having any point of view the readers could understand/relate to.
Interactions, such as “Next character must be in the Design Club”, "Next character recently caused a minor conflict with (other character), “Next character has been feeling very proud lately”, etc.
You may also say that the character shares any of the similarities above with your character or any other characters in the game.
Please do not use these for challenge tasks:
Anything too direct, like telling the next person what character they have to make next. This also includes making "Next character has to be named “(name)”. You can make a task “Next character has to be blood-related to this character” or “Next character cannot be blood-related to this character” but you may not say how the character has to be blood-related (or unrelated) to your character. You can make a task saying "Next character must have a (parent/child/sibling/cousin/grandparent/pet, etc.) but you cannot make it the reverse of your character (Example: Making a mother character and making the next task “Next character must have a mother” because it would imply the challenger was trying to make the next player make her child.)
Anything that’s a sensitive topic that would require a warning. You can still write about sensitive topics but please do not make the next person have to write a sensitive topic for the challenge. Doesn’t matter if the topic is something that doesn’t require blurs or if it’s simply “Next character must have a sensitive topic in their bio”. Nobody should be forced into writing something they aren’t comfortable writing about.
Anything that involves health or life status. Doesn’t matter if the next character is young or old. You can’t force people to make terminally ill, sickly, or disabled characters for a challenge task no matter the severity. You also can’t tell people to make a deceased or missing character. Conversely, you also cannot make the next person’s character be alive and well either. Again these topics can be discussed in the game but can’t be forced in challenges.
Anything too picky to the point that the person below can’t have freedom in writing their character. This isn’t “Picky Parents” and the character still technically belongs to the person below. Also you can’t cheat and make your tasks something like “1. The character below has to be a young adult, Swedish, male, loves biking, works at a pizzeria, and has a horse. 2. The character below has to have a name shorter than 6 letters, be gay, have blue eyes, be enemies with another character in the game, be a triplet, and be an expert snowboarder.” That would be 12 tasks, not 2 and would be over limit. Even if it is within limit, each task has to be separated.
Iffy - may be okay in some cases but not always:
Deciding the age range of the character below yours. It could come off as too direct (Example: if the two above characters had a baby and someone were to make a challenge task be “The next character must be 1 or under” then it could pass off as too direct and like the challenger is trying to make the person below create their baby) which would not be allowed. However you can say whether the next character is or isn’t within the age range of your character in a task if you want.
Deciding name of character below. You can’t directly choose the name of the character that the next person is naming. However if your challenge involves them being from a certain culture, having the person below name them from that culture is fine. Not saying a name but saying a character’s name has to mean “(meaning)” is also allowed. If a character is already named but doesn’t have a bio, it is the character creator’s choice whether to make that bio, not the challenger’s choice. You also can’t directly choose the next character’s last name but you can say they are “in the same family as (other related characters)”
Now since this is the first post, I have no challenge for my character to meet but the next person will be challenged and make a challenge for the next person, so on and so forth.
Chase Colin Dean (23) is a nursing school student and part-time baker. He is bisexual, has several friends, and is in a very loving family. He has three friends who have been his friends since childhood and is the second-oldest sibling. He loves living by the woods and enjoys the atmosphere but is moving to the city after finishing nursing school so he can live closer to a very nice hospital that he has wanted to work for since he was 10.
Challenge:
Next character has to be a usually happy person.
Next character has to be good at a water sport.
Next character has to have freckles.
However in this version, there are challenges! A challenge is a series of tasks that the next person must have for their character. There can be as few as 2 or as many as 6. After the writer makes the character, they add a new challenge for the next character.
Acceptable challenge task ideas:
Interests.
Appearance.
Talents.
Pets.
Anything involving their culture or origin.
Gender.
Sexuality.
How they feel about the above character. However you cannot force the next person to make their character too unlikable that they are a terrible person and/or incapable of having any point of view the readers could understand/relate to.
Interactions, such as “Next character must be in the Design Club”, "Next character recently caused a minor conflict with (other character), “Next character has been feeling very proud lately”, etc.
You may also say that the character shares any of the similarities above with your character or any other characters in the game.
Please do not use these for challenge tasks:
Anything too direct, like telling the next person what character they have to make next. This also includes making "Next character has to be named “(name)”. You can make a task “Next character has to be blood-related to this character” or “Next character cannot be blood-related to this character” but you may not say how the character has to be blood-related (or unrelated) to your character. You can make a task saying "Next character must have a (parent/child/sibling/cousin/grandparent/pet, etc.) but you cannot make it the reverse of your character (Example: Making a mother character and making the next task “Next character must have a mother” because it would imply the challenger was trying to make the next player make her child.)
Anything that’s a sensitive topic that would require a warning. You can still write about sensitive topics but please do not make the next person have to write a sensitive topic for the challenge. Doesn’t matter if the topic is something that doesn’t require blurs or if it’s simply “Next character must have a sensitive topic in their bio”. Nobody should be forced into writing something they aren’t comfortable writing about.
Anything that involves health or life status. Doesn’t matter if the next character is young or old. You can’t force people to make terminally ill, sickly, or disabled characters for a challenge task no matter the severity. You also can’t tell people to make a deceased or missing character. Conversely, you also cannot make the next person’s character be alive and well either. Again these topics can be discussed in the game but can’t be forced in challenges.
Anything too picky to the point that the person below can’t have freedom in writing their character. This isn’t “Picky Parents” and the character still technically belongs to the person below. Also you can’t cheat and make your tasks something like “1. The character below has to be a young adult, Swedish, male, loves biking, works at a pizzeria, and has a horse. 2. The character below has to have a name shorter than 6 letters, be gay, have blue eyes, be enemies with another character in the game, be a triplet, and be an expert snowboarder.” That would be 12 tasks, not 2 and would be over limit. Even if it is within limit, each task has to be separated.
Iffy - may be okay in some cases but not always:
Deciding the age range of the character below yours. It could come off as too direct (Example: if the two above characters had a baby and someone were to make a challenge task be “The next character must be 1 or under” then it could pass off as too direct and like the challenger is trying to make the person below create their baby) which would not be allowed. However you can say whether the next character is or isn’t within the age range of your character in a task if you want.
Deciding name of character below. You can’t directly choose the name of the character that the next person is naming. However if your challenge involves them being from a certain culture, having the person below name them from that culture is fine. Not saying a name but saying a character’s name has to mean “(meaning)” is also allowed. If a character is already named but doesn’t have a bio, it is the character creator’s choice whether to make that bio, not the challenger’s choice. You also can’t directly choose the next character’s last name but you can say they are “in the same family as (other related characters)”
Now since this is the first post, I have no challenge for my character to meet but the next person will be challenged and make a challenge for the next person, so on and so forth.
Chase Colin Dean (23) is a nursing school student and part-time baker. He is bisexual, has several friends, and is in a very loving family. He has three friends who have been his friends since childhood and is the second-oldest sibling. He loves living by the woods and enjoys the atmosphere but is moving to the city after finishing nursing school so he can live closer to a very nice hospital that he has wanted to work for since he was 10.
Challenge:
Next character has to be a usually happy person.
Next character has to be good at a water sport.
Next character has to have freckles.
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