In which we date entire nations; Let's Play Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI!

IMHO, there are so many ways to Romanise a given Asian name that we might as well go with whichever we like best. :D ( Yelim would probably know all about this herself!)

Thanks both of you.
I would have actually learned Hanja, and some Chinese, but I was too lazy to pay attention when my grandmother taught me.

Syncronicity huh, so my family name is Dawn/Black? That's interesting!

I usually don't post, but this looks interesting so I guess I'll join in.

Surname: Shi
Forename: Meng
Sex: Female
Female portrait 9
Age: 19

LDR: 54
WAR: 37
INT: 68
POL: 86
CHR: 75

Growth Period: Maintain
Ability Persistence: Long
APT: Bows
Skill: Feng Shui

Character: Timid
Voice: Cool
Tone: Polite
Court: Normal
Aspiration: Secure

I'll add the rest later.

Surname: Moon
Forename: Ruby
Sex: Female
Face: Created Female 15
Birth: 10
Lifespan: Default (ie 99 Years) (ie forever!)
Father: N/A
Mother: N/A
Spouse: N/A (Stay single forever!)
Close Friend: N/A
Sworn Sibling: N/A
Liked Officers: N/A
Disliked Officers: N/A

LDR: 1
WAR: 100
INT: 70
POL: 1
CHA: 1

Growth Period: Precocious
Ability Persistance: Long
Aptitude: Pike
Skill: Integrity

Character: Bold
Tone: Pompus
Aspiration: Self

So here's the first batch of characters. Note that some of them are still incomplete, either pending further instruction from their player or because some of the custom characters they have relationships with haven't been created yet.

Failure Hero, maniskumquat, Sarasha

Also, how's the size, guys? Can you read stuff, or should I make these pics bigger?

Perfectly legible on my end.
Oh, and nice bios guys. You really captured the essence of a warring-kingdoms era noblewoman. please don't challenge me to a duel for that, my character is so weak

Good here!

wait omg Lu Bu can actually be my husband>??????



And oops, I didn't realize aptitudes were on a grade scale. I'll go add that in....

Well...in a sense. The guy's lifespan is crazy short, so in all likelihood, he'll be dead by the time we begin...

He does have a daughter in the game, though I'm not sure if the game will recognize her as yours.

Aww, we can't change the story events? Oh well. :(

I guess we'll find out!

EDIT: Ahahaha I just looked him up on that portrait database and why does he even have an "old" portrait

Re: aptitudes, since I missed them being graded too, aside from being maxed in Weaponry I don't care how else Qian does in the others, so I leave that to you!

I missed the grade thing too, so you can do that with me too.

Snark

Oh my lordy, those fields.

Before I spend an hour meticulously creating a character, how is the player interaction going to work? I'm not familiar with strategy games but CHINESE HISTORY AND PRETTY ART. Or are we just submitting characters and watching this blow up in our faces? I'd actually prefer the latter option.

Question: would anybody like to be in some sort relationship with me? (disliked/liked officer, spouse, sword sibling, etc)

You've got that wrong! Mandarin uses a standardized romanization, hanyupinyin. Giles-Wade-style romanization is tooootally out of date. Also Yelim's name's pronounciation depends on what the Chinese characters for her name are, but I think that Koreans nowadays don't use Chinese characters for their names anymore? I know almost nothing about how Korean works, sorry! Also, different Asian languages have different romanization systems because they're, you know, different languages, don't know if you realize that. Malay, for instances, romanizes perfectly easily into the alphabet because they don't have a writing system of their own. Unless you count Jawi. But pretty much nobody actually uses Jawi nowadays.

I would! I don't care how.

Sure~ Close friends is already filled for mine, though.

Ancient Chinese literature, you say?

I never thought I'd see anyone mention Jawi on Broken Forum!

No u wrong, Ana. :p I think Chinese is a great example, once you consider the Overseas Chinese disapora. Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese names, at least in their romanised forms, look very different to mainlanders'! For another example, the issue of multiple languages/dialects*, see Syncronicity 's post or that most reliable and accurate of sources, Wikipedia. :D

* a whoooole different can of worms about which I know almost nothing, and which I'll refrain from opening up

Back on topic, I wanted to clarify something about the aptitudes (pikes/spears/naval/etc) - we don't choose one; we choose each on a scale from C (worst) through B, A, and S (best) - see Yelim's post for an example.

EDIT: I forgot to mention! For anyone who wants to play along, the game is available for purchase from Gamersgate for $20.

Another Malaysian? Good grief. How many of us does that make now?

I said Mandarin (or maybe I should just call it Putonghua), not Chinese. ^^;; Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese names are romanized differently because most of them are going off whatever Chinese dialect the person speaks (the point you were trying to make with the Wikipedia article). Also because the older generations (well, my grandparents at least) didn't know how to write in hanyupinyin, which is why my surname is fucking misspelled/mis-romanized. Mandarin itself is standardized, and it's my impression that most Mainland China names are romanized according to hanyupinyin.

EDIT: Also, DON'T ask me to get into that can of worms. Fucking Westerners thinking they can dictate how our language(s) work... fuck em.

Well, Australian, but of MC descent. :) There are multiple Malaysians on the board?

ETA - I seem to recall multiple romanisations of Korean names, in particular Rhee / Yi, but not an area where I can claim expertise. Anyone?

(Sorry, Snark, hope we're not hijacking this too much!)

*is completely and wholely 'Murican*

JohnStargazer, videetcredere, Syncronicity, do you mind if we're (in respective order) close friends, sworn siblings, and mutual liked officers?

Well, Snark is Malaysian. xD Oh, and Happy Chinese New Year by the way! :D (Shut up, CNY celebrations are still going on I can do whatever I want.) And yeah, sorry for hijacking the thread, Snark, I'll shut up now.

I'm completely fine with it, Para.

So here's another batch of characters.

By the way, if you want to change anything about your character, please tag and bold the changes, in addition to editing your original post, it just makes it easier for me to keep up to date with everything. Thanks guys!

Well, this took a while, but it's done. I'm open for anything.

Why would you say these things and not use the opportunity to tag me? You were supposed to tell us about this in XCOM too! And to correct you, Teddybear of Death is a title. By your example, my name is Phoenix Teddy. Yeah. My pen name is Teddy Phoenix.

I was totally going to play along, but it's been so long since I played a RotK game I forgot how complicated they are. If it turns into googledocs, those crash my browser like nothing I've ever encountered on the computer, so I'm inelligeble.

Also, I totally thought we were going to dick around with misplaced characters and OCs, not try to do legit Chinese names and things that make sense. My shit would be out of place, so I should probably just grab a bowl of popcorn and let this roll. Too bad...

Opps! Sorry, don't know why I didn't think to tag you! And yeah, I'll make a post on the Xcom thread about this as well.

Don't worry though, while the game itself is basically Excel Sheets the Game, I'll just be posting pics ala Xcom and SaGa, so it shouldn't be any worse for your browser than those threads :)

And finally, I'm perfectly fine with Landis, Grantaire and Enjolras in ancient China! Honestly, I wasn't expecting most people to go for Chinese names in the first place. Either way though, I'm cool with both more fitting names as well as crazy shit. As it is, we've already got Tir McDohl from Suikoden I and another guy who can use magic.

Or I will, if the server will let my fucking post go through.

Alright, I'll see what I can do then.

I think the girls said they wanted to play Joly and one of the other Barricade Boys in this, but you don't know how bad I want the whole Landis family in this since you can mention relations and just have them be bizzarely different and yeah. xD I may actually have to get this game and set our whole messed up Les Mis/OC continum in a country and watch it burn. xD

But that being said, I don't know who I want to actually submit to this, havin gonly one character as an option, and everyoen else using Chinese names so I can't remember who they are.

Also; glad I'm not the only who noticed Stargazer throwing McDohl in there. xD

I just realized how misleading this thread's title is to anyone who doesn't know wtf they're looking at. xD

Here's a thing! People who wanna be friends or disliked or whatever, of course, tag me and let me know. I may do some taggin' later and ask around. Then again, if she were compeltely alone without ties, it'd be more cannon. xD

Snark, mine looks good except that that is not the portrait I had listed. I don't mind this one though, if you wish for me to keep it. :) Edit: Could you please add JohnStargazer/Tir to her Liked Officers list? I promise I will have a bio up...eventually.

JohnStargazer, would you mind if I listed your character under mine's liked officers? Thanks John!

Daaang, all of this CHINESE HURR DURR discussion made me want to bug y'all for a romanized Chinese version of my name so that I don't have to go with a shitty anagram of my given name, but my characater is already done, so...

FEAR THE WRATH OF THE TOTALLY MANLY LENAHE

Sure, PARAdoxial and Sarasha

Snark, could you Add Para as my Close Friend and Sarasha as a liked officer?

I'm finding it hard to read the text without squinting, and it's going to be even harder reading it from my laptop screen. But I can always zoom in, if the size is working for other people. The images certainly seem great; it's only the text that gets me.

Also, my character! In which all of my potential relationships with people are left to be filled by anyone who wants any sort of relationship, because WOOHOO SURPRISES.

Hey fadeaccompli, wanna get hitched? :D

DO I EVER!

(My warlord brings all the girls to his yard. Especially if they're hostile girls. Who will then join his navy. BECAUSE SKILLS.)

(Maybe it's a submerged yard?)

For the most part, it'll just be you guys submitting your characters and watching the chaos that unfurls. In a sense, it's rather similar to how Meserach is handling his Gnomoria LP.

That said, I'll be asking participants for input on our overall strategy (e.g. which guy should we declare war on? Who should we ally with, etc), and if you want your character to do certain things (e.g. lead this unit against this enemy, challenge this asshole to a duel, etc), I'll do my best to accommodate you :)

Opps! Sorry, Sarasha! I've updated your character to use the proper picture!

Yay! Snark, please add Fade as my character's spouse.

As long as their house doesn't float away, I think they'll be fine.

Thanks Snark! :) Sorry that I keep bugging you with updates and changes.

I've always been interested in these games but never got a chance to try them out. I'm looking forward to this.

Eh? What is it with people doing grades with their apititude? Is that a personal choice or was the application implying something beyond its instructions?