For those who roleplay you probably have a great picture in your head of what your character looks like. But sometimes, even for the best of us, it's hard to let others know what they look like. Here some ideas on how to show what you mean.
A simple way is to write down what your character looks like. "My character has blue eyes, brown hair, and loves to wear plate armor." Not as descriptive as most people would like, but it does give a good start for others to figure out what your character looks like.
Another way is to be a great artist or have one in your group...(Thank you Scott where ever you are :) ) This definitely helps in giving your friends a visual idea of your character.
A new one for me (since we didn't have access to such things when I was roleplaying in college) is video games. What, you say? This is a paper and pencil game what does video games have to do with this. Well for those online games where you have to make characters (or even some non-online games) you will have a picture of your character in the game which you could then screen shot to use as your roleplaying picture. I know in world of Warcraft there are many races to choose from and if you just wanted to make a human or orc with the hair color and facial features and even skin color of your roleplaying character and then screen shot it, there is at least a basic idea of what your roleplaying character looks like in bold colors!
To add to your character a little background helps as well. Give a short background (where is he from, what things in his past shaped your character), what race, height, age, eye color and hair color, he is. How about how he speaks, how he behaves around people, maybe even his best or worst qualities. My favorite is to pick a hobby or little quirk that makes them unique. An example is that Guthlaf (my dwarf in my novel) likes to relax with a good pipe, no matter where he is.
Happy Gaming!
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