litphoria

This is useful, but it misses one of the reasons templating would even be useful to me in the first place. There are some things I am never into. I am having to click these same 12 things every single time I make a new profile. I'd wager I'm not the only person who has a core set of no-gos, some of which might be quite a bit longer. It is frustrating and makes the process of character creation feel way more repetitive than it should have to. It's not that my characters are carbon copies of one another, either. It's just that I as a player just don't like certain things, full stop, and need to make that clear on all of my sheets.

And the same can likely be said of a player's core interests. Most people know what they like, and while my preferences do vary from character to character, there's a strong foundation. Right now, that means -- yet again -- just clicking the same stuff over and over again. I find I don't really save any time with the process of "likes/dislkes -> separate into categories after," either, because it makes for a ton of extra clicking. I also have to look at this big huge list of things and then go through the mental process of "which of these was supposed to go where, again?" when the answer, for many traits, is "the same place it went last time."

@Solara: But for this it makes more sense to have a "copy traits" feature like the "copy kinks" feature at F-List. Then you can create a standard profile and copy it as base for all your chars.

@Desdemona That would work fine and is quite similar to the idea of user-created templates as suggested in the child post for this one (it just copies directly from a character instead of a saved template). I'd personally find user-created templates easier because my characters do differ, so just copying over all traits from one to the other would usually require a lot of cleanup. More unnecessary clicking. I'd be okay with it, though.

Not if you create a "standard profile" or "basic profile" what only contains the traits which are equal for all your chars. Why make a second template editor if the char editor works fine for this?

It runs the risk of junking up the search results if everyone does that, especially when the search returns only a limited number of results. People looking for characters to actually play with run the risk of missing the actual characters. It is a workable solution, though.

Hmm, possibility: use the normal character creator to make the "basic profile," but save it with a special Basic Profile status that clearly designates it as such and hides it from searches. I think that would be fine.

Then you need a "not searchable" or "invisible" check-box. Also useful if you are not in the mood to play with a certain character but don't want to delete it.

That'd cover all my concerns. :)

The intent here is not to simplify you creating multiple similar profiles. It is to solve a particular use case when creating a new profile, and also to simplify searching for several combinations of traits together. Copying will be used for similar profiles, likely in combination with writer profiles.

No, but the original template suggestion this superceded would have accomplished simplifying multiple profiles, whereas this system does not. Because that template suggestion worked the way I would have suggested one for easier repeat character creation, I figured that creating another feedback suggestion would have been a duplicate. Apologies if I should have posted new feedback instead. I also hadn't thought of copying, and I didn't know writer profiles were going to be a thing. That sounds like a totally viable solution.