Characters or Toons

[Wolfie]

Character, but who cares really? If you're offended by someone's innocent use of another term for a thing, you might want to stop playing multiplayer games and shelter yourself from any human contact.

[Fensfield]

I'll bite.

Character for my part. Setting aside the knee-jerk queasiness I feel in the face of people using the word 'toon', it's a simple case of what the two words suggest. 'Toon' suggests a caricature, something simple and shallow usually created to a specific end - say, humour, or to portray something in an extreme light.

Character on the other hand suggests the sort of depth and complexity I want my, well, characters, to have. I like to imagine what they're like and create stories around them. Forra is a young spearman wandering around after he lost his adoptive aunt, Rorina is trying to smuggle herself and her sister away from an unpleasant stepfather, and T'aemi I like to think of as an opportunity to explore the idea of the 'generic adventurer'.

So when people call my characters 'toons' it.. feels like they're devaluing all I've imagined about them. I make it a rule not to stop other people referring to their characters as such, however much I might dislike it, because that's their choice. But.. it's true I don't like the idea of the word being put beside my creations, no.

[KatzeTitania]

Avatar/character.
Toon sounds painfully unrefined.

How about "Dudeman"?

[Tareel]

I use them both, interchangably.

I mostly use character though. But honestly, how much "toon" seems to piss people off makes me want to use it a lot more.

[Invz]

Character on the other hand suggests the sort of depth and complexity I want my, well, characters, to have. I like to imagine what they're like and create stories around them. Forra is a young spearman wandering around after he lost his adoptive aunt, Rorina is trying to smuggle herself and her sister away from an unpleasant stepfather, and T'aemi I like to think of as an opportunity to explore the idea of the 'generic adventurer'.

Best explanation for use of the word character yet.

Character, but who cares really? If you're offended by someone's innocent use of another term for a thing, you might want to stop playing multiplayer games and shelter yourself from any human contact.

I never said I was offended by the word toon. I was just simply trying to start a discussion on the general discussion forum that doesn't involve server status complaints, CE complaints, or AFK timers.

[DeadlySwordz]

I call them characters in all MMO's I have played. Toons I think is a WoW term. We dont got time for dat!

[rockman0]

I call them toons. I don't really care what other people call them, as long as I know what you're trying to say. Whatever floats your boat.

[Velveteer]

When people use toon, i can't help but make a face. It'll always sound ridiculous to me.

[Logan]

I honestly didn't care, face it... you know what they are talking about so what does it matter. Then all of the elitist snobbery and moaning started... now, forever more... toons.

I find it highly amusing that the same people who cant tell the difference between your, you're, were, we're, there, their, they're and finally my all time favourite... are and our (seriously?) are the ones making the most stink about toons and characters.

To answer an earlier question "why toons" it derives from characters... as in "cartoon character" thus: "Toon"

[Avedis1134]

Character. I don't know what my aversion to toon is, but for whatever reason, its cringe worthy.