I have a question for you guys.

[HaleyTheRandom]

So, I've been roleplaying for oh... about 3 years now. And compared to most, that makes me feel like a child xD But that's beside the point.

I see people with pictures for their faceclaims that are different shapes, eg. circle, with fancy font on them. I also see those epically awesome fancy name tag thingies. (I have no idea what to call them).

So my questions is, where would I go to get/make these things? Preferably site, no program downloads.

Thanks in advance for any response!

[Dinh AaronMk]

gimp.org

I imagine you're thinking of text overlays, in which case you need something like Gimp (although I'm not sure it even has a text tool) and some fun downloaded fonts.

1001freefonts.com

HOWEVER, as a regular GM I still do not approve of people going out to the world of Facebook or the wider internet to pull down pictures of generically handsome people to use as a face-claim for their character. Not only is it lazy from a written perspective to make that image publicly known to be your character without any attempt at describing him or her in-app or in-character narration, but there's also a certain legality question to it. As a photographer too, I would be annoyed if someone went and used a picture I took of someone I was asked to do - or I asked them if I could do - under certain controlled pretenses.

Role-players are not in my pretenses.

There's also a lot of legal and ethical gray around minors that gets even more scary the further you go back. So just don't do it, please don't.

If you have to have an image then I'm sure you can find a free artist out there who will try to do something with the written description just to have the basic recognition of someone wanting something for them. DeviantArt is littered with amateur animus who will be all too happy to make your faceclaim for you.

[HaleyTheRandom]

gimp.org

I imagine you're thinking of text overlays, in which case you need something like Gimp (although I'm not sure it even has a text tool) and some fun downloaded fonts.

1001freefonts.com

HOWEVER, as a regular GM I still do not approve of people going out to the world of Facebook or the wider internet to pull down pictures of generically handsome people to use as a face-claim for their character. Not only is it lazy from a written perspective to make that image publicly known to be your character without any attempt at describing him or her in-app or in-character narration, but there's also a certain legality question to it. As a photographer too, I would be annoyed if someone went and used a picture I took of someone I was asked to do - or I asked them if I could do - under certain controlled pretenses.

Role-players are not in my pretenses.

There's also a lot of legal and ethical gray around minors that gets even more scary the further you go back. So just don't do it, please don't.

If you have to have an image then I'm sure you can find a free artist out there who will try to do something with the written description just to have the basic recognition of someone wanting something for them. DeviantArt is littered with amateur animus who will be all too happy to make your faceclaim for you.

@Dinh AaronMk

I typically don't really use face claims unless for a basic start up for my characters. However, considering the artists, and I never though about that, I think you would be happy to know that when I do face-claim (if a picture is preferred in the RP,) that I make it a point to go ahead and describe the characters appearance in depth.