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[Zangi]

Alright, so the RoTK series is pretty durn niche.  The tactical/strategic alternative to Dynasty Warriors.  It is all based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms Novel, an epic of Han Dynasty in China during the 2nd and 3rd century.

Specifically, RoTK 7, 8 and 10 allows you to play between a free officer, officer, governor, prefect, and ruler.  While the rest of the serious, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11 and 12 are you only being able to play as the ruler.  (Seriously, don't bother with 12.)  You can hotseat in 4, 7 and 8.  The rest I don't know or are exclusively single player.
The main premise is the 3 kingdoms and the events that lead up to it.  I generally only play the scenarios before the 3 kingdoms come to be.

This is all going to be based on RoTK 10.

When I finish the current game... gonna start a new one with ya folks in it....  See what I can conjure up from this...  Ruler of a family is probably gonna be best candidate for the job, not gonna list what is gonna fulfill that. 
I'm going to personally play with my own CC in one of the family kingdoms as an officer and try to hit up prefect/governor... where everyone else's rank will be left to the AI/fate.

Spoiler: Detailed Custom Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Family Name: (Chu, Zen, Mei, unaffiliated, or historic) [The 3 family names are original for B12ers, grandma/grandpa are premade unless a player wants to be.  Don't mind if you all join 1 family.]
First Name: (Reasonable or I'll reject, does not have to be Chinese Names and stuff, just as long as I don't end up wanting to delete your face.  IE:thegreatguy)
Father: (Optional) [I'll jerrymander you into a family if you are part of one.]  You do not need both a mother and father.
Mother: (Optional) [I'll jerrymander you into a family if you are part of one.]  You do not need both a mother and father. 
Spouse:  (Optional)
Close Friend:  (Optional) [Basically best friend in the game regardless of personality, best for none related]

Station: Free Officer/Officer of [X] Family Kingdom/Officer of [X] Other Kingdom/ With wherever most of the B12 characters go

Generation or Birth:Generation 0, birth 156, the grandma/grandpa of the family line.
Generation 1, birth 170, coming of age at beginning/yellow turban,
Generation 2, birth 184
Generation 3-5... Each generation is 14 years difference. I recommend Generation 1 or 2
OR Specific Birth Year +170

Portrait:
Male Portraits
Female Portraits
Other Portraits -Bandit (Just no, you cannot be generic bandit.)
Apparently there is also a buncha Sengoku and Pre-X Portraits of in-game characters around... Not bothering to list em since I don't have most of em unlocked anyways.

Type: Average / Brave / Smart / Cunning / Leader / Jack-of-All-Trades
Creed: Unification / Duty / Equity / Fame / Ambition
Personality: Timid / Calm / Bold / Reckless
Alcohol: Dislike / Like / Love
Interest: Martial Arts / Collecting / Literature
Desire: Selfless / Average / Greedy

Stats: 350 points, Between 0-99
Leadership: (Battles/Troop Training)
War: (Battles/Duels)
Intelligence: (Debates/Battles/Plots)
Politics: (City Building)
Charisma: (Persuasion/Troop Recruitment/Debates)

Skills: Pick 0 or 1 skills, rest will be randomly chosen for you.
Blue - Farm / Trade / Tech / Build / Safety / Draft / Train (City Building/Troop Training)
Red - Charge / Missile / Joint / Pacify / Rally / Raid / Lurk (Battles)
Purple - Trick / Stop / Taunt / Confuse / Astronomy / Geo / Trap (Battles/Plots)
Orange - Recover / Shout / Scare / Parry / Reflect / Crush / Maul (Duels)  [Counter Requires Parry]
Yellow - Force / Counter / Rebuke / Fault / Refute / Annoy / Curse (Debate/Argue)   [Taunt Requires Incite]
Green - Adviser / Celebrity / Admiral / Spy / Drinker / Doctor / Mage   [Adviser requires 70 Int]

Spoiler: Simple Custom Character Creation (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Chu / Zen / Mei / (Make Your Own)
First Name: (No Non-Names)
Generation or Birth: (Birth 170-200 OR Generation 1-3)
Portrait:
Male Portraits
Female Portraits

Type: Average / Brave / Smart / Cunning / Leader / Jack-of-All-Trades
Creed: Unification / Duty / Equity / Fame / Ambition
Personality: Timid / Calm / Bold / Reckless
Alcohol: Dislike / Like / Love
Interest: Martial Arts / Collecting / Literature
Desire: Selfless / Average / Greedy

Stats: 350 points, Between 0-99
Leadership:
War:
Intelligence:
Politics:
Charisma:

Skills: Will be randomly chosen for you.

Kingdom Options: Will come later, I could just as well integrate everyone into one of the weaker kingdoms and expand from there.

[Zangi]

The Greedy Douchebag

Spoiler: Zen Ayla (click to show/hide)

Cast Members:

Spoiler: Alkhemia: Gao Hai, Bastard Child of Zen Lao (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: EuchreJack: Zen Fen (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: Sheb: Zen Daiyu, Daughter of Zen Fen (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: warhammer651: Zen Lao (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: Jarod Cain: Sun Cain, Retainer of Zen Family (click to show/hide)

 

Spoiler: hostergaard: Zen Hen (click to show/hide)

Supporting Cast:

Spoiler: Grandma: Zen Matron, Mother of Fen, Lao and Hen, grandma of Daiyu (click to show/hide)

 

[Alkhemia]

Ok
1) Gao
2) Hai
3-6 up to you
7 With wherever most of the B12 characters go
8,) Created Male 27
8.5)  Generation 2
9) Wise
10) Loyal
11) Cool
12) Love of course
13) Literature
14) Average

Stats
Leadership: 75
War: 50
Intelligence: 95
Politics:50
Charisma: 80

Blue) Trade
Red) Missile/Distract
Purple) Confuse
Orange) Recover
Yellow) Incite/Taunt
Green) Admiral/Warlord

27 fit what I'm after better

[Jarod Cain]

Damn, OP you sound like me. I usually play ten from the Yellow Turban era till around 215 before I get bored, quit, and restart.

Once I get home from work I'll just go look up my characters (husband & wife) and post them for you to use if you wish. He's usually a son of Sun Jian.
-J-

[EuchreJack]

Love this game!!!!!!!!     

Seriously, I bought the PS2 just so I could play the latest Romance of the Three Kingdoms games.  And I love the games where you play as an officer!

Now to fully read the OP and give my suggestions.  But honestly, you can succeed as any character (in 10).  It's really only a question of how much of a grind do you want.

What is a Chinese surname in English that is similar to either Euchre or Jack?

[Pakhawaj]

:-) I'll be watching this. I don't know anything about the games, but I've been interested in the setting since I played a Civ IV mod in it.

[EuchreJack]

Name: Zen Fen
Waiting on family and friend stuff until we've got more of a list, but I'm open to being friends and family with fellow B12 members.
Officer of Zen Kingdom
Created Male 58
Generation 1
Personality: Cunning
Mindset: Loyal
Alcohol: Love
Interest: Collecting
Desire: Selfless

Stats:
Leadership: 90
War: 30
Intelligence: 90
Politics: 90
Charisma: 50

Skills: Pick 9
Blue - Drill
Red - Missile
Purple - Blunder/Aero
Orange - NONE
Yellow - Refute/Incite
Green - Warlord/Spy/Wizard

[Zangi]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Ok
1) unaffiliated
2) Hai
3-6 up to you
7 With wherever most of the B12 characters go
8,) Created Male 29
8.5)  Generation 2
9) Wise
10) Loyal
11) Cool
12) Love of course
13) Literature
14) Average

Stats
Leadership: 75
War: 50
Intelligence: 100
Politics:50
Charisma: 75

Blue) Trade
Red) Missile/Distract
Purple) EnticeConfuse
Orange) Recover
Yellow) Incite/Taunt
Green) Admiral/Warlord

Sorry if I wasn't more specific, just make up a last name for yourself if you like.  Or I can make one up for ya.
And forgot to mention, having 100 in a stat closest off the very very remote possibility of ever getting more skills in its categories.  In your case the purple stuff.

Damn, OP you sound like me. I usually play ten from the Yellow Turban era till around 215 before I get bored, quit, and restart.

Once I get home from work I'll just go look up my characters (husband & wife) and post them for you to use if you wish. He's usually a son of Sun Jian.
-J-

  Heh, yea, that is generally how I do it, very much fancy the tiny warlord period and the beginning.

Love this game!!!!!!!!     

Seriously, I bought the PS2 just so I could play the latest Romance of the Three Kingdoms games.  And I love the games where you play as an officer!

Now to fully read the OP and give my suggestions.  But honestly, you can succeed as any character (in 10).  It's really only a question of how much of a grind do you want.

What is a Chinese surname in English that is similar to either Euchre or Jack?

My PS3 has been downgraded a few times to playing RoTK games, heh.  And yea, it is harder to improve poor stat officers, since you are very much inclined to fire/execute em.  I hate it when the boss only assigns me cruddy officers with less then 40s across the board....
And the occasional 2-3 meat for brains that get romped by Cao Cao or some other Genius.

[Alkhemia]

I'll right I drop it to 95 to fix that i'll get a name in just a bit...most of the common names are from the people from this game time~ oh well  name Gao from Wei but not a big deal i don't think there in the time you play

[Zangi]

Made some changes to the CC sheet.  I do not mind your names not being Chinese, as long as it doesn't make me want to delete your face eventually...  IE:thegreatguy and some other non-names.

Parents can just be 1 person, implied that it is the Officer+Nameless Non-Officer being the parents.  Or Officer+Officer parents.  Parents don't even have to be married!  Or well, one of em can be somebody other then the Spouse.

[Sheb]

Family Name:Zen
First Name: Daiyu
Father: Zen Fen
Mother: Open to Bay12
Spouse: Open to Bay12
Close Friend:  Open to Bay12
Sex: Female

Station: Officer of Zen Family Kingdom

Generation 2


Portrait:

Personality: Leader
Mindset:Loyal
Personality: Bold
Alcohol: Dislike
Interest: Martial Arts
Desire: Average

Stats
Leadership: 80
War: 80
Intelligence: 80
Politics: 60
Charisma: 50

Skills: Pick 9 or Random (+9)  Layout/Example
Blue - Drill (City Building/Troop Training)
Red - Charge/Rally (Battles)
Purple - Stun (Battles/Plots)
Orange - Shout/Parry/Counter/Crush (Duels)  [Counter Requires Parry]
Green - Warlord   [Warlord requires 70 Int]

[Alkhemia]

Oh EnticeConfuse is 2 thing btw i'll fix my person then

[Zangi]

I fixed that, thanks for pointing it out.
Added a simplified version of the Custom Character Sheet, leaving most of the choices to my discretion.  Less thinking or understanding required.  (Yay?)

On another note, I'll probably end up finishing my game sometime next weekend, so ya'll have until then to insert an avatar.  Who knows, you may end up ruling a nice part of China... being a douchebag who refuses to reinforce me... or well, live life in obscurity...  maybe even die by my hands.

[warhammer651]

Spoiler: Mah Dude (click to show/hide)

Family Name: Zen
First Name: Lao
Generation or Birth: 1
Portrait: Dont particularly care


Personality: Cunning
Mindset: Loyal
Personality: Cool
Alcohol: Dislike
Interest:  Literature
Desire: Greedy

Stats: 350 points, Between 0-99
Leadership: 55
War: 40
Intelligence: 90
Politics: 85
Charisma: 80

Skills: +9 Randomly Picked Skills
Whatever you think makes sense for someone more politician/schemer than warrior

[Jarod Cain]

Family Name: Sun
First Name: Cain
Generation or Birth: Birth 170
Father: Sun Jian
Mother:
Spouse: Open to Bay12
Close Friend:  Open to Bay12
Sex: Male
Portrait: Male 29



Personality: Wise
Mindset: Ambitious
Personality: Cool
Alcohol: Love
Interest: Literature
Desire: Selfless

Stats: 350 points, Between 0-99
Leadership: 100
War: 80
Intelligence: 70
Politics: 60
Charisma: 40

Skills: Drill, Awe & Warlord for certain (if possible), pick whatever else.
-J-