#rf goa

I used Kihachi as the example above because he’s featured often enough in the early game story that he deserves a profile page. He’s become an important secondary character in a fic I’m writing, too, so one day I hope to fill in the fun fact bubbles about him.

In the meantime, I want to see you make some fun profiles!

To use this template

Start with the base as the bottom layer in whichever drawing program you use. (I use Procreate, so if you use something different, the terms I use might be slightly different.)

Add your character art in the next layer on the right side and use a clipping mask to cleanly cut off the edges. Most character portraits cut off around their thighs, and tall characters' heads go slightly above the blue line near the top. Short characters' heads are somewhere in the middle.

Pick which village your character primarily resides in and select the name title/residence/birthday boxes that correspond with their residence. Put this down as the third layer.

Add your character's name and birthday! (All recommended fonts are part of Procreate's included font library. If your program doesn't have them, you should be able to find them for free and download/install in your system). - Name title: Optima in Bold, size 34.0pt font. I color-dropped its off-white color from the white bar in the top left corner. It's centered in the top box. - Birthday: Avenir in Heavy, size 12.0pt, reduce kerning to -2.0pt, and it's the same off-white as above. Line it up on the right side above the residence line. Reduce the opacity to 90%.

Write a sentence or two about your character! - The blurb box: Avenir in Heavy, size 12.0pt, leading increased to 2.0pt. I color-dropped the outer brown outline. The blurbs are all about 20-30 words max, or 100-150 characters long.

Write six fun facts! - You can pick six from the following options, and you may repeat one or two twice: Particular About  Least Favorite Thing Hobby Favorite Pastime Special Skill Secret Fears Concerned About Worries about Origin Rival Philosophy Family Personality Current obsession Habit Shortcoming Strength Dreams about Happy moment Treasures Most fun facts follow this format: "Word. Sentence about word." or "Sentence one about something. Sentence two." They are also 10-15 words or less than 100 characters long. - Titles for fun fact blobs: Avenir in Black, size 13.0pt, kerning reduced to -3.0pt, outlined letters toggled on. I color-dropped the dark brown outline around the Bond Level bar for the outline, rasterized the text, and then filled the letters with the same off-white as the name title text. Reduce opacity to 80%. These are centered along the top edge of the streaks. - Text in the fun fact blobs: Avenir in Heavy, size 12.0pt, same dark brown as above but solid, and reduce opacity to 80%. Everything is centered, but you might need to play around with the lettering so it all sits nicely in the blobs. Some text going outside the blobs is okay, especially on that pesky pinkish one its evil.

You've probably noticed that all of the inserted text is more crisp/sharp than the text that came with the template. If you want to blend it in, rasterize everything and put just under 1% of a Gaussian Blur on it. (I couldn't get higher quality screencaps, so we make due. *shrugs*)

Use the empty white bar to clarify if this is an OC (e.g. "Rune Factory OC by yourusername"), credit me for the template, or leave it blank.

Share your art and tag me so I can like/reblog it!

the pros first:

🌟the sacred treasures are wonderful and so mcuh fun both as weapons and farming tools!! They fit so seamlessly into the gameplay (unfortunately I'd actually be really surprised if marvelous kept this mechanic for the next time idk I just feel like they'll drop it lol but if they keep anything it's GOTTA be the terra tiller and/or the overhead view bc it makes farming and placing things so much easier!!!) esp the overhead view which is godly (no pun inteded lol))

🌟the bonding quests and social activities are so wonderful and are such fun ways to get to know the characters! They add so much flavor to the romance/friendships

🌟a weird compliment I guess but the voice acting is superb and it really makes the characters come to life

🌟the characters are all so gorgeous and charming it's almost a con bc it's really hard to pick a favorite to settle down with lmaooo marvelous really did their big one with this--the bachelors and bachelorettes are all stunning and interesting

🌟the story is a lot of fun and is very cute if not a bit repetitive (revive 4 gods, find 4 shrines, then 4 more shrines ....)

🌟combat is fun if not a bit too chaotic but thats more of a jrpg thing than a rune factory problem lol

🌟rewoven fates is a great idea and another thing that marvelous has GOT to keep!!!!

🌟i like the way the character profiles keep track of their likes/dislikes so you don't have to remember all the time

🌟cooking is a lot of fun and unique recipes? you can cook with characters? marvelous you've GOT TO KEEP THESE ITS SO FUNNN

🌟love how you can romance the other protagonist that's diabolical and the kinda crazy shit i wanna see in my games ....

now some cons (mostly lukewarm cons at that)

🌟not enough new dialogue -- we could've done with a few more lines for characters here and there to make interactions more lively, esp once you've married someone

🌟i detest the map I'm constantly struggling on where to go and how to get there

🌟story/bonding quest integration for when you marry someone would be great though I know that'd probably be a lot of work

🌟idk how I feel about weapons being so expensive and there not being much to forging ...

🌟the skill tree is a nice addition but once you're done with the main story they mostly feel rather inconsequential? like so much about the gameplay becomes so easy that why bother besides just being a completionist but this is definitely something they should keep and integrate better with power creep/story progression

🌟the villages are adorable if not a bit overwhelming--like even with villagers to do things for you, if you want to do the farming yourself it can be hard to keep up with how fast the hours go by (Im handling the spring and autumn village farming myself) but at least we can revive our crops so it's like the game kinda acknowledges the responsibility you're given and decides not to punish you too severely so it feels like a fair trade

🌟cmon marvel let us customize the protags ....... release us .......