One character or multiple?

[Gods of Odds]

I don't want to go into too much detail but I am starting a lore series this month and I'm just getting ready to record some gameplay for it but in the prologue I do mention multiple characters but sometimes only briefly say maybe for 1 minute maybe less, so I was wondering what every one thinks I should do. I can either just record one character throughout the whole video while I speak or keep changing the character I'm playing as so it would be about 9 different characters, what do you think would be better? I thought that just doing one character would be better as then it would maybe flow more and not be always changing.

 

[ProfessionalRik]

Let me ask you this, and this is a serious question. Do you trust yourself to be a good enough writer to properly display 9 DIFFERENT characters? I ask this because, and you know this is true, all too often we see characters portrayed and they fall into like...3 archetypes, no depth, etc. If you are willing to flesh these characters out enough that they feel like real people, if you can give us something to connect to, it will do great. Otherwise, I recommend you focus your efforts on making one character relatable to many walks of life. DO NOT MAKE HALF STILTED CHARACTERS. All your favorite lore, I guarantee, had/has characters in it that made you want to examine them further. Intrigue, my friend! If you don't have enough to spread it among all of them sufficiently, just stick to giving it all to one and maybe some side characters to help further give him a third dimension.

 

[Gods of Odds]

Let me ask you this, and this is a serious question. Do you trust yourself to be a good enough writer to properly display 9 DIFFERENT characters? I ask this because, and you know this is true, all too often we see characters portrayed and they fall into like...3 archetypes, no depth, etc. If you are willing to flesh these characters out enough that they feel like real people, if you can give us something to connect to, it will do great. Otherwise, I recommend you focus your efforts on making one character relatable to many walks of life. DO NOT MAKE HALF STILTED CHARACTERS. All your favorite lore, I guarantee, had/has characters in it that made you want to examine them further. Intrigue, my friend! If you don't have enough to spread it among all of them sufficiently, just stick to giving it all to one and maybe some side characters to help further give him a third dimension.

Thanks, I think you are right, I don't think I really say enough about each character to really put gameplay of them in and it is actually the religion that they belong to not the actual character so I think just doing one character would make it better as I'm going to be doing episodes on each of the characters anywhere which is where I obviously go into the lore of them.