Scott Ryder 'BroRyder' (Official Thread)

You can rename her, and customise her apperance, if only this is your problem with sisRider.

Haha. Someone asked via Twitter, and it was confirmed that we cannot rename the NPC sibling, thus avoiding the awkward Ryder-to-Ryder conversation.

It depends how craptastic the character creator is.   I have found hair, eyebrows and skin options and colors extremely limiting, in most BioWare games.

My SisRyder will hopefully be a non-white woman with curly or wavy hair. I don't mind it they've accomplished this by pulling it back tightly into a bun or the like, but I'd really like some decent non-Caucasian hairstyles, finally. If you start with Nathalie Emmanuel as a base, and start working toward less "movie star glamor" and more "paramilitary scout", you'll be on the right track.

I vary the ethnicity a lot in my characters, though, so that's just the first female character I have in mind. She might come out completely different, anyway, once I get started. I played FemSheps that I created to be Persian, Arab ethnicities, Indian ethnicities, etc... It became tough to create dark-skinned characters, as the OT progressed, because the skin tones became more and more fair. I think Fb3 handles dark skin much better the the old U3.

I'm less creative, but no less picky with my make PCs. I tend to play "less exotic" (from my perspective) men, but still have to perfect the face and match it well to the voice.

For DAI, you actually need to use lipstick for all characters, including men. You get a base, lifelike color, and then you minimize the color and shine. It can take some practice, but that CC has a lot of good potential.

Its downsides are that it includes a lot of terrible options that few would ever want to actually use, and lacks many good options. Hair and eyebrow options are a perfect example of this. It's hard to understand why this is an issue, when a simple Google search would give them a good idea of how people actually want to wear their hair and eyebrows. I'd expect a few oddballs with mostly stylish options in the CC. Instead, we get mostly oddball with a few marginally stylish options.

Depend on character creator. In the ME trilogy the CC was shit enough, so, default m!Shep looks better than mine. No matter, I will create my own character, as (almost) always.

We don't know, the CC to what will be able, so my first Ryder will be likely to be a mixture of these (or some other...) with short hair:

Hopefully he gets a video that features his voice. I like to hear it. Still undecided as to which sibling I will start with for my first playthrough. The more I can hear the voice, the better chance I will know which one I will play.

If possible, look like Clint Eastwood when he was younger.

HA!  Yep, me too.  Such shallow guys we are!

Nah, he looked different in the tech demo. You can find a shot of this face, the whole face, and you can see he looked different.

I tend to draw out concept ideas in the months before BioWare releases to get an idea of what direction I want to go. I've already done one for my broRyder: 


- So something as close to that as I can. I'm sure I won't be able to get the exact hair or beard, but something kind of longish/"scruffy" if I can. There are always inevitably some tweaks I make when I actually have the CC too, sometimes not much, sometimes drastically different. For instance, this was the concept drawing I did for my dwarf Inquisitor:


But when I realized he reminded me too much of my male Shepard (see avatar), this is how he ended up looking in game:


Regardless of how similar/different my Ryder ends up being from the concept, I'm definitely taking a Polynesian ancestry route with him (I'll even try to tweak Alec Ryder to look similar to Temuera Morrison if I can ). Since their cultures are known for being prolific explorers and oceanic wayfinders, it seems an appropriate legacy to take into Andromeda and exploring the unknown.

I am so happy, and I mean SO happy, that someone else had this thought and I am not just a person with my head in the gutter.

I'm glad we have a family this time, it's weird to play a character who for some reason in all his life had no friends/relatives. I wonder if we get to choose why Ryden decided to join Andromeda. Was he that much interested in the project or just wanted to be with his family, etc.