Character art, ingame
Sorry, sightless friends.

Lemme fix original post… the way I wrote it saw it as some sort of code and it ate 90%.

Why would it defeat the nakeds? Not everyone is able to vividly imagine and piece together how a char looks. This would just allow folk to give folk a better impression of how their character actually looks.

Many people would likely put way less effort into @nakeds if they could just link whatever image they spent ten seconds generating. It would also be inaccessible to screen reader users and, in my opinion, immersion-breaking while making things feel more MUSH-y.

Putting it directly in game would make people feel like they don't have to describe their character in much detail, since they assume others could just look at the image. It would also make it feel like you have to have a character image.
Regardless of image host, the images could contain any content, including content that could negatively impact the game like IC information or revealing who plays who.

(Edited by zxq at 12:45 pm on 7/29/2026)

Just read their description. It's what you're going to have to do anyways especially if someone opts out of OP's idea.

I think a lot of people are kind of looking for shortcuts around reading fine details. I often ask people what someone looked like and the common response is "I'll know them if I see them again" which to me translates to to "I don't know hoss, didn't read their descriptions just know their coded name."

Even though I do struggle to see characters from descriptions, I'm against this idea ICly. I still want people to describe their characters. I still want people to be included even if they can't see an image for some reason. It's still a text game.

For me, I usually don't see a whole character but I pick out key description bits like hair, tattoos, hands. The more I interact, the more I remember the different bits or see new bits. I still can't imagine the character necessarily but, I at least have some details.