Edit Characters (Dynasty Warriors)

Edit characters have been a part of the Dynasty Warriors series since Dynasty Warriors 4. Edit mode allows the player to create their own characters, based on preset costumes and abilities.

In Dynasty Warriors 4, the player could select the name and gender of their character, some costumes, and the weapon. Weapons were based on NPC of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, such as Fu Xi's sword, and Nu Wa's rapier. The edit officers' avatars were always silhouetted instead of showing the officer.
 * Dynasty Warriors 4

There are 5 weapons for a created character to wield: sword, spear, pike, great sword (male only) and rapier (female only).

However, each weapon requires the player to choose motions of playable characters (except great sword and rapier which have the motions of Fu Xi and Nu Wa):
 * Sword 1: Zhou Yu
 * Sword 2: Cao Cao
 * Sword 3: Sun Jian
 * Sword 4: Sun Quan
 * Sword 5: Liu Bei
 * Sword 6: Dong Zhuo (Only males can equip this sword)
 * Sword 7: Yuan Shao
 * Sword 8: Huang Zhong
 * Sword 9: Gan Ning
 * Sword 10: Xiahou Yuan
 * Spear 1: Zhao Yun
 * Spear 2: Ma Chao
 * Spear 3: Jiang Wei
 * Pike 1: Zhang Liao

After the player has created their character, the player can not change the character's appearance or weapon.
 * Pike 2: Lu Meng

In Dynasty Warriors 5: Xtreme Legends, It's quite the same as DW4 so you select After creating a character, the game allows the player to change the character's clothes and its colour, unlike Dynasty Warriors 4 which does not let the player change any part of the character after creating them.
 * Dynasty Warriors 5
 * Name.
 * Gender of your characters.
 * Face & Hair looks
 * 10 different costumes. Unlocked during Destiny Certain Things you are required to do.
 * The Weapons (Included Fu Xi's Sword as said Broadsword & Nu Wa's Rapier as said Rapier they are silouetted)
 * Selction of 3 Voices Calm, Passoinate & Heroic

In Dynasty Warriors 6: Empires, there is much more freedom of choice. The edit mode now has a new menu which has:
 * Dynasty Warriors 6
 * Name - Name of the new character. Now includes special symbols such as letters with accents, ¿ and ¡.
 * Gender - Male or female
 * Face - Customisable hair, hair color, skin color, face shape, eyes, nose, mouth, additional accessories (eye-patch, rose, facial hair, etc.)
 * Body - Changes the body shape, tall/small, thin/stocky, and build.
 * Appearance - Changes costume. More become unlocked as the player progresses through the game.
 * Motion - Changes the weapon. The player can now select any moveset of a playable character, however the NPC movesets have been removed.
 * Voice - Changes the voice type and pitch. Examples include "Pure" and "Easygoing".
 * Ability - Changes the stats of the character to preset standards sush as "Offense", "Defense", "Quick", etc. Also has special move, such as "Brace" and "Truespeed".