![]() ![]() ![]() There was only one area where it fell short: Aliens. Even better, most of the advice would function just as superbly when applied by a GM in a game context. It completely fulfilled its brief of explaining how to make characters for a work of fiction plausible and rounded, and how to communicate their nature to the audience by means of dialogue and description with massive blocks of ex-cathedra narrative by the author. To cut a much longer story short, the create-a-character clinic was excellent – but limited. I have read several books on the subject of character creation, and this was an excellent way to measure just how useful her books were going to be, and how much of the content would be redundant repetition of material that I had already read and digested. Why Johnn chose that, I don’t know, but I can speak as to why it was the first of the eBooks that I read. Several of her e-books sounded interesting, so I passed the information on to Johnn, who surprised me in late March by giving me several of them for my Birthday.īy sheer coincidence, the eBook that we both started with was the “Create A Character” Clinic. Back in late February or early March, Holly Lisle’s books came to my attention – I’m no longer sure how, but it was probably a Twitter link to her blog. ![]()
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