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BenjamminBrown

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  1. In all of the Spiderweb games, the characters that you play are always created by you essentially from scratch. This includes not only stats and traits and all that stuff, but also their names and their personality. The extent that Spiderweb games have given your characters personality is through the responses during dialogue. This is probably because the game has no idea what kind of personality to assign to your characters because you were the one who created them, so it's best to just not try talking about it. This lack of personality always bothered me. While I may have created the characters, I don't really have anything planned out for them in terms of the way they would act socially or something like that. I'd want to be surprised by what they do; let the game run wild your characters' personality. So much blandness can be fleshed out through the reactions of other characters to your actions and not only your dialogue. For instance, if your female mage stopped a drug operation in a town by killing everybody involved, she would be infamous in the town as a dangerous person and the game could tailor passing dialogue to meet that response. "Shhh! It's Adelia! Keep you head down and keep walking, maybe she won't notice us." Or on the other hand you could also describe somebody by their combat statistics. If you gave your manly character a lot of strength, I would assume he looks fairly beastly and at least 'thug-like' (even if he might be fat and strong). If you gave your rogue female archer lots of dexterity, somebody in passing could mention how lithely she moves and wonder out loud how good she was at dancing.
  2. In regards to tips, I've found it much easier to start with perhaps not the most original idea and then make it your own from there. I find it easier to critique somebody else's work and come up with better ideas than to make up my own from scratch. Funny how creativity works...
  3. That's actually not bad. Keep writing! I'd like to see you go big places!
  4. I can't even begin to imagine what a Beiber pony would look like...
  5. Speaking of Glen Cook, has anybody read The Black Company recently. It's a really good dark fantasy series, and, unfortunately, nobody I know has even heard of it.
  6. I don't think the spoilers coming from previous games are really all that bad. All of them are seperate from each other in thier own ways. In saying that, I liked Avernum 6 more than the rest because the game seemed to just flow better in level ups and in plot.
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