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From: mte@busch.UUCP (Moshe Eliovson)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Guardians of the Flame
Message-ID: <478@busch.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 14:00:29 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug  9 14:00:29 1985
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Keywords: give credit where credit is due


	While the characterizations may not be optimal
this is due to the fact that this was taken from a role
playing game.  Not all characters in the game campaign
will be played by an animated player, so often the game
master (DM) or whoever wrote this had to create the
characterization from impression alone.  Add to this the
fact that the author of this book is probably not a true
"writer" in the sense that this type of book is a recreation
of sequential events, which are not neccesarily his/her 
ideas, rather than a full creation of the writer's imagination.

	The ending to the third book clearly shows the
constant game player that this is created from a game:

	DM:	So you've killed the lord and there's no
		ruler in the area, unrest threatens...

	Players: Hmmm......

Solution: Well since in this setting all this area belongs
to the king who is an npc (non-playing character) why not
make the game interesting and reward the pc (player) for
succesfully making it through the campaign.

Moshe Eliovson
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