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Published: 2019-07-01 01:24:48 +0000 UTC; Views: 654; Favourites: 25; Downloads: 0
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So, a week ago I shared an image of an old RP character of mine, Dionkiari; from back in my WBS days. Well, inspired by some of those same old RPs, I did my take on my friend Alan's character Alma. Now, it should be noted that Alma is HIS take on a book character. She is (IIRC) basically the equivalent of an exiled goddess with power over serpents. This is shared with his permission since it's based on his version of the character. Alma and Dion... well... lol they got on QUITE well... perhaps too well...Related content
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Interesting character. Reminds me a little of a witch character I played for one of the official D&D game seasons who had a small poisonous serpent for her familiar. I had an idea for doing her as a sort of Haitian-Voodoo Witch. THEN we found out that the season campaign was taking place in a frozen wasteland being assaulted by their variation of the MC from Frozen. Poor poor cold little snake.
BTW: what is the costume and the boots? I always like that kind of style of boots.
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IIRC he adapted the character from books by Raymond E. Feist.
When I have time to actually sit at my computer I’ll check on the actual name and let you know. I’m on my phone atm.
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Yeah I borrow concepts like that myself, I don't want to borrow so much that it's clearly obvious that I'm stealing Drizzt or who-ever, but taking interesting concepts from the character is fair game. One of the old game writers would say something about borrowing an idea and "filing the serial numbers off."
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Yeah, at the time that we were RPing together online, it was his favorite book series and his version of the character was a hoot.
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I haven't read a lot of his stuff; especially not the main stories: but he did a couple books set in that world that were essentially "Three Musketeers" romps that were pretty fun.
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My ex (the one that played Alma back in the day) introduced me to the books after I stumbled across a game called Betrayal at Krondor. I had NO clue it was tied to books of any kind or pre-existing lore... and while on the phone with him one night, I'm telling him about this game and some of the stuff going on and suddenly he's like "What's the name of it?" so I told him and he starts laughing. I'm sitting there trying to find out what exactly is so funny and then he tells me about his favorite series and explains the connection to my game. As a gift, he sent me Magician: Apprentice to read followed after by Magian: Master and I was hooked completely. The character of Pug is one of my favorite literary characters of all time.
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Yeah I had a friend who tried to coerce me into reading some of them, they didn't sound very interesting to me because I'm generally not up for Dark Fantasy. Glen Cook's Black Company novels were an exception for me; he knew how to lighten the dark mood with the right amount of humor. I'm still waiting for him to finish the promised last book in the series but then I'll have to re-read them all so I have context again for the last one since it's been a decade or more since the last previous book came out.
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Not a fan of dark fantasy much myself, but Raymond E. Feist isn't dark fantasy...
at least, not as far as The Riftwar Cycle is concerned. Not sure where you
picked that idea up from. Hell, the world that Feist wrote in came from RPing
adventures from a gaming group he was part of. It's just traditional fantasy.
Now... his stand-alone book Faerie Tale is considered by some to be dark fantasy
(and it happens to be a favorite of mine to be honest, enough so that I've toyed
with the idea of turning it into a screenplay) but that book as nothing to do
with The Riftwar Cycle. And now I want to try and dig up my copy of it and
re-read it LOL
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Hm, sounds like I had him confused with another author with a similar name.
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That's a possibility...
This is who I was meaning... you can read a sample of the first book here...
read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asin=…
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Ahh, Steven Brust was who I was thinking of: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_B… - these books specifically I've read and found a lot of fun: Khaavren Romances
But actually though I was thinking partially of these I was getting them mixed up with a different writer: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wol… - so I was REALLY confused.
The main character in the Wolfe novels is a criminal, assassin, torturer and publicly an executioner; which makes him NOT the sort of hero I care to read about. He doesn't enjoy his job but he doesn't seem to feel he can escape it without ending up on the executioner's block himself so he tries to deny his employers satisfaction by convincing the condemned not to show any emotions such as tears or begging for mercy before he kills them to deny those who ordered their public murders that satisfaction. IMHO that's not enough to redeem the character or make him interesting to me.
There's an entertaining novel: The Stepsister Scheme: books.google.com/books?id=WFjI… - the basic idea: our MC is Cinderella, her closest confidants are Snow White and Sleeping Beauty though of course they all go by different names. One is an accomplished Sorceress and serves as her court wizard; the other is a skilled Martial Artist and plays the part of servant while actually being her bodyguard. Cinderella herself is/becomes an accomplished fencer. Her three wicked stepsisters - angry that Cinderella got to marry Prince Charming; have decided to make a deal with the devil in order to get magical powers and stolen the Prince; it's up to the three girls to figure out how to rescue him. It's an entertaining story.
Partially from that story I got the idea of a story involving four villainous young ladies who each have their dreams of world domination who find themselves working together to forestall another villains schemes so that he won't "win" first. Not really sure how I'd write that though, but I thought it would be an amusing concept. I was trying to imagine which four wicked races I'd use to fill the standard part roles: obviously a Drow Lolth priestess as the cleric/healer; but who else? They need a tanky warrior, an arcane caster, and a rogue.
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