[AnomanderRakeSoD]

Heeeyyy Guys.

I once saw a list of eriksons characters and esslemonts characters. Can anyone point me out to it because no matter how hard i look, i just can't find it.

Thanks xoxox

[Dadding]

Not sure if this helps.

It doesn't have them organized by which author primarily writes about them, but it will tell you the book they appear in.

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

No I think there was an interview with Steve where he went through some of his characters... Anomander Rake, Quick Ben, Kruppe Cotillion... etc. and then he mentioned Cam's characters... Dassem, Temper Shadowthrone etc. I was just looking for that list or a link to that list.

[worry]

You mean the ones they played as when gaming?

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

yeah exactly that

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

So does no body know which characters each author gamed? xxx

[worry]

I have no idea where a list might be, but from memory I can build my own. And here it is:

ICE: Shadowthrone

SE: Cotillion

[AnomanderRakeSoD]

http://www.reddit.co..._please_ask_me/




I know that your series was loosely based on an RPG that you ran, and I find that fascinating. I've read your essay on the subject (for the lazy), but I had a few questions on the player-character novel-character dynamic.

• how true are the novel-characters that were PCs in your game? Did you adapt them to fit into the series, or are they mostly true to the characters developed by your players?
• Have your players read the series? How do they feel about it?
• Because I'm obscenely curious about this aspect of your novel, is there a list somewhere of which characters were actually PCs? Sometimes I come to a section and can't really imagine it being the central theme of a campaign, yet it is integral to the overall plot.

Anyway, I hope you'll forgive me for being an rpg geek that is probably too interested in this aspect of your books. I am loving them!

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Most of the characters who were originally gamed arrived on the page fully fledged, although what then happens to them depends to some extent on the story being written. We always kept things open in that regard; and many npc's or side characters pushed their way into the novels to flesh themselves out and tell their stories, which was cool, too. It's like we had a massive cast we could call upon as we pleased.

There's a fair mix of game characters and novel characters. I think I've given brief lists in other interviews, but for the main ones: I was Dancer and Cam was Kellanved (though in the game he called himself Dr Wu): I was Anomander and Caladan and Cam was Whiskeyjack, K'azz, Greymane. I was Kruppe and Rallick; Cam was Baruk and Coll. A bunch of guys got in on things later, making up Fiddler's squad in the Bonehunters (barring Corabb and Cuttle). A good friend was Karsa Orlong and went through the hell that was Book One in House of Chains.

As far as I know, the old gamers are fine with their characters appearing in the novels, and most knew how it would turn out since they played it out to some extent. I dedicated books to each of them.