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What do you wish would be done MORE in urban fantasy?
OZ:
--- Quote ---Now if your looking for a character who does not become "world-class" or even in the top tier of power, I recommend the Assassin's Quest Series. The main character is full-out stunted in his magical development, but he still plays an integral part in the survival of the world
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A very well written series but very dark and depressing. I heard the sequel series lightens up just a tad but I haven't read it.
hamiltond:
Perhaps I should clarify my statement. What I meant was a character who has a "natural" progression, like Harry, who is studying a specific craft and so it would be logical for them to get better a what the do. Not unlike a painter or a athlete who goes from being a #1 draft pick to winning the championship in 2 or 3 yrs and being the league MVP. One of the things that puts me off many characters is the "Path to Godhood" that so many authors in the genre seem to put there characters on ( see Anita Blake). That's also why I mentioned Tavi, because even if he gets his father's and grandfather's furies at the end of the series, and becomes the most powerful cafter in all of Alera that still won't make him any different than every other male on his father's side of his family since as the First Lords of Alera they were ALL the most powerful men of there time. So many authors use "flashy effects" in place of good storytelling nowadays. I don't need my heroes to all be the god of whuppass. Just believable within the context of the world they're in.
Sorryman105:
Wish someone would peruse through the thread and careful and concisley put togther the most comman issues in a bull it point list. I bet you see thats its the same three or four issues, and that how an author resolves those issues are what seperate the Butchers from the Hamiltons.
Kristine:
--- Quote from: hamiltond on February 02, 2008, 07:03:53 PM --- I don't need my heroes to all be the god of whuppass. Just believable within the context of the world they're in.
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In fact I like it better when the characters have to overcome difficulties within the limited talents they have. When gaming I have more fun when the character I'm playing is NOT nigh onto godhood but when things are more challenging. Not to say a character shouldn't grow and learn but he/she most of the time is more fun to watch if they have to manuver around the powerful and their growth is personal.
Or maybe I'm just a sucker for the triumph of the little guy.
Quantus:
Its kind of why I preferred Marvel comics over DC growing up. In DC everyone fell somewhere on the Superman Scale, but but where all near gods in one way or another (or actual god, in a few cases) with some crazy broad spectrum of power. Marvel characters had usually one, but at most a small handful of thematic abilities and the story was about how they utilized them in the given situation. Granted DC had much more varied and interesting origin stories, rather than the Mutant X-factor catch-all, but still...
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