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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3411315" data-attributes="member: 8158">Well, he's voiced by Don Most--Ralph Malph from Happy Days--another character that was pretty annoying in his day. And of course the show would be pretty boring without him. Just like Firefly needed Jane, Blake's 7 needed Avon, Star Wars needed Han Solo, Dragonlance needed Raistlin, Lost needed Sawyer, and so forth. Every cast needs a self-interested jerk just to serve as a foil for all the selfless jerks running around doing selfless stuff. It also is fun and poignant when in some rare situation the selfish, cowardly outlier does something selfless and brave (whereas with all the other characters, it's just typical behavior so who cares?). Not much point in Eric having a weapon. There's not going to be any killing, after all (in stark contrast to the actual game we know). There's quite a bit of "running away from the action" (it's mostly what the kids do), which makes the shield pretty handy. I think he got as much use out of it as any character did out of their magic items.</blockquote>