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<blockquote data-quote="BLACKDIRGE" data-source="post: 3865582" data-attributes="member: 1953">This is just a quick poll for readers of RPG-related fiction. Do you like knowing the nuts and bolts stats of the main characters in the fiction you read? Personally, as a reader, I love them, but as a writer...their kind of a pain in the ass. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Here's the issue from an author's perspective. When writing fiction based around a game like D&amp;D, where things like race, class, feats, skills, etc. so rigidly define a character’s abilities, it can be difficult to shoehorn a character into his stats. Case in point, in the Metamorphosis novels I'm writing for EN Publishing, I have been reluctant to stat up certain characters for fear that it will paint me into a corner, literarily speaking. If I say a character is a 10th-level sorcerer, but then later in the story, I want said character to cast a 6th-level spell, I have a problem. Or, sometimes, a character’s abilities don’t fit into the normal D&amp;D structure at all, like my main character in the novels mentioned above.So, the author’s dilemma gives rise to another question. If you do like stats with your fiction, how close, in your opinion, must the stats be to the character, as described in the fiction?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BLACKDIRGE, post: 3865582, member: 1953"] This is just a quick poll for readers of RPG-related fiction. Do you like knowing the nuts and bolts stats of the main characters in the fiction you read? Personally, as a reader, I love them, but as a writer...their kind of a pain in the ass. :) Here's the issue from an author's perspective. When writing fiction based around a game like D&D, where things like race, class, feats, skills, etc. so rigidly define a character’s abilities, it can be difficult to shoehorn a character into his stats. Case in point, in the Metamorphosis novels I'm writing for EN Publishing, I have been reluctant to stat up certain characters for fear that it will paint me into a corner, literarily speaking. If I say a character is a 10th-level sorcerer, but then later in the story, I want said character to cast a 6th-level spell, I have a problem. Or, sometimes, a character’s abilities don’t fit into the normal D&D structure at all, like my main character in the novels mentioned above. So, the author’s dilemma gives rise to another question. If you do like stats with your fiction, how close, in your opinion, must the stats be to the character, as described in the fiction? [/QUOTE]

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