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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Leif" data-source="post: 3588346" data-attributes="member: 48762">Okay, Mr. Heard, I guess that I should elucidate my reaction to the characters that you have presented.  Ordinarily, I wouldn't bother, but you seem to have (for some reason) a genuine interest in our game.  Your characters presented here are quite complex and well thought out.  However, they each are about 250% more quirky and peculiar than we are looking for.  We seek to have an ENSEMBLE CAST of characters, and your proposals hog entirely too much of the spotlight.  We are not prepared to devote a significant amount of our total DM time to explaining why one particular oddity of one character does not immediately disqualify him for service as a constable in Lauralie Summerhome.  Each of the characters you have presented has several of these oddities.  So, you can hopefully see that we, as conscientious DMs, can't afford to spend 75-85% of our time working with one player to overcome the difficulties that he INTENTIONALLY wrote into his character.  To do that is to be totally unfair to every other player in the game.  And I have not even touched yet on the irrevocable damage that would be done to our story!  We do have our own ideas about this world, you know, and while we do seek players that will collaborate with us to make the story even greater, we are not willing to allow the story to be totally hijacked by ONE character.  That's just the way I see it.</blockquote>

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