March 06, 2008

Not the Usual Inspiration for a D&D Character

"My preferred D&D character classes were clerics and fighters, neither of which have much connection to my current career."
--Ilya Somin

The tributes to Gary Gygax reminded me: I only ever had one AD&D character, a fighter. Very strong, not much charisma. The one real-life person after whom I patterned this character, more than any other, was...

Sebastian Janikowski

(Not the biographical details -- my guy had been a shipyard worker -- but more of a WWSJD?)

Secondary influences would be every guy who ever wore a full costume into the Black Hole -- at least the personae those guys dreamed of assuming.

Posted by Matt Bruce at March 6, 2008 12:16 PM
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