"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