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Originally posted by Cerek:
I have a question for those reading this thread; is this "first person" style better than writing the encounters from my perspective as a player? I know it makes the posts quite a bit longer to read, so I was wondering if it would be better to just summarize what I had the character do for the major enounters instead of going into so much detail? Either way is fine with me, it just seemed more appropriate to post the encounters in this "first-person journal style" since the PC is a bard. Thanks for your input.
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I say first-person is definitely better, it generates much more reader involvement with the story. The only two BG games that I've actually written about are my Naughty Boy story, starring Fenris Melkior and his chums, and one I'm writing right now, with a Female Elven Fighter/Mage named Fellaia Kenai as the protagonist. (It was supposed to be a No-Reloads game, and thus worthy of fanfiction, but the Improved Undead I met on my very first major quest managed to cut that short.)
Fenris Melkior is much funnier to read, but Fellaia Kenai is much more in-depth. Longer, of course, but you learn more about the character. Also, when you write in third person, there's a tendency to just gloss over things: Compare
"We escaped from Jon's Dungeon and spent the night in the Seven Vales" with
"It was not until I was fully awake that I realized that the staff had lined our beds with cheap tablecloths, as a protective layer between our badly bloodstained garments and their best bedlinen. We took the hint, and sent our garb out for a good washing and mending while we laid seige to the Inn's bathing tubs."