I created a new Energy / Energy Blaster on the Virtue server in the City of Heroes MMORPG last Thursday night. I needed a new name and chose Greyswandir. After one night, I'm surprised at how many people sent tells to me along the lines of "I loved those books" or "Amber rocks". And then for the biggest pleasant surprise of all. I got a tell from a guy who complemented me on my nickname and we commiserated about our love for Roger Zelazny's work. Then, as I was typing my reply, I received this (which was almost identically what I was in the process of typing): "If you like Roger Zelazny, you'll love Stephen Brust". I nearly fell out of my chair. We nittered on for awhile about the congruence of Dragaera and characters in CoH. I told him one of my first characters way back when was a Tazendra character; Scrapper with a Broadsword. We wondered what sort of character Morrolan would be in CoH (I was torn between Controller and Blaster, depending on which attributes you wanted to emphasize). Aliera could be anything, but would have to have Hover. And so on. It was fun conjecture. -- johne cook | johne.cook at gmail.com | http://www.phywriter.com |