Most of the characters in my games can be described with 7 or so broad abilities at the beginning. I don't think Valensta was an exception to that, even including the confused homeland keywords. You summed her up quite nicely in 6 statements (Maran Gori, Got a triceratops, the admirer, the sister, liked romantic poetry).
She was easily the most complex character in that short block of scenarios as well. Most of the rest could be summed up in fewer.
Cheers,
Ash
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> Ash:
> > > The central observation that lead me to this
> > method
> > > was that every character in every game I've
> played
> > in
> > > or GMed has one or two things they develop to
> the
> > > exclusion of everything else.
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> Trotksy:
> > How strange. That's very much not my experience.
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> What puzzles me is that it isn't my experience of
> gaming with Ashley, either. I've been a player in
> his
> game. I've just been reading back through my initial
> character sheet (drafts 1 to 3). Ash, remember
> Valensta? The Maran Gori with the triceratops called
> Trixie, the bagpipe-playing admirer, the annoying
> little sister, and the taste for romantic poetry?
> The
> one whose character sheet wouldn't fit on one page
> unless we used very small fonts?
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> I see she ended up with two homeand keywords, both
> at
> 15, that must have saved some time playing with
> breakpoints! :)
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