Thanks!
First, thanks everyone for the kind words. I wanted to answer some of these comments, but there are so many that I figured it would be easier to do one post, than ten individual ones. Here goes:
> Some great characters in there. I even adapted some of
> them as Secret IDs for super heroes.
Some of them started out that way. Stacy Summers, as well as Matt and Shanna Armbruster were secret IDs for superheroes in our own game. I think there were a couple of others.
> I've used several of these normals as recurring NPCs:
> Kent Elfberg & Debbie
Kent was based on a real guy (in my game crew for many years), better known to some folks as "Elf", the moderator of Usenet's infamous alt.sex newsgroup for quite some time.
> BTW, just who's idea was the cute markswoman hillbilly cop-chick?
> She and her rather more loused-up partner were two of the best
> characters in the entire book.
Patty Garret was mine, Veronica Halstead (her-loused up partner) was Patrick's. We knew we wanted to do a pair, so we split the job and each did one.
> I will add, what i really appreciated about the book aisde from
> all the great characters was how so many of them had subplots
> going on that involved several other characters as well.
The goal was that you should be able to link the vast majority of them together in one long chain, to be able to introduce all of them logically in your game as the story went along. So Brad was the case officer for Switch, who was in the same gang as Addie, who grew up with Betsy, etc.. I wanted to make a flowchart for it, but there wasn't a practical way to get it in at the time.
Thanks again everyone,
-Brannon
