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Books to help RPG player's
Basic:
This book can help you make a truly memorable antagonist
Bullies, Bastards And Bitches: How To Write The Bad Guys Of Fiction
This book can help you get to know your characters more in depth.
What Would Your Character Do?: Personality Quizzes for Analyzing Your Characters.
JustADude:
Not a book, but a very nice website that offers some very clear insights into the world Shadowrunners live in.
I already posted about it HERE, but here's a transcription of the articles I cherry-picked for those that don't want to follow the link:
--- Quote ---"Advice to Writers": An article that has some decent tips on how to portray a compelling bad-guy type, and how disposable minions generally really act when confronted with someone who can obviously slap them silly.
"Street Fighting": An insider view on the real world of high-stakes violence.
"Monkey Dance": How a "normal" person, with no crisis training, tends to respond to an impending conflict.
"Violence Scale": An article about different severities of violence, how the game changes as the stakes rise, and how people handle getting thrown out of their depth.
"Kinds of Violence": The main motivations behind why someone would actually pursue premeditated violence. Several sub-pages with more detail on each.
"Types of Violence": Totally different topic; this page is a rough, front-lines guide to different types of agitated individuals and how to (and how to not) deal with them.
"Best Way To Get Attacked?": Actually an article on several 'no-duh' factors for avoiding physical altercation, and common reasons people don't do them.
"Shadow Dancing": A wonderfully explicit summation of the informal little ways people naturally check situations out. I'm almost totally sure the name is a coincidence.
"High Risk Behavior & When in Rome": All about the different rules of etiquette in different social strata, and what happens if/when you don't shift gears appropriately.
"Alpha Male Behavior": Discourse on how genuine dominant personalities behave, as opposed to people trying to bluster and be self-important. Also more discussions of the realities of street life.
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Basic:
This book help you build some NPC's with more depth also can help you figure out what some of your player character's development might be.
45 Master Characters, Revised Edition: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters
A Writer's Guide to Characterization: Archetypes, Heroic Journeys, and Other Elements of Dynamic Character Development
Neurosis:
Neat, these are helpful to RPG Designers too.
Basic:
Some books for Matrix Hackers and Shadowrun teams giving Idea's how to break in to a place.
Unauthorised Access: Physical Penetration Testing For IT Security Teams
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