[quote=@HHShetland]
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That's perfectly fine, but I feel they're somewhat overrepresented, and I've personally never found them too interesting. That's just me, though.

Anyway, because someone else will ask if I don't, will our characters necessarily be on one side of the conflict or the other, or can they be an independent third-party of sorts?
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You can play an independent third-party of course. The only reason I'd ever deny a third-party for being third-party would be if everyone else was a third-party character.