One advantage of the game was that with a virtual army of "Storm Knights," player characters could be fit in to anywhere on the planet. However, this led to a huge "supporting cast" of characters. The initial characters featured in the first trilogy of novels were implied to have great destinies but for the most part slid into obscurity. Individual writers and artists had their own preferred cast of characters they featured in the published supplements, novels, and adventures they worked on. One supplement, the "Character Collection", featured a contest of reader submissions for best characters. The five winners were then incorporated into a subsequent published adventure. The end result was an overly large cast of characters where no one individual or group made an impression or could be identified as the primary identifiable characters of the game.