<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">less freedom of perspective</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>I think that's the point!  Limiting things to 'I' focuses your attention on your character and seeing the world from where they stand, which isn't a bad thing, just maybe different.  Similarly, on the separation between player-and-character front, I don't think that like, KA Applegate ever had trouble distinguishing between herself and the Animorphs, or Anthony Burgess ever really thought of himself as Alex (God, I hope not.)<br/><br/>Anyway, I'm glad I polled before I wrote the opening post!  I'm tempted to stick with present tense, at least; it carries a sense of immediacy that third person doesn't, I think.  We'll see how it goes.