LT Erin White
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Practical steps for crafting believable serial‑killer villains: create a personality, use named tools like personality tests and the DSM for diagnoses, and give them a fantasy or specific trigger (Ted Bundy targeting women who resembled a rejected fiancée is cited). Reject the McDonald triad as a shortcut, treat poverty, abuse, peer rejection, conduct disorder and opportunity as risk factors not determiners, and use the supplied character‑creation templates and bonus material to pick a starting point.
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