Holy crap, Lolth is nasty in 4E! 😯
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page – Article (Lolth)
Just as a sample, I give you:
Dominating Rebuke (charm) * At-Will
Trigger: An enemy hits Lolth.
Effect (Immediate Reaction): The triggering enemy is dominated until the end of the enemy’s next turn.
(Any group that missed or ignores the "one immediate action/round" rule is going to die of apoplexy…) 😉
Holy crap, Lolth is nasty! 😯
Dungeons & Dragons Roleplaying Game Official Home Page – Article (Lolth)
Just as a sample, I give you:
Dominating Rebuke (charm) * At-Will
Trigger: An enemy hits Lolth.
Effect (Immediate Reaction): The triggering enemy is dominated until the end of the enemy’s next turn.
So, I’m about to start reading a book.
This, as you may imagine, is not the potential milestone to which the subject header refers. I have, oddly enough, read a few books in my time.
No, it’s the fact that this is an advanced copy of a book, that I’ve been sent because I’ve been asked–for the very first time in my career–to provide one of those little blurbs/cover quotes that you see on the back covers, or first few pages, of various novels. 😮 😎
Obviously, I can’t say what the book is, or who it’s for–but I will say that being asked to do a blurb actually feels really damn good. The idea that enough people may like my work for my recommendation to be worth seeking out… Well, it’s a really nice feeling.
I don’t know if there are any official markers on the road to "making it" as an author, but if there are, this almost has to be one of them, doesn’t it? 😀
So, I’m about to start reading a book.
This, as you may imagine, is not the potential milestone to which the subject header refers. I have, oddly enough, read a few books in my time.
No, it’s the fact that this is an advanced copy of a book, that I’ve been sent because I’ve been asked–for the very first time in my career–to provide one of those little blurbs/cover quotes that you see on the back covers, or first few pages, of various novels. 😮 😎
Obviously, I can’t say what the book is, or who it’s for–but I will say that being asked to do a blurb actually feels really damn good. The idea that enough people may like my work for my recommendation to be worth seeking out… Well, it’s a really nice feeling.
I don’t know if there are any official markers on the road to "making it" as an author, but if there are, this almost has to be one of them, doesn’t it? 😀
My latest Suvudu column, in which I discuss (read: rant and lecture about) the majority of modern "Lovecraftian" fiction, and how/why it’s really anything but.
Even though I’ve been doing this for years, even though I’ve published (or signed to publish) seven novels so far, I still get nervous any time I turn in a novel manuscript to an editor/publisher/whoever for the first time.
Why do I mention this? Guess who just sent the first draft of the current project to his agent. 😮
(Not that I expect her to have any major problems with it. But then, expectation isn’t really the issue here, is it?)
