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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 3277616" data-attributes="member: 15800">I'm the first to say that I'm not on the same scale as GRRM or Mieville. The Dreaming Dark books are my first novels, and I've learned a LOT from each one. I've also received some very useful criticism and feedback from the boards. Fictionwise, don't expect Song of Ice & Fire from my Eberron books. However, I do know Eberron, and do my best to adhere to the rules of D&D. If you take a scene like Lei fighting the minotaur, I can tell you exactly what infusions she used to accomplish it. With that in mind... No, she doesn't. The scene is on page 4 of The City of Towers. She touches a warforged, concentrates, and destroys him. This has nothing to do with her dragonmark, and glancing at it, I don't see anything indicating that it does. It's stated that "Since she was a child, she had been taught to weave these webs, to create magical artifacts and bring life to the lifeless." This isn't about her dragonmark. A dragonmark is an innate power. This is about her trained skill - in other words, the fact that she is an artificer. Meanwhile, the power used isn't disable construct; it's simply inflict damage. She touches the warforged and inflicts enough damage to destroy him. Inflict Moderate Damage or inflict serious damage are both sufficient to accomplish this task. Actually, she uses it again on page 299-300 of City of Towers, and she also uses it multiple times in The Shattered Land and The Gates of Night.  I can see a possible point of confusion being that she fails to completely destroy the warforged in question when she uses this infusion a second time in CoT. However, this is no different than a mage killing the first-level character with a magic missile and then failing to kill the sixth-level character using magic missile later on. She can inflict a certain amount of damage to warforged by touch. In the first instance this causes destruction; the second warforged has more HP and is merely incapacitated.  This is a misunderstanding, and it's certainly a flaw in my description of the scene. But it's never stated that they are immune. The precise phrase is that "the warforged were largely unaffected by the mental assault." This wasn't intended as a blanket statement about all warforged in the world, but rather a specific statement about the warforged in the room, who were, largely, unaffected. Meaning that they made their saving throws. It is possible for ANY creature to resist mind flayer mind blasts, warforged or not. The second attack against Pierce isn't actually a mind blast; it's a targeted effect against him which would normally cause paralysis. I'd have to refer to the XPH to recall what power I had in mind, but again, Pierce resists it (and warforged ARE immune to paralysis).  But, of course, if the scene is confusing, that is my fault. So, I'm the first to admit that my WRITING has lots of room for improvement, and that's something I'm working on every day. If I could match GRRM on my first novel, I'd be amazed.  But while I admit that the DD trilogy isn't the best fantasy in the world, I certainly try not to "unnecessarily violate a lot of Eberron tenets."</blockquote>

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