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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(contact)" data-source="post: 1097374" data-attributes="member: 41">Hey, thanks for the kind words, Z.  I think that there are any number of authors out there who pretty much smoke this story hour, so maybe your local bookstore just sucks?  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />There is also something to the "D&D story" form that even the best fiction can't replicate:  the shared experience that leads to shared expectations.  When Piscean casts "time stop" you (the reader) cringe, because you already *know* how bad that can be.  Maybe you've had a 17th-level party TPK'ed with that spell, or maybe you just read the description one afternoon and thought, "Wow.  I wonder what *that* baby could do?"Either way, you have an instant and shared connection with the narrative that non-gamers don't, and one that fantasy fiction usually can't create.  If you look at my SH, a huge chunk of it is playing on or against those D&D expectations.  Part of what makes the LoT fun to read (at least in my opinion) is that it is so very D&D.  People scry--> buff--> teleport and "win teh gaem"; assassins can kill people with one shot-- but only if they have 18 seconds to study the bad-guy, etc.So when a novel says that Lucius is staring at Piscean, you think,  "aha, characterization!"  When the LoT says that Lucius is staring at Piscean, you think, "oh, snap!  That Piscean f-cker is about to get taken out!" I'm not sure that either the LoT or my writing in general would stand up on its own without those elements, but maybe someday we'll find out.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Remember that many of these characterizations (particularly PCs) aren't mine, anyway!  Could I write Pris?  I dunno, but thankfully I don't have to.-----In addition, many of these great ideas aren't mine anyway!  The hit squad sent after the Liberators was orignally developed by Incognito (IIRC, I've lost the original emails over time), the He-Man-Heydricus-Haters-Club was an invention of these boards, many of the sub-plots were either sparked or fleshed out by the LoT Plot Thread, etc . . . so, unlike most novels, D&D is a group activity, and that is part of it's appeal for those of us who play.  This Story Hour is fun for the same reasons, IMO.-----For those of you who'd like to see the compiled LoT (or TOEE2, or Risen Goddess, or Great Delve) story hours, you can find them on <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~cklarock/" target="_blank">my D&D site</a>, along with links to my art portfolio, Rule 0 info for our games, etc.Spoiler note:  Because I use this site for my campaign information, some of the entries in the "Campaigns" section are significantly ahead of the LoT Story Hour, and contain massive spoilers.-----And Morte, c'mon back!  Gwendolyn is a new adventurer, remember?  If Dabus was a little to twitterpated by her hazel eyes and the Bytopian sunlight reflecting off her auburn hair, who can blame him?  It'll all work out . . . one way or the other!</blockquote>

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