I've made no secret of the fact that the d20 System – that is, the game engine upon which Dungeons & Dragons 3.0 and 3.5, Pathfinder 1E, d20 Modern, and several other tabletop role-playing games are designed around – is the "architecture" upon which Lateral Movement is built. In other words, that the d20 System's game rules are the physics on which the world(s) of the story function.
Spoiler alert for Chapter 625 - Ashes and Dust.
Spoiler alert for chapter 500 - Without Peer.
Spoiler alert for chapter 438 - Natural Talent.
With the missing members of the Mane Six having returned to Equestria, and finding themselves embroiled in a battle shortly after returning home, it seems like a good time to put the spotlight on what they can do. After all, Everglow is a tough world, and adventuring there means that characters will be forced to grow in power if they want to survive. To that end, let's take a look at the most martial member of the team:
When I started writing Lateral Movement and posting its chapters on this site, I decided that the attendant blog would only be used for story-related matters. That is, every blog post here would be about something related to that story (or, if I should ever write and post other stories here, about those). To date, that's been the case.
Spoiler alert for chapter 396 - Harrowing Ordeal through chapter 398 - Dark Illumination.
Note that this blog post will reference events through chapter 346 – Curses Foiled.
In the course of Lateral Movement, one of the powers that Lex Legis makes liberal use of is his ability to lay curses on other people. A product of his dark magic, he primarily utilizes this as a method of dispensing justice to those who've worked against the common good, though he's not above deploying it as a weapon in a combat situation or other dangerous scenario. As Lateral Movement is closely predicated on the d20 System role-playing game rules, we're going to examine the
Spoiler alert for chapter 245 - Army of One and chapter 246 - Fatal Flaw.
Spoiler alert for chapter 241 - Full Potential and chapter 242 - Breaking Point.
Note that this blog post will reference events through chapter 212 - Fixing What's Broken.
So while I was watching "Fame and Misfortune," – the most recent episode of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic as of the time of this writing – I noticed that one of the minor characters was a reporter from Canterlot. More specifically, he said that he was a reporter for the "Canterlot Chronicle."
Just to be absolutely clear, this will contain spoilers for the chapter mentioned in this blog post's title.
I've been quite forward about the fact that many of the characters in Lateral Movement, particularly Lex and Sonata, have their powers and abilities represented via RPG stats under the d20 System, the game engine upon which Dungeons & Dragons Third Edition and Pathfinder, are built.
Lateral Movement is, in simplest terms, the story of Lex Legis, my original character. However, if you've read the previous entry in these design diaries, you'll know that the character actually predates the story by over a year; even his first appearance in David Silver's A Dangerous Sparkle came over eight months after his first write-up
If you're a reader of my story Lateral Movement, you might have noticed a comment I made a little while back wherein I confessed that I wasn't utilizing Sonata very much, in terms of her making use of her powers and abilities to their fullest extent. Moreover, I let it slip that the reason for that was because I wasn't sure of what her game stats should be.
"The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children." –Benjamin Disraeli
Despite the wisdom of the above quote, I wanted to write about the events that led to my writing this story in general, and the conception and evolution of its main character, Lex Legis, in particular. It's my hope that this will serve as an interesting peek behind the metaphorical curtain for fans of this story.
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