Mistresselysia
Scribe
... that isn't a bloody lycanthrope.
Yeah, I fell in the trap. When I was writing my first draft, I wanted to just get a bunch of nasties into my novel that were savage, pack-orientated, nomadic and good at tracking, so I stuck in a bunch of lycanthropes and crossed my fingers that something better would crop up (that didn't make me look like I'd just opened my Monster Manual up on a random page).
Problem is, short of opening my Monster Manual up on a random page, I'm not succeeding in creating a bunch of nasties that do what my lycanthrope pack do!
So - to the rub. To Lycanthrope or not to Lycanthrope? That is the question! To continue on with my own interpretation and suffer the slings and arrows of a potentially jaded readership, or to sally bravely forth with my own idea of what a Lycanthrope is?
Also - any good substitutions for Lycanthropes that I might be able to draw on (without potentially attracting a Wizards of the Coast lawsuit?!)? For some reason, I've drawn a blank at this *punches self in the head*.
Yeah, I fell in the trap. When I was writing my first draft, I wanted to just get a bunch of nasties into my novel that were savage, pack-orientated, nomadic and good at tracking, so I stuck in a bunch of lycanthropes and crossed my fingers that something better would crop up (that didn't make me look like I'd just opened my Monster Manual up on a random page).
Problem is, short of opening my Monster Manual up on a random page, I'm not succeeding in creating a bunch of nasties that do what my lycanthrope pack do!
So - to the rub. To Lycanthrope or not to Lycanthrope? That is the question! To continue on with my own interpretation and suffer the slings and arrows of a potentially jaded readership, or to sally bravely forth with my own idea of what a Lycanthrope is?
Also - any good substitutions for Lycanthropes that I might be able to draw on (without potentially attracting a Wizards of the Coast lawsuit?!)? For some reason, I've drawn a blank at this *punches self in the head*.