Do you think they will ever release any info on the Lady of Pain, whether it is her background, stats, anything (and I don’t mean in Novel format – I read Pages of Pain, and liked it though). I know that many people don’t want to know as it would spoil the mystery, but for us “spoiler” seekers, it would be interesting to see.
DZC: While I can’t predict what WotC might do, I’ll hazard a guess — nothing. Certainly if it were my choice that’s the way it would be. The point about the Lady of Pain is that she isn’t really anything (except maybe an convenient embodiment of DM law) which lets her be anything. The minute something gets quantified, it loses it’s “reality” and becomes nothing but a game mechanic. (Think about it — you treat a character in a novel as real in part because of what you don’t know about it, but a character in a game is often nothing more than a collection of numbers and powers that highlights it’s artificiality and assumes more importance than the characterization in the setting.) This is a case where less IS more. Plus, some bright boy will instantly find away to abuse the mechanics.