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Posted on 09-29-12, 11:39 am
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Sentient beings are interesting not just because you can talk to them, and fuck them, but also because of their complexity -- just the average size of their token trees, compared to those of a wild beast...

Wild beasts, for the above reasons, aren’t as interesting. So how do you balance that out?

Prefix mobs, obviously.

So instead of just a room full of rats, you'd have a few dire rats thrown in, or infectuous rats, or maybe both at the same time. These prefixes would give the beasties interesting twists to their stats, and maybe special effects when attacking.

For example, an infectuous dog would have a bite attack just like any other, but with an added chance of causing dog transformations. A burning snake would have a chance of igniting any flammable materials around it just by moving.

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Opinions anyone?

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Posted on 09-29-12, 02:58 pm

 

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I like this idea. One of the ways that D&D stays interesting for me is through creature templates like plane-touched and half-golem, a collection of buffs, debuffs and new abilities for creatures that alter their feel substantially. I think we should go for it, or at least experiment with the idea and see how easy it is to implement.
Posted on 09-29-12, 06:32 pm (revision 2)
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Posted by IubdouI like this idea. One of the ways that D&D stays interesting for me is through creature templates like plane-touched and half-golem, a collection of buffs, debuffs and new abilities for creatures that alter their feel substantially. I think we should go for it, or at least experiment with the idea and see how easy it is to implement.


^This. In Exalted you can apply randomized mutation points to generic critters, makeing almost any creature unique.

Poor bastard: "How much?" Lilith: "Twenty metric fuck tons of gold and I'm all yours, hawtstuff~" Poor bastard: "Uh miss, a fuckton isn't an actual unit of measurement." Lilith: "Bullshit, a metric fuckton is 1000 metric assloads. Which, if you actually fucking went to school, you'd know was equal to 32.5 Helluvalots."
Posted on 11-11-12, 06:37 pm
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That'll be all.

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