07-02-2012, 05:33 PM | #31 | |
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I am also perfectly willing to buy supplements that collect and organize published stats, especially where there is additional material. I don't know if I'm an outlier in that, but it seems like a value to me to have a particular pdf that will contain an environment-appropriate beast, rather than needing to look between Basic Set, Lands Out of Time, DF 5, the Creatures of the Night series, Fantasy, etc. to find and populate an adventure setting. |
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07-02-2012, 05:49 PM | #32 | |
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07-02-2012, 05:53 PM | #33 | |
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If it were one big book, I'd do encounter tables in the back. If it's going to be separate books, the most useful way to split that up is to do it by biome/survival specialties, IMO, so a GM running a game set in the desert can buy one book and be set. Slap on a brief chapter going into depth on the general environmental conditions in biomes of that type, a la SEALs in Vietnam and their descriptions of jungles, and you'd have a VERY handy little supplement. |
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07-02-2012, 05:58 PM | #34 | |
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07-02-2012, 06:54 PM | #35 | |
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07-02-2012, 07:10 PM | #36 |
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You guys do know we have a 4E dinosaur book right?
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07-02-2012, 07:29 PM | #37 | |
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What matters is those abilities that are exotic from our point of view. These tend to be binary. We don't have a spectrum of bird species that fly more or less stealthily. We have owls that fly stealthily and we have non-owls that fly noisily. And so forth. The main use of an official Bestiary as I see it, is that it empowers players in player vs GM debates about what special traits animals should have when they are allies (e.g. familiars) or when PCs shapechange into them. The average GM is likely to think of owls as just being a species of bird, exactly like all other birds in all regards, and will therefore react with hostile scepticism if a player starts talking about how owls have flight characteristics that differ markedly from those of other birds. |
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07-02-2012, 07:30 PM | #38 |
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I want ALL the animals though. Giant sloths!
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07-02-2012, 07:50 PM | #39 | |
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07-02-2012, 08:28 PM | #40 | |
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And that's why you don't need the animals listed by clime. You can get a list somewhere of all arctic animals and, click, it takes me to "polar bear" at the letter "P." |
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