[Fantasy] On the Origin of Magical Species: A Wizard Did It

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Emerikol

I generally agree on this but I don't have an issue with a few monsters created by unnatural means. I just think the vast majority came about naturally.

Bringing crazy wizards into a setting solely for the purpose of creating magical beasties is probably a mistake.

On the wand-hand, if you're going to have crazy wizards anyway forbidding them from creating magical beasties (and especially pointlessly weird things like owlbears) is probably a different mistake.