[Fantasy] Statting medieval humour-meme creatures

Prince Charon · 12-09-2021, 08:49 AM

The illuminated pages of medieval manuscripts have a lot of very strange creatures, mostly in the marginalia, and it occurred to me that there might be games (especially silly ones, but not only those) where having stats for them would be useful.

Examples include murderous rabbits (probably where Monty Python got the idea), dangerous snails, whatever this is, and some things that I can't link to due to being too sexual for this forum (or that aren't, but which I can only find images of on pages that also include human or near-human nudity; there are a few YouTube videos that cover this, but again, the ones that I can find keep having shots that make me reluctant to post them here).

The question of why they exist comes up on occasion; personally, my belief is as noted in the title - the same urge that now has people sharing humorous memes lead to medieval monks, scribes, and so on adding these drawings to the decorative illuminations.

Thoughts?

12-09-2021, 08:49 AM	#1
Prince Charon Join Date: Dec 2012	[Fantasy] Statting medieval humour-meme creatures The illuminated pages of medieval manuscripts have a lot of very strange creatures, mostly in the marginalia, and it occurred to me that there might be games (especially silly ones, but not only those) where having stats for them would be useful. Examples include murderous rabbits (probably where Monty Python got the idea), dangerous snails, whatever this is, and some things that I can't link to due to being too sexual for this forum (or that aren't, but which I can only find images of on pages that also include human or near-human nudity; there are a few YouTube videos that cover this, but again, the ones that I can find keep having shots that make me reluctant to post them here). The question of why they exist comes up on occasion; personally, my belief is as noted in the title - the same urge that now has people sharing humorous memes lead to medieval monks, scribes, and so on adding these drawings to the decorative illuminations. Thoughts? __________________ Warning, I have the Distractible and Imaginative quirks in real life. "The more corrupt a government, the more it legislates." -- Tacitus Five Earths, All in a Row. Updated 12/17/2022: Apocrypha: Bridges out of Time, Part I has been posted.

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