| I'm going to give you the GREAT ANSWER: It depends!
I've been on both sides of this, and in both scenarios, its been handled well and done poorly (by me and by other gamers). Almost everyone borrows- as Dali said, "If you're going to steal, why not steal from the best?" (And if you look, you'll notice Dali stole that line.)
While I value originality highly, when it comes to RPGs, the fun is what is key. A completely original critter can be a PAIN to deal with...and I mean not in a good way.
I mean...would you want to play against Luckstealers (just to make something up)- their power is that each makes you reroll each roll and take the worst result, with bonus rerolls forced upon the critter's Cha bonus? Maybe fun at first, it would soon become tiresome if they were the campaign's version of Orcs. |