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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7653815" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Meh. In D&D taxonomy, as in real world biology, there are "lumpers" and "splitters". I'm a lumper, and I look at it from a much simpler POV. Barghests and Canomorphs are fiendish hounds that can take (evil) humanoid form. Or, (evil) humanoids that can take the form of some sort of fiendish hound. Good enough for me! Good enough for Echohawk? Probably not, as it is unlikely any other D&D book even mentions the canomorphs outside the 3E Fiend Folio, much less ties them to barghests. Pretty sure my younger, nerdy, OCD self decided that barghests are a part of the canomorph family because "<em>it just makes sense</em>" and then mis-remembered it as official, when it was really just me.</p><p></p><p>But why mention canoloths? The only similarity is part of the name "cano" which riffs of canis and simply refers to a dog or hound-like creature.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 7653815, member: 18182"] Meh. In D&D taxonomy, as in real world biology, there are "lumpers" and "splitters". I'm a lumper, and I look at it from a much simpler POV. Barghests and Canomorphs are fiendish hounds that can take (evil) humanoid form. Or, (evil) humanoids that can take the form of some sort of fiendish hound. Good enough for me! Good enough for Echohawk? Probably not, as it is unlikely any other D&D book even mentions the canomorphs outside the 3E Fiend Folio, much less ties them to barghests. Pretty sure my younger, nerdy, OCD self decided that barghests are a part of the canomorph family because "[I]it just makes sense[/I]" and then mis-remembered it as official, when it was really just me. But why mention canoloths? The only similarity is part of the name "cano" which riffs of canis and simply refers to a dog or hound-like creature. [/QUOTE]
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