D&D General Should the Platypus be a creature created by wizards, and the Capybara be Small Giant Space Hamsters?

[Seramus]

CR only goes up to 30! The system can't handle monsters that powerful.

 

[humble minion]

The platypus is the last vestige of the pure and untainted natural world.

Everything else is a mutated eldritch abomination.

 

[cbwjm]

What I want to know is, what sadistic sorcerer made geese.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

What I want to know is, what sadistic sorcerer made geese.

Bargle...duh!

 

[Umbran]

What I want to know is, what sadistic sorcerer made geese.

No sadistic sorcerer made geese.

Geese are merely a note that Nature is not a kindly force looking to help you. Nature is ornery, and any comfort we take in its benevolence toward us is misplaced egoism on our part.

 

[Charlaquin]

Yes

 

[Charlaquin]

More seriously, I came across a post on… some social media sight, could have been Twitter or Bluesky or Tumblr, I don’t really remember… anyway, it suggested that “owlbears” could actually be giant rodents, with their prominent, enameled front teeth creating the illusion of a beak, and I kind of love the idea.

EDIT: Found the post, it was Tumblr.

Post by @iris-of-the-lambs · 3 images

💬 24 🔁 7832 ❤️ 11576 · Despite its name, the owlbear is in fact neither owl nor bear - it is a large species of rodent whose external incisors resemble a curved "beak." The enamel of these inciso…

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Images for those who don’t want to use the link:

Spoiler

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Also if you look at a platypus' skeleton any notion its a chimaera falls right away. They're just weirdos

This is why you're banned from the zoo.

 

[cbwjm]

No sadistic sorcerer made geese.

Geese are merely a note that Nature is not a kindly force looking to help you. Nature is ornery, and any comfort we take in its benevolence toward us is misplaced egoism on our part.

No no, it was clearly a sorcerer who's magic went awry creating a horrific beast filled with malice.

 

[Seramus]

it suggested that “owlbears” could actually be giant rodents, with their prominent, enameled front teeth creating the illusion of a beak, and I kind of love the idea.

Like... some kind of rodent of unusual size? I don't think they exist.