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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 8901898" data-attributes="member: 57383"><p>Those are fine by me. What about you, [USER=6947639]@Casimir Liber[/USER]?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not a rule, more a tendency for 5E monsters to have three odd stats and three even ones.</p><p></p><p>If you scan through the <em>Monster Manual</em> you'd notice most of the beasties are like that, although there are some that break the trend (four odd/two even, vice versa, or whatever).</p><p></p><p>There <strong>is</strong> a rule in 3E (called <strong><a href="https://www.d20srd.org/srd/improvingMonsters.htm#abilityScoreArrays" target="_blank">Ability Score Arrays</a></strong> in Improving Monsters section), but that's (a) hardly relevant for 5E, (b) often observed in the breech (there are plenty of monsters that would have the non-elite or elite arrays that don't have ability scores that match them). That's perfectly rules-legal though, since randomly generated / assigned ability scores are still OK in 3E.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I'd be OK with Amiraspian or Amiraspi, although I should mention that there's already a homebrew conversion of this White Dwarf monster called the Amiraspian Cyclops, so our take on it might get confused with that.</p><p></p><p>That appears on a website whose servers disappeared from the 'net more than a decade ago, although you can still read it on the internet archive (see <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080930084221/http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/index.html" target="_blank">The Frilond Campaign</a></strong>).</p><p></p><p>Shall we go for Amiraspi then?</p><p></p><p>Alternatively, can we come up with a synonym of "Hypnotic" we all like?</p><p></p><p>The only one I could think of was "Mesmeric" but I think that was rejected as well.</p><p></p><p>Something like "Entrancing" while <em>technically</em> correct give the wrong impression of a creature that's incredibly beautiful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 8901898, member: 57383"] Those are fine by me. What about you, [USER=6947639]@Casimir Liber[/USER]? It's not a rule, more a tendency for 5E monsters to have three odd stats and three even ones. If you scan through the [I]Monster Manual[/I] you'd notice most of the beasties are like that, although there are some that break the trend (four odd/two even, vice versa, or whatever). There [B]is[/B] a rule in 3E (called [b][URL='https://www.d20srd.org/srd/improvingMonsters.htm#abilityScoreArrays']Ability Score Arrays[/URL][/b] in Improving Monsters section), but that's (a) hardly relevant for 5E, (b) often observed in the breech (there are plenty of monsters that would have the non-elite or elite arrays that don't have ability scores that match them). That's perfectly rules-legal though, since randomly generated / assigned ability scores are still OK in 3E. I'd be OK with Amiraspian or Amiraspi, although I should mention that there's already a homebrew conversion of this White Dwarf monster called the Amiraspian Cyclops, so our take on it might get confused with that. That appears on a website whose servers disappeared from the 'net more than a decade ago, although you can still read it on the internet archive (see [b][URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20080930084221/http://home.gwi.net/~rdorman/frilond/index.html']The Frilond Campaign[/URL][/b]). Shall we go for Amiraspi then? Alternatively, can we come up with a synonym of "Hypnotic" we all like? The only one I could think of was "Mesmeric" but I think that was rejected as well. Something like "Entrancing" while [i]technically[/i] correct give the wrong impression of a creature that's incredibly beautiful. [/QUOTE]
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