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<blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 9607002" data-attributes="member: 11760">The stiff legs on the harpy ruin it for me, although I get what I think Busch is going for.A great example of how just slapping names from myth on spots on the Great Wheel ends up making kind of a mess of things. Cosmology has loosened up more over time, but the Nine Realms, Olympus, etc. should all work like they do in myth by default if those names are going to be used, and have the default planar structure be laid lightly atop them, rather than having the Great Wheel (or any in-house planar structure) be the &quot;real&quot; answer that mythic worlds have to be deformed to fit into.The whole &quot;LOL, here's a class you can't play&quot; thing in early Dragon magazine was so weird. Just make them monsters or NPCs if you don't want people to play them, or just admit up front that, yes, people are going to be playing anti-paladins, witches and incantrixes. (And maybe put those in Unearthed Arcana as well.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Whizbang Dustyboots, post: 9607002, member: 11760"] The stiff legs on the harpy ruin it for me, although I get what I think Busch is going for. A great example of how just slapping names from myth on spots on the Great Wheel ends up making kind of a mess of things. Cosmology has loosened up more over time, but the Nine Realms, Olympus, etc. should all work like they do in myth by default if those names are going to be used, and have the default planar structure be laid lightly atop them, rather than having the Great Wheel (or any in-house planar structure) be the "real" answer that mythic worlds have to be deformed to fit into. The whole "LOL, here's a class you can't play" thing in early Dragon magazine was so weird. Just make them monsters or NPCs if you don't want people to play them, or just admit up front that, yes, people are going to be playing anti-paladins, witches and incantrixes. (And maybe put those in Unearthed Arcana as well.) [/QUOTE]

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