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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8522466" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Not sure the bunyip was ever really a Dreamtime creature though was it? I always understood Dreamtime as a sort of mythic/allegorical past that was populated with moral fables and explanations of how animals, stars etc came to be and why things were the way they were. The bunyip, as I understood it, had a much more physical presence in the here and now (assuming its entire existence wasn't just an example of the sort of deadpan legpulling that is such a feature of indigenous humour...)</p><p></p><p>I really hope someone knowledgable and respectful does some sort of indigenous Australian D&D sourcebook at some point. I don't the subject has ever been addressed seriously at all, even at the height of the d20 glut, and there's some great material out there. The nargun, the quinkans, the yara-ma-yah-who, the ngayurnangalku etc. Not to mention all the relatively recently extinct megafauna, from megalania to livyatan to thylacaleo, quinkana (yes, named after quinkans) and meiolania.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8522466, member: 5948"] Not sure the bunyip was ever really a Dreamtime creature though was it? I always understood Dreamtime as a sort of mythic/allegorical past that was populated with moral fables and explanations of how animals, stars etc came to be and why things were the way they were. The bunyip, as I understood it, had a much more physical presence in the here and now (assuming its entire existence wasn't just an example of the sort of deadpan legpulling that is such a feature of indigenous humour...) I really hope someone knowledgable and respectful does some sort of indigenous Australian D&D sourcebook at some point. I don't the subject has ever been addressed seriously at all, even at the height of the d20 glut, and there's some great material out there. The nargun, the quinkans, the yara-ma-yah-who, the ngayurnangalku[B] [/B]etc. Not to mention all the relatively recently extinct megafauna, from megalania to livyatan to thylacaleo, quinkana (yes, named after quinkans) and meiolania. [/QUOTE]
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