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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jasin" data-source="post: 2926163" data-attributes="member: 7531">Well, there will still be some monsters that will be plain silly (to some people, since that is really an issue of taste).But yes, labels can make all the difference. In my current game, I took a dire wolf and gave it the alzabo's (from Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Sun) ability to mimic voices and memories of those it has devoured (which, even if it can be a strategically useful ability, didn't change the encounter one bit) and called it an alzabo, and it was the creepiest dire wolf ever. Last session, I took a displacer beast and put it at the side of a wizard who was into surgery and grafting and experimenting on living things. Instead of saying it's a displacer beast, I just described it as a huge cat with tentacles, and even though everyone knows about displacer beasts, it got labeled "catopussy" and after the wizard was dead, there was a serious discussion among the PCs whether it's an abomination that should be wiped out or just a poor animal that's suffered enough that should be left in peace.</blockquote>