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<blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 891279" data-attributes="member: 1125"><p>Yep The Big Country where anything that isn't venoumous or Toxic just wants to eat you!</p><p></p><p>Oh and the reason people survive in Oz is because 90% of the place is a Desert where noone goes (actually since the drought and fires thats probably more 99% now<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />). Nonetheless having snakes crawl up the toilet cistern and spiders as big as your hand spin a web across your porchway isn't fun (yes seriously the whole porchway!)</p><p></p><p>But back to DnD I've always planned my ecologies with a single Major fantastic predator (say a nesting pair of Griffons) a few minor predators (Lion, Jackals) and lots of prey species who eat the abundant greenery whose productivity is supported by Druids and plant growth. </p><p></p><p>Things like Giants and Dragons are anomalies that only rarely appear (and otherwise spend their time hibernating) - although I might put a few Bronze dragons (for instance) as the major predator</p><p></p><p>Giant insects don't have exoskeletons - they have an internal skeletal structure and external shell. Collosal creatures don't naturally exist imc - they are usually Outsiders and so spirit rather than flesh</p><p></p><p>Also imc Giants have incredibly slow metabolisms and thus on average don't eat much more than mediumsized humanoids .For instance in a single session a 10ft giant will eat twice as much as a human does in a week, however they will then spend the next 5 days digesting that food during which they sleep up to 16 hours a day. A Giant at 20 ft will sleep 2 days in every three having eaten 5 times as much as a human. Any giants over 25 feet end up sleeping for months or even years (basically I asked myself the question of how they sustained themselves and then look at all the literature that talked about Giants being killed in their sleep)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tonguez, post: 891279, member: 1125"] Yep The Big Country where anything that isn't venoumous or Toxic just wants to eat you! Oh and the reason people survive in Oz is because 90% of the place is a Desert where noone goes (actually since the drought and fires thats probably more 99% now:D). Nonetheless having snakes crawl up the toilet cistern and spiders as big as your hand spin a web across your porchway isn't fun (yes seriously the whole porchway!) But back to DnD I've always planned my ecologies with a single Major fantastic predator (say a nesting pair of Griffons) a few minor predators (Lion, Jackals) and lots of prey species who eat the abundant greenery whose productivity is supported by Druids and plant growth. Things like Giants and Dragons are anomalies that only rarely appear (and otherwise spend their time hibernating) - although I might put a few Bronze dragons (for instance) as the major predator Giant insects don't have exoskeletons - they have an internal skeletal structure and external shell. Collosal creatures don't naturally exist imc - they are usually Outsiders and so spirit rather than flesh Also imc Giants have incredibly slow metabolisms and thus on average don't eat much more than mediumsized humanoids .For instance in a single session a 10ft giant will eat twice as much as a human does in a week, however they will then spend the next 5 days digesting that food during which they sleep up to 16 hours a day. A Giant at 20 ft will sleep 2 days in every three having eaten 5 times as much as a human. Any giants over 25 feet end up sleeping for months or even years (basically I asked myself the question of how they sustained themselves and then look at all the literature that talked about Giants being killed in their sleep) [/QUOTE]
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