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<blockquote data-quote="Manbearcat" data-source="post: 6310142" data-attributes="member: 6696971">Because the largest terrestrial arthropod understood to be possible in an earth environment (atmosphere and gravity) is roughly the size of a chicken (Coconut Crab) due to the evolutionary constraints of exoskeleton, respiration, and molting.Gigantic scorpions, spiders, umber hulks (I think they have exoskeletons), the Tarrasque, etc are miles and miles from the realm of possible given the physical constraints on terrestrial organisms in anything remotely resembling an earth-like environment. They would die of suffocation, they would be incapable of movement and would immediately collapse (I mean smooshed flat) under the weight requirements of their own exoskeleton, and the molting process would be so long and involved that their vulnerability to other predators would win them a Guiness Book Darwin Award.&nbsp;Given all the other inherent absurdities in D&amp;D, the idea that something like limited-use Feystep (especially given that we have Drow societies with at-will levitation that don't illicit the same incredulity) strains fantasy world credulity is absurd.&nbsp; Like I said, when I read it in the other thread it just came off as another case of edition war curve fitting against 4e.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Manbearcat, post: 6310142, member: 6696971"] Because the largest terrestrial arthropod understood to be possible in an earth environment (atmosphere and gravity) is roughly the size of a chicken (Coconut Crab) due to the evolutionary constraints of exoskeleton, respiration, and molting. Gigantic scorpions, spiders, umber hulks (I think they have exoskeletons), the Tarrasque, etc are miles and miles from the realm of possible given the physical constraints on terrestrial organisms in anything remotely resembling an earth-like environment. They would die of suffocation, they would be incapable of movement and would immediately collapse (I mean smooshed flat) under the weight requirements of their own exoskeleton, and the molting process would be so long and involved that their vulnerability to other predators would win them a Guiness Book Darwin Award. Given all the other inherent absurdities in D&D, the idea that something like limited-use Feystep (especially given that we have Drow societies with [U][I]at-will levitation[/I][/U] that don't illicit the same incredulity) strains fantasy world credulity is absurd. Like I said, when I read it in the other thread it just came off as another case of edition war curve fitting against 4e. [/QUOTE]

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