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<blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 4327302" data-attributes="member: 1106">Chuul, destrachan, choker, off the top of my head.&nbsp; I really don't like them.&nbsp; They're 3E MM creations...anything with a sonic attack or fear attack smacks of &quot;slot A and B need filling, concoct flavour as afterthought&quot;.&nbsp; Not sure if digester is in there (hope it's gone).&nbsp; Thank goodness no more yrthak (or so I remember).I disagree.&nbsp; The flavour seems to be just there as an afterthought in the case of many of the powers, and seems unconvincing.&nbsp; The complaints of many people in terms of having trouble &quot;envisioning&quot; what's actually happening when they're in play, I think, confirms this.Likewise, a lot of the flavour is hodge-podge.&nbsp; Why dragonborn and tieflings crammed into the same world?&nbsp; Because independently they're popular.&nbsp; But together, there is no synergy - they seem like random selections.&nbsp; If dragonborn came alongside lizardfolk and fire newts, and tieflings alongside genasi and aasimar (ala FRCS), then you'd have a theme that makes sense.&nbsp; There isn't, and it doesn't, IMO.&nbsp; This would be okay if it were a single world, but the implied setting affects too much to do that to it with justification, IMO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="rounser, post: 4327302, member: 1106"] Chuul, destrachan, choker, off the top of my head. I really don't like them. They're 3E MM creations...anything with a sonic attack or fear attack smacks of "slot A and B need filling, concoct flavour as afterthought". Not sure if digester is in there (hope it's gone). Thank goodness no more yrthak (or so I remember). I disagree. The flavour seems to be just there as an afterthought in the case of many of the powers, and seems unconvincing. The complaints of many people in terms of having trouble "envisioning" what's actually happening when they're in play, I think, confirms this. Likewise, a lot of the flavour is hodge-podge. Why dragonborn and tieflings crammed into the same world? Because independently they're popular. But together, there is no synergy - they seem like random selections. If dragonborn came alongside lizardfolk and fire newts, and tieflings alongside genasi and aasimar (ala FRCS), then you'd have a theme that makes sense. There isn't, and it doesn't, IMO. This would be okay if it were a single world, but the implied setting affects too much to do that to it with justification, IMO. [/QUOTE]

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