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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Orange" data-source="post: 8958374" data-attributes="member: 7025997">It was a gag about the weirdness of it--taking a dead guy's teeth, knocking out your own, and putting the dead guy's teeth in their place for magic powers is kind of gross (of course, so are the more famous hand and eye). Something you didn't see as much later on. And, you know...who's to say the fantasy world can't be gross? The real world often is. Rot grubs and ear seekers...well, parasites are real. Even parasites have parasites. It helped give the book that kind of forbidden air heavy metal had for cooler kids (not that heavy metal fans didn't play D&amp;D...I'm told it was almost expected in some places).The monk bit was a joke about the absurdly specific rules--the ability worked depending on height, and it increased by 2 inches a level, so if you wanted to know if your open hand attack worked you had to know if your bugbear was 8'2&quot; or 8'4&quot;. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue Orange, post: 8958374, member: 7025997"] It was a gag about the weirdness of it--taking a dead guy's teeth, knocking out your own, and putting the dead guy's teeth in their place for magic powers is kind of gross (of course, so are the more famous hand and eye). Something you didn't see as much later on. And, you know...who's to say the fantasy world can't be gross? The real world often is. Rot grubs and ear seekers...well, parasites are real. Even parasites have parasites. It helped give the book that kind of forbidden air heavy metal had for cooler kids (not that heavy metal fans didn't play D&D...I'm told it was almost expected in some places). The monk bit was a joke about the absurdly specific rules--the ability worked depending on height, and it increased by 2 inches a level, so if you wanted to know if your open hand attack worked you had to know if your bugbear was 8'2" or 8'4". ;) [/QUOTE]

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