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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5751963" data-attributes="member: 177">My first thought isn't that the parts don't fit together, but that there are simply too many of them.  It's like a pizza where they've tossed on *all* the toppings they had, so that you don't get to taste any one of them particularly well.  It ends up kinda muddled.There are classic themes in monsters, and variations on those themes can be darned interesting and refreshing.  But if you vary too much, you lose the strength of the theme, and you lose some of the start contrasts you get from being a little more restrained.  So, the vampiric giant is probably more interesting to me than the vampiric giant weredragon evil queen.  But that's just me.</blockquote>