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<blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 1648707" data-attributes="member: 1328">Well, compare the CR of a dire boar or brown bear with that of a aboleth or pyrohydra... Our &quot;monsters&quot; can bleed, and can be killed. They can't cast spells, they can't outthink us.Fortunately, D&amp;D monsters don't seem to need to be very numerous. Most are, naturally, very long-lived, so they don't rely on a high density to find mating partners often enough to stay alive as a species. Unlike, say, wolves.Oh, and by the way, I think that lions, elephants, hyaenas, rhinos and hippopotamii are well worth the challenge of auks, seals, and polar bears.So you have monsters that are too dangerous for the average hunting party to bring down, but rare enough to be merely avoided safely by simply not stepping into its territory. So, civilization spreads around the monster's territory. Sometimes, when people encroach too much, or once every 37 years when it's hydras' mating seasons, a few villages get slaughtered by monsters.Seems reasonnable.You get people who thrive and survived just fine until we arrived and introduced alcohol and candies. *shrug*</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Gez, post: 1648707, member: 1328"] Well, compare the CR of a dire boar or brown bear with that of a aboleth or pyrohydra... Our "monsters" can bleed, and can be killed. They can't cast spells, they can't outthink us. Fortunately, D&D monsters don't seem to need to be very numerous. Most are, naturally, very long-lived, so they don't rely on a high density to find mating partners often enough to stay alive as a species. Unlike, say, wolves. Oh, and by the way, I think that lions, elephants, hyaenas, rhinos and hippopotamii are well worth the challenge of auks, seals, and polar bears. So you have monsters that are too dangerous for the average hunting party to bring down, but rare enough to be merely avoided safely by simply not stepping into its territory. So, civilization spreads [i]around[/i] the monster's territory. Sometimes, when people encroach too much, or once every 37 years when it's hydras' mating seasons, a few villages get slaughtered by monsters. Seems reasonnable. You get people who thrive and survived just fine until we arrived and introduced alcohol and candies. *shrug* [/QUOTE]

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