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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LegendaryGames" data-source="post: 9754480" data-attributes="member: 6775678">It is indeed. I've talked with the guy there about the project and he's cited in the credits. As for researching monsters of mythology, it's often pretty sketchy when it comes to folklore to find specific details on exactly what a thing looked like, or for different versions of a very similar creature concept to agree on what a thing is or what it should look like. One story might describe it more as a demon, others as a ghost, others as what in game terms would be more of a fey creature, others more like an intelligent animal. Even names of creatures are their own challenge, given that often different names are used for the same creature concept and sometimes the same name is used for different creature concepts depending on where you are (the chemosit, getiet, and nandi are all examples of this just in African Monsters, and there are plenty of examples we've run into in other bestiaries). Making it distinct and different from other existing creatures also plays a role, and sometimes you don't even do a monster because at the end of the day it's really just an ogre or a big snake without much to really distinguish it.For a game book, at a certain point you've done as much digging as you can, and you just have to pick one version and roll with it.</blockquote>