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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4752100" data-attributes="member: 8863">It's good to keep bringing it up every now and then though.&nbsp; Helps the noobs who aren't familiar with the problem, and as gaming evolves we get new takes on the problems.Protists in D&amp;D, interesting.&nbsp; I read about a giant protist called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia_sphaerica" target="_blank">Gromia sphaerica</a> recently.&nbsp; They're actually big enough to be seen with the naked eye, and are about the size of a grape.&nbsp; They basically roll around on the ocean floor and get covered with gunk.&nbsp; If the writer had known about them when the article was written (they wouldn't be discovered for another 14 years), I wonder if really BIG versions of them would have been stated up?&nbsp; No matter what kind of weird crap we make up to fill Monster Manuals, evolution always seems to one-up us.&nbsp; <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=";)" />And when they're big enough to consume whole solar systems? <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=";)" />You know, I think I read this book when I was a kid, about the time this issue was published.&nbsp; I'm pretty sure I vaguely remember reading this, and some old neurons I haven't used in about 20 years are starting up again as I think about it.&nbsp; If it is the book I'm remebering, I read a couple of things this guy wrote that I found at the library.&nbsp; The one I really remember was a story about these two people who traveled through time and cloned new body parts when their organs wore out.&nbsp; Because of this, they were a pair of amoral jackasses who did whatever they wanted and ignored the consequenses.&nbsp; I can't remember if the books were any good or not, because a pre-teen generally hasn't had enough world experience to know when something is truely crap. <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="Orius, post: 4752100, member: 8863"] It's good to keep bringing it up every now and then though. Helps the noobs who aren't familiar with the problem, and as gaming evolves we get new takes on the problems. Protists in D&D, interesting. I read about a giant protist called [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia_sphaerica]Gromia sphaerica[/url] recently. They're actually big enough to be seen with the naked eye, and are about the size of a grape. They basically roll around on the ocean floor and get covered with gunk. If the writer had known about them when the article was written (they wouldn't be discovered for another 14 years), I wonder if really BIG versions of them would have been stated up? No matter what kind of weird crap we make up to fill Monster Manuals, evolution always seems to one-up us. ;) And when they're big enough to consume whole solar systems? ;) You know, I think I read this book when I was a kid, about the time this issue was published. I'm pretty sure I vaguely remember reading this, and some old neurons I haven't used in about 20 years are starting up again as I think about it. If it is the book I'm remebering, I read a couple of things this guy wrote that I found at the library. The one I really remember was a story about these two people who traveled through time and cloned new body parts when their organs wore out. Because of this, they were a pair of amoral jackasses who did whatever they wanted and ignored the consequenses. I can't remember if the books were any good or not, because a pre-teen generally hasn't had enough world experience to know when something is truely crap. ;) [/QUOTE]

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