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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Midnight Rider" data-source="post: 104996" data-attributes="member: 1680">1) Fantasy Worlds usually have little to do with modern day biological sciences, so nobody would usually know that it wasn't amulti-celled creature.     2) Over the centuries of human progress, we have taken pigs to court and fined them, and we have also claimed animals have no intelligence at all, and that when a rabid dog attacks, it must have been possessed by demons! So.... whether something is intelligent probably shouldn't accout for where it appears. I mean, look at all the unintelligent posters on ENWorld? We don't rule them out and put them in a different area where no one can find them, do we? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />     3) In some cultures on Earth, tribes have attributed intelligence to furniture, and what if a chair attacks you? Must it be classified as an animtate object? Oh, and why would that be in the Monster Manual? It sounds like a spell to me!     Quite obviously, the designers have no concept of what the heck they are doing when they flippantly classify things according to an artifice of logic which has nothing to do with pleasing gamers and DMs, and making it easier to find what you need to play.     Don't you imagine that people should play science fiction if they want to argue about one celled creatures? After all, Sci-fi is officially classified by the literary intelligentsia as being a sub-classification of the Fantasy Genre, so you wouldn't be straying too far.</blockquote>

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