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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lukelightning" data-source="post: 3792008" data-attributes="member: 9745">In a world of elves and dwarves and gnomes and halflings and orcs and goblins and bugbears and troglodytes, why do we have to have all these monsters that are "part animal, part human? Humans are only a fraction of the intelligent races.Sure, there are a few non-human hybrid creatures out there, e.g. drider, but in every case these monsters are somehow related to the humanoid race, either physically or ideologically (like some sort of evil orc demon thing).  So why a human head for the manticore, and not an elf or dwarf or orc head? Why would a marilith have a human woman's body as opposed to an orc woman's? What's so special about humans? Wouldn't it be cooler to have a manticore with the head of a hobgoblin? Or a male dwarf-ish medusa, with a beard of snakes?</blockquote>