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<blockquote data-quote="Sylvaroth" data-source="post: 1747571" data-attributes="member: 20295"><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><a href="http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=238074&page=1&pp=10" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="color: Blue">Arhra's Compilation Method of Monster Creation</span></strong></p><p></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px">Each person replies and posts a single idea for a monster (numbering the ideas for purposes ). This can be anything from number of limbs to mental characteristics to special attacks or personality traits, and so on. In my opinion thinking in purely game terms limits creativity. So you may not refer to in game statistics, </span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: Red"><p style="text-align: center"><strong>!!!NO REFERENCES TO GAME STATISTICS!!!</strong></p><p></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px">e.g. saying "it has a Strength score of 22" is not acceptable but saying "it is very strong" is. Keep these concepts relatively vague as they have to work together. After 20 ideas have been put in, everyone then votes off up to 4 abilities (to sort out ideas that seem not to fit in the concept) and then the thread starter will create a monster including all of accepted ideas. Feel free to suggest stuff for how these 20 concepts will work together or speculate while the monster is under construction (names in particular are difficult). Then the thread starter will post up the monster. Rinse and repeat if desired.</span></span></p><p></p><p></p><p>I actually like this concept and would like to do similar for the creatures of Nénvelya.</p><p></p><p>So I'll start with:</p><p></p><p>1. It is an aquatic looking creature</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sylvaroth, post: 1747571, member: 20295"] [FONT=Times New Roman][URL=http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?t=238074&page=1&pp=10][SIZE=6][CENTER][B][COLOR=Blue]Arhra's Compilation Method of Monster Creation[/COLOR][/B][/CENTER][/SIZE][/URL] [SIZE=3]Each person replies and posts a single idea for a monster (numbering the ideas for purposes ). This can be anything from number of limbs to mental characteristics to special attacks or personality traits, and so on. In my opinion thinking in purely game terms limits creativity. So you may not refer to in game statistics, [/SIZE] [SIZE=5][COLOR=Red][CENTER][B]!!!NO REFERENCES TO GAME STATISTICS!!![/B][/CENTER][/COLOR][/SIZE] [SIZE=3]e.g. saying "it has a Strength score of 22" is not acceptable but saying "it is very strong" is. Keep these concepts relatively vague as they have to work together. After 20 ideas have been put in, everyone then votes off up to 4 abilities (to sort out ideas that seem not to fit in the concept) and then the thread starter will create a monster including all of accepted ideas. Feel free to suggest stuff for how these 20 concepts will work together or speculate while the monster is under construction (names in particular are difficult). Then the thread starter will post up the monster. Rinse and repeat if desired.[/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][/SIZE] I actually like this concept and would like to do similar for the creatures of Nénvelya. So I'll start with: 1. It is an aquatic looking creature [/QUOTE]
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