NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faolyn" data-source="post: 8443202" data-attributes="member: 6915329">So why is it a problem that some yeti docile and some are mean?So, you're OK with creatures having different motivations as long as the text doesn't say that they can have different motivations?Behavior is biological in nature. I say this as someone who is an aspie and takes medicine for psychological issues. When I was little, my parents thought I was an adorably quirky little girl. Then, several decades later I got my diagnosis and discovered that a lot of those adorable quirks were actually entirely typical behaviors for autistic girls. If a monster has a particular mentality--like emerald dragons being lawful and reclusive (and, in 2e at least, paranoid)--then that means that their mentality is also biological in nature.Chimps have a small, child-like frame and are about twice as strong as a human is. There are actual real-world children who are body-builders and can lift a lot, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sandrak" target="_blank">Richard Sandrak</a>.  After all, the average halfling in 5e has Strength 10 (no matter how much you might homebrew them with a penalty, by RAW it's Strength 10), meaning they're exactly as strong as an elf or tiefling and only a wee bit weaker than an average, Strength 11 human. So there's no real reason to assume that one couldn't be stronger. (Plus, halflings could be build like chimps.)So if a creature can have a mentality that's different than the norm, then there's nothing to say that a creature can have a physical ability that's different than the norm either.As for fiends and undead, there's that pesky negative energy and raw evil that tends to alter how they think. If you want to have vampires and liches and the like not be animated by the negative energy plane, and fiends not be created out of damned souls and molded by the pure evil emanations of the lower planes, go ahead.</blockquote>

Verification