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<blockquote data-quote="Bohandas" data-source="post: 8814642" data-attributes="member: 7015707">The problem with the Buer-derived monster is that it's described as moving exactly the way you'd imagine it would. The thing is that that design could work, if the legs hung under the head like a spider or a squid, it would look sillier but make more sense. But no, the flavor text describes it as actually cartwheeling.It also shares the halflings' problem of (in other ways) not staying true to the source material while at the same time being clearly derived from a very specific and idiosyncratic source. As well as the fact that the deviation it makes is not particularly interesting or well thought out.Admittedly my spider legs idea would also be a deviation from the source material, but at least it has some though behind it. The Tome of Magic took the names, physical descriptions, and symbols from the Ars Goetia/Pseudomonarchia/Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis but replaced everything else in a very arbitrary way.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bohandas, post: 8814642, member: 7015707"] The problem with the Buer-derived monster is that it's described as moving exactly the way you'd imagine it would. The thing is that that design [i]could[/i] work, if the legs hung under the head like a spider or a squid, it would look sillier but make more sense. But no, the flavor text describes it as actually cartwheeling. It also shares the halflings' problem of (in other ways) not staying true to the source material while at the same time being clearly derived from a very specific and idiosyncratic source. As well as the fact that the deviation it makes is not particularly interesting or well thought out. Admittedly my spider legs idea would also be a deviation from the source material, but at least it has some though behind it. The Tome of Magic took the names, physical descriptions, and symbols from the [i]Ars Goetia[/i]/[i]Pseudomonarchia[/i]/[i]Lemegeton Clavicula Salomonis[/i] but replaced everything else in a very arbitrary way. [/QUOTE]

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