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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MrMyth" data-source="post: 5279613" data-attributes="member: 61155">Well, I think thats part of the issue here. In D&D, you don't fight the Medusa of myth.  You fight a medusa, one of an entire race of such creatures. The very fact that you do get a save to avoid death is already breaking with the simulation of the true curse represented in the myth.  This is sorta along the lines of what I mentioned before - if SoD (or even more extreme effects) was truly just the domain of really mythic, unique, rare creatures... that's one thing. But when it is can be found in a variety of places, or on any spellcaster, is when it feels less appropriate to me.  And again - that's just personal preference. But that's why I can feel that a medusa that turns people to stone over several rounds succeeds just as much at simulating the core concepts of the legend without having to mirror it precisely - because D&D isn't greek myth, and there are differences already in the picture from the beginning.  At the same time, I do understand the desire to have it match your view of the myth as closely as possible. Honestly, everyone probably has a version of each monster that works ideally for them. I just don't think it is as simple a matter of one being a 'true simulation' and the other being a 'purely gamist construct'.  There are a lot more factors that go into it than those two, including pros and cons in both directions - both in terms of roleplaying elements, as well as purely mechanical ones.</blockquote>

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