D&D General Should D&D feature fearsome critters and other Americana?

[Reynard]

or what?

Or they are or were real.

 

[TravDoc42]

the beast of gluttony and craving, where the hell did the antlers come from even I know they are not from the stories and I am a ocean away.

every continent has a hairy ape-man they seem to be an inevitability of the human mind.

those sound exactly the same as half of European myths so I doubt they are proof of anything.

The antlers thing weird me out too, I'm not sure who decided to add them on. Antlered beasts are cool, but why here?

 

[Cadence]

I liked that that the Pathfinder 1e Bestiaries had creatures from around the world. I think even the Hodag.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The antlers thing weird me out too, I'm not sure who decided to add them on. Antlered beasts are cool, but why here?

If you want a realistic answer, a shaman with a dear skull strapped to their head.

But sometimes the realistic answers are not the best answers.

 

[Mind of tempest]

If you want a realistic answer, a shaman with a dear skull strapped to their head.

But sometimes the realistic answers are not the best answers.

but that has never had anything to do with the stories, it would be like associating pyromaniacs with the dress of firefighters, the local animist is the person trying to keep the damn thing way not become one.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

but that has never had anything to do with the stories, it would be like associating pyromaniacs with the dress of firefighters.

The person who is telling the stories wears the dear skull. Have you ever seen a oral-tradition storyteller in action?

Have you never walked through a forest and been briefly startled by a bleached white animal skull for that matter?

 

[Clint_L]

I like using Americana in my Call of Cthulhu, Fiasco, and Dread games. It doesn't work super well in my D&D; I think it would be distracting. Though that said, Cthulhu-inspired creatures and plots work their way into my campaigns quite often, but they don't feel specifically American.

 

[Mind of tempest]

The person who is telling the stories wears the dear skull. Have you ever seen an aural-tradition storyteller in action?

Have you never walked through a forest and been briefly startled by a bleached white animal skull for that matter?

no never had that problem in a forest

 

[Paul Farquhar]

no never had that problem in a forest

Your loss. Your really need that emotional connection to the natural world to understand where these stories come from.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I like using Americana in my Call of Cthulhu, Fiasco, and Dread games. It doesn't work super well in my D&D; I think it would be distracting. Though that said, Cthulhu-inspired creatures and plots work their way into my campaigns quite often, but they don't feel specifically American.

You could write an English Literature paper on the topic of "Only the United States could have produced H P Lovecraft: Discuss".