D&D General Should the Platypus be a creature created by wizards, and the Capybara be Small Giant Space Hamsters?

[Paul Farquhar]

The best thing about Radiant Citadel is the dancing capibaras.

 

[Umbran]

No no, it was clearly a sorcerer who's magic went awry creating a horrific beast filled with malice.

It doesn't take a sorcerer to fill something with malice.

Geese are a fine example. Geese are not actually filled with malice. Humans are just so filled with stupidity and entitlement that they can cheese off virtually every other organism they come in contact with.

For pretty much every story of an evil goose, there's a story of a human being oblivious 45 seconds earlier.

 

[Weiley31]

Yes, I agree the Platypus should be a PC race option.

 

[Weiley31]

No sadistic sorcerer made geese.

Geese are merely a note that Nature is not a kindly force looking to help you. Nature is ornery, and any comfort we take in its benevolence toward us is misplaced egoism on our part.

No no, it was clearly a sorcerer who's magic went awry creating a horrific beast filled with malice.

I don't know, a Cobra Chicken does sound like something that would be involved in an Owl Bear creation origin story.

 

[cbwjm]

It doesn't take a sorcerer to fill something with malice.

Geese are a fine example. Geese are not actually filled with malice. Humans are just so filled with stupidity and entitlement that they can cheese off virtually every other organism they come in contact with.

For pretty much every story of an evil goose, there's a story of a human being oblivious 45 seconds earlier.

You're clearly taking this more seriously than I am.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You're clearly taking this more seriously than I am.

He's in the pocket of Big Goose and downplaying the clear sorcerous origin of geese.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Capybaras are their own kind of creature. No one who has encountered a Giant Space Capybara has ever returned to tell the tale.

Are they from the system where there's that planet of Tarrasques, and the Tarrasques are being hunted by some bigger predators?

 

[Bitbrain]

This is related to the idea that Owlbears must somehow be creations of Wizards because they're a combination of different animals. Well we have the Platypus a creature that's a weird combinations of something like a Beaver with a Duck, surely that must be just as magical as an Owlbear.

And if Hamsters are really Miniature Giant Space Hamsters, then wouldn't a Capybara be just a small-sized Giant Space Hamster?

That reminds me, I need to create an ecosystem inspired by the Australian wetlands that is contained within a lunar crater for a Spelljammer campaign I’m working on.

 

[bedir than]

Great Old Platy Warlock Pact of the Goose

 

[Weiley31]

You're clearly taking this more seriously than I am.

He's in the pocket of Big Goose and downplaying the clear sorcerous origin of geese.

I honestly think it goes deeper than that. I truly believe Umbran is actually three geese in a trench coat.