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<blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8574838" data-attributes="member: 7023887">I didn't really call for the removal of the weirdest stuff, more just predicted that they wouldn't be included to make way for the more iconic/important creatures in Spelljammer. There's not enough room in a single Spelljammer book to include all of its weird monsters, so including just the most popular/iconic ones is a no-brainer. If it comes down to including a Giant Space Hamster stat block or a <a href="https://spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Syllix" target="_blank">weird humanoid lizard with boneless fingers</a>, I have no doubt that the better choice would be to include the Giant Space Hamster.I'm not asking for the mostly-unknown weirdest stuff to be removed, I just don't think it's necessary to get the theme of Spelljammer across and that including the more iconic monsters would take precedence over including the weirdest ones.So, I absolutely want Wizards of the Coast to include as many bizarre, old Spelljammer monsters as possible in the book's bestiary, but I would also prefer that time and effort went to translating the most iconic creatures from the setting before they did the random bizarro ones that no one knows about.I don't know if we watched different shows or something, but the Doctor Who that I remember watching got pretty freaking weird. I have some distinct memories of a living girl's face melded into a slab of concrete, an antagonist that was human skin stretched out like tanning leather, a crazy omnisexual immortal companion that eventually became a giant tentacled head in a jar, the moon hatching into a giant space dragon, and David Tennant getting shrunk down into a wrinkly, undead-looking Doctor baby after being zapped with a laser pointer.I mean . . . maybe we have different definitions of &quot;weird&quot;, but IMO, all of that easily makes the show very weird.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Levistus's_Leviathan, post: 8574838, member: 7023887"] I didn't really call for the removal of the weirdest stuff, more just predicted that they wouldn't be included to make way for the more iconic/important creatures in Spelljammer. There's not enough room in a single Spelljammer book to include all of its weird monsters, so including just the most popular/iconic ones is a no-brainer. If it comes down to including a Giant Space Hamster stat block or a [URL='https://spelljammer.fandom.com/wiki/Syllix']weird humanoid lizard with boneless fingers[/URL], I have no doubt that the better choice would be to include the Giant Space Hamster. I'm not asking for the mostly-unknown weirdest stuff to be removed, I just don't think it's necessary to get the theme of Spelljammer across and that including the more iconic monsters would take precedence over including the weirdest ones. So, I absolutely want Wizards of the Coast to include as many bizarre, old Spelljammer monsters as possible in the book's bestiary, but I would also prefer that time and effort went to translating the most iconic creatures from the setting before they did the random bizarro ones that no one knows about. I don't know if we watched different shows or something, but the Doctor Who that I remember watching got pretty freaking weird. I have some distinct memories of a [I]living[/I] girl's face melded into a slab of concrete, an antagonist that was human skin stretched out like tanning leather, a crazy omnisexual immortal companion that eventually became a giant tentacled head in a jar, the moon hatching into a giant space dragon, and David Tennant getting shrunk down into a wrinkly, undead-looking Doctor baby after being zapped with a laser pointer. I mean . . . maybe we have different definitions of "weird", but IMO, all of that easily makes the show very weird. [/QUOTE]

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