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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lackhand" data-source="post: 4032352" data-attributes="member: 36160">You have two points here, one of which I violently disagree with, and one of which I am completely in agreement here. Or possibly I'm just seeing double and schizoid <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I believe that one should play a game according to the rules of the game. Make Stuff Up does suck as a rule (as a rule), but if the way a vast majority plays is to make stuff up, or the alternative sucks even worse, then one is probably better off making the official version make stuff up (with guidelines) and making the alternative being stricter and stricter guidelines. This is because otherwise (if nobody follows the rule) why write it down, why pay for it?On the other hand, you also feel that they're not providing enough guidelines. I wouldn't know; I don't feel like I have enough data. I mean, they're providing 300 examples of 'valid' monsters; that should be pretty helpful, beyond whatever actual monster-design guidelines which are supplied. But I see where you're coming from here, at least  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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