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<blockquote data-quote="Richards" data-source="post: 2172589" data-attributes="member: 508"><p>...And that's it, as originally written.</p><p></p><p>I just want to point out a couple of things here, lest my motives be misconstrued. While I greatly prefer the "fiction and footnote" format of the "Ecology" articles to their current format, I'm well aware that not everyone shares my opinion. Although I find the current "Ecology" format to be a bit of dry reading, even I admit that the current format has several advantages over the previous one. It's easier to find specific information about the creature in question when you don't have to read through a bunch of fiction to find it, and I <em>really</em> like the introduction of the "DC Knowledge Check" charts in the recent "Ecology" articles, which allow you to determine what a given character might know about the specific creature. Likewise, my posting of my version of the "Ecology of the Chuul" is in no way an attempt to take away from Mike Mearls' recently-published version; I think he did a great job in the new format, and his "origin" of the chuul - while ignoring what to me seems an obvious close ancestry with the garbug (again, something he probably wasn't allowed to touch on, given that the garbug's existence in the current D&D world is questionable since the 3.0/3.5 "reboot") - fits in nicely with the information in the new <em>Lords of Madness</em> book from Wizards of the Coast.</p><p></p><p>Johnathan</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Richards, post: 2172589, member: 508"] ...And that's it, as originally written. I just want to point out a couple of things here, lest my motives be misconstrued. While I greatly prefer the "fiction and footnote" format of the "Ecology" articles to their current format, I'm well aware that not everyone shares my opinion. Although I find the current "Ecology" format to be a bit of dry reading, even I admit that the current format has several advantages over the previous one. It's easier to find specific information about the creature in question when you don't have to read through a bunch of fiction to find it, and I [i]really[/i] like the introduction of the "DC Knowledge Check" charts in the recent "Ecology" articles, which allow you to determine what a given character might know about the specific creature. Likewise, my posting of my version of the "Ecology of the Chuul" is in no way an attempt to take away from Mike Mearls' recently-published version; I think he did a great job in the new format, and his "origin" of the chuul - while ignoring what to me seems an obvious close ancestry with the garbug (again, something he probably wasn't allowed to touch on, given that the garbug's existence in the current D&D world is questionable since the 3.0/3.5 "reboot") - fits in nicely with the information in the new [i]Lords of Madness[/i] book from Wizards of the Coast. Johnathan [/QUOTE]
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