The future is wild

[Knight Otu]

I have it on video, and I've really tempted to stat out a few of the animals shown there in DnD terms.


Is it just me or would those "climber squids" (squibbons?) be Aberrations if they are intelligent? (I mean, even Monstrous Humanoid would be quite a stretch...)

 

[Ferret]

Megasquid aren't too bad. But the squibbons rule.

Oh yeah abberation

Whoo!

 

[D.Shaffer]

I have it on video, and I've really tempted to stat out a few of the animals shown there in DnD terms.


Is it just me or would those "climber squids" (squibbons?) be Aberrations if they are intelligent? (I mean, even Monstrous Humanoid would be quite a stretch...)

I'd think they'd still be animals. Really smart animals, but still animals, like Dolphins and Apes.

 

[Knight Otu]

I'd think they'd still be animals. Really smart animals, but still animals, like Dolphins and Apes.

As shown in TFIW, yes they would be animals on par with dolphins and apes. My idea was more - if these "squibbons" somehow attained human-like intelligence, wouldn't they be closer to Aberration than to any other creature type?

 

[demiurge1138]

I'd say a sentient squibbon is an aberration. After all, I think it only fitting that squibbons are to mind flayers as apes are to humans. And mind flayers are aberrations.

Demiurge out.

 

[Ferret]

But apes are animals.

 

[Knight Otu]

But apes are animals.

That's just what they want you to think.

Hmm... these swampus guys do give me the idea of a mind flayer head, in any case.

 

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

Well, the critters in it do seem like great D&D critters...

But that's part of the problem. Most of them are a bit, TOO unlikely, IMO.

In particular, I'm stunned at their treatment of vertebrates. Vertebrates are treated as an evolutionary dead-end. I fail to understand this. As a group, we're very opportunistic and adaptive.

I think they were more motivated by making critters that fit some concept of "cool" or "outrageous" than by any form of scientific thought. Of course, trying to do that kind of thing scientifically is an exercise in futility, anyway.

 

[Knight Otu]

Well, the critters in it do seem like great D&D critters...

But that's part of the problem. Most of them are a bit, TOO unlikely, IMO.

I can sort of see where you're coming from, especially some of the 200 mio creatures seem quite "far out", but then again, that's more or less the point.
Of couse, I'm still wondering why they chose turtles as the mega-mega beasts (Toradon). They pretend that they explain it, but really don't. The same with the extinction of mammals. They pretty much only say, "We're bad off even now", but say nothing further.
I understand that there is only so much time they have to explain everything, but that's two of the issues I wished they had dwelled upon more.

 

[Ferret]

Quite a few don't seem believeable, some other I can believe but not see how they got there and others seem perfectly normal