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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 5046232" data-attributes="member: 3400">There's plenty of room for balance in all of this. Let the relatively normal(ish) creatures be less fantastic and the less normal be less mundane and I'd be happy with it. I like a certain amount of mundane-ness in my D&D. It helps the really fantastic stand out. And it helps me to figure out what sort of effect some of these creatures would have on the world around them. Would a flight of hippogriffs living in the area be acting as a top predators? What sorts of signs would they leave? Would they be territorial? How would one act if suddenly encountered and would it be different if it were a male in mating season compared to a female? If it's pushed to just being all fantastic, whatever I want it to be in an arbitrary way, then my players can't really predict what they'll be like unless I pretty much explicitly tell them. But describe a creature acting in a pattern familiar to them from many years of absorbing National Geographic, Animal Planet, or shows featuring Marlin Perkins and you get to see them making connections wonderful to see.</blockquote>