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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Minigiant" data-source="post: 8012714" data-attributes="member: 63508">Not to derail another thread, I wish to have a discussion of monster type and their minds. Very often we discuss the physical and spirtual differences of different types of monsters. Rarely do we discuss the mental differences of the types of monsters. Do humaniods,and giants think the same? If you take away their alignment, lifespan, and history with other races, would an elf and a pixie process information the same?Well let us see my post that spawned this thought.So if your world has you elves and/gobliniods be fey instead of humaniods,how does that change their minds (other than charm immunity)? Does if warp their logic,morality, and/or culture around any plant, animal, stream, or season that they are tied too? Does it bind their mind around the will of their superiors? D&D rarely goes full on fair folk on you with fey. The dryad entry suggest that powerful fey dominate and punish lesser fey is ways different from regular humaniods. A fate worse that death might be different for a pixie than a halfling.Maybe giants of D&D aren't just big humaniods. The mind of a giant might be similar enough to a humaniod for advanced social interaction between the two types. Internally they might be enough differences to confuse a novice psion probing a stone giant for the combination for a chest. A D&Dism is the Ordning were the giants are ordered in social rank between subtype, within subtype, and withing family. The word "Equal" might be an unfathomable concept to a giant. Someone is better and someone must get more. Maybe a DM might force the players to negotiate down  when speaking to a cloud giant over the possible rewards for a quest. A giant might rather not get what they want than willingly make a deal where an inferior being obviously gets more from it that them."'You DARE ask for more, small one!' the giant roars. Does a 24 hit?"So what are your thoughts?Do the various types of monsters think differently?If so, how do their minds differ?Is my favorite class obvious?</blockquote>

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