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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Quasqueton" data-source="post: 2312899" data-attributes="member: 3854">From Erik Mona's blog:Is this possible? Is it possible to intentionally design a creature to be cool to the masses? Or does it just evolve? This reminds me of something I read way back right after The Phantom Menace hit theaters. Aura Singh (sp?) (a character seen only in a brief moment of the film, unrelated to the action) was billed as "the next Boba Fett" -- a character the masses thought was really cool in a badass kind of way.I argued that you can't make "the next Boba Fett" intentionally. Just like Jar Jar Binks was intended to be "the next Chewbacca", but turned out to be almost universally hated. Well-loved characters rarely can be directly created as such. They kind of evolve.Does the long-term coolness of a monster (back to D&D, now) come from the MM (or MMII or FF) entry? Or does it come from later expansions on the base text? Is the long-lasting coolness of githyanki (or any other creature you care to posit) come from their first exposure in the original FF? Or did it come from what someone did beyond that entry?If is possible to create a creature of long-lasting coolness, what are the ingredients? Didn't I read somewhere that the desmodu were supposed to be "the next drow"?Quasqueton</blockquote>