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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 4238577" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>Depends on the world. Like Voss said above - the only Medusa in the world could be the result of a god-curse of some sort. If there's more than one "medusa", they could all be cursed humanoids of some kind. I mean, that's where the Medusa of folklore came from after all.</p><p></p><p>I once created a world where there were no "baby orcs". No male or female orcs either. All orcs were pretty much genderless and the result of a horrible curse (they were actually a "byproduct" of a nasty curse placed on a particularly evil wizard-king by a set of evil gods). I had a different campaign where there were no "baby goblins/hobgoblins/ogres/trolls" because those races were actually corrupted fey races and basically "incarnated" as fully formed adults when they became corrupt as a punishment by the Fey Court. Killing a goblin just meant that a "new" goblin was "incarnated" somewhere else in the world - ignorant of its previous "life" - to continue its miserable semi-mortal existence until it could somehow claw its way out of its corrupted state and gain the forgiveness of the Fey Court (ha!). My current campaign has no "baby elves" because I stole the corruption idea from my old campaign but instead of being corrupted with evil, elves are "fallen" fey who became infatuated with mortality and voluntarily gave up their immortal status to live out lives among the mortals.</p><p></p><p>Not every creature needs to follow real-world biology. But, again, I'd want to see where the developers are going with it before coming out against such a "change" - things like male "Medusa" are very easy to ignore if they don't fit one's campaign assumptions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 4238577, member: 19857"] Depends on the world. Like Voss said above - the only Medusa in the world could be the result of a god-curse of some sort. If there's more than one "medusa", they could all be cursed humanoids of some kind. I mean, that's where the Medusa of folklore came from after all. I once created a world where there were no "baby orcs". No male or female orcs either. All orcs were pretty much genderless and the result of a horrible curse (they were actually a "byproduct" of a nasty curse placed on a particularly evil wizard-king by a set of evil gods). I had a different campaign where there were no "baby goblins/hobgoblins/ogres/trolls" because those races were actually corrupted fey races and basically "incarnated" as fully formed adults when they became corrupt as a punishment by the Fey Court. Killing a goblin just meant that a "new" goblin was "incarnated" somewhere else in the world - ignorant of its previous "life" - to continue its miserable semi-mortal existence until it could somehow claw its way out of its corrupted state and gain the forgiveness of the Fey Court (ha!). My current campaign has no "baby elves" because I stole the corruption idea from my old campaign but instead of being corrupted with evil, elves are "fallen" fey who became infatuated with mortality and voluntarily gave up their immortal status to live out lives among the mortals. Not every creature needs to follow real-world biology. But, again, I'd want to see where the developers are going with it before coming out against such a "change" - things like male "Medusa" are very easy to ignore if they don't fit one's campaign assumptions. [/QUOTE]
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