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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 704858" data-attributes="member: 2067">This isn't nearly as bad as it could be, y'know....It's not hard at all for some d20 publisher to make a squid-headed creature that eats brains and is called the Brain Flayer...Or for them to whip up a big eye with a lot of stalks and a jaw and magical powers from the eyes that is called the Eye Ball.Or to make a feline with the natural power of displacement and tentacle-claws that is called the Displacement Panther.Or to make an austere race of psionic monks that live on a plane of absolute chaos and call them the Xerai, and they have a long standing feud with their cousins the Yanky, who live on the plane of thought and ectoplasm and tame red dragons and are militaristic and worship a soul-consuming god-queen with the Lich template. And have them both enslaved in times gone by by the Brain Friars. Vary the stats a wee bit (do Brain Friars really need the Cha or HD of a Mind Flayer? Give them more, or slightly less, or whatever). If WotC wants to be a bit of a bad-guy by retaining things that are aparently essential PI for them, we can be a bit of a bad-guy by making our own generic knock-offs. We can make our own Faygo versions of these Coke and Pepsi products.No problem. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 704858, member: 2067"] This isn't nearly as bad as it could be, y'know.... It's not hard at all for some d20 publisher to make a squid-headed creature that eats brains and is called the Brain Flayer... Or for them to whip up a big eye with a lot of stalks and a jaw and magical powers from the eyes that is called the Eye Ball. Or to make a feline with the natural power of displacement and tentacle-claws that is called the Displacement Panther. Or to make an austere race of psionic monks that live on a plane of absolute chaos and call them the Xerai, and they have a long standing feud with their cousins the Yanky, who live on the plane of thought and ectoplasm and tame red dragons and are militaristic and worship a soul-consuming god-queen with the Lich template. And have them both enslaved in times gone by by the Brain Friars. Vary the stats a wee bit (do Brain Friars really need the Cha or HD of a Mind Flayer? Give them more, or slightly less, or whatever). If WotC wants to be a bit of a bad-guy by retaining things that are aparently essential PI for them, we can be a bit of a bad-guy by making our own generic knock-offs. We can make our own Faygo versions of these Coke and Pepsi products. No problem. :D [/QUOTE]

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