Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="TwinBahamut" data-source="post: 4530778" data-attributes="member: 32536">Sillyness as it relates to monsters is a pretty complicated thing...Without a doubt, humor and fun are extremely important parts of D&amp;D, and should be encouraged as much as possible. People play D&amp;D to have a good time, and laughing at something ridiculous is part of that. However, that does not inherently justify the existence of monsters that have no purpose except to be humorous, or try to be humorous in addition to being something else.Honestly, I think a large part of it is that the good humor in D&amp;D comes from the players and DM making jokes and doing unusual things at the table, while most of the &quot;silly&quot; monsters in D&amp;D come across as more of being a cheap gag or lame pun. Many of the silly monsters are not even meant to be silly, they just tried to be cool and failed, and those are the really painful ones. This has some crossover with the huge list of creatures that are just boring or badly designed.Most &quot;silly&quot; creatures could probably be modified to be more widely appealing while still preserving what redeeming features they already have.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TwinBahamut, post: 4530778, member: 32536"] Sillyness as it relates to monsters is a pretty complicated thing... Without a doubt, humor and fun are extremely important parts of D&D, and should be encouraged as much as possible. People play D&D to have a good time, and laughing at something ridiculous is part of that. However, that does not inherently justify the existence of monsters that have no purpose except to be humorous, or try to be humorous in addition to being something else. Honestly, I think a large part of it is that the [i]good[/i] humor in D&D comes from the players and DM making jokes and doing unusual things at the table, while most of the "silly" monsters in D&D come across as more of being a cheap gag or lame pun. Many of the silly monsters are not even meant to be silly, they just tried to be cool and failed, and those are the really painful ones. This has some crossover with the huge list of creatures that are just boring or badly designed. Most "silly" creatures could probably be modified to be more widely appealing while still preserving what redeeming features they already have. [/QUOTE]

Verification