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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4531389" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>I think the wierdness is best when it is justified.</p><p></p><p>I compare it to myth.</p><p></p><p>Six-armed, hundred-handed, four-headed, eight-faced eagle/lion/goat monsters that light you on fire by staring at you and sing the praises of the Sky God eternally in his court in which they fly with their 10,000 wings, each feather possessing a face on which there sits a seven-pointed diadem...</p><p></p><p>Myth is really weird, but they usually have a reason for having all these insanities, a sort of anthropomorphic logic that implies all sorts of deliciousness.</p><p></p><p>Modrons fit into this category for me.</p><p></p><p>I also like weirdness when it is supposed to be alien. To have flumphs and nilbogs found on an obscure island off the coast where the PC's crash land makes it very distinctive. </p><p></p><p>Weirdness is good. Very little should be too silly for a game with goth-club fey and BDSM Nightmare Elves and hippogriffs. </p><p></p><p>Seriously, know your roots! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 4531389, member: 2067"] I think the wierdness is best when it is justified. I compare it to myth. Six-armed, hundred-handed, four-headed, eight-faced eagle/lion/goat monsters that light you on fire by staring at you and sing the praises of the Sky God eternally in his court in which they fly with their 10,000 wings, each feather possessing a face on which there sits a seven-pointed diadem... Myth is really weird, but they usually have a reason for having all these insanities, a sort of anthropomorphic logic that implies all sorts of deliciousness. Modrons fit into this category for me. I also like weirdness when it is supposed to be alien. To have flumphs and nilbogs found on an obscure island off the coast where the PC's crash land makes it very distinctive. Weirdness is good. Very little should be too silly for a game with goth-club fey and BDSM Nightmare Elves and hippogriffs. Seriously, know your roots! :) [/QUOTE]
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