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<blockquote data-quote="RoughCoronet0" data-source="post: 8660925" data-attributes="member: 7031665">Typically for my purposes, whether a single creature or a creature type is chosen to be excluded from my campaign/world tends to depend on if I find said creature uninteresting from a world building and lore standpoint.For example, I don’t find aberrations who’s only purpose is to be an evil overlord (Mindflayers, Beholders, Aboleth, Neogi, etc.) or who’s only purpose is to be mindless horrors controlled by an terrible eldritch abominations (Core and Star Spawn) all that interesting. It’s not that I can’t garner any inspiration for them, but it’s not how I typically use aberrations. My favorite aberrations are those who act as alien animals that can be dangerous and horrifying when pushed to aggression but are otherwise non-hostile like typical beasts, or sentient alien-like races. The aberrant sea creatures from Call of the Netherdeep are good examples of the former, and my D&amp;D conversion of the Rachni from the Mass Effect series is an example of the later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="RoughCoronet0, post: 8660925, member: 7031665"] Typically for my purposes, whether a single creature or a creature type is chosen to be excluded from my campaign/world tends to depend on if I find said creature uninteresting from a world building and lore standpoint. For example, I don’t find aberrations who’s only purpose is to be an evil overlord (Mindflayers, Beholders, Aboleth, Neogi, etc.) or who’s only purpose is to be mindless horrors controlled by an terrible eldritch abominations (Core and Star Spawn) all that interesting. It’s not that I can’t garner any inspiration for them, but it’s not how I typically use aberrations. My favorite aberrations are those who act as alien animals that can be dangerous and horrifying when pushed to aggression but are otherwise non-hostile like typical beasts, or sentient alien-like races. The aberrant sea creatures from Call of the Netherdeep are good examples of the former, and my D&D conversion of the Rachni from the Mass Effect series is an example of the later. [/QUOTE]

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