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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8329801" data-attributes="member: 6796468">Given the people he's working with and the claim they've never been in a Monster Manual, before, I suspect we're gonna see some bigoted versions of mythological characters and creatures...Also. They're going for a 19-20x1 Crit range? Wow. That's...... that's definitely &quot;Innovative&quot;.Dark Sun was a fantasy apocalyptic setting, so was Gamma World. Shadowrun is arguably as long as you consider a Cyberpunk Dystopia to be an apocalyptic scenario, which isn't a difficult position to argue.There's also no historically interesting monsters that haven't been in a monster manual or fiend folio or creature compendium or bestiary or whatever else you choose to name your &quot;Big book of stat blocks&quot; because there are RPGs in every region of the world which often touch on their own historical and mythological figures for that sort of unique identity, not even including stuff like D&amp;D and other western RPGs writing &quot;Eastern&quot; or &quot;African&quot; or &quot;South American&quot; monsters and religious iconography into their systems.And then the &quot;Ley Energy&quot; thing instead of &quot;Magic&quot; is just icing on the cake... Like... If you've got a setting which -has- magic you can create a differentiation of &quot;This is Magic, this is Not Magic&quot;. But if Ley Energy is all they've got then it needs to either be a scientific principle (Pretty sure that's not the way they're going) or it's just magic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8329801, member: 6796468"] Given the people he's working with and the claim they've never been in a Monster Manual, before, I suspect we're gonna see some bigoted versions of mythological characters and creatures... Also. They're going for a 19-20x1 Crit range? Wow. That's... ... that's definitely "Innovative". Dark Sun was a fantasy apocalyptic setting, so was Gamma World. Shadowrun is arguably as long as you consider a Cyberpunk Dystopia to be an apocalyptic scenario, which isn't a difficult position to argue. There's also no historically interesting monsters that haven't been in a monster manual or fiend folio or creature compendium or bestiary or whatever else you choose to name your "Big book of stat blocks" because there are RPGs in every region of the world which often touch on their own historical and mythological figures for that sort of unique identity, not even including stuff like D&D and other western RPGs writing "Eastern" or "African" or "South American" monsters and religious iconography into their systems. And then the "Ley Energy" thing instead of "Magic" is just icing on the cake... Like... If you've got a setting which -has- magic you can create a differentiation of "This is Magic, this is Not Magic". But if Ley Energy is all they've got then it needs to either be a scientific principle (Pretty sure that's not the way they're going) or it's just magic. [/QUOTE]

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