Wimps

[JohnSnow]

There's also:
- Sex
- Poop
- Bad words
- Any combination of sex, poop, children, swearing and violence

I'm trying to see how those five elements could be made into a good game, but totally failing. Probably for the best.

One of the novels in Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files opened with Harry Dresden fleeing from demonic flying monkeys throwing flaming poo...

So, let's take these Carabum...give them the special ability to hurl their flaming feces, and have them be the *ahem* servants of a Succubus...

Sounds like a good adventure hook.

What? Don't look at me like that...

 

[Shade]

Wow, two threads on the front page have gone to poop (see also this thread).

It must be Christmastime.

 

[Nifft]

(see also this thread)

That thread is EXACTLY why my mind has turned to poop.

Cheers, -- N

PS: but Mr. Hankey is a close second. Ah, seasonal humor!

 

[demiurge1138]

Kind of off-topic, but... I loved that article. There need to be more like it - getting a glimpse into the editors and developers' heads. Too bad we lost the hideous birthing devil along with the evil cherubs. Both of those had a nice Book of Fiends feeling to them (not surprising, as they were written by the same guy who did Legions of Hell).

Demiurge out.

 

[Shade]

I can't wait to actually read the article in question. I've been getting a "page cannot be displayed" on portions of WotC's site for the past few hours.

 

[Arkham]

But then there's the Magmin, which was a constipated baby... on FIRE.
Cause the only thing better than combat with babies, is burning babies... right?

 

[Reis_Thunderwood]

Umm...what about the giant aborted undead god fetus in Epic? How can demon children be worse than an Atropal? I don't get it.

 

[shilsen]

Isn't there already a killer god-baby in the Epic Level handbook? That's all we need is for them to become like drow. Is next year going to be the Year of the Baby?

I just realized that you can put "god", "killer" and "baby" together into any combo and get a cool result.

A baby god-killer? Cool!

A god baby-killer? Cool!

A killer baby god? Cool!

And so on...

*runs off to start statting them up*

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

What's acceptable for a home game and what a publicly traded corporation is comfortable with are rarely going to be the same things.

For computer game fans, Blizzard was once going to have the level of Warcraft III where the paladins attempt to kill villagers before they turn into undead monsters include children, but they ended up pulling back from that for the same reasons.

I don't think D&D is greatly diminished by players not being able to fight demonic babies, although I think it wouldn't have been out of place in, say, The Book of Vile Darkness. (Monte went on to have angelic children in Ptolus, incidentally.)