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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6179191" data-attributes="member: 95493"><p>Internal consistency.</p><p></p><p>Have you ever watched lord of the rings? Then played World of Warcraft? Both have orcs. Both have goblins. Both have giant living, talking trees, humans, halflings, elves and so on. Are they the same? No. Of course they aren't. If you were writing a book of monsters for each of those worlds, they would both include orcs. They both need to and they both need to describe WHAT the orc is. They need to say for LotR that it is a former elf, twisted by darkness into its current form. For WoW they would say that it is a green skined tribal creature that have had XYZ relations with other races in the past. Those are very different descriptions. However, if blizzard were to go on and create WoW.2 then release another book that has monster descriptions would you really expect them to release it with the following for ALL the monsters in the book? "See previous WoW.1 sourcebook on all information for these creatures except where noted here."</p><p></p><p>You want an errata. I want a sourcebook.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Those extra stories, are just that. They are stories. They aren't descriptions. Say that all dryads are cursed and so they must stay near their tree. I personally would avoid giving a specific range or maybe I'd give example ranges of how far. Then, when you write adventures - featuring STORIES - write an adventure about a poor nymph that turned into a dryad. In that AP it could just be a cool piece of backstory or a thread for the new adventure "dryad's lost love". I don't care. I don't need the AP. I might hate that the dryad (singular or plural, my choice) is a cursed fey creature. I might love it. I might find it meh. But all I need is a description I can .. Use, Not Use, Or Ignore. (As I said before.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 6179191, member: 95493"] Internal consistency. Have you ever watched lord of the rings? Then played World of Warcraft? Both have orcs. Both have goblins. Both have giant living, talking trees, humans, halflings, elves and so on. Are they the same? No. Of course they aren't. If you were writing a book of monsters for each of those worlds, they would both include orcs. They both need to and they both need to describe WHAT the orc is. They need to say for LotR that it is a former elf, twisted by darkness into its current form. For WoW they would say that it is a green skined tribal creature that have had XYZ relations with other races in the past. Those are very different descriptions. However, if blizzard were to go on and create WoW.2 then release another book that has monster descriptions would you really expect them to release it with the following for ALL the monsters in the book? "See previous WoW.1 sourcebook on all information for these creatures except where noted here." You want an errata. I want a sourcebook. Those extra stories, are just that. They are stories. They aren't descriptions. Say that all dryads are cursed and so they must stay near their tree. I personally would avoid giving a specific range or maybe I'd give example ranges of how far. Then, when you write adventures - featuring STORIES - write an adventure about a poor nymph that turned into a dryad. In that AP it could just be a cool piece of backstory or a thread for the new adventure "dryad's lost love". I don't care. I don't need the AP. I might hate that the dryad (singular or plural, my choice) is a cursed fey creature. I might love it. I might find it meh. But all I need is a description I can .. Use, Not Use, Or Ignore. (As I said before.) [/QUOTE]
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