Aug 30
When I first saw the D&D 4e monster manual, I noticed the curious absence of normal animals. There were no plain panthers or elephants in the book. Most of the “normal” animals were represented instead by fantastic versions of themselves: fey panthers, thunderfury boar, and feymire crocodiles. Sure, there were a few normal animals like grey wolves, but the fantastic versions seemed to dominate.
I guess having your heroes killed by normal animals isn’t heroic enough?
Tell that to a party of 1st level 3e characters facing a brown bear (a fair fight in terms of CR)…there’s like a 50% chance it’ll be a TPK.
Good one
Heh. This is actually my version of a similar asian tale: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
I see your bear and raise you a 3rd ed badger, 1/2 CR creature that can rage and TPK a 1st level party.
Heh. Badgers are neat. Celestial badgers are even neater.