Wednesday, October 13, 2004
 
Read It and Geek

The Book of Ratings grades Dungeons and Dragons monsters. For example, the blink dog:
    These intelligent, teleporting, other-dimensional fox terriers are the natural enemies of displacer beasts. I love that Gygax had this whole magic-spewing ecosystem going on. Of course blink dogs are the natural enemies of displacer beasts! And esophagus monsters feed on the tender leaves of the rare-but-majestic elf ficus! It all fits together! Anyhow, blink dogs are chaotic good, which means that they're one of the few creatures in the Monster Manual that don't exist solely to guard treasure and draw blood. Instead they can aid the party, provide information, and look really surprised when you kill them to search their spleen for emeralds. C-
(Link courtesy Brock Sides at Signifying Nothing.)


- posted by Brian J. @ 8:16 AM
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