HU Bestiary

Marcantony · Unread post by **Marcantony** » Thu May 20, 2004 7:16 am

Some point soon Im going to be adding a bestiary for both the ancient fantasy world and modern day world. Things like modern elementals (which some of us discussed in a previous topic).

Im just wondering do the rest of you thing I should:
1. Keep the fantasy and modern day bestiaries seperate, one on each of my sites.
2. Have a single bestiary section but instead list what eras the monsters are available in. For instance a glass elemental would not be available until the year when glass became widely used.

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Thu May 20, 2004 10:46 am

Misfit KotLD wrote:Make it one big beastary with it seperated by era/genre.

That's not a bad idea... though to be honest, when I saw the thread's title I started having visions of Melechs, Grpyhons, and Zavors running amok down the streets of modern-day cities.

Hmmm... I wonder how an infestation of Zavors would affect the nice little town of Conway, South Carolina? :demon:

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:14 pm

Misfit KotLD wrote:Whoohoo! I had a good idea! And where's this town in SC?

Conway is a real-life town in South Carolina, in which my co-GM and I have based our "Loralton Academy" pbem campaign -- our own spin on the X-universe. It's about 10 min. northwest of Myrtle Beach.

My sincerest apologies if anyone currently living there has been displaced by the establishment of the Loralton property... and I promise to relocate them to a nearby swamp inhabited by only an ogre and his annoying talking donkey. :lol:

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Thu May 20, 2004 4:32 pm

Misfit KotLD wrote:
Uncle Servo wrote:
Misfit KotLD wrote:Whoohoo! I had a good idea! And where's this town in SC?

Conway is a real-life town in South Carolina, in which my co-GM and I have based our "Loralton Academy" pbem campaign -- our own spin on the X-universe. It's about 10 min. northwest of Myrtle Beach.

My sincerest apologies if anyone currently living there has been displaced by the establishment of the Loralton property... and I promise to relocate them to a nearby swamp inhabited by only an ogre and his annoying talking donkey.

I wasn't doubting its existence, just wondering about its location.

Well, that's the skinny on both. Call it a bonus package.

Also, you can go to www.mapquest.com and enter in "Conway, South Carolina" to get a bit more info.

BTW, I think MapQuest is a godsend for those playing modern-day RPGs.

*blinks* Oh, sorry for hijacking the original thread there Marcantony.

Marcantony · Unread post by **Marcantony** » Sat May 22, 2004 7:03 am

S'ok. At the Gateway forums the owner also suggested;

"I like the eras idea, personally. I'd also classify them by setting. Post-apocalyptic vs. medieval agricultural for example. You may get someone who's created a world that doesn't go on our timeline. So perhaps, what you're calling eras shouldn't be demarcated by years but instead by capabilities or societal levels -- industrial, agrarian, service economy, etc."

Ill have to think about this

Uncle Servo · Unread post by **Uncle Servo** » Sat May 22, 2004 8:20 am

Marcantony wrote:S'ok. At the Gateway forums the owner also suggested;

"I like the eras idea, personally. I'd also classify them by setting. Post-apocalyptic vs. medieval agricultural for example. You may get someone who's created a world that doesn't go on our timeline. So perhaps, what you're calling eras shouldn't be demarcated by years but instead by capabilities or societal levels -- industrial, agrarian, service economy, etc."

Ill have to think about this

The owner has a good point. I'd definitely consider classifying by setting.

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Sun May 23, 2004 11:12 am

In the first section, list the creature(s) available in each "age."

In the second section, list the stats for real-world "monsters" (lions and tigers and bears, oh my!).

In the third section, list stats for mythological monsters (weres, vampires, sphinxi, pegasi, etc...)

Prince Cherico · Mon May 24, 2004 12:43 am

Hey marco as soon as I think your up to it I promise I will PM
you the tenitical monster RCC 8-)

Borast · Unread post by **Borast** » Mon May 24, 2004 9:57 am

gwa1965 wrote:if a monster comes from a modern, futuristic, or alternate dimension, would they fall into the "mythological" catagory?

No...no, unless they can travel in time and have visited the past...yes, if they have visited our dimention in the past, otherwise, no.

acreRake · Unread post by **acreRake** » Mon May 24, 2004 5:33 pm

Lord Cherico wrote:Hey marco as soon as I think your up to it I promise I will PM
you the tenitical monster RCC

*Shudder*

Yukon · Unread post by **Yukon** » Mon May 24, 2004 7:48 pm

Lord Cherico wrote:Hey marco as soon as I think your up to it I promise I will PM
you the tenitical monster RCC

did you mean to say testical monster RCC?

Prince Cherico · Mon May 24, 2004 7:53 pm

it does come up alot in the horror genera and thus deserves a place in the Gaming invironment.

Tinker Dragoon · Mon May 24, 2004 10:11 pm

Yukon wrote:
Lord Cherico wrote:Hey marco as soon as I think your up to it I promise I will PM
you the tenitical monster RCC

did you mean to say testical monster RCC?

"Tentacle monster" is a colloquial term for a type of extraterrestrial menace common to Japanese pornography.

Prince Cherico · Mon May 24, 2004 10:24 pm

tentacle mosters get used all of the time in 1950s movies you know the old cheesy man from mars stuff

Tinker Dragoon · Mon May 24, 2004 11:02 pm

Yeah but nobody ever actually calls them that except when talking about hentai.

Prince Cherico · Tue May 25, 2004 12:01 am

really I do it really is just me :-(

Marcantony · Unread post by **Marcantony** » Tue May 25, 2004 6:51 am

Tinker Dragoon wrote:Yeah but nobody ever actually calls them that except when talking about hentai.

You should see some of the spells we put in the Vice Magic section.

Thanks Cherico