On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Ryan S. Dancey wrote:
> You're in an especially bad situation with regard to your image of
> Mind-Flayers, because d20 has a >defined term< meaning "generally
> human-like in appearance" (Humanoid) and a >defined term< meaning alien
> or monsterous in appearance (Abberation).
Ryan, you should know better than this. The SRD says nothing
of the sort. The SRD definition for aberration says: "An aberration
has a bizarre anatomy, strange abilities, an alien mindset, or any
combination of the three." Even a grade-school level of reading
comprehension shows that a bizarre anatomy is not required.
Moreover, "humanoid" in the SRD does not mean "human-like
in appearance". Giants, fey, outsiders, and others are frequently
human-like in appearance. Meanwhile, centaurs are of type humanoid
even though they are not human-like in appearance. Again, you just
have to read the definition: "A humanoid usually has two arms, two
legs, and one head, or a humanlike torso, arms, and head. Humanoids
have few or no supernatural or extraordinary abilities, and usually
are Small or Medium-size."
This is all clearly written out in
http://www.opengamingfoundation.org/srd/srdcreatureoverview.html
- John
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