--- Luke Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Same old circular response. I'm not sure that anybody has asked more more free
>stuff Jasyn. Well, endless complaining about what you don't have is close enough to wanting more free stuff in my mind...not that that was my point at all. I don't care if they did or didn't want more free stuff. You seem to be conflating my response with a long running flame war here on the list- a flame war my response was only tangentially related to. >I'm also not sure that anybody has claimed that they lack the creative ability >to do something themselves. Not many people do. "I'm fat, I'm stupid, and I can't write for crap." <---isn't common. >I'm not sure you understand the actual problem. The "problem" I was responding to was one person's claim that, since the Illithid wasn't included in full, they couldn't replicate a good gaming moment from 20 years ago. In general, if what you liked was the feeling of being scared, then you should be able to recreate it without using the Illithid. If you can't, you lack creativity. Period. [description of the "actual" problem snipped] >Why bother to include an Illithiad in the SRD in the first place. To show you what can be done? To include the seeds for your own creativity? To provide yet another example of how to calculate the ever problematic CR? To give you some unique abilities you can use or you can be inspired by? Because every other monster in the 3e MM was included, so why cut this one entirely? >Bottom line: The issue is the opposite of having insufficient creative ability >to do your own work. I disagree. "I can't have the Illithid...this sucks...I can't write modules." Whose problem is this? If the lack of one monster stops you from writing modules, then you need to move to another industry. (Either that, or drop the exagerrated claim that no Illithids = no possibility of ever writing 3rd Ed. modules). So WOTC didn't give you everything? Ah, poor baby. Cowboy up, create something else frightening, something new, something never before seen. Why is that hard to understand? >If you're going to have a creature in your module named an "Illithiad" You can't, it's not in the SRD (which is what sparked this argument in the first place. >you're better off simply saying something like "There is an Illithiad here", >giving the statblock, and leaving it at that. Actually, you're better off doing something new. There is nothing compelling you to use Mind Flayers. Nothing at all. Lots of great modules- even great, scary modules- that don't use them. If you feel you can't use them, them don't. Do something new. I get it, WOTC won't let you use Illithids from DnD. Okay, deal with it. Nothing about that is crippling to a new campaign world or a new module. ===== Jasyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
