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Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!: A Dresdenverse Bestiary

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Crion:

--- Quote from: Deadmanwalking on May 27, 2010, 01:17:46 PM ---Happy to help.  :)

I enjoy statting out critters, mechanics are easy for me and I don't have to write out a background (which, for me, is the hard part of character creation...not coming up with it mind you, but writing it out).


Oh, and in case I haven't mentioned it: Questions and critiques of all sorts are eminently welcome. I'm sure I've screwed up somewhere and having people point it out is always nice.

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Once I finish my coffee, I'll take a deeper look into what you have posted and see if I find anything amiss. From what I've skimmed, it looks fitting so far. Then again, I also don't have a full grip upon the mechanics of this game just yet, but I thoroughly enjoy the Aspects and background portions (which is why is getting me into this in the first place). Let's see what happens. . .

Tush Hog:
Superb job! The horses are going to get used this weekend :)

Deadmanwalking:
So, how did the horses work out?


And does anyone have any other creatures they wish to see created?

John Galt:
Dolphins really shouldn't have average scholarship.  The idea that they are as smart as humans or even close is an old wives tale.  They aren't.  They're barely as smart as dogs and harder to train.  In fact, the smartest dolphin I've ever seen was half killer whale, and I'm still more impressed when I interact with my Uncle's yellow lab (I paid $400 so my little brother and I could swim and interact with dolphins at Sea Life Park).  Most PC characters don't even have average scholarship, and you're claiming every dolphin does.  That's beyond a little silly.

Deadmanwalking:
I'm a Psych Major and actually had a class on Comparitive Psychology (ie: animal psychology), as well as having looked into the various data on dolphin intellect. By all the tests we have they are just about the smartest animals we've ever run across. They also demonstrate an ability to understand actual sentence structure (something very rare in animals, and approaching an actual understanding of our language...which would require Scholarship). I'm not actually saying they're as smart as humans, I'm saying all evience seems to point at them being closer than anything else, and giving them something to reflect it.

Now, I wouldn't dispute the 'harder to train' bit, but then humans are harder to train than dogs, too. And one brief encounter doesn't seem to me to be a good barometer for a species' intelligence, it's an anecdote not scientific data (which exists, and all points at them being damn smart).

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