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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 9339636" data-attributes="member: 92511"><p>I tend to "relore" to minimize the wide array of creatures available, while still making it possible/plausible for them to exist in the homebrewed world.</p><p></p><p>The most blatant is probably reloring basically all draconic creatures to being mutated or "unfinished/incorrect" offspring of actual dragons. It leads to the limited, and continually shrinking, numbers of actual full "wyrm" dragons. The most common varieties are the wyverns, hydrae, drakes (roughly worg to lion-sized wingless bestial dragons), and "lapdrakes" (my homebrew's "pseudo-dragons"). Linnorms, dracolisks, dragonnes, behirs, etc... are all dragon offspring that didn't "cook" right or completely, or were somehow tampered with (by magics) before hatching, to produce a "true" dragon. At least half of every dragon egg clutch, nowadays, is producing these "faux" dragon/draconic monsters. No one knows why. But the dragons, themselves, are becoming increasingly concerned with the future of their "true" species.</p><p></p><p>Trolls and Ogres are the same species. "Ogres" (or "Ogors") just being the dwarven word for "rock/mountain trolls." They are then paired with Hags as the feminine of the species who hold all the magic power and intelligence to their male dimwitted brute counterparts. Traditional "Green (Forest)" Trolls mate with Green Hags. Rock/Mountain Trolls (Ogres) mate with Black Annis hags. Aquatic Trolls (I borrowed the folklore and name of "Aughisky" as the name for my world's water-trolls), obviously, are summoned by Sea Hags to further their repugnant kind. And the extraplanar Night Hags - the "ruling class" and most dangerous of Trollkind - are matched with their, almost as powerful and intelligent mates, the Oni (nee Ogre Magi). </p><p></p><p>I combined several smaller creatures to be offshots of "Halfling" to give a little diversity away from the "Hobbit/Tolkien" halfling IP. Dark Creepers are halflings that were lured to the subterranean realms, enslaved and turned evil by dark magic/magicians, now driven by an unquenchable greed for magic and "shiny" valuables. Brownies (somewhat typically) are halflings who reside in the Faerie. Nixies are also fae halflings imbued/cross-existing with the Elemental Plane of Water. Prime material "hairfooted" PC halflings are actually Brownies that came to the material plane and stayed/became enamoured with a non-fae/[predominantly]non-magical pastoral way of life.</p><p></p><p>So, that kind of "combining similar stuff" to make it seem more plausible for all these many many different creatures to all exist in the same world.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 9339636, member: 92511"] I tend to "relore" to minimize the wide array of creatures available, while still making it possible/plausible for them to exist in the homebrewed world. The most blatant is probably reloring basically all draconic creatures to being mutated or "unfinished/incorrect" offspring of actual dragons. It leads to the limited, and continually shrinking, numbers of actual full "wyrm" dragons. The most common varieties are the wyverns, hydrae, drakes (roughly worg to lion-sized wingless bestial dragons), and "lapdrakes" (my homebrew's "pseudo-dragons"). Linnorms, dracolisks, dragonnes, behirs, etc... are all dragon offspring that didn't "cook" right or completely, or were somehow tampered with (by magics) before hatching, to produce a "true" dragon. At least half of every dragon egg clutch, nowadays, is producing these "faux" dragon/draconic monsters. No one knows why. But the dragons, themselves, are becoming increasingly concerned with the future of their "true" species. Trolls and Ogres are the same species. "Ogres" (or "Ogors") just being the dwarven word for "rock/mountain trolls." They are then paired with Hags as the feminine of the species who hold all the magic power and intelligence to their male dimwitted brute counterparts. Traditional "Green (Forest)" Trolls mate with Green Hags. Rock/Mountain Trolls (Ogres) mate with Black Annis hags. Aquatic Trolls (I borrowed the folklore and name of "Aughisky" as the name for my world's water-trolls), obviously, are summoned by Sea Hags to further their repugnant kind. And the extraplanar Night Hags - the "ruling class" and most dangerous of Trollkind - are matched with their, almost as powerful and intelligent mates, the Oni (nee Ogre Magi). I combined several smaller creatures to be offshots of "Halfling" to give a little diversity away from the "Hobbit/Tolkien" halfling IP. Dark Creepers are halflings that were lured to the subterranean realms, enslaved and turned evil by dark magic/magicians, now driven by an unquenchable greed for magic and "shiny" valuables. Brownies (somewhat typically) are halflings who reside in the Faerie. Nixies are also fae halflings imbued/cross-existing with the Elemental Plane of Water. Prime material "hairfooted" PC halflings are actually Brownies that came to the material plane and stayed/became enamoured with a non-fae/[predominantly]non-magical pastoral way of life. So, that kind of "combining similar stuff" to make it seem more plausible for all these many many different creatures to all exist in the same world. [/QUOTE]
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