Tortugarana!
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 07:42AM It's Monday morning, which means a free critter for all of you out there in RL. The tortugarana is an ancient, mellow, dire tortoise that can blow up your PCs, fling them dozens of feet, or just bury them alive. It's best to keep him happy.
Be sure to check him out here, but note that the Weekly Critter Crate is open only to subscribers. Not a subscriber? What the heck are you waiting for?
As I designed and wrote all that yummy fluffy stuff for the tortugarana this week I realized that 4e has a massive advantage over 3.5e from a design perspective; it's quicker. It took me hours to create this week's free critter for 3.5e, over half of which was spent explaining the how and why of the tortugarana. Don't get me wrong, I like the how and why of a critter. I think it gives those beloved monsters a place in the game world and makes the whole thing breathe, but I wish the creation process was shorter for more complex critters. 4e hardly pays lip service to what a creature is doing before the PCs arrive to fight it, much less how it fits into the ecosystem. Ignoring that stuff really lowers design time, which is good for designers, but "bad" for everyone else. Hm.
*shrugs* C'est la vie. Fire z missiles!
Reader Comments (1)
Hokay so... Pretty sweet tortoise...