IMHO, renaming an ankheg "giant stick insect" doesn't really add anything. Variety is great, but I'd prefer to see mostly monsters described in the various D&D Monster Manuals, providing of course that there is a suitable animation for them.
I really wanted to use BGSpawn (again) for my new install, but I'm really not keen on running into non-PnP monsters. I gets a bit silly using all the PnP-tweaks, -corrections and -creatures of BG2Tweak and aTweak - only to run into a "giant stick insect". Is there any chance you'd consider changing this or making fantasy creatures optional? For reference, here are the Complete Monstrous Manual.
Well, i never considered that .. and i could of course skip such creature(s) (baloch is another one) if the community prefers so. I also can check the manual and change it to something else, sure.
I'm sorry you avoid to install the mod just for that, as a note, please consider that the chances to face them are fairly low and JUST during the "move" between areas ...
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You know what, I should have started with saying what a great accomplishment your mod is
It's a real improvement over the xvart-wolf-gibberling routine of the vanilla game, and both scaling and encounters are really well done!
I just love having that
PnP feel, and besides the obvious "
PnP [creatures/restrictions/behaviour]" of different components, I've had the pleasure of participating in the evolvement of Spell- and Item Revisions where
Demivrgs and many other strived to have
PnP "justification" and counterparts for effects and abilities. All in all, there's some high quality near-
PnP gameplay to be had nowadays
That's why, for me, it feels somewhat jarring to have that, and then run into a Stick Insect. It's not "ZOMG the 4th wall is broken I can never immerse myself again!!11".
I'm not going to avoid you mod - it's too good IMO - but I'd be
much obliged if it was possible to optionalize (that's not really a word..) "fantasy" creatures, or some other solution (maybe "convert" to MM-creatures and names?). For that matter, if anyone else has an opinion on this I'd also like to hear it.
Edited by Dakk, 26 January 2012 - 11:01 AM.