The giant platypus (Obdurodon tharalkooschild) had sharp teeth & a strong bite that was capable of crushing lungfish & turtles! They measured a metre in length & lived in Australian forests 5 million years ago.
(Credit: Peter Schouten)
In DnD 5e? Depends what you want to do with it exactly.
Usually the simpest way is to pick lower-CR creature with the desired stats and similar style and reskin. Eg. using a bugbear or ogrillon for a young ogre.
Probably works somewhat similar there. Alternative approaches are likely to be harder because Pathfinder doesn't, as fa as I know, have the simplifying factor of bounded accuracy.
@kviiri i would think it's something like that, yes. the site isn't slowing down -- quite the opposite -- but you're adjusting to processing what's happening.
I guess for me, if it has seemed a bit less busy, it is really only because I've gotten more efficient at handling the questions and procedural aspects.
@kviiri I'm sure others are increasing at similar or greater paces. Though whatever rate I have managed to achieve has been the result of spending potentially far too much time here lol
@Rubiksmoose I feel like I get them disproportionately here for how much effort I put into the site, compared to other Stacks I'm on where I put in an awful lot of effort for not very many badges
@Rubiksmoose that could very well be the case -- the [electrical] tag on DIY.SE isn't exactly kind to getting rep quickly. I get like half the rep/answer there that the site expects folks to
@Shalvenay I'm sort of bothered that pretty much any DnD post I make here effortlessly goes bronze or silver, but other systems are very hard to get there...
Creepy thought: what if DnD rules are intentionally tricky to make sure they receive lots of screen time here and thus free advertising? :thinking_face:
@Shalvenay I'm sort of bothered that pretty much any DnD post I make here effortlessly goes bronze or silver, but other systems are very hard to get there...
aah you may have meant to say "I cannot agree with you three more" in that case.
I think the value of having multiple experts in a system grows sublinearly - two DnD 5e gurus is better than one, but not twice as much. Variety and versatility are irreplaceable and I hope people of less-known systems bear with the lower rep gains and keep posting good questions and answers regarding systems interesting them!
@ZwiQ I'm active in an on-off fashion and I like it here because I sort of know everyone. I guess it has gotten boring before, and as I hinted earlier I'm a bit bored of the content as of now because DnD questions don't really interest me that much.
But I like having people to speak to about RPGs in addition to my IRL group because their experience is rather different from mine...
We also used to write a bunch of things about the campaign world. Like a constitution (or something like Magna Carta) for the land to which one of our characters became the lord. However, since we no longer play, that kind of writing has mostly disappeared.
@MaikoChikyu Hey, yes
Hello
I read in your infobox that you are from Turkey. Is that true?
@ZwiQ Yeah, I basically wanna be a writer and I find writing short stories about my Stellaris and CK2 games to be an easy way to practice. I usually don't keep them, though.
