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I was watching some RPG YouTube, and of course there was talk about Monsters. And with the recent OMG CONTROVERSY with the newest Monster Manual, I got to thinking about something that is more inherent in D&D and in fantasy games in general, why so many monsters? I've played various other games, and read many books, watched many movies, but it seems that fantasy games, with D&D leading the charge, seem to have more monsters than any other medium in the genre, or other genre's in particular. So yeah, why are there so many monsters?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

It draws from a lot of fantasy mythologies and needs a variety of monsters to populate encounters of all levels with lots of variety, plus intelligent species often have cultures which require more subtypes.