Spider Stomper
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Sunday, 18th June 2017, 18:42
rename porcupine, spiny frog
Both names are very misleading, in a part of the game when not having misleading names is especially important. Specifically:
--) When a monster based on a real-life animal is proportionately much more dangerous than the actual animal, the monster's name should indicate this. Increasingly, monster naming conventions have indeed been moving in this direction, but the porcupine is an exception. Rename to "giant porcupine."
--) While the porcupine has spines, the spiny frog does not. You take a lot of damage when meleeing it simply because it hits very hard (26 + poison; compare to a yak or elephant's 20 and a death yak's 30). This is inexcusably confusing. For the longest time--like hundreds of hours and a bunch of wins--I thought the opposite, and believed that more AC would make a big difference in protecting me from the retaliation damage. Rename to something that indicates its high melee damage, perhaps "stinger frog" or "manticore frog."
edit: OR YAKFROG! (as a step up from bullfrog!). Maybe a bit much given that there are also yaktaurs, but otherwise this would imo nicely communicate "this is a big beefy frog, and it's a hard-hitting fast-moving threat in much the way frogs associated with a less scary bovine were at the beginning of the game."
--) When a monster based on a real-life animal is proportionately much more dangerous than the actual animal, the monster's name should indicate this. Increasingly, monster naming conventions have indeed been moving in this direction, but the porcupine is an exception. Rename to "giant porcupine."
--) While the porcupine has spines, the spiny frog does not. You take a lot of damage when meleeing it simply because it hits very hard (26 + poison; compare to a yak or elephant's 20 and a death yak's 30). This is inexcusably confusing. For the longest time--like hundreds of hours and a bunch of wins--I thought the opposite, and believed that more AC would make a big difference in protecting me from the retaliation damage. Rename to something that indicates its high melee damage, perhaps "stinger frog" or "manticore frog."
edit: OR YAKFROG! (as a step up from bullfrog!). Maybe a bit much given that there are also yaktaurs, but otherwise this would imo nicely communicate "this is a big beefy frog, and it's a hard-hitting fast-moving threat in much the way frogs associated with a less scary bovine were at the beginning of the game."
Last edited by luckless on Monday, 19th June 2017, 16:02, edited 1 time in total.
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(so much for my dreams of yakupines). Hogs are small, so they are better sized.