Re: needed: a supreme Blob Badass

Janis Papanagnou wrote:
L wrote:

Objection! Puddings are described in their source mythos as "cell
colonies" that constitute a synergetic living organism - and as such
are functionally different to blobs or jellies (which are seemingly
just magically animated pools of liquid)


Well, I would have considered jellies as a homogeneous substance while
I'd associate a blob with some liquid enclosed in some skin. (So we're
back at four different letters again? ;-)

Is that a distinction the average caveman or naive tourist would notice?

Restrict the classes to creatures that look obviously different.
Being humanoid, the adventurer will have no trouble with fine
distinctions amonst fellow humanoids - so elves, dwarves, orcs
all get a letter despite looking much the same - but the difference
between a pudding and a jelly would be lost on them.

The freed letters could be used for more categories of demons, or
of humanoids.

--
'It is a wise crow that knows which way the camel points' - Pratchett
Robert Shaw
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