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Eh, I'm not counting on anything too interesting happening with that. All the usual badass characters will find a way to keep the monsters at bay, like always. Boring.

If anyone feels like proving me wrong and actually doing something interesting with it, please do.

Or maybe you could decide not to sit back and force others to entertain you and maybe, just maybe, do something interesting with it yourself?

Assuming that you play a less-badass or differently-badass character, why don't you put them in a position where they'll be a part of the situation but forced to figure out a less conventional way to deal with it? It's not like the monsters are limited in number and need to be NPC'd. As long as you can put your character anywhere you want, you can probably find a way to involve them. The fact that characters with big guns exist doesn't mean that everyone else is safe.

To both you and the anon above: actually, my character is one of the usual badasses who doesn't even break a sweat dealing with monsters. That's one of the reasons I'm bored of generic monster attack plots. If there was something else happening while the monster attacks are going on, like a mindfuck or everyone's weapons disappearing temporarily or just generally anything that hinders badassery, I think that would be much more interesting.

And how do you know it won't? All you know so far is what's on the calendar, they never give the full thing on the calendar.

Then I'll bite my tongue but, eh.

I thought that there were supposed to be monsters hard enough to challenge even the strongest fighters there? Maybe I'm imagining things but I THOUGHT I read something about that.

If so, people have been ignoring that fact.

They really have. I felt like I was the only one letting the island's monsters challenge my badass character like they're supposed to, and then other characters turned around like YOU HAD TROUBLE WITH THAT? I TAKE THOSE OUT IN MY SLEEP. So it ruined the effect. :(

Yeah, I think it's just a case of people forgetting/overlooking it.

From the FAQ's section on power caps - http://infovoid.dreamwidth.org/205991.html

"As a general rule of thumb, if a character's ability is God-tier, it's probably been capped to something more manageable. Anything else is fair game to a "helpful" extent, but for perspective: if your character were level 5 in a video game, the monsters are usually level 10 and just a hair above what you can take on alone. We like to allow as many abilities as we can to keep the gameplay unique and let everyone work to their strengths/band together for weaknesses, just nothing that will break the game or make things too easy."

So the monsters SHOULD be challenging to everyone.

I'm trying to keep my badass overpowered characters reasonably checked, but when it comes to the random monsters in game they don't ... sound very scary? Even the descriptions in the bestiary don't sound that intimidating, and iirc a lot of them even say "this monster is not very hard, one star."

I usually just make up my own, since the beastery just says that's an example of some of the monsters on the island, right?

That's a good suggestion. Well even if you didn't mean it as one I'll take it as such! Thanks!

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