Re: Godzilla and friends
 

I like Kaiju as a species personally just cause thinking ahead, how many of these guys have clear and defined species? Like what is Mothra? A Moth/Insect? An Entity/Deity? The Pacific Rim monsters I’m pretty sure explicitly are called Kaiju as a species as well.

It just makes a lot of sense to me to have Kaiju (an easy catch-all tag for all these guys) as a species, and then have their class represent what they actually spend their time doing.

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I agree with this. I'm much more interested in Godzilla working well with Mothra than Godzilla working well with Bob, Ted, Carol, and Ringo.

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Insect makes sense to me.

Thematically, it just feels like a hack to claim that Godzilla and Mothra are the same species. Plus I worry that the leftboxes get samey that way.

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I was thinking once a round but I think I like the charge-up even better.

Something like this?

Or should it be remove any number of markers to roll that many dice?

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I think I like it how you have it. I was thinking I liked the ability to be more tactical, but I actually think I like a bit more predictability with a big bad "boss Monster" type.

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:up:

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Well now I look forward to an Ant-Man swarm of ants being heralding his control over Mothra.

Eh, I personally feel that making up species is a weirder/worse approach. Because sure, Godzilla can be a dino and Mothra can be an Insect. But are we gonna call Ghidorah a dragon? Or Biollante a plant?

And admittedly, the roster we do probably won't go deep enough for it to actually be a problem. Kaiju just means strange creature, and these things are all weird mutations (we use terms like mutate and metahuman liberally, so the logic carries here to a degree). But we've also sort of set a precedent with Kong. Though he's separate enough that we don't necessarily have to stick to it? I guess I'm more a "pick a lane and stick to it" on the species approach.

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Kong is American and all the rest are Japanese.

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Yeah, Kong has met Godzilla, but he's pretty separate from Godzilla and friends.

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Yeah, that all tracks for me.

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Why wouldn't Biollante be a plant?

I feel like the standard for mutated animal stuff has been to keep whatever their base species is. TMNT, Spider-Ham, etc.

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Oh I'm not saying it doesn't track. More that it can make some weird interactions at times. I'm slightly more in the Bats camp of "more concerned with Mothra interacting with the other Kaiju as opposed to Ant Man stuff," but don't care enough to actually debate it.

Biollante was probably a weird example. The thing is part plant, part human, part Godzilla, so it seemed like a fair thought experiment, but yeah mutated animal, just pick the base animal is the aesthetic so far.