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So then, by your measure, something merely needs to be large and long of both neck and tail to be considered a dragon? I daresay that is a classification of even lesser sense than aught this world has decided.
The grass typing was never being questioned, by the by.
and here my brain decides 3 am is a fine time to tag
AND TH4T TH3 OTH3R W31RDN3SS 1S B3C4US3 OF TH3 GR4SS 1NFLU3NC3
1'M NOT 4BOUT TO PROCL41M 3V3RY LUMB3R1NG B3H3MOTH TH4T W4ND3RS 1N TO B3 4 DR4GON JUST B3C4US3 1T 1S B1G!
WH4T 1 4M S4Y1NG 1S TH4T 1F DR4GON TR41TS C4N M4N1F3ST 1N NOT SO OBV1OUS W4YS L1K3 TH4T TH3N TH3 MOR3 CL34RLY DR4CON1C LOOK1NG ON3S N33D 4 B3TT3R 4NSW3R FOR WHY TH3Y DON'T COUNT
1F 1 4M GO1NG TO COLL3CT 4ND TR41N TH3M TH3N 1 W4NT TO UND3RST4ND TH3M FULLY
4ND TO DO TH4T 1 N33D TO KNOW 1F 1 C4N R3LY ON TH3 1NFORM4T1ON 4V41L4BL3 TO M3 OR 1F 1 W1LL H4V3 TO SORT 1T OUT MYS3LF
[For all the inciting post may be ridiculous, she's not about to go into this half-assed.]
DO YOU H4V3 4N 3X4MPL3 4BOUT TH3 1D1OMS THOUGH?
TH4T P4RT 1 DON'T 3XP3CT TO M4K3 4S MUCH S3NS3
BUT 1T C4N'T HURT TO L34RN MOR3
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After all, if your parameter for what is or is not a dragon allows for that which looks naught like the creatures, then should you not likewise accept those that bear resemblence need not be classified as such?
As for the idioms, psychic types are effective against and resistant to poison types. Are you familiar with the idiom "mind over matter"?
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1 GU3SS
BUT 1T ST1LL S33MS PR3TTY DUMB
1 G3T TH4T TH1S 1S 4 G4M3 BUT 1 H4D HOP3D TH4T P4RT WOULD B3 B3TT3R D3S1GN3D >:[
1F 1 G3T 4 CH4R1Z4RD 1 4M GO1NG TO N4M3 1T DR4GON OUT OF SP1T3
DON'T G3T M3 ST4RT3D ON M1ND STUFF
TH3 4NSW3R 1S Y3S OBV1OUSLY
3NOUGH TO KNOW 1T'S 4 PR3TTY S1LLY 3XPL4N4T1ON FOR PSYCH1CS B31NG D1FF1CULT TO PO1SON
BUT 1T W1LL M4K3 FOR 4 GOOD MN3MON1C D3V1C3
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But who am I to criticize this world's god, hm?
Speaking of, I am likewise in agreement. Similarly, I see not why telekinesis should more thoroughly devastate a creature of venomous persuasion than aught else, and yet here we are. I have also surmised that the weaknesses that psychic types are burdened with are the results of common fears, than aught else. Dark, ghost, and bug types specifically.
Bug types are likewise an oddity. Like dragons, why do they have a more biological typing versus those that skew more elemental? Why is there not a canine type, a feline type, and so forth? Or even a mere beast type?
This world runs on arbitrary and malformed decisions, and it direly needed a consultant ere such folly was ever set in stone.
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YOU SOUND L1K3 YOU H4V3 3XP3R13NC3 W1TH TH1S
BUT 4LSO L1K3 YOU KNOW WHO 1S R3SPONS1BL3 >:?
1N 4NY C4S3, YOU 4R3 PR3TTY GOOD 4T CR1T1C1Z1NG TH3M 4NYW4Y
SO WH4T WOULD YOU CH4NG3 1F YOU W3R3 TH3 D3S1GN3R?
1F YOU W3R3 GO1NG TO T4K3 TYP3S OUT
OR 4DD TYP3S 1N
OR M4YB3 R3DO TH3 WHOL3 TH1NG FROM TH3 GROUND UP?
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from a practice unique to this reality. As for the one responsible, well do I know of him--or it--but nary have I beheld the scoundrel. Only in passing from others did I come to learn of such information.
Now, if I were the marionettist of this mummery, I would absolutely must needs start from the ground up. Limiting to dual-types is far too simplistic to simulate the complexities of life in any way believable. If you wish to fool your captives, you must put forth equivalent effort to cement the suspension of disbelief. Otherwise you risk far too much skepticism.
With that said, I would have it all categorized into regnum, kindred, genus, species, and monster. However, what would truly be relevant would to the battling aspects would be elemental affinity (ice, water, wind, lightning, fire, earth, light, darkness), as well as their kindred and genus.
You see, the absurd structure in place for these creatures robs nature of its very laws and sense--that these limited and oft inaccurate typings barely make mock of what should be is embarrassing at best, insulting at worst. Nay, at the very least a creature should have three crucial aspects to claim affinity to, but little should it be so mind numbingly shallow.
Let us take Beedrill for example. By the system in place, this insectoid is typed as Bug/Poison. Yet, it shares aspects with flying types. Despite this, it gains no advantages nor disadvantages in relation to such a reality. In the classification I would assign, it would fall under the kindred vilekin for being an insect, then it would fall under the genus giant hornet. Such classification would cover and afford it the necessary advantages of being an airborne insectoid, as well as covering the venomous properties such a creature has, but it would nary stop there.
Combined with this would be the elemental affinity, which one might deem an aerial creature such as it wind aspected. Thus, Beedrill would be typed as vilekin, giant hornet, and wind aspect. There are roughly twelve kindred groups, and each has an advantage, or disadvantage, against another, yet elemental affinity could turn prey into predator, and so forth. Even so, technically speaking, there are overlaps in kindreds, though certain affinities are primary, and others secondary.
With Beedrill being a creature both insectoid and airborne, it could easily fall under the kindreds of vilekin and cloudkin, though a stronger affinity towards the former over the latter. Even this serves as a gross simplification of what would be appropriate classification, for the laws of nature are far from simple, and this world is but a crude, imperfect mock of it.
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SO YOU'R3 GO1NG FOR SOM3TH1NG MOR3 R34L1ST1C
YOU H4V3 CL34RLY G1V3N TH1S SOM3 THOUGHT!
TH3 W4Y 1 S33 1T, 4 G4M3 C4N ST1LL B3 OBV1OUSLY 4 G4M3 4ND B3 3NJOY4BL3
BUT TH3R3 4R3 W4YS TO M4K3 1T MOR3 TH3M4T1C4LLY COH3R3NT
S4Y FOR 3X4MPL3 1F 4LL TH3 CR34TUR3S W3R3 DR4GONS 4ND TH3 3L3M3NT4L SUBTYP3S D1CT4T3D TH3 K1ND OF POW3RS TH3Y H4V3
PROB4BLY JUST ON3 TYP3 34CH
B3C4US3 3V3N 1F W3 C4N 4LL 4GR33 TH4T L1GHTN1NG TH4T 1S 4LSO ON F1R3 1S 3XTR3M3LY COOL, 1T DO3S G3T 4 L1TTL3 TOO COMPL1C4T3D SOM3T1M3S
SO 1NST34D
4 S3COND4RY C4T3GORY COULD B3 FOCUS3D ON STR3NGTHS OF 4 D1FF3R3NT K1ND
L1K3 S4Y....................
4R34S OF L4W >:]
DR4GON L4W S1MUL4TOR WOULD B3 4 SM4SH H1T 1 JUST KNOW 1T
YOU WOULD R41S3 YOUR DR4GONS FOR BOTH PHYS1C4L 4ND L3G4L PROW3SS
PHYS1C4L FOR HUNT1NG DOWN CR1M1N4LS
4ND L3G4L FOR PR3S3NT1NG YOUR C4S3 TO TH3 COURT
OF COURS3 3L3M3NT4L 4FF1N1TY COULD 4LSO S3RV3 1N D3L1V3R1NG TH3 S3NT3NC3 BUT TH4T 1S MOR3 OF 4 BONUS