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[Misterstone]

Would it be possible to have a worldgen option allowing...

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random beast [ie the "forgotten beasts", but not forgotten of course] to generate above-ground.  I would like a world like _The Dying Earth_ or _Nifft the Lean_ where all kinds of strange nasty giant monsters roam the landscape.  I realize this not for everyone, of course, so perhaps it could exist merely as an option?

 

[Footkerchief]

It's planned to allow further randomizations:

# Core93, RANDOMIZED MEGABEASTS AND POWERS: (Semi)megabeasts and powers can be randomly generated, in accordance with existing local belief structures or regional sphere alignments when that goes in. The degree of randomization should depend on world parameters so that stock creatures can still be used. Requires Core92.

# Core94, RANDOMIZED REGIONS AND THEIR FLORA/FAUNA: The current good/evil regions should be scrapped and replaced by a system that aligns a region to varying degrees with a set of spheres. In this way you could end up with a desert where the stones sing or a forest where the trees bleed, with all sorts of randomly generated creatures and plants that are appropriate to the sphere settings. It's important that randomly generated objects be introduced to the player carefully during play rather than just being thrown one after another to allow for immersion, though there's also something to be said for cold dumping the player in a world with completely random settings, provided they can access enough information by looking/listening and having conversations, etc. Requires Core92.

# Core95, RANDOMIZED ENTITIES AND CIVILIZED CREATURES: As a further project of random generation, an entire entity definition complete with creature definitions, items, etc. could be generated and introduced into the world. As with other random settings, the degree to which this process is used would depend on world generation parameters, and the generation procedures would be accessible through raw objects. Requires Core93 and Core94.

[Capntastic]

Pretty sure the titans already embody this suggestion to a degree.