Let’s come up with a monster.

Silvanis, you don't like any of that.

:) Well, you're not entirely right. For example, I would like to have about ten neutral monsters, roughly equal in strength to the city's creatures:)

The Terminator or Langar would introduce unnecessary absurdity.

That's true.

It's correct that equal and ordinary monsters can bring much more variety, but we shouldn't forget about the powerful ones either.

Exactly, and I'm saying that ordinary monsters will bring more variety... Because people tend to gravitate towards "bigger, stronger, better"; let's make one mega-dragon, then a super-mega-dragon that's even cooler, then a super-duper-mega-dragon that's several times cooler, and then an ultimate dragon that can tear through entire armies on its own... We just need to know when to stop. And, in my opinion, mega-monsters introduce some imbalance into the game - it's REALLY much easier for necromancers and mages to capture dragon lairs like the Crystal Caves in the early weeks than it is for barbarians, and having several of those dragons is an abnormally large advantage. And, for me personally, they don't improve the atmosphere at all.

Actually, we're arguing as if we're deciding something at Nival.;)

That's absolutely true:) We don't really have anything to argue about, because there's nothing to decide