I had a few questions with respect to the Fire Lizard.
- First, it seems awfully close to an unintentional biological version of "Show the handwavium a picture and have it make you your genre vehicle." It's pretty much being presented as a Really Cool Thing (we got one, we *might* be able to get another) and it's not all that universe-breaky unless you sprout a breeding pair, but....
- Second, are you intending to give this thing the teleport powers? What about the empathic powers? (Both are relatively nontrivial to justify.) If it's built anything like a normal fire lizard and wants to be able to fly in 1G, it's already going to need some grav-effect to keep it up. (This is much easier to justify, but is still special.) How many special effects does the little critter have?
- Third, by current description, you basically build a critter entirely out of handwavium. What kind of quirks does this thing have?
- First, it seems awfully close to an unintentional biological version of "Show the handwavium a picture and have it make you your genre vehicle." It's pretty much being presented as a Really Cool Thing (we got one, we *might* be able to get another) and it's not all that universe-breaky unless you sprout a breeding pair, but....
- Second, are you intending to give this thing the teleport powers? What about the empathic powers? (Both are relatively nontrivial to justify.) If it's built anything like a normal fire lizard and wants to be able to fly in 1G, it's already going to need some grav-effect to keep it up. (This is much easier to justify, but is still special.) How many special effects does the little critter have?
- Third, by current description, you basically build a critter entirely out of handwavium. What kind of quirks does this thing have?