Talk:Aerodactyl (3.5e Monster)

Size

Aerodactyl? Huge? It's only 5'11" on average. Isn't that pretty clearly medium?

Pretty sure Koumei was concerned about "wooo riding around on Aerodactyls" more than staying true to the in-game flavor stats. Also, those are the same parts of the entry that has Wailord having 1/5 the density of air, so... yeah, not staying literally true to those is probably for the best. --Quantumboost 15:28, April 2, 2010 (UTC)

I can see that maybe justifying putting it as Large, but certainly not Huge. And yeah, the people who wrote Pokedex stats weren't entirely careful about what they were doing in terms of weight, but the sizes are pretty hard to argue with, and relatively consistent.

I would suggest, for the sake of making a thing the size that it really is, to put it at Medium and give it some ability that lets it carry a Medium rider despite normal restrictions. --DanielDraco (talk) 00:32, 22 October 2012 (UTC)

You're Too Slow!

Dude. This is Aerodactyl. Its base Speed stat is 130. It's just as fast as Jolteon and Mewtwo. And you gave it a Dexterity score of 10?!?!?!?!?!? WTH, dude?!? --Luigifan18 (talk) 23:07, 12 December 2015 (UTC)

Dexterity =/= Agility. See dragons... speeds of 250 ft, Dex 10 and clumsy. Also see large bomber aircraft. Easily supersonic, not exactly nimble. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 01:11, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

Except the Pokémon Speed stat and the D&D Dexterity stat do measure agility (and reaction time). The latter is explicitly spelled out in the description, while the former is implied (seriously, Pidgeot is described as flying at Mach 2 speeds and its base Speed is 101, formerly 91, while Dragonite, which can circumnavigate the globe in 16 hours, has a base Speed of 80, and Skarmory, which apparently flies at supersonic speeds, has a base Speed of 70, and don't get me started on Rapidash and Arcanine…). You seem to have confused agility with top speed. Movement speed ≠ Dexterity. --Luigifan18 (talk) 21:06, 13 December 2015 (UTC)

That's a result of Pokemon stats being a) Hilariously inaccurate, to the point memes are made from them and B) Translating to a different system. Things are gained and lost during translation in order to make sense. To put this in linguistic terms, "u a donner ta langue au chat?" literally translates into "give your tongue to a cat", which makes no sense. But if you translate it proper, it becomes "cat got your tongue?"

Basically, don't get too hung up on being accurate 1::1, worry about if it works in the system you're translating to. Pokemon doesn't differentiate between Speed and Agility in a mechanical sense, not like D&D. Though confusingly enough your post seems to... agree with me in the latter half? What exactly are you saying?

Pokemon descriptions by the way about Diglett moving at the speed of c and snails being hotter than the sun, bollocks btw. Don't put too much reliability in them. -- Eiji-kun (talk) 00:28, 14 December 2015 (UTC)