Thread:Sylvandyr/@comment-5832451-20121215032807

Might I suggest a cleaner set of General Breeding Rules?

1) Monsters of the same species cannot breed

2) When breeding, the elements of each parent are combined into a pool.

3) If there are any duplicates, the breeding will fail and one of the parents will be returned.

4) If a 4-element monster is bred with any other monster, the breeding will fail (due to duplicates) and the other parent will automatically be returned.

5) Otherwise, the results of any breeding will return one of three things: either one of the parents (failed breeding) or a new monster which is the combination of all of the pooled elements.

6) The only exceptions so far are the Special Monsters, which have unique combinations. The Punkleton was the result of breeding a T-Rox and Bowgart, while the Yool is the result of breeding a Deedge and Thumpies.

It says the same thing, but even though I know how the breeding works, I almost got confused reading yours. When you say "the resulting offspring will be any parents that do not break the rule", it's a little ambiguous. If you mean not breaking the duplicate element rule, then how could one parent break the rule but not the other? (Is it the Maw that has the duplicate Cold or is it the Clamble?)

Also, you talk about the pool of elements and it seems to imply that there are many possibilities and you could pick ANY monster out of the pool  -- e.g. breeding Maw (water/cold) and Clamble (plant/earth/cold) and ending up with Shrubb (plant/earth) Furcorn (plant/cold) or Drumpler (earth/cold) -- which I have never seen (if you have, please let me know). I have only ever gotten back one of the parents or the one unique monster that combines all of the bred elements together. I think stating that there's really only at most 3 possibilities resulting from each breeding combination makes it a little easier to comprehend.

Sorry, this was a little long, but I like to make things clear cut and not so ambiguous (even if I use a lot of words to do so).

Anyway, I thought I'd run this by you before I just edited what you wrote on the page. Otherwise it's great stuff. 