Talk:Bulette (Dungeons & Dragons)

Unjustified description

I believe the description likening the bulette to a badger is entirely unjustified. The bulette has a sleek, pointed shape and a fin-like protuberance on its back, much like a shark's fin. It does not really resemble a badger in any way. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.190.85.4 (talk) 04:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

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Much better, overall, to have this fully-sourced, mostly out-of-universe, by-edition description of the creature, which should be the standard by which all D&D fictional element articles are written (and eventually re-written). I'm not sure that the details on statistical information such as hit points and damage and description of game scale are necessary - would someone who's never played the game even remotely have a clue what that means? - but I'm glad the overall focus is on the more tangible aspects of the creatre rather than the absract aspects of its statistics. I'm a bit more concerned about statements such as "a formidable challenge even for a large party of low-level characters" and "making it a much tougher challenge, even for a mid-level party of adventurers"; are these ideas taken from any kind of source? If we have Gygax saying "I think the bulette is definitely a challenge for low-level PCs" or Skip Williams saying "We made the 3E bulette a much tougher challenge, even for a mid-level party" that's one thing, as that's quotable - or even if one of the monster books, or an article about monsters, or anything makes such a conclusion that we can draw on, that's fine, but I think if that's an assumption made by someone reading the books then we cross the line into WP:OR.

Otherwise, I feel it is well done and now a much stronger article! 24.148.0.83 (talk) 18:51, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

I was uneasy about using game terms such as hit points, but otherwise how to quantify the challenge of this monster? A 1st lvl PC in original D&D started with 1-10 hit points. On a successful bite, a bulette could deal between 4-48 points damage, meaning most of the time, a bulette would kill a 1st-lvl PC with one bite. Without resorting to numbers, there is very little way to state that in the article unless we can find a reference to some gamer saying, "Whoa, those mothers were the bomb, dude!" or words to that effect. However, someone else may have a brilliant idea regarding this. Guinness323 (talk) 20:54, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

After some consideration, I removed most of the numbers, adding onl;y a reference to Challenge Rating (D&D 3.0), with comparison to two other creatures. Guinness323 (talk) 23:47, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Ich bin ein Bulette?

Added a citation for the "Hamburger" reference and reverted. Also, it's only called that in Berlin, so I added that descriptor. SuperAnth: so dubbed by others, perpetuated by action (talk) 22:23, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

I deleted this. Just because a word in another language matches this word is not a reason for inclusion in the article unless somehow the two are related. If Gygax took the word "bulette" from the German, or vice versa, the Berliner word for burger was borrowed from D&D, that would be the only reason for inclusion. Guinness323 (talk) 22:34, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

I'm adding the term "coincidentally". While the word exists in another language, it is still spelled identically, and merits a reference. SuperAnth: so dubbed by others, perpetuated by action (talk) 23:14, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Not really, no. It only belongs in this article if it's related to the article's topic. If it's a separate topic, it would belong in its own article if it actually merited one. If the Berliner usage is in fact coincidental, that in itself means it's not appropriate. —chaos5023 (talk) 23:37, 23 May 2010 (UTC)

Etymology?

What is the origin of the word? Sounds French. Equinox ◑ 11:24, 30 November 2016 (UTC)

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