ranged attack on every monster?

[Rinsui]

People want the game harder not easier,and difficulty comes in many ways.

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

[Kallera]

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

You are playing a game where knights fight on ostriches, toads are the size of kiosks, and walking plants that have more teeth than sharks! Those squirrels need SOME way to kill you!

[Rinsui]

That's no contradiction. You actually *can* ride on an ostrich, giant toads are an *imaginable* thing nature could (and has, in the past) come up with, and whether Morbols are plants is... well... a good question. In my book, those squirrels and ladybugs are o.k. as LV 1 enemies, but once I use more than a loincloth to cover my body, I have a hard time trying to imagine *how on earth* they manage do chip away at my HP.

Fireballs: o.k.
Magic Samurai Dwarfs: o.k.
Pink Elephants floating in the sky: borderline
Goats killing a Paladin with... snot: no-no.

[Kallera]

That's no contradiction. You actually *can* ride on an ostrich, giant toads are an *imaginable* thing nature could (and has, in the past) come up with, and whether Morbols are plants is... well... a good question. In my book, those squirrels and ladybugs are o.k. as LV 1 enemies, but once I use more than a loincloth to cover my body, I have a hard time trying to imagine *how on earth* they manage do chip away at my HP.

Fireballs: o.k.
Magic Samurai Dwarfs: o.k.
Pink Elephants floating in the sky: borderline
Goats killing a Paladin with... snot: no-no.

Ants have been known to kill people.
The saliva of komodo dragons are a walking culturefest bacteria, making normally survivable bites deadly.
Impact screams have been used in games before.
Squirrel enemies used all sorts of attacks, including volcanic eruptions, and"L4 suicide" in FF7.
This is not the first, nor last "cute" enemy Square came up with.

They all can't be earth rending cinamatronic skylasers.

[Jericho]

Yes.
And I prefer ways that are not artifical, contrived and ridiculous. Like tiny squirrels that are magically able to penetrate my 2-inch steel breastplate with an acorn thrown from a 50 yard distance.

The squirrels aren't tiny anymore...

[Randis]

The squirrels aren't tiny anymore...

Yep... They stand waist high... and they are called Nutbiter for a reason