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Legamon "Illustrated" (OSR)

 One of the delightfully-creative things to have come out of the OSR wing of RPGs is legamon, or "legallydistinctémon." Created for the GLOG RPG (Goblin's Laws of Gaming, a minimally-structured ruleset that retains much of the essence of D&D while dropping most of the trappings), legamon are monsters much like the ones from an unnamed popular franchise, yet legally distinct—hence the name. It started on the Numbers Aren't Real blog  with tables to create your own legamon, which was automated in a post on Whose Measure God Could Not Take , and has spun out of control ever since. Good blog posts to see for more can be found here , here , and here , and many more places on the Internet and on Discord than I could link to. It's a fun setting with interesting permutations and repercussions that have a lot of gamability. The one downside was that, of course, the original franchise is very well known for some iconic art pieces depicting their most popular monsters, a...