One of the more controversial decisions Gary Gygax made in D&D was what later commentators called "Gygaxian naturalism". This refers to portraying monsters as members of an entire species that naturally exists. This isn't always bad, but there are alternatives. Other people with blogs have spent a great deal of time discussing this subject already, so I decided to just make a table including all the possibilities I can think of for alternative creature origin.
Comment if you think of any more to add to the list. One obvious possibility is aliens, but I left that out since I never include them in my games.
D8/D6: Why does that creature exist?
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