User blog comment:Koduesp/Monsters in Literature/@comment-43425904-20191105001848/@comment-43640490-20191106140054

Yeah, it's a difficult line where both the ruler and the pen are shaking. I've played various tabletop wargames myself, too, and familiar with how they publish lore (by the way, I could expand on Malifaux but I don't know how to get safe to use pictures.)

I was thinking along the lines that if the creature exists in a publication that's meant solely for reading (no gaming material within the same covers) it's definitely literature. If it exists only in gaming variables perhaps with introductory lore piece, it's not literature. Of course Warhammers with massive amount of Black Library publications is probably the most grey area between these two distinctions.

It might be that the hassle is far greater than the supposed gains in this. It's just a personal preference, really, coming from someone who keeps unhealthy amount of statistical information from personal life (with zero practical use. Average words per read book? 332,78. A breakdown on monthly use of money? Booooring.) So... maybe I don't go into Hybrids vs Liminal Beings discussion either.