Log Horizon

[MFauli]

With how broadly this anime tries to create the rules of a new world, I´m kinda disappointed by the lack of topics such as sex or crime. You´d think that with so many different players, there´d be some with certain urges. Also, there should be some who act like criminals, and not necessarily because they´re evil per se, but because they don´t want to accept this new situation as "real" instead of the game they knew it as.

I´d also really like to know two things:

1.) Monsters do respawn just like the adventurers, and if I recall correctly, it is really the very same monsters that were killed. Killing monsters seems fine for inarticulate dinosaurs and such, but what about intelligent, talk-capable monsters? I feel like it´s highly unfair to just continue killing those, instead of approaching them to figure out a peaceful solution. Really, since they also respawn, they´re not that different from the adventurers.

2.) Was it established what it takes to kill a NPC? Since the princess is about to follow onto the battlegrounds, I was wondering just how dangerous that would be. Do NPCs have a health bar and can be healed, or are they one-hit characters that behave like real human beings in the real world? Since the People from the Land do have soldiers that can fight monsters, I´d reckon they also have a health bar, but I can´t remember ever having seen one.

The princess´ new outfit is gorgeous.

[Ryllharu]

1.) Monsters do respawn just like the adventurers, and if I recall correctly, it is really the very same monsters that were killed. Killing monsters seems fine for inarticulate dinosaurs and such, but what about intelligent, talk-capable monsters? I feel like it´s highly unfair to just continue killing those, instead of approaching them to figure out a peaceful solution. Really, since they also respawn, they´re not that different from the adventurers.

From the mage's explanation episode, and our discussion here, it seems that the vast overwhelming majority of monsters are an existence similar to adventurers that have been killed far too many times.

The monsters are part of a world-alteration curse. Their spirits revive again and again and again, but their minds are long past eroded, far beyond the worst of the memory-loss the adventurers experience. The difference is that the monsters never had one, while an adventurer's mind used isolated from that erosion by being in the world we know...though now it is here.

In short, there are no intelligent respawning monsters. They barely register above animals in terms of intelligence.

[Kraco]

2.) Was it established what it takes to kill a NPC? Since the princess is about to follow onto the battlegrounds, I was wondering just how dangerous that would be. Do NPCs have a health bar and can be healed, or are they one-hit characters that behave like real human beings in the real world? Since the People from the Land do have soldiers that can fight monsters, I´d reckon they also have a health bar, but I can´t remember ever having seen one.

Yeah, they have been shown to have a health bar a number of times. If you want to check, watch for example ep 11 and jump to 9:14.

It's probably dangerous for the princess because she was assigned a personal guard of 12 players, when the actual strike force was 96. So, she got bloody 10% of the available manpower as her personal safety detail. In addition to that, apparently being lazy and cowardly doesn't level one up much, as Shiroe adviced the merchant guild dude to find equipment requiring less than level 4. So, I'd say her HP is on the low side as well.