Every Monster is a Ancient Greek Athlete, Also some thoughts about combat.

It may not be a big problem for anyone else but I've noticed the NPC's have some advantages over PC's, They can sometimes run faster, most of them can definitively jump higher than PC's, one time a monster chased me over 300 feet of mountains, poison water and other hazards, and was so certain that it wanted me dead, I felt like I was being hunted down.

I've also noticed that Monsters don't even have to attack you to damage you, They just need to touch you, It would be nice if they had the same advantages and disadvantages like having to be looking at you and swinging something like their gigantic mouth to hurt you, instead of just having sit back and wait for you to walk into it. It's kinda unbalanced for both because if your using a shield you just need to intentionally get hit to be immune to the following attacks for a few seconds. it'd be a bit more challenging if you had to time your blocks to coincide with their attack. and if you just hold down the block button they try something else like jumping on you or using an attack that shields can't really block, like spraying fire, acid, something along those lines.