Wild Animals on Plains of Sedia - D20 Documentary

Great Cats

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great Cats#

One family of Wild Animals: 16 animals, levels 4 to 10. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Tigers, lions, leopards and their kin. Every one of them is a predator that would rather ambush than chase, and most are sold as pets to people who should know better.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Jaguarmedium · regularJaguars hunt the Menusian jungle from the ground, the branches and the water, and their bite cracks a turtle shell. They are seldom seen and often heard. The rosetted pelt sells well in Kyra.	4	19	13	1d10	1-2	DC 18	30
Cheetahmedium · regularCheetahs are the fastest thing on four legs on Sedia, and they run down antelope on the Crecian prairie and the high grasslands of Amari. Out of breath after a chase, they are no threat at all. Tharsian nobles keep trained ones for coursing, and a good one costs more than the horse.	4	20	12	1d10	1-6	DC 15	30
Cougarmedium · regularThe cougar is a tawny, long-tailed cat of the forests of Tharsis and Esthar, and the one people mean when they say something followed them home from the woods. It ambushes from above or behind. Look big, keep facing it and don’t run.	5	21	8	1d10	1-4	DC 9	10
Darkwood Tigermedium · regularThe darkwood tiger hunts the pine country of Tharsis and the forests of Esthar and New Saellem, a striped ghost that runs to thirty stones. It takes deer and the odd woodcutter’s ox, and it rarely uses the same trail twice. A clean pelt sells well in Tharsis, where the old families like a tiger skin in front of the hearth.	5	21	10	1d10	1-2	DC 15	10
Mountain Lionmedium · regularJewall calls the cougar a mountain lion, and the ones on the slopes of Mt. Tyr and the Kyrian Range are bigger and bolder than their forest cousins. It hunts goats and ibex from the rocks above the trail. Miners walk in pairs for a reason.	5	21	8	1d10	1	DC 9	10
Pumamedium · weakThe puma is the jungle cougar of Menusia and the forests of Amari, darker and quieter than its northern kin. It waits in the branches over the water and drops on deer and monkeys that come to drink. Few who meet one see it first.	5	21	8	1d10	1	DC 9	10
Lionmedium · regularLions hold the open grasslands of Amari and Crecia, and the males do a great deal of roaring and very little hunting. The lionesses do the killing. A tamed lion is a status animal in Dumasque, where the tribes trade them as gifts.	6	22	10	1d10	1-3	DC 16	10
Snow Leopardmedium · regularSnow leopards hunt the crags around Mt. Tyr and the ridges of New Saellem, gray-spotted and almost invisible against the rock. A family of them will stalk travelers on a mountain pass for miles before deciding. A tamed one is rare and sells well to anyone who can keep it cold.	7	23	14	1d10	2-3	DC 17	120
Leopardmedium · regularLeopards are spotted, patient and strong enough to drag a deer up a tree, and they live almost anywhere on Sedia with cover, from the hills of Jewall to the edges of the Crecian prairie. One may follow a party for a day without being seen. Leopard pelts are a staple of the fur markets.	8	24	13	1d10	1-3	DC 15	10
Panthermedium · weakA black leopard that hunts alone from the branches in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. In bright light you can just make out the spots under the black. Most people who have seen one are the ones it let go.	8	24	13	1d10	1	DC 15	10
Amari Tigermedium · regularThe amari tiger ranges farther than any other tiger, from the montane grasslands of Amari to the Crecian prairie and the Menusian coast. It is a patient ambusher and a strong swimmer. Taming one is close to impossible, and the few kept in captivity belong to people who would rather not say how they got them.	8	25	13	1d10	1-2	DC 18	90
Menusian Tigermedium · regularThe menusian tiger is the great orange-and-black cat of the Menusian jungle, and it also hunts the forests of Amari. It weighs as much as three men and kills with one bite to the neck. Villagers in its range don’t walk the forest after dark, and visitors shouldn’t either.	8	25	12	1d12	1	DC 10	20
Nigeer Tigermedium · regularThe nigeer tiger is small for a tiger and dark, with close-set stripes, and it hunts the jungle and riverbanks of the Tropics of Nigeer and the Amari coast. It swims well and often takes its prey at the water’s edge. Fishermen there leave a share of the catch on the bank, which may or may not help.	8	25	14	1d10	1-4	DC 18	20
Clouded Leopardmedium · regularThe clouded leopard is smaller than its cousins and climbs better than any of them, and it lives on the cliffs and canyons of Jewall and New Saellem. Its coat is patterned with big dark blotches like spilled ink. Pelt traders pay more for one than for a snow leopard because they so rarely get the chance.	10	27	12	1d10	1-3	DC 16	220
Kyrian Tigermedium · regularThe kyrian tiger is the biggest striped cat on Sedia, pale-coated and heavy in the shoulder, and it hunts the forests and shores of Amari and Menusia. Kyrian soldiers prize its claws as trophies. The tigers take a dim view of this.	10	27	12	1d10	1-3	DC 16	60
Crecian Tigermedium · regularThe crecian tiger is a lean, tawny tiger of the open prairie, and the herds of Crecia and Amari are its living. It stalks through tall grass almost on its belly. Ranchers in Crecia pay well for its pelt and better for proof it’s dead.	10	28	11	1d10	1	DC 17	40

Small Cats

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Small Cats#

One family of Wild Animals: 7 animals, levels 6 to 9. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Lynxes, servals and wild cats: quick, shy and much fiercer than their size.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Bobcatsmall · regularA stub-tailed cat of the forests, the bobcat is twice the size of a barn cat with ten times the temper. It lives quietly on hares and birds from Tharsis to New Saellem. Trappers sell the spotted fur, though it’s rarely worth the scratches.	6	18	5	1d4	1-3	DC 5	20
Crecian Highland Catsmall · weakA small, thick-furred cat of the scrub and high grass, the crecian highland cat is most common on the Crecian Highland but turns up as far as Amari and Moria. It hunts at night and is almost never seen by day. The banded tail is the giveaway, if you see anything at all.	6	18	5	1d4	1-3	DC 5	20
Dumasque Sand Catsmall · weakThe dumasque sand cat is a little sand-colored cat with furred paws that keep it off the burning ground of the Sands of Bone and the Morian Desert. It hunts snakes and jerboas at night and barely drinks. The tribes say a sand cat in camp means no vipers, and they may be right.	6	18	5	1d4	1-2	DC 5	20
Wild Catsmall · weakThe wild cat looks like a house cat with a thicker tail and a worse attitude, and it hunts mice and birds in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. It can be tamed, but it will not be cuddled.	6	18	5	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Ocelotmedium · regularA spotted cat about the size of a big dog that hunts the forests of Tharsis and Esthar at night. Ocelots are rare and quick, and a cornered one fights like something twice its size. Collectors pay for a tamed ocelot, but the taming is hard and usually costs some blood.	8	24	10	1d10	1-5	DC 17	90
Lynxmedium · regularThe lynx is a tufted-eared, spotted cat that is hard to see and harder to track through the pines of Tharsis and the snows of New Saellem. It lives on hares and the odd lamb and avoids people when it can. The pelt is one of the best furs a trapper can bring to market.	8	25	11	1d10	1-2	DC 20	120
Servalmedium · regularA long-legged spotted cat with huge ears that hunts the tall grass of Crecia and Amari. It can leap straight up and knock a bird out of the air. Servals tame better than most wild cats, and a tamed one is a fine ratter.	9	26	6	1d6	1-2	DC 7	45

Wolves and Wild Dogs

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Wolves and Wild Dogs#

One family of Wild Animals: 12 animals, levels 3 to 9. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Wolves, jackals, foxes and hyenas. The big ones hunt in packs, and a pack is worse than any of its members.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Fennec Foxsmall · weakA tiny sand-colored fox with ears half the size of its body. It lives in burrows across the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria and hunts by listening for insects underground. Tamed fennecs make popular pets, though they’ll dig through any floor you give them.	3	13	4	1d4	1	DC 4	30
Jackalsmall · weakJackals trot the edges of the Sands of Bone and the scrub of Crecia and Moria, yipping at dusk. They scavenge after lions and raid camps when they can. Caravans out of Dumasque set a guard against them every night.	3	14	2	1d4	1	DC 6	35
Foxsmall · weakFoxes are red, clever and everywhere, from the Crecian prairie to the scrub of Moria. They raid henhouses and camps and stay just out of reach. A fox pelt is worth a little; a fox in the henhouse costs a lot more.	5	16	4	1d4	1	DC 4	20
Hyenamedium · weakHyenas laugh at night on the Crecian prairie and the scrub of Amari and Moria, and the sound carries for miles. They scavenge most of the time and hunt the rest, and they get bold around the wounded. Keep the fire high and the injured in the middle.	5	21	3	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Dhjarian Foxsmall · weakA small gray fox with a sandy face that hunts the Dhjarian Pines and the other forests of Esthar and Tharsis. It eats almost anything, including whatever you left unguarded in camp. The pelt is thin and sells cheap.	6	18	6	1d4	1	DC 7	20
Gray Wolfsmall · weakThe big gray wolf of the northern forests and tundra, from Darkwood to the boreal woods of New Saellem. Alone it keeps its distance. A pack in winter doesn’t, and it will follow a party for days.	6	24	4	1d6	2-4	DC 5	40
Dholemedium · weakA rust-red wild dog that hunts in whistling packs through the forests of Menusia and Amari. One dhole is a nuisance. A pack will run down a deer or a traveler, and it doesn’t give up.	7	23	6	1d6	2-6	DC 6	25
Wild Dogmedium · regularWild dogs roam the forests of Tharsis and Esthar, some of them the grandchildren of village curs that never came home. Most are wary and keep their distance. The hungry winter ones come closer to the fire, and they go for the legs.	7	23	6	1d6	1	DC 6	25
Red Wolfmedium · regularSmaller than the gray wolf and red-brown, this lean wolf hunts deer and rabbits in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. Red wolves pair for life and defend the den hard.	8	24	6	1d8	1	DC 5	40
Wolfmedium · regularWolves hunt the forests and tundra of New Saellem and Jewall and the deep pines of Darkwood. Their howling carries for miles on a still night, and it’s meant to. A lone wolf will usually shadow a traveler and then leave, and one raised from a pup makes a loyal hunting companion.	8	24	4	1d6	1	DC 5	40
Coyotemedium · weakA lean, yellow-gray dog of the woods and tundra edges, the coyote yips through the night from Crecia to New Saellem. It steals chickens and follows caravans for scraps, and it runs from anyone who throws a rock. Easy to tame, hard to keep from wandering off.	8	25	2	1d6	1	DC 5	60
Dingomedium · weakA lean, sandy wild dog of the Dumasque and Morian deserts that hunts alone or in loose pairs. It howls instead of barking and raids camps at night. A pup taken young enough grows into a loyal dog.	9	26	5	1d4	1	DC 5	25

Dogs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Dogs#

One family of Wild Animals: 13 animals, levels 3 to 12. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The breeds Sedia keeps, each from the province that bred it. A stray of any of them is in the wild too.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Kinforge Rattersmall · regularThe kinforge ratter is a sleek black-and-tan terrier bred in the mine town of Kinforge to kill rats in the tunnels and storerooms. It is very fast and will work all night. Miners swear a good one saves more food than it eats.	3	13	5	1d6	1	DC 7	390
Crecian Terriersmall · regularThe crecian terrier is a small, flat-faced dog in a black-and-white coat, bred as a companion in the merchant houses of Crecia. It snores, it sneezes and it is very pleased to meet you. Crecian sailors take one aboard as a ratter, and it is bad at that.	3	14	6	1d6	1	DC 5	950
Dumasque Wrinklehoundmedium · regularThe dumasque wrinklehound is a guard dog wrapped in deep folds of loose skin, with a blue-black tongue and a frown it never loses. The tribes of the Sands of Bone keep them to watch tents and herds. It is aloof with strangers and does not care to be patted.	4	19	8	1d6	1	DC 8	200
Saellem Snow Houndmedium · regularThe saellem snow hound is a thick-coated spitz bred in New Saellem to guard homesteads and hunt through deep snow. It is loyal to one family and suspicious of everyone else. It sleeps outside in weather that kills men, and seems to prefer it.	10	28	5	1d6	1	DC 1	10
Kyrian War Dogmedium · regularThe kyrian war dog is a large, quiet fighting dog bred in Amari, where the Kyrians train it alongside their soldiers. It goes into a fight without barking or growling first. A trained one obeys its handler and nobody else.	11	33	5	1d6	1	DC 9	390
Bulldogmedium · regularBulldogs are short, broad and wrinkled, with a jaw that locks and won’t let go. They were bred in Tharsis for bull-baiting and are kept now as guards and companions by people who don’t mind snoring. Strays run in small packs and are more stubborn than dangerous.	11	35	6	1d6	1-4	DC 3	800
Bull Terriermedium · regularThe bull terrier has an egg-shaped head, small dark eyes and the stubbornness of a mule. It was bred for fighting and is kept now mostly as a guard dog and a clown. It will chase anything that runs, including things it shouldn’t.	11	36	6	1d6	1	DC 2	400
Coliseum Terriermedium · regularThe coliseum terrier was bred for the dog fights held in the ruins of Esthar’s Coliseum, and it is broad, short and built like a block of stone. It is gentle with its own people and nobody else. Treasure hunters in Esthar keep one by the tent flap.	11	40	5	1d6	1-2	DC 5	690
Jewall Mastiffmedium · regularThe jewall mastiff is a heavy, loose-skinned dog hung with folds of wrinkles, bred by the dwarves to guard the mine gates and storehouses of Jewall. It does not bark much. It doesn’t need to.	11	44	6	1d6	1	DC 3	400
Pitbull Terriermedium · regularThe pitbull terrier is a muscular, short-coated dog bred for the fighting pits of Moria and the Crecian harbor towns. Raised well, it is affectionate and fearless; raised badly, it is just fearless. A good one sells for over seven dover.	11	44	8	1d6	1-3	DC 4	760
Tharsian Mastiffmedium · regularThe tharsian mastiff is a massive, red-coated guard dog with an enormous head, bred to watch the estates of the old Tharsian families. It drools, it snores and it stands between its family and any stranger at the gate. Owning one says something about your family name, which in Tharsis is the point.	12	45	5	1d6	1	DC 4	700
Darkwood Boarhoundmedium · regularThe darkwood boarhound is a big white hound bred in Tharsis to hunt boar through Darkwood, working in pairs to pin the quarry until the hunters arrive. It is brave past the point of sense. A good one costs nearly ten dover from a Tharsian breeder.	12	46	9	1d6	1	DC 8	990
Morian War Mastiffmedium · regularThe morian war mastiff is the biggest dog on Sedia, bred in Moria to fight beside its handler in leather barding. It outweighs most men and moves faster than it looks. Morian breeders ask about seven dover for one, and buyers rarely haggle.	12	48	9	1d6	1	DC 5	690

Bears

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Bears#

One family of Wild Animals: 6 animals, levels 6 to 17. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Big, strong and short-tempered when surprised. Make noise on the trail.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Giant Pandamedium · regularThe giant panda is a black-and-white bear that eats bamboo all day in the forests of Menusia and Amari. It is peaceful and looks soft, and it still has a bear’s jaws. Merchants in Crecia pay well for a tamed one, though nobody has worked out what it’s for.	6	22	5	1d6	1	DC 5	70
Bearlarge · regularBears range through the forests of Tharsis and New Saellem and up onto the high tundra of Jewall, eating berries most of the year and whatever a careless camp leaves out. Most will leave if you make yourself loud and large. A sow with cubs will not, and nothing in Darkwood hits harder.	14	33	8	1d8	1	DC 10	80
Black Bearlarge · regularThe black bear roams the forests of Tharsis and Esthar and the taiga of New Saellem, eating berries, grubs and anything left unguarded in camp. Most will run from a shout. The ones that have learned what a pack smells like will not.	14	33	8	1d8	1	DC 10	80
Brown Bearlarge · regularBigger and shorter-tempered than its black cousin, the brown bear holds the deep woods from Darkwood to the pine forests of New Saellem. Walking between a sow and her cubs is the classic way to end a hunting trip early. Its hide sells well in Tharsis.	14	33	8	1d8	1	DC 10	80
Grizzly Bearlarge · regularA huge, hump-shouldered brown bear of the forests and alpine meadows of Jewall, New Saellem and Tharsis. It eats nearly anything and will not back down from a fight over food. If it stands up, back away slowly.	14	33	8	1d8	1	DC 10	80
Polar Bearlarge · regularWhite, silent and close to seventy stones, the polar bear hunts the arctic tundra of New Saellem, mostly seals along the ice of the Frozen Wastes. It treats a person as one more thing to eat. The pelt is worth a small fortune in Karthage, if you live to skin it.	17	40	8	1d8	1	DC 10	80

Great Beasts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great Beasts#

One family of Wild Animals: 7 animals, levels 11 to 36. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Elephants, rhinoceroses and hippopotamuses. Nothing on Sedia hunts them except people with a very good reason.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Hippopotamuslarge · regularHippopotamuses wallow in the jungle rivers of Menusia and Amari, and they kill more people there than any cat does. They look slow and they aren’t. Never stand between one and the water.	11	31	10	1d6	1	DC 11	60
Giraffelarge · weakThe giraffe is a long-necked browser of the forest edges of Menusia and Amari, eighteen feet tall and mostly legs. It’s gentle, but one kick can stop a lion, and travelers in the Tropics of Nigeer give them room.	16	34	3	1d4	1	DC 3	50
Hairy Rhinoceroslarge · mini-bossThe smallest rhinoceros on Sedia, covered in coarse red-brown hair, with two horns and a bad temper. It wallows in mud holes across the grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis. Hairy rhinos keep to themselves, but one that charges won’t stop for a shield wall.	16	36	12	1d10	1	DC 6	10
Rhinoceroshuge · minionThe rhinoceros grazes the grasslands and scrub of Crecia and Amari, half blind and short of temper. It charges at sounds, smells and shadows, and it does not turn. Its horn sells to apothecaries in Dumasque, who claim it cures things it doesn’t.	24	41	14	1d12	1	DC 6	10
White Rhinoceroshuge · minionA massive gray rhinoceros with a square lip for grazing and a front horn as long as a sword. Small groups graze the open grass of Crecia and Amari. Its eyesight is poor and its temper is worse, and once it charges it does not stop.	24	41	15	1d20	1-2	DC 11	10
Elephanthuge · regularElephants walk the grasslands of Crecia and Amari in slow family herds, and a full-grown bull weighs close to a thousand stones. Leave them room and they leave you alone. A tamed one is the strongest beast of burden on Sedia and eats like it.	32	48	10	1d12	1-2	DC 12	10
Desert Elephanthuge · minionAn elephant with long legs and wide feet, built for the Sands of Bone. Desert elephants walk the dunes and stony flats of Dumasque and Moria from one dry riverbed to the next, and the tribes of Dumasque follow their trails to find water. Calm unless crowded; then it’s the most dangerous animal in the desert.	36	50	10	1d12	1	DC 13	50

Deer and Antelope

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Deer and Antelope#

One family of Wild Animals: 20 animals, levels 3 to 12. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The grazers of forest and plain. They bolt first and ask nothing, and they feed half the hunters on the continent.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Reedbucksmall · weakReedbucks are tawny antelope that hide in the tall grass of the Crecian prairie and the Amari grasslands. They give a sharp whistle when they spot you and are gone before you spot them. The meat is lean.	3	12	4	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Bongotiny · weakThe bongo is a shy antelope with a chestnut coat, thin white stripes and long spiraled horns. It browses the grasslands and thickets of Crecia and Amari at dusk and bolts at the first snapped twig. Carvers prize the horns.	3	22	12	1d4	1-2	DC 3	10
Nyalamedium · weakNyala are spiral-horned antelope: the males gray and shaggy, the females smaller and russet with thin white stripes. They graze the thickets and grasslands of Crecia and Amari and freeze before they run. Their hides tan into soft leather.	4	20	5	1d4	1	DC 5	45
Swamp Deermedium · weakA heavy brown deer with many-tined antlers that feeds in the wet meadows and riverside woods of Tharsis and Esthar. When one gives the alarm call the herd bunches together, and stags in the rut are short-tempered.	4	20	5	1d4	1	DC 6	20
White-Lipped Deermedium · weakA thick-coated deer with a white muzzle that lives in high forest and alpine meadows from Jewall to New Saellem. It handles cold and thin air better than any horse. Mountain folk hunt it for hide and meat.	5	21	5	1d4	1	DC 6	10
White-Tailed Deermedium · weakA brown deer that flags its white tail when it runs, warning every other deer nearby. Herds graze the prairie and the edges of the woods in Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar. It’s common game, and the venison and hides sell at any market.	5	21	4	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Oribismall · weakThe oribi is a small, slender antelope of the Crecian and Amari grasslands that lies flat in the grass until it is nearly stepped on, then bounds away whistling. Falconers prize them as quarry. A tamed one makes a pretty, useless pet.	6	18	6	1d4	1	DC 8	75
Antelopemedium · weakThe plain brown antelope of the open grassland, grazing from Crecia to Amari and Moria. It bolts at the first sign of a hunter and runs faster than most horses. Bows and patience bring it down; chasing it doesn’t.	6	22	6	1d6	1	DC 6	15
Bontebokmedium · weakBonteboks are small antelope with a white blaze down the face, and they graze the open prairie of Crecia and Amari in herds. They are easy to spot and hard to catch. The meat is good.	6	22	12	1d4	1-3	DC 3	10
Waterbuckmedium · weakWaterbuck are big, shaggy antelope with a white ring on the rump, and they graze the grasslands of Crecia and Amari. Their flesh smells and tastes of musk, so lions and hunters both pass them over when they can. The horns make good knife handles.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 6	10
Red Deersmall · weakThe big russet deer of the open grassland, ranging across Crecia, Amari and Esthar. In the autumn rut the stags roar all night and will charge a rider. The rest of the year the herd runs at the first scent of people.	6	28	8	1d4	2	DC 4	25
Tufted Deermedium · weakA small dark deer with a tuft of black hair on its brow and two fangs that hang below its lip. It barks like a dog when startled and lives alone in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. Despite the fangs, it eats leaves.	7	23	4	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Addax Antelopemedium · weakA pale antelope with long twisted horns that wanders the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria in small herds. It hardly ever drinks, getting its water from the plants it eats. It bolts at the first scent of a hunter.	8	24	8	1d4	3-4	DC 5	10
Gazellemedium · weakA slender, fawn-colored antelope with ringed horns that grazes in herds on the open grass of Crecia and Amari and the scrub of Moria. A herd bolts at the first sign of a hunter, so bring a bow, not a spear.	8	24	4	1d4	2-6	DC 5	30
Oryxmedium · weakA gray antelope with a black face mask and straight horns as long as a spear. Herds of oryx cross the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria. A cornered oryx lowers its horns and charges, and those horns have killed lions.	8	24	5	1d4	1	DC 5	80
Sambar Deermedium · regularA big, shaggy, dark-coated deer of the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. When alarmed it stamps and gives a ringing call that warns everything nearby. Hunters prize the antlers and curse the call.	9	26	4	1d6	1	DC 7	10
Spotted Deermedium · weakA small dark deer with pale spots, found in the grasslands and scrub of Crecia and Amari. It’s skittish and feeds mostly at dusk. A fawn raised by hand tames easily.	9	26	6	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Deermedium · weakDeer are the everyday game of Sedia’s forests, from the oaks of Esthar to the taiga of New Saellem. They bolt at a snapped twig, so a hunter who brings one home brought a bow and a lot of patience. Venison and buckskin both sell in any market town.	10	28	8	1d4	1-2	DC 4	25
Okapilarge · weakStriped legs like a zebra and a body like a dark horse, the okapi browses quietly in the scrub and grassland of Crecia and Amari. It’s shy and hears a footstep at a long distance. Corner one and its kick can break a leg.	11	30	6	1d6	1	DC 5	25
Elklarge · regularA tall deer with a dark mane and antlers as wide as a cart, at home in the pine forests of Tharsis and Esthar and on the tundra edges of New Saellem. Bulls in the rut fight anything that comes near, people included. One elk feeds a camp for a week, and the hide sells in any town with a tanner.	12	32	7	1d8	1-4	DC 8	45

Cattle, Goats and Sheep

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Cattle, Goats and Sheep#

One family of Wild Animals: 10 animals, levels 6 to 14. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Buffalo, yaks, wild goats and sheep: herd animals that will charge together if the herd decides to.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Alpacasmall · weakA shaggy, long-necked grazer smaller than its cousin the llama, kept in herds on the hill pastures of Crecia and Amari and running wild on the grasslands beyond. Its wool is worth more than its meat. Annoy one and it spits.	6	22	5	1d4	2-5	DC 5	40
Mountain Goatmedium · weakShaggy white goats live on the cliffs of Jewall and the peaks of New Saellem, where nothing else can follow them. They stand on ledges a man would need a rope for. Dwarven herders in Jewall keep them for milk and wool.	6	22	5	1d4	1	DC 4	25
Bighorn Sheepmedium · weakA thick-bodied wild sheep, the rams carrying curled horns heavy enough to break a fence post. Herds graze the highlands and hills of Crecia and Amari, and in autumn the rams crash heads all day. Stand in front of one at your own risk.	9	26	8	1d4	1-6	DC 5	20
Ibexmedium · weakThe ibex is a wild goat with great curved horns, sure-footed on the rocky hills and scrub of Crecia, Amari and Moria. Rival males rear and crash their horns together, and you can hear it a mile off. Ibex horn is carved into drinking cups all over Sedia.	9	26	6	1d4	1	DC 5	30
Wild Goatmedium · weakA wild goat with backswept horns that climbs the crags and high forests of Jewall and New Saellem. It goes where nothing else can. The billies butt anything that follows them onto a ledge.	9	26	6	1d4	1	DC 5	30
Llamamedium · regularLlamas are woolly pack animals that run wild on the hills and grasslands of Crecia and Amari and are bred nearly everywhere else. One will carry about four stones up a mountain path. Overload it and it lies down; insult it and it spits.	10	28	5	1d6	1	DC 5	40
Crecian Buffalolarge · weakThe crecian buffalo is a black, heavy-horned grazer of the Crecian prairie and the Amari grasslands, and its herds close ranks against lions. Hunters call it the most dangerous thing on the plains, because a wounded one circles back. A tamed one pulls a wagon well and gores the driver now and then.	11	30	12	1d8	1-4	DC 7	50
Bisonmedium · weakBison graze the open prairie of Crecia and the grasslands of Amari in herds that take an hour to pass. They are calm until something startles them, and then nothing in their way stays standing. A tamed bull pulls a plow like two oxen.	11	33	8	1d8	1-3	DC 8	35
Yaklarge · regularYaks are shaggy, broad-horned cattle that graze the high grass and scrub of Crecia and Amari. Herders keep them for milk and to pull carts up hills a horse won’t try. A yak is calm right up until it isn’t, and then it’s sixty stones of horn and temper.	12	32	4	1d10	1	DC 6	30
Wild Yaklarge · regularThe wild yak is the bigger, meaner ancestor of the herder’s yak, black-coated and broad-horned, roaming the prairies of Crecia and Tharsis. Bulls run to a hundred stones and charge horses on sight. Raising one from a calf is the only sane way to own one.	14	33	8	1d8	1	DC 8	35

Wild Horses and Camels

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wild Horses and Camels#

One family of Wild Animals: 3 animals, levels 5 to 16. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The wild ones. The bred and broken ones are on Mounts.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Zebramedium · regularStriped wild horses of the open country, zebras graze the prairies of Crecia and the hills of Amari in skittish herds. Breaking one to saddle has humbled many a Crecian horse trader. They kick and bite and never forgive either.	5	21	6	1d6	1-2	DC 7	40
Donkeymedium · regularA sturdy gray donkey gone wild, grazing scrub and grassland from Crecia to Moria. It carries more than it looks like it should and kicks harder than it looks like it can. A caught donkey is worth the trouble: every farmer and peddler on Sedia wants one.	10	27	4	1d6	1	DC 5	75
Dromedarylarge · weakA one-humped camel that walks the Sands of Bone and the Morian desert, feral or strayed from a caravan. It goes days without water and spits when annoyed, which is always. Bring one into Dumasque and a caravan master will buy it on the spot.	16	34	6	1d6	1	DC 4	90

Pigs

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pigs#

One family of Wild Animals: 7 animals, levels 4 to 17. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Boars, hogs and their cousins. A boar is the most dangerous thing in a forest that isn’t trying to be.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Bush Pigmedium · weakA reddish wild pig with tufted ears that roots through the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem by night. It ruins crops and charges dogs. Bush pig makes good bacon, if you can catch one.	4	14	7	1d6	1	DC 6	35
Western Bearded Pigmedium · regularA lean wild pig with a shaggy beard of bristles that ranges almost anywhere there’s cover, from the scrub of Crecia to the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. Herds follow the fruiting trees. Boars are hard to tame and harder to stop once they charge.	4	20	8	1d6	1	DC 10	15
Darkwood Warty Pigsmall · regularA small wild pig with three pairs of warts down its long face, rooting through the pines and oaks of Darkwood and the forests of Esthar. The boar of the sounder charges first and thinks later. It is better eating than it is company.	5	17	7	1d6	1	DC 8	25
Forest Hogmedium · regularForest hogs are big, black and bristled, and they root through the undergrowth of Darkwood and the forests of Esthar and New Saellem. A sow with piglets will charge anything. Their meat feeds half the trading posts in Tharsis.	8	24	6	1d8	1	DC 6	10
Collared Peccarymedium · weakA small, bristly wild pig with a pale collar that lives in bands in the scrub of Crecia, Amari and the Morian badlands. You’ll smell them before you see them. Peccaries clack their tusks before they charge, so you get one warning.	8	25	4	1d4	1-2	DC 5	50
Warthogmedium · regularThe warthog is an ugly, tusked pig of the grasslands and forest edges of Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar, and it kneels to graze and sleeps in old burrows. It runs with its tail straight up like a flag. Cornered, it backs into a hole and slashes at anything that follows.	9	26	7	1d6	1	DC 9	25
Boarlarge · regularWild boar root through forest and grassland across most of Sedia, and the ones in Darkwood have a reputation of their own. A boar charges low and keeps coming after it should be dead. Hunters bring a spear with a crossbar for a reason.	17	40	6	1d8	1	DC 5	10

Apes and Monkeys

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Apes and Monkeys#

One family of Wild Animals: 23 animals, levels 2 to 11. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The canopy dwellers of Menusia and Amari. Clever, loud and light-fingered.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Pygmy Marmosettiny · weakThe smallest monkey on Sedia fits in a cupped hand and spends its day gnawing tree bark for sap in the forests of Menusia and Amari. Its bite feels like a bee sting. Port merchants sell them as pets in little cages.	2	6	8	1d4	1	DC 6	40
Bamboo Monkeysmall · regularA gray-green monkey that eats little besides bamboo shoots, found in the bamboo thickets of the Menusian and Amari forests. It’s shy, quick and hard to get near. Hunters rarely bother, since there’s not much meat under the fur.	3	14	6	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Squirrel Monkeysmall · regularSmall, gold-limbed monkeys that move through the Menusian and Amari canopy in chattering troops and fall on a fruiting tree like hail. They tame easily and sell well. A trained one will pick a pocket for its keeper.	3	14	7	1d4	1-2	DC 8	95
Capuchin Monkeysmall · weakClever little monkeys that crack nuts with stones and roam the forests of Menusia and Amari in troops of up to five. They learn fast, which makes them good to tame and a nuisance in camp. Keep the food sealed.	4	15	5	1d6	1-5	DC 4	60
Langursmall · weakA long-tailed, gray-furred monkey with a black face that lives in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem, and unlike most monkeys it doesn’t mind snow. Troops hang around shrines and villages and steal food. A tamed langur is good company.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 5	60
Orangutanmedium · regularOrangutans are red-haired, slow and very strong, and they live alone high in the Menusian canopy. They watch travelers with an expression people find unsettling, because it looks like judgment. They rarely attack, but one that does can throw a grown man.	5	21	8	1d8	1	DC 9	80
Silvery Gibbonmedium · weakSilver-gray and long-armed, gibbons swing through the high branches of Menusia and Amari and sing duets at dawn. They rarely come down. A trapped gibbon bites, but most are gone overhead before you can draw.	5	21	7	1d4	1	DC 6	50
Aye-Aye Monkeysmall · weakNot really a monkey: a big-eyed, bat-eared night climber with one long bony finger it uses to tap bark and hook out grubs. Villagers in Menusia call it bad luck and chase it off with torches. It’s harmless, but meeting one at eye level in the dark tests anyone’s nerve.	6	18	6	1d4	1-3	DC 5	10
Lemursmall · regularRing-tailed and loud about it, lemurs work the beaches and river mouths of Menusia and Amari, picking through the tide wrack for crabs and fallen fruit. They steal from camps without shame. A tame one makes a decent pet and a poor guard.	6	18	4	1d6	1-2	DC 4	20
Chimpanzeemedium · weakChimpanzees live in loud bands in the jungles of Menusia and the warm forests of Amari. They’re clever enough to use sticks and stones, and they throw both at strangers. Don’t let the size fool you: an angry one is stronger than any man.	6	22	4	1d6	1-4	DC 5	70
Howler Monkeymedium · weakYou hear a howler troop long before you see one: the dawn roar carries for miles over the Menusian forest. Up close it’s a fairly calm leaf-eater. Most travelers who swear they heard a beast in the trees heard one of these.	6	22	8	1d4	1	DC 9	75
Yellow-Tailed Woolly Monkeymedium · regularMahogany-furred with a yellow stripe under its tail, this rare woolly monkey lives in the highest misty forests of Menusia and Amari. It’s bigger and bolder than its cousin and defends its troop’s trees. Collectors pay well for a tame one.	6	22	8	1d8	1	DC 8	45
Apemedium · regularApes keep to the canopy of the Menusian jungle and the warmer forests of Amari, and they come down only to run off whatever gets too close. One will knock a grown man flat and walk away as if nothing happened. They can be tamed, but they never quite stop testing who’s in charge.	7	23	10	1d12	1-2	DC 5	10
Baboonmedium · regularBaboons work the forest edges of Menusia and Amari, loud and quarrelsome, and they rob camps with real skill. A cornered one bites hard enough to break a forearm. Tie up the food sacks, and then tie them up again.	7	23	10	1d12	1-2	DC 5	10
Mandrillmedium · regularThe mandrill is a big, heavy monkey with a blue and red face, and it lives on the forest floor of Menusia and Amari. Males bare their long fangs to warn strangers off, and they mean it. They tame with patience and stay moody.	8	24	6	1d6	1	DC 4	70
Owl-Faced Monkeymedium · regularA dark, heavy-browed monkey with a pale stripe down its nose that gives it the solemn stare of an owl. It keeps to the deep forests of Menusia and Amari and forages quietly near the ground. Those who tame one say it’s the calmest monkey on Sedia.	8	25	8	1d8	1	DC 8	75
Monkeymedium · regularMonkeys chatter in every tree from the Tropics of Dumet to the forests of Amari. They steal shiny things, throw fruit at strangers and scream when anything bigger walks by, which makes them a decent alarm. A tamed one learns tricks fast and never learns to stop stealing.	9	26	8	1d8	1	DC 7	75
Spider Monkeymedium · regularLong arms, longer tail and hardly any thumbs: spider monkeys swing through the forests of Menusia and Amari faster than anyone can run below them. They throw fruit, sticks and dung at intruders. Tamed young, they make loyal and very loud companions.	9	26	8	1d8	1-2	DC 7	75
Tufted Gray Langurmedium · weakLangurs are long-tailed gray monkeys with black faces and a tuft on the crown, living in troops in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. They raid fields and camps and don’t scare easily. Whatever one takes from you, it will eat in front of you.	9	26	5	1d4	1	DC 6	30
White-Cheeked Spider Monkeymedium · weakLong arms, a long gripping tail and a pale face: this spider monkey swings through the high canopy of Menusia and the subtropical forests of Amari in noisy troops. It throws fruit at anyone below, and when the fruit runs out it throws worse. Tamed young, it learns to fetch, and to steal.	9	26	8	1d8	1	DC 7	75
White-Faced Monkeymedium · regularBlack-bodied with a pale face and shoulders, this monkey roams the forests of Menusia and Amari in noisy bands and isn’t shy about raiding a camp. It swings sticks like clubs. A tame one sells for little, because it bites its owners.	9	26	7	1d8	1	DC 5	20
Woolly Monkeymedium · regularA heavy, thick-furred monkey that hangs by its tail high in the Menusian and Amari canopy. Troops are noisy but mostly gentle, though an old male will drop down and fight to cover the others’ retreat. It hits harder than its face suggests.	10	29	8	1d8	1	DC 6	65
Gorillamedium · regularGorillas live in family groups on the forest floor of Menusia and Amari, led by a silver-backed male that weighs nearly thirty stones. They are gentle until threatened, and then the male charges, roaring and beating his chest. Back away slowly and look at the ground.	11	34	6	1d6	1-2	DC 6	70

Marsupials

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Marsupials#

One family of Wild Animals: 8 animals, levels 2 to 9. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Kangaroos, wallabies and their pouched kin.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Marsupial Moletiny · weakA blind golden burrower about the size of a fist that swims through loose soil and lets the tunnel fall in behind it. Farmers in Crecia and Amari only see one when the plow turns it up. Harmless and worth little.	2	6	6	1d2	1-2	DC 4	35
Numbattiny · weakA small striped termite-eater with a bushy tail that tears open rotten logs across the woods and grasslands of Crecia and Tharsis. It eats thousands of termites a day and has no interest in you.	3	9	5	1d2	1	DC 5	35
Bilbytiny · weakA small gray burrower with rabbit ears and a long pink nose. Bilbies dig spiral burrows in the dry grassland of Crecia, Amari and Moria and come out at night for grubs. Shy and harmless, they make easy pets.	3	11	4	1d2	1-2	DC 5	5
Koala Bearsmall · regularNot a bear at all, the koala bear is a sleepy gray tree-climber that spends most of the day wedged in a fork of a branch in the forests of Menusia and Amari. It eats leaves that would poison anything else and smells faintly of them. Easy to catch and popular with collectors, though it bites when woken.	3	12	2	1d4	1	DC 11	20
Jewall Devilsmall · regularA squat black scavenger with a white stripe across its chest and jaws that crack bone, living among the rocks of Jewall and the high country of New Saellem. Its scream at night is why the dwarves call it a devil. It has nothing to do with Dekkashraen, just a foul temper and a bite that holds.	4	15	4	1d10	1	DC 11	40
Quokkasmall · weakA small, round-faced wallaby that always seems to be smiling. Quokkas live in the scrub of Crecia and Amari and have no fear of people at all. They walk into camp and climb into packs looking for food.	4	15	3	1d4	1	DC 4	45
Wallabymedium · weakA small kangaroo that bounds through the forest clearings of Tharsis and Esthar and kicks with its hind feet when cornered. It is easy to tame and easy to lose, since it will clear any fence you build.	6	22	6	1d4	1-2	DC 5	15
Tree Kangaroomedium · weakA thick-furred kangaroo that lives up in the canopy of Menusia and the subtropical forests of Amari, hopping branch to branch where its cousins would fall. It is slow and clumsy on the ground, and knows it, so it rarely comes down.	9	26	4	1d4	1	DC 6	25

Small Mammals

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Small Mammals#

One family of Wild Animals: 44 animals, levels 1 to 6. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Badgers, otters, rabbits, squirrels and the rest of what runs underfoot.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Crecian Haretiny · weakA lean, long-eared hare of the Crecian prairie and the Amari hills, quick enough that most dogs give up. It sits tight until you nearly step on it and then bursts away. Its fur lines winter gloves.	1	5	2	1d4	1-3	DC 3	35
Jerboatiny · weakA tiny hopping rodent with long hind legs and a tufted tail that bounces across the Sands of Bone and the dry scrub of Moria and Crecia at night. It jumps several feet at a time and changes direction in the air. Catching one by hand is a good test of reflexes and a poor use of time.	1	5	3	1d2	1	DC 4	10
Pocket Mousetiny · weakA tiny brown mouse with fur-lined cheek pouches that it stuffs with seed. Pocket mice burrow under the grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis and never need to drink. They get into grain stores and are hard to get out.	1	5	4	1d2	1-2	DC 4	5
Golden Moletiny · weakA blind, earless mole with fur that shines like brass in torchlight. It swims through loose soil in caves, mines and old graveyards, and gravediggers turn up more of them than they’d like. Furriers pay a little for the pelts.	2	6	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5	·
Mole Rattiny · weakMole rats tunnel under the forest floor and swamp edges of Esthar and Tharsis and rarely come up. They’re nearly blind, with long yellow teeth for digging. Farmers in Esthar hate them more than locusts.	2	6	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5
Unicolored Oldfield Mousetiny · weakA plain sandy mouse that digs its burrows in the old fields and dry scrub of Crecia and Amari, always with a back door. Owls, foxes and farmers all hunt it, and it is still everywhere.	2	7	4	1d4	1	DC 6	5
White-Tailed Mousetiny · weakA brown field mouse with a white tip on its tail that flicks like a signal flag when it runs. It lives in the grass and scrub of Crecia and Amari and in most granaries between them. Nobody tames one on purpose, though a farm cat will thank you for pointing it out.	2	7	3	1d4	1	DC 4	5
Badgersmall · weakBadgers dig their setts under hedgerows and hillsides almost anywhere on Sedia, from the Crecian prairie to the woods of Tharsis. It is small and slow and has never once backed down from a fight. Farmers pay a few vern to have one moved off their land.	2	8	5	1d6	1-2	DC 5	20
Sequoia Spiny Rattiny · weakThe sequoia spiny rat lives among the roots of the giant sequoias of New Saellem, its back covered in stiff, flat spines. Grab one and you’ll learn why. Otherwise it’s a quiet animal that nobody minds.	2	8	4	1d4	1	DC 7	5
Prairie Dogsmall · regularNot a dog at all but a plump burrowing rodent whose colonies riddle the grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Esthar with holes. Sentries bark when anything approaches. Horses break legs in prairie dog towns, so riders go around.	2	10	6	1d4	2-6	DC 4	35
Tharsian Giant Squirrelsmall · weakA squirrel the size of a cat, maroon on the back and cream underneath, that lives high in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. It rarely comes to the ground and scolds anything that passes below. Hatters buy the pelts.	2	11	5	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Chinchillatiny · weakChinchillas are soft gray rodents that live in rock piles on the grasslands and hills of Crecia and Amari. Their fur is the densest of any animal on Sedia, and a coat of it is worth more than the house it hangs in. They tame easily and bathe in dust instead of water.	3	9	8	1d4	1-2	DC 5	65
Gerbiltiny · weakGerbils are small sandy rodents that dig under the dry grasslands and scrub of Crecia, Amari and Moria. They are harmless and cheap. Market sellers in Dumasque keep them in jars by the dozen.	3	9	5	1d2	1	DC 4	15
Kangaroo Rattiny · weakKangaroo rats bound about on big hind legs through the prairie and scrub of Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar. They never drink, living on the water in seeds, and they kick sand in a snake’s face before hopping away. They’re popular pets in Crecian towns.	3	9	6	1d2	1	DC 5	20
Painted Tree Rattiny · weakPainted tree rats are bright-coated climbers of the old forests of Amari and New Saellem, striped in rust and cream. They nest in hollows high in the trees and scold anything that passes below. Furriers buy the pelts for trim.	3	9	4	1d2	1-2	DC 3	20
Armadillosmall · weakArmadillos root through the scrub and grassland from Crecia to Amari, armored like a little knight and about as bright. Startled, one jumps straight up before it runs, which has spooked more than one horse. The shell makes a decent bowl.	3	12	11	1d4	1-2	DC 9	8
Jackrabbitsmall · weakA lean hare with huge ears and long legs, at home on the prairies of Crecia and the dry hills of Amari and Moria. It runs in zigzags faster than a horse can turn. Good luck.	3	12	5	1d4	1	DC 3	20
Kinkajousmall · weakA golden-furred tree climber with a gripping tail and a tongue built for honey, awake only at night in the forests of Menusia and Amari. It looks gentle and mostly is. It is also stubborn, and few manage to tame one.	3	12	2	1d4	1	DC 11	20
Nine-Banded Armadillosmall · weakAn armored burrower with nine bands of plate across its middle. It roots through the deserts of Dumasque and Moria for insects and jumps straight up when startled, which can unseat a rider. Its shell makes a passable bowl.	3	12	11	1d4	1	DC 9	8
Saellem Flying Squirrelsmall · weakA gray-brown squirrel with a furred sail between its legs that glides from tree to tree in the boreal forests of New Saellem and the pines of Tharsis. It comes out after dark and can cross a clearing without touching the ground. Tamed, it rides in a coat pocket and makes a decent distraction for a pickpocket.	3	12	6	1d4	1-2	DC 5	20
Haresmall · weakHares are the long-legged cousins of rabbits, and they live in the open grass from the Crecian prairie to the scrub of Moria. A hare starts running before you see it and doesn’t stop. Stewed, one feeds two.	3	13	3	1d4	1	DC 7	20
White-Tipped Ratsmall · weakA brown rat with a white tip to its tail, it lives in caves, mines and ossuaries and comes out at night to forage in the fir forests. Miners blame it for every missing loaf. In a crypt, one rat usually means fifty more.	3	13	5	1d4	1	DC 6	5	·
Ferretsmall · minionFerrets are the weasel’s tamer cousin, kept in Crecia and Esthar to clear rats from granaries and rabbits from warrens. Wild ones still turn up on the prairie. They bite when scared and sleep through most of the day.	3	14	8	1d4	1	DC 3	15
Hedgehogsmall · weakHedgehogs snuffle through the hedgerows and grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis, eating slugs and beetles. When scared they roll into a ball of spines and wait it out. Gardeners like them, and dogs learn not to.	3	14	2	1d4	1	DC 6	35
Mongoosesmall · weakThe mongoose is a quick brown hunter of the dry grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Moria, and it kills snakes for a living. Farmers welcome one in the barn. It bites anyone who tries to pick it up.	3	14	8	1d4	1	DC 3	15
Skunksmall · weakSkunks waddle along the forest edges of Tharsis and Esthar after dark, digging for grubs and eggs. They give one warning, a stamp and a raised tail, and then they spray. The smell lasts about a week, or until you burn the clothes.	3	14	6	1d4	1	DC 6	35
Weaselsmall · minionWeasels are long, thin and fast, and they hunt mice and birds through the grasslands of Crecia and Amari. One will kill a chicken twice its size and leave the rest of the coop in a panic. Farmers hate them, and so do the chickens.	3	14	8	1d4	1	DC 3	15
Aardvarksmall · weakA long-snouted digger with ears like a mule’s, the aardvark spends its nights tearing open termite mounds on the prairies of Crecia and the hill country of Amari. It’s shy and harmless until cornered, and then those digging claws are a real problem. Its burrows break more horses’ legs than wolves do.	4	15	5	1d2	1-2	DC 6	5
Civetsmall · regularA long-bodied spotted animal that looks like a cat and isn’t one, slinking through the scrub and grassland of Crecia and Amari at night. It sprays a strong musk when cornered. Perfumers buy that musk, so a tamed civet earns its keep.	4	15	3	1d4	1-2	DC 8	30
Fossasmall · regularThe fossa looks like a cat that someone stretched, and it hunts squirrels and birds through the treetops of Tharsis and Esthar. It climbs down trunks head first. Woodsmen call it a tree cougar and leave its kills alone.	4	15	4	1d6	1-2	DC 5	30
Giant Armadillosmall · weakA plated digger the size of a big dog, with front claws long enough to open a termite mound or a careless shin. It roams the prairies and scrub of Crecia, Amari and Moria, mostly at night. It can’t roll up, so it digs in instead, and that shell makes it slow work to kill.	4	15	13	1d4	1	DC 5	25
Meerkatsmall · weakA slim gray mongoose that stands up on its back legs to keep watch. Meerkats live in burrow towns in the dry grassland of Crecia, Amari and Moria, and the sentry barks the moment it spots you. Tamed ones take an interest in everything you own.	4	15	5	1d4	1	DC 5	30
Red Pandasmall · regularThe red panda is a rust-colored tree-climber about the size of a house cat, with a ringed tail longer than its body. It lives high in the wet forests of Menusia and Amari and comes down mostly to eat. Crecian nobles pay well for a tame one.	4	15	3	1d4	1	DC 8	30
Saellem Heath Ratsmall · weakA long-tailed rat that climbs the heather and gorse of the moors of New Saellem and the Crecian Highland, the saellem heath rat builds its nest a foot off the ground. It eats seeds and anything left in a pack. Shepherds count it a pest.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Volcano Rabbitsmall · weakA small, short-eared rabbit of the grassy volcano slopes of Amari and Moria, also common on the prairies of Crecia. It whistles an alarm instead of thumping. Good stew, if you can catch one.	4	15	4	1d4	2-3	DC 6	10
Capybaramedium · weakThe largest rodent on Sedia is a barrel-shaped grazer the size of a pig, found in the wet meadows and grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis. Almost nothing bothers it and it bothers almost nothing. Birds ride on its back.	4	20	5	1d4	1	DC 4	45
Dwarf Mongoosesmall · weakDwarf mongooses live in chattering bands among the termite mounds and scrub of Crecia and Amari, with one always on watch while the rest forage. They are friendly and easy to tame. Keep one and you will not keep scorpions.	5	16	3	1d4	1-2	DC 3	30
Flying Squirrelsmall · weakFlying squirrels glide from tree to tree on flaps of skin through the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. They come out at night and have a habit of landing on tents. They are easy to tame, and they chew everything.	5	16	5	1d4	1	DC 5	40
Tufted Ground Squirrelsmall · weakA squirrel with a tail bushier than its body, which it holds over its head like a parasol. It digs among the roots in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. Woodsmen swear it ambushes deer; it doesn’t, but nobody has convinced the woodsmen.	5	16	6	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Ottersmall · weakOtters fish the ponds, estuaries and rocky shores of Amari and Menusia, and they spend more time playing than seems reasonable. They are friendly until cornered. Otter fur is the warmest and dearest on the docks of Port Carvi.	5	17	4	1d4	1	DC 5	45
Wolverinesmall · regularWolverines are small, heavy and furious, and the forests of Menusia and Amari have plenty of them. One will drive a leopard off its kill and then turn on whoever came to watch. Taming one is easy enough; living with it afterward is another matter.	5	17	3	1d6	1	DC 6	45
Porcupinesmall · weakA slow, waddling rodent covered in barbed quills that stick in anything that bites it. It lives in the pine forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem and gnaws sweat-salted tool handles left out overnight. Dogs only learn about porcupines once.	6	18	5	1d4	1	DC 5	35
Giant River Ottermedium · weakSix feet of muscle and whiskers, the giant river otter hunts the river mouths and shores of Menusia and Amari. It screams at intruders and will bite a swimmer who drifts too close to its den. The pelt is thick and sells well.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 4	30
Slothmedium · regularIt hangs in the canopy of Menusia and southern Amari and moves only when it must, which is rarely. Moss grows in its fur, so most travelers walk right under one. Pulled off its branch, a sloth fights with long hooked claws and more spite than you’d expect.	6	22	8	1d4	1	DC 7	50

Bats

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bats#

One family of Wild Animals: 5 animals, levels 1 to 5. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Bats and flying foxes.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Battiny · weakBats hang by the thousand in the caves, mines and crypts of Sedia and pour out at dusk to hunt. One is a nuisance. A disturbed colony is a blinding storm of wings and teeth, and alchemists buy the droppings by the sack.	1	4	9	1d4	1-2	DC 5	10	·
Crecian Flying Foxsmall · weakA fruit bat with a russet ruff that roosts in lone trees across the prairies of Crecia and the hills of Amari and flies out to the orchards at dusk. Crecian farmers hang bells in the fruit trees to keep it off, with mixed results.	2	11	5	1d4	1	DC 4	25
Flying Foxsmall · weakA fruit bat with a fox’s face and wings wider than a man’s arm span. Flying foxes roost by the hundreds in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar and strip orchards at night. They’re no threat unless cornered.	3	13	8	1d4	1	DC 5	25
Estharian Flying Foxsmall · weakA fruit bat with a fox’s face and wings that spread nearly as wide as a man is tall, roosting by the hundreds in the old forests of Esthar and Tharsis. At dusk the whole colony lifts off at once. It bites when cornered and is otherwise harmless, unless you own an orchard.	4	15	4	1d4	1-2	DC 7	15
Esthar Flying Foxsmall · weakA smaller, darker cousin of the common flying fox that roosts in the old forests of Esthar and Tharsis. It lives on fruit and flowers and squabbles all night long. Treasure hunters in Esthar find whole colonies hanging from the rafters of ruined halls.	5	17	5	1d4	1	DC 5	25

Birds of Prey

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Birds of Prey#

One family of Wild Animals: 22 animals, levels 2 to 8. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Eagles, hawks, falcons and vultures. The trained ones are worth more than a horse.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Bald Eaglesmall · weakA dark brown eagle with a white head and tail that fishes Vhall Oasis and scavenges across the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. For all its looks, it steals more than it hunts. It perches on graveyard walls and screams at mourners.	2	9	10	1d6	1	DC 5	10
Jackal Buzzardsmall · weakA dark buzzard with a rust-red chest whose call sounds like a yelping jackal. It hunts the deserts of Dumasque and Moria and the graveyards at their edges, taking rats and snakes. Cheap to tame and loyal enough once fed.	2	11	4	1d4	1	DC 4	25
Red-Shouldered Hawksmall · weakA brown hawk with rusty shoulders and a barred tail that hunts frogs and snakes from low perches in woods and wetlands. It is loud, and it screams at intruders long before they reach the nest.	2	11	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	15
Swamp Harriersmall · regularA long-winged hawk that quarters low over the reeds of the Mellowdeep Marsh and the mangroves of Menusia, the swamp harrier hunts frogs and ducklings by ear as much as by eye. It nests on the ground in the marsh. Fowlers hate it and falconers rather like it.	2	11	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	15
Falconsmall · weakFalcons hunt the open country from the Crecian prairie to the crags of Jewall, stooping on pigeons faster than anything else alive. A trained falcon is a noble’s bird and priced like one. Taking one from the nest is easy; getting it to come back is the art.	3	12	3	1d4	1-2	DC 3	25
Peregrine Falcontiny · regularA slate-backed falcon that drops on other birds from a great height, faster than anything else alive. It nests on cliff ledges from the mountains of Jewall to the canyons of Dumasque. Hard to catch, and harder to hit.	3	12	17	1d4	1	DC 15	30
Chanting Goshawktiny · regularA pale gray hawk with red legs that sits on a high perch and pipes a long song at dawn, which is where the name comes from. It hunts lizards and small birds across scrub and grassland. Falconers like its patience.	3	13	16	1d4	1	DC 14	175
Bone Vulturesmall · weakA small white vulture with a yellow face that cracks eggs by throwing stones at them. It haunts the Sands of Bone and the graveyards, crypts and ossuaries of Dumasque and Moria, picking over whatever’s been left. Tomb robbers take one sitting calmly on a crypt door as a sign that nothing inside is stirring.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 5	40
Hooded Vulturesmall · weakA small brown vulture with a bare pink face that follows caravans through the Sands of Bone, waiting for something to die. It is a common sight on the dunes around Dumasque and an unlucky one to see circling your camp.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 4	40
Prairie Falcontiny · regularA sandy brown falcon of open country that hunts low and fast over the prairies of Crecia and Tharsis and the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. Falconers prize it, and it is very hard to bring down with an arrow. A trained one sells for a couple of dover.	3	14	18	1d4	3-6	DC 14	200
Red-Backed Kitetiny · regularA chestnut kite with a white head and chest that hunts along rivers and coasts and picks dead fish off the water. It is common from the marshes of Tharsis to the shores of Menusia and takes to training easily.	3	14	16	1d4	3-6	DC 14	150
Pariah Kitetiny · regularA scruffy brown kite with a forked tail that circles over camps and battlefields all over Sedia, looking for scraps. It will snatch meat from a cook’s hand. Nobody pays much for one, and nobody needs to.	3	16	16	1d4	2-3	DC 15	10
Darkwood Hawktiny · regularA blue-gray hawk with a long tail that chases other birds through thick woods, Darkwood above all, slipping between trunks at full speed. Tharsian nobles pay more for a trained one than for a good horse, which is why poachers climb for the nests.	3	18	16	1d4	3-6	DC 15	3,000
Ospreytiny · regularA brown and white fish hawk that hovers over rivers and coasts, then hits the water feet first and comes up with a fish. It returns to the same dead tree to nest year after year. A trained one brings its catch back to the boat, and fishermen pay well for that.	3	18	17	1d4	1-3	DC 14	780
Golden Eaglesmall · regularA dark brown eagle with a golden nape that hunts hares and young goats across the mountains of Jewall and the high country of New Saellem. It is rare and wary, and few falconers ever get one to the glove.	5	16	19	1d4	1	DC 17	50
Lammergeiersmall · regularA huge vulture with a rust-stained chest and a black beard that drops bones from a height to crack them, then eats the marrow. It nests on the cliffs of Jewall and the Kyrian Range. Dwarves call it the bone-breaker and leave it alone.	5	16	17	1d4	1-2	DC 16	800
Dumasque Vulturesmall · regularA big bald vulture with a pink face and a bill that cuts through hide. Flocks of them circle over the Sands of Bone and the Molten Flats, and the tribes of Dumasque read where they circle to find lost caravans. A tamed one is prized and priced to match.	6	18	16	1d4	3-6	DC 15	750
Harpy Eaglesmall · regularThe heaviest eagle on Sedia, with a double gray crest and talons as long as a bear’s claws. It plucks monkeys and sloths out of the canopy in Menusia and takes anything smaller elsewhere. A trained one sells for nearly ten dover, and its handler needs a thick glove and a calm hand.	6	18	15	1d6	1	DC 16	990
Griffin Vulturesmall · regularA big pale vulture with a ruff of white down at its neck and broad brown wings. It rides the hot air over the deserts of Dumasque and the volcanic ground of Moria for hours without a flap. It’s hard to tame, and falconers in Dumasque pay hundreds of vern for one that is.	6	19	18	1d4	3-6	DC 17	550
Swallow-Tailed Kitesmall · weakA black and white kite with a deeply forked tail that glides over the deserts of Dumasque and Moria and the prairies of Crecia, catching insects and lizards in the air. It almost never lands while anyone is watching.	6	19	4	1d4	1	DC 4	20
Lappet-Faced Vulturemedium · weakOne of the biggest vultures on Sedia, with a bare red head hung with folds of skin and a bill that tears hide other scavengers can’t. It lords it over graveyards and cemeteries, and the crows wait until it’s finished. Slow to anger, but heavy enough to knock a grown man down.	8	24	5	1d4	1-2	DC 6	40	·
Purple Eaglemedium · weakA large eagle whose dark feathers shine purple in the sun, hunting fish and marsh birds over the Mellowdeep Marsh and the forests around it. It will take a hare or a lamb but leaves people alone, unless they climb toward its nest.	8	24	4	1d4	1-2	DC 4	25

Owls

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Owls#

One family of Wild Animals: 5 animals, levels 2 to 6. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The night hunters of the forests and fields.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Northern Pygmy Owltiny · weakA sparrow-sized owl with two false eyes painted on the back of its head, so it always seems to be watching. It hunts by day in the forests of New Saellem, Tharsis and Esthar and takes birds as big as itself. Small birds mob it when they find it, which is the easiest way to find it too.	2	7	6	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Burrowing Owlsmall · regularA long-legged little owl that lives in old burrows on the open plains and deserts and bobs its head at anything that comes near. Cornered, it hisses like a snake from inside the hole. Wealthy Crecians keep them as pets, which explains the price.	3	13	16	1d4	1-2	DC 15	300
Great Horned Owlsmall · weakA big owl with ear tufts and yellow eyes that hunts everything from mice to skunks across the woods and plains of Sedia. It will strike a person who comes too near its nest, at night and without a sound.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Northern Spotted Owlsmall · weakA brown owl with white spots and dark eyes that hunts the old forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. It’s tame by owl standards and will sit on a low branch and watch you walk past. Woodsmen say it only nests in trees old enough to remember the War of Souls.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 6	20
Western Spotted Owlsmall · weakA spotted brown owl, a little paler than its northern cousin, that keeps to the forests of Esthar and Tharsis. It hunts at night and calls in four hoots. In the haunted woods of Esthar people take that call as a warning, and they aren’t always wrong.	6	18	3	1d4	1	DC 6	15

Waterbirds

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Waterbirds#

One family of Wild Animals: 17 animals, levels 1 to 9. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Herons, geese, ducks, pelicans and the birds of the shore.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Belted Kingfishertiny · weakA blue-gray bird with a shaggy crest and a white collar, perched over still water and waiting. It drops headfirst after fish along the beaches and ponds of Menusia and Amari and rattles like a dry gourd when disturbed. Small, quick and very hard to hit.	1	3	12	1d4	1-4	DC 5	10
Black-Headed Heronsmall · weakA gray heron with a black head and neck that hunts in dry grass as often as in water, spearing rats, lizards and frogs. It is found across the grasslands and marshes of Sedia.	3	14	4	1d4	1-3	DC 3	20
Green Heronsmall · weakA small, dark heron that crouches on low branches over water and sometimes drops a crumb or a feather on the surface to lure fish in. It is found along streams and ponds all over Sedia.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
Red-Bearded Goosetiny · weakA brown goose with a rust-red wattle hanging under its bill, grazing the shorelines and water meadows of Menusia and Amari. Like every goose it’s braver than it is big, and it hisses at anything that comes near the flock.	3	18	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
White-Winged Wood Ducktiny · weakA big dark duck with a pale head and white wing patches that feeds on the ponds, deltas and shores of Menusia and Amari. It’s shy, whistles as it flies and roosts in trees, which surprises people. The meat is good.	3	18	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
White Pelicanmedium · weakA great white bird with black wingtips and an orange bill pouch that fishes in flocks along the shores of Amari and Menusia and the cold coasts of New Saellem. The flock herds fish into the shallows together, then scoops. On land it waddles; in the air it is a different animal.	4	20	4	1d4	2-4	DC 6	25
Brown-Winged Kingfishersmall · weakA big kingfisher with a heavy red bill, an orange body and brown wings, fishing the mudflats and deltas of Menusia and Amari. It’s loud, fast and hard to hit, and it chases much bigger birds off its stretch of shore.	5	16	14	1d4	1-2	DC 4	10
Great Blue Heronsmall · weakA tall gray-blue heron that stands motionless in the shallows until something moves. It is common along marshes, ponds and rivers all over Sedia. Its stab is quick and aimed at the eye, so keep your face back if you try to handle one.	5	16	3	1d4	1	DC 3	30
Greater White-Fronted Goosesmall · weakA brown goose with a white blaze at the base of its bill that flies in long, noisy wedges between the northern marshes and the warm coasts of Amari and Menusia. It grazes in flocks and honks at everything. Easy to tame and decent eating.	5	16	4	1d4	2-6	DC 5	20
Sandpipersmall · weakA long-legged brown wader that runs ahead of you in short bursts, stopping to look back. Sandpipers nest on the open prairie and moors of Crecia and Amari and fake a broken wing to draw strangers away from their eggs. Follow one and you’ll walk a long way for nothing.	5	16	5	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Snowy Egretsmall · weakA small white heron with black legs and bright yellow feet, oddly at home in the cold high country of Jewall and New Saellem, where it fishes the snowmelt streams. It stirs the water with its yellow feet to flush fish out from under the stones.	5	16	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
White-Winged Ducksmall · weakA dark duck with a white wing patch, the white-winged duck nests in tree hollows in the forests of Esthar and Tharsis rather than on open water. It’s shy and flies low between the trunks. Fowlers count it a prize.	5	16	4	1d2	1	DC 4	15
Marbled Murreletsmall · weakA stubby seabird, mottled brown like wet bark, that fishes open water and flies inland to nest. On Sedia it turns up in the fens of Tharsis and the mangroves of Menusia, whirring low and fast. Nobody has ever found one of its nests, and some trappers have spent years trying.	5	17	5	1d4	1	DC 5	65
Penguinmedium · weakA black and white seabird that can’t fly and swims like a fish. Penguins gather in noisy colonies on the arctic tundra of New Saellem, where the shore freezes solid. They waddle up to strangers out of curiosity, and that’s about the only danger anyone faces from them.	5	21	4	1d4	3-6	DC 6	15
Wood Ducksmall · weakA small duck that nests in tree hollows near water, the drake painted green and chestnut. The ducklings jump from the nest to the ground the day after they hatch. It is common on ponds and estuaries along the southern coasts.	6	18	5	1d4	1-2	DC 5	10
Flamingomedium · regularA tall pink wading bird that feeds head-down in the ponds and estuaries of Menusia and Amari. Flamingos crowd together and honk constantly. The pink comes from the shrimp they eat; feed a tamed one on grain and it fades to white.	8	25	5	1d6	1-3	DC 2	60
Wood Storkmedium · weakA tall white stork with a bald gray head and a heavy bill, wading through flooded forest pools in Tharsis and Esthar. It feeds by feel and snaps its bill shut on anything that touches it, fingers included. The rest of the time it ignores people completely.	9	26	6	1d4	1-2	DC 7	15

Other Birds

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Other Birds#

One family of Wild Animals: 39 animals, levels 1 to 11. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Songbirds, parrots, pigeons and the big walking birds.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Long-Tailed Sylphtiny · weakA hummingbird with a blue-green tail twice the length of its body that hovers at flowers in the forests and meadows of Crecia and Tharsis. Despite the name it has nothing to do with any sprite.	1	5	3	1d4	1	DC 6	30
Mockingbirdtiny · weakA gray bird with white wing patches that copies every sound it hears: other birds, a squeaky gate, a drawn bowstring. It lives in the scrub and grassland of Crecia and Amari. Scouts hate them, since one can copy a whistle signal well enough to send a whole party the wrong way.	1	5	4	1d2	1	DC 4	25
Ruby-Crowned Kinglettiny · weakA tiny olive bird with a red crest it raises only when angry, which is often. It flits through the pines of Tharsis and New Saellem all winter.	1	5	4	1d4	1	DC 3	10
Amari Lovebirdtiny · weakA small green parrot with a salmon-pink face, always in pairs and always pressed together on the same branch. Amari lovebirds live in the hills and scrub of Amari and Crecia. They sell as a pair or not at all; split them up and the one you kept stops eating.	2	6	5	1d4	1-2	DC 7	15
Sunbirdtiny · weakMetallic green and purple, this tiny nectar-feeder hangs upside down from flowers to drink. It is common in the gardens and scrub of Crecia and Amari.	2	6	4	1d2	1	DC 8	25
Paradise Tanagertiny · weakA small songbird colored like a painter’s tray, with a green head and a red rump. It travels in mixed flocks through the forests and scrub of Crecia and Tharsis. Collectors buy them for cages.	2	7	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
Hummingbirdtiny · weakA bird no bigger than a thumb that hangs in the air in front of a flower and is gone when you blink. Hummingbirds feed in the woods of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem and around the warm springs, and will chase off a bee twice their weight. Nobody hunts them; there wouldn’t be anything left.	2	8	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
Purple Martintiny · weakA glossy blue-black swallow that hunts insects on the wing over fields and water all across Sedia. Farmers hang hollow gourds for it to nest in, since a colony keeps the flies down.	2	8	4	1d4	1	DC 5	20
White-Winged Dovetiny · weakWhite-winged doves flock on the high tundra and dry scrub of Jewall and New Saellem, calling a soft ‘who cooks for you’ at dawn. They’re good eating and easy to snare. Plenty of Jewall households keep a few in a coop.	2	8	3	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Woodpeckertiny · weakYou hear it long before you see it: a hard knock on bark, over and over, high up the trunk. Woodpeckers work the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem and bother nobody but the trees. Tamed, it keeps knocking, so it’s no pet for a quiet house.	2	8	2	1d4	1	DC 5	5
Dhjarian Bulbulsmall · weakA brown songbird with a yellow patch under the tail, the dhjarian bulbul sings from the Dhjarian Pines and the other forests of Esthar and Tharsis. It eats berries and is a common cage bird in the Inner City. Easy to tame, hard to shut up.	2	11	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Fan-Tailed Ravensmall · weakA black raven with a short tail that spreads like a fan in flight. Fan-tailed ravens nest in graveyards and cemeteries all over Sedia and are clever enough to open a latched lid. Tamed, they bring you shiny things, some of which belonged to the dead.	2	11	4	1d4	1-2	DC 3	35	·
Orange Winged Parrotsmall · weakA green parrot that only shows its orange when it flies. Pairs of them screech through woods and scrub across most of Sedia and can strip a fruit tree in an afternoon. It’s cheap to buy and easy to tame, so plenty of farmhouses keep one by the door as a noisy watchman.	2	11	4	1d4	1	DC 4	30
Darkwood Bulbultiny · regularA small olive bulbul with a scruffy crest that sings in the undergrowth of Darkwood and the other forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. Darkwood bulbuls travel in noisy pairs. A handful of berries is all it takes to catch one.	3	9	6	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Menusian Bird-Of-Paradisetiny · regularA tiny bird in scarlet and yellow with a bald blue crown and two tail wires that curl like a mustache. The males clear a patch of ground in the coastal scrub of Menusia and Amari and dance on it for anyone who’ll watch. Collectors pay well for a live one.	3	9	6	1d4	1	DC 5	40
Mountain Bluebirdtiny · weakA small sky-blue bird of open high country that hovers over the grass before dropping on insects. Shepherds in Jewall and Crecia call it good luck.	3	9	6	1d4	1	DC 5	10
White-Winged Collared Dovetiny · weakA pale dove with a black half-collar that flashes white in the wings when it flies. It coos the same soft three notes from the scrub of Crecia and Amari all day long. Tamed doves are cheap and always come home, so couriers on the Crecian roads keep them.	3	9	6	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Black-Backed Grosbeaktiny · weakA thick-billed finch, black above and orange below, that cracks seeds no other bird can open. It feeds along the forest edges and scrub of Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar and sings well enough to sell to a songbird dealer.	3	10	5	1d4	1-2	DC 5	10
Yellow-Throated Hanging-Parrottiny · weakA tiny green parrot that sleeps hanging upside down like a bat. Hanging-parrots live in the cliff scrub of Jewall and New Saellem and come down to the valley orchards when the fruit is ripe. Kept in a cage, it hangs from the top bar and stares at you.	3	11	4	1d4	1	DC 6	20
Yellow-Crested Cockatoosmall · weakA white cockatoo with a yellow crest that it raises when it’s annoyed, which is often. It screams its way through the forests of Menusia and Amari. Reach for one carelessly and it’ll take the end of your finger.	3	12	3	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Hoopoesmall · weakA cinnamon bird with a black and white barred crest that it fans like a hand of cards. It probes the ground for grubs in the grasslands and woods of Crecia and Amari. Its nest smells terrible, on purpose.	3	13	6	1d4	1	DC 5	50
Sandgrousesmall · weakA pigeon-shaped desert bird, sand-colored and hard to see, that lives in the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. The males soak their belly feathers at water holes and carry the water back to their chicks. Follow a flock flying out at dawn and you’ll find something to drink.	3	13	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5
Western Meadowlarksmall · weakA plump songbird with a yellow breast and a black bib, singing from a reed tip in the fens of Tharsis and the swamps of Menusia. Its song carries a long way over open marsh. A meadowlark that stops singing has seen something you haven’t.	3	13	4	1d4	1	DC 8	20
Yellow-Crowned Parakeetsmall · weakA small green parakeet with a yellow forehead that chatters in flocks through the forests of Menusia and Amari. It’s easy to tame and stays tame. Sailors out of Amari keep them aboard for luck.	3	13	4	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Kakaposmall · weakA fat, flightless green parrot that walks everywhere and smells faintly of honey. Kakapos live on the forest floor of Menusia and Amari and freeze when threatened, which works on hawks and not on anyone carrying a sack. Gentle, slow and almost impossible to anger.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 6	10
Roadrunnersmall · regularA long-legged ground bird with a ragged crest that would rather run than fly, and runs faster than a man. It hunts lizards and snakes across the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria and beats them to death on rocks. It doesn’t back down from a rattlesnake and won’t back down from you.	3	14	6	1d4	1	DC 5	40
White-Throated Swiftsmall · weakWhite-throated swifts dart over the warm coastal forests and grasslands in screaming flocks, catching insects on the wing. They almost never land and nest in cliff cracks no one can reach. Catching one takes luck and a fine net.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
Wrinkled Hornbillsmall · weakA big black hornbill with a red casque that looks folded like old leather. It hops through the scrub of Crecia and Amari eating fruit and lizards, and its wingbeats sound like someone shaking out a wet sheet. Carvers buy the casque.	3	14	4	1d4	1	DC 4	5
Hooded Oriolesmall · regularBright yellow-orange with a black throat, the hooded oriole weaves a hanging nest in the coastal palms of Menusia, Amari and the Morian shore. It’s skittish and fast. A tamed one sings well enough to sell.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 8	35
Yellow-Eyed Starlingsmall · weakA glossy dark starling with staring yellow eyes that nests in noisy colonies in the forests of Menusia and Amari. A colony sounds like an argument, and the ground under the tree is white. It’s worth little, though one taught to whistle fetches a few vern.	4	15	4	1d4	1	DC 5	15
Yellow-Shouldered Blackbirdsmall · regularA glossy black bird with a yellow patch on each shoulder. It nests in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem and gets bold around camps, pulling food out of open packs. It bites harder than a bird that size has any right to.	4	15	4	1d6	1	DC 6	10
Yellow Billed Cuckoosmall · weakA slim brown bird with a curved yellow bill that hides in the leaves and calls before rain. Woodsmen in Tharsis use it as a weather sign, and it’s right more often than they are. Harmless and hard to spot.	5	16	5	1d4	1	DC 4	10
Yellow-Legged Pigeonsmall · weakA gray pigeon with bright yellow legs that feeds on seed across the grassland and scrub of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis. It’s dull, common and edible, and often the first thing a new hunter brings home.	5	16	5	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Yellowish Imperial Pigeonsmall · regularA large pale pigeon, cream going to yellow, that roosts on cliff ledges in the mountains of Jewall and New Saellem. Flocks wheel down the valleys at dusk to feed. They’re slow to spook and good eating, so dwarven hunters take them with slings.	5	16	5	1d4	1	DC 4	15
Prairie Chickensmall · weakA barred brown grouse of the open prairie in Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar. In spring the males puff up orange sacs on their necks and boom at each other at dawn, loud enough to wake a camp. They tame easily and lay well, so plenty of Crecian farms keep a few.	5	17	4	1d4	2-4	DC 5	70
Crecian Thrushsmall · weakA plain gray-brown thrush that sings from fence posts and thorn bushes across the Crecian prairie and the Amari hills. Farmers like it because it eats the grubs that eat their crops. Easy to tame and easy to lose: it goes back to its post at the first chance.	6	18	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5
Scarlet Macawsmall · weakA red parrot with blue and yellow wings and a voice that carries a mile. Scarlet macaws turn up nearly anywhere on Sedia, from the Crecian prairie to the Morian badlands. Tamed, one learns a few words, and it always learns the wrong ones first.	6	18	5	1d4	1	DC 5	20
Great Bustardmedium · weakA heavy gray-brown bird with a white belly and whiskers of feather at its chin, one of the heaviest birds on Sedia that can still fly. Oddly, it struts among the headstones of graveyards and cemeteries, picking at the grass and beetles. Groundskeepers leave it alone because it keeps both down.	6	22	4	1d4	1-3	DC 6	40
Ostrichlarge · weakA flightless bird taller than a man that runs the grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Moria. It can outrun a horse over short ground, and its kick can kill a wolf. One egg feeds a family, and the plumes sell in every Crecian market.	11	30	5	1d8	1	DC 7	40

Crocodiles

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Crocodiles#

One family of Wild Animals: 3 animals, levels 17 to 20. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Patient, armored and hungry. They wait at the water’s edge for whatever comes to drink.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Alligatorlarge · regularAlligators lie in the slow water of the Mellowdeep Marsh and the mangroves of Menusia with only their eyes showing. One will wait all day for a traveler to kneel at the bank and drink. Hunters prize the hide for boots, and most of them have a missing finger to show for it.	17	40	6	1d8	1	DC 5	10
Crocodilelarge · regularCrocodiles lie in the Mellowdeep Marsh and the mangrove swamps of Menusia with only their eyes above the water. They take whatever comes down to drink, and a horse is not too big. Crocodile hide makes good boots and better armor.	17	40	6	1d8	1	DC 5	10
Saltwater Crocodilelarge · regularThe biggest crocodile on Sedia, and the one most willing to eat a person. It lies in the Mellowdeep Marsh, the Swamp of Cahar and the mangroves of Menusia with only its eyes above the water. Don’t wade where you can’t see the bottom.	20	44	15	1d10	1	DC 8	10

Lizards

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Lizards#

One family of Wild Animals: 11 animals, levels 2 to 4. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Iguanas, chameleons and the lizards of the hot ground.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Iguanatiny · weakA green lizard about three feet long, most of it tail, that suns on warm rocks across the grasslands of Crecia, Amari and Tharsis. Cornered, it lashes with the tail and bites, then sulks for an hour. Farmers eat them and swear it tastes like chicken.	2	7	4	1d4	1	DC 4	5
Rock Iguanatiny · weakA stocky gray iguana with a spiny crest that suns on rocks along the coasts and dry hills of Crecia and Amari. It bites hard for its size and holds on. Coastal villagers catch them for the pot.	2	7	4	1d4	1	DC 4	5
Tiger Chameleontiny · weakA small chameleon striped yellow and black when calm and blotched dark when it is not. It clings to branches in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar and catches flies with a tongue longer than its body. Collectors in Crecia pay well for a healthy one.	2	7	6	1d4	1	DC 5	45
Desert Iguanatiny · weakA pale lizard with tiny scales that stays out in the midday sun when everything else in the Sands of Bone has gone to ground. It eats flowers and leaves and runs on its hind legs when frightened. Easy to catch and harmless.	2	8	4	1d4	1-3	DC 3	30
Lizardtiny · weakOrdinary lizards bask on every warm rock and branch in Menusia and Amari. They are harmless, quick and very hard to catch. Market stalls in Kyra sell them as pets for a few vern.	2	8	6	1d2	1	DC 5	15
Rainbow Lizardtiny · weakRainbow lizards sun themselves on the mudflats and marsh banks of Menusia and the Mellowdeep Marsh, flashing blue and orange scales. They are harmless and very quick. Collectors in Crecia pay a fair price for a live one with good color.	2	8	4	1d2	1-2	DC 7	35
Skinktiny · weakSkinks are glossy, short-legged lizards that swim through the loose sand of the Sands of Bone and the Morian Desert. They’re quick and shy and drop their tails when caught. Caravan hands race them in the evening and bet vern on the outcome.	2	8	5	1d4	1	DC 5	40
Veiled Chameleontiny · weakA green chameleon banded in yellow, with a tall casque on its head like a helmet. On Sedia it clings to the walls of caves and old mine shafts, slowly changing color in the light of a torch. It’s harmless and hisses at anyone who tries to pick it up.	2	8	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10	·
Mellowdeep Giant Lizardsmall · weakA heavy, dark lizard nearly three feet long that basks on hummocks in the Mellowdeep Marsh and the mangrove swamps of Menusia. It eats almost anything, including other creatures’ eggs. Slow, but its bite holds.	3	13	6	1d4	1-2	DC 4	15
Chuckwallatiny · regularA fat, wrinkled lizard that basks on hot rocks in the badlands and scrub of Moria, Amari and Crecia. When threatened it wedges itself into a crack and puffs up so it can’t be pulled out. Prying one loose takes a knife and patience.	3	14	5	1d4	1-2	DC 6	20
Horned Lizardmedium · regularA flat, round lizard covered in spines, with a crown of horns on its head. It lives on the sandy beaches and shores of Menusia, Amari and Moria and eats ants. Scare one badly enough and it squirts blood from its eyes, which works on most predators and a good many adventurers.	4	8	7	1d2	1	DC 5	15

Snakes

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Snakes#

One family of Wild Animals: 5 animals, levels 2 to 6. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Most of them would rather leave. The rattlesnake tells you so first.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Sand Cobrasmall · weakThe sand cobra rears and spreads its hood on the dunes of the Sands of Bone and the Morian Desert. Its bite can kill in an hour without a healer. Snake charmers in Dumasque keep them with the fangs pulled, which is the only safe way to keep one.	2	11	5	1d4	1	DC 6	10
Rattlesnakesmall · weakRattlesnakes coil in the badlands of Moria and the rocky edges of the Sands of Bone. The rattle is a warning and a fair one: step back and it usually lets you go. Its venom keeps the healers of Moria in steady work.	3	14	5	1d4	1	DC 4	30
Sidewindersmall · weakA small horned viper of the Morian badlands and the dunes around Dumasque, the sidewinder moves in sideways loops that leave a ladder of tracks in the sand. It buries itself with only its eyes showing and strikes whatever walks past. The skin is prized for belts and purses.	3	14	5	1d4	1	DC 5	65
Snakesmall · regularSnakes of a dozen plain brown kinds hide in the caves, tombs and wet meadows of Sedia. The common ones aren’t deadly, but a bite festers if it’s left alone. Watch your hands on every ledge you climb.	5	17	6	1d6	1	DC 4	5
Mountain Kingsnakesmall · weakA banded red, black and cream snake of the slopes of Jewall and New Saellem, the mountain kingsnake looks venomous and isn’t. It eats other snakes, vipers included, which makes miners glad to see one. Handled gently, it rarely bites.	6	18	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5

Turtles and Tortoises

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Turtles and Tortoises#

One family of Wild Animals: 11 animals, levels 3 to 5. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Slow, armored and very hard to kill.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Geometric Tortoisesmall · weakA small tortoise whose black shell is marked with bright yellow stars, found on the beaches and river mouths of Amari and Moria. It’s slow and harmless. The shells are prized for combs and inlay, so few live to grow old.	3	12	15	1d4	1	DC 7	40
Spurred Tortoisesmall · weakA sand-colored tortoise with heavy spurs on its back legs that wanders the forest edges of Menusia and Amari. It digs burrows deep enough to lose a dog in. It is slow and nearly impossible to hurt, which is all a tortoise needs.	3	12	15	1d4	1	DC 9	10
Jagged-Shelled Turtletiny · weakA turtle with a saw-toothed rim to its shell that lives on the dry grasslands of Crecia and Amari, far from water. Anything that tries to swallow one learns about the rim.	3	13	15	1d4	1	DC 9	20
Turtlesmall · regularTurtles creep along the forest streams from Tharsis up into New Saellem and sun themselves on any flat rock. They pull into the shell at the first footstep and bite fingers that follow. Turtle soup is a Tharsis favorite, which may explain the wariness.	3	13	15	1d4	1	DC 9	20
Amari Mud Turtlesmall · weakA brown turtle that buries itself in the mud of estuaries and shallow ponds along the coasts of Amari, Menusia and Moria. In the dry months it digs in and sleeps until the rain comes back. It snaps if you dig it out, which seems fair.	3	14	15	1d4	1-2	DC 8	5
Amari Box Turtletiny · weakA box turtle with a hinged shell that snaps shut, found along the beaches and river deltas of Amari and Menusia. Once it closes up, nothing short of a hammer opens it. It’s easy to keep and outlives most of its owners.	3	15	15	1d4	1	DC 7	5
Pond Turtlesmall · weakA dark, flat-shelled turtle that suns itself on logs in quiet ponds and slips under at the first shadow. Most ponds in Menusia have a few. Easy to keep and slow to bite.	4	15	15	1d4	1	DC 9	40	·
Wood Turtlesmall · weakA brown turtle with a sculpted shell that wanders the forests and stream banks of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. It stamps on the ground to bring the worms up. Wood turtles are easy to catch and stubborn to tame.	4	15	15	1d4	1	DC 9	30
Yellow-Margined Box Turtlesmall · weakA dark box turtle whose shell is trimmed with a yellow stripe, living along the coasts and river mouths of Menusia and Amari. It snaps if handled, then shuts its shell for the rest of the conversation.	4	15	15	1d4	1	DC 7	5
Three-Striped Roof Turtlesmall · weakThree dark stripes run down this turtle’s high, peaked shell, which is shaped like a roof. It basks on logs along the forest rivers of Tharsis and Esthar and slides into the water at the first footstep. It is rare enough that a collector will pay for one.	5	16	15	1d4	1	DC 11	40
Desert Tortoisesmall · weakA high-domed tortoise that spends most of the year underground in the deserts of Dumasque and Moria. It can outlive whoever finds it. Pick one up roughly and it empties its bladder in fright, losing water it can’t spare, so set it down gently.	5	17	15	1d4	1	DC 4	50

Frogs and Toads

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Frogs and Toads#

One family of Wild Animals: 24 animals, levels 1 to 5. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Some are harmless and some are deadly to lick. The bright ones are the deadly ones.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Toucan Arrow Frogtiny · weakA small black frog with a bright yellow face, the toucan arrow frog lives among the giant conifers of the wet coastal forests. Like its cousins it carries poison in its skin and wears the colors to say so. It’s rarely seen, and worth more to an alchemist alive than dead.	1	3	4	1d4	1	DC 5	5	·
Golden Toadtiny · weakBright orange and almost metallic in the sun, golden toads crowd the wet forests of Menusia and the fens of Tharsis and Amari after heavy rain. They’re harmless. Collectors pay more for a live one than anything that small deserves.	1	4	2	1d4	1	DC 4	35
Yellow Delta Frogtiny · weakA yellow-green frog of the river deltas and estuaries of Menusia and Amari, with a call like someone plucking a loose string. It’s common and harmless. Fishermen hook them as bait for bigger things.	1	4	4	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Darkwood Toadtiny · weakA small brown toad of the forest floor from Darkwood to the Forest of Frost, mottled like the dead leaves it sits in. It’s harmless. You’ll step on one before you see one.	1	5	5	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Glass Frogtiny · weakIts belly skin is clear enough to watch the heart beat through. Glass frogs cling to leaves over streams in the wet forests of Tharsis and Menusia and are nearly invisible from above. They’re harmless, and only alchemists care about them.	1	5	1	1d2	1	DC 2	40
Pine Robber Frogtiny · weakA small frog of the pine forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem that lays its eggs on land rather than in water. It’s the color of bark and rarely seen. Its whistle carries on damp nights.	1	5	2	1d4	1	DC 4	5
Robber Frogtiny · weakRobber frogs are small brown frogs of the forests of Menusia and Amari that move into other frogs’ burrows and calling spots. They hide by day under bark and leaf litter. Harmless, and almost impossible to find on purpose.	1	5	5	1d2	1-2	DC 4	5
Water Frogtiny · weakWater frogs are plain green frogs of ponds, water meadows and the warm pools around hot springs. Wherever there’s still water there’s a water frog, making more noise than anything its size. Fishermen use them for bait.	1	5	3	1d2	1	DC 7	5
White-Grass Treefrogtiny · weakA pale treefrog that climbs high into the pines and redwoods of Esthar, Tharsis and New Saellem. Its call sounds like a dripping tap. Harmless, and almost never seen on the ground.	1	5	2	1d2	1	DC 4	20
White-Spotted Frogtiny · weakA dark frog flecked with white, the white-spotted frog lives in cool forest pools and on the tundra edges, and a few turn up in the high country of Jewall. It’s quiet and easy to miss. Harmless.	1	5	3	1d2	1	DC 5	15
Ash Toadtiny · weakA small grey toad that lives where nothing else will, in the warm cracks of the volcanic ground of Moria. It soaks up the heat of the vents at night, and its skin tastes so strongly of sulfur that even the things that eat toads leave it alone.	2	6	5	1d2	1-2	DC 5	5
Banana Frogtiny · weakA slim, pale-green frog that sleeps curled on broad leaves around the marshes of Tharsis and the swamps of Menusia. Quiet by day, loud all night, harmless always.	2	6	6	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Saltwater Toadtiny · weakSaltwater toads are fat, warty toads of the fens and swamp forests of Tharsis, common in the Mellowdeep Marsh. They sit happily in brackish water that would kill most frogs. The skin is mildly toxic, so wash your hands before supper.	2	6	6	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Wrinkled Frogtiny · weakThe wrinkled frog is a small, lumpy frog of dry heath and scrub. It looks like a crumpled leaf and is about as interesting to anything hungry. It sits still and waits for rain.	2	6	2	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Shore Toadtiny · weakA squat gray toad that lives where fresh water meets the sea, along the beaches and deltas of Menusia, Amari and Moria. It puts up with salt better than most toads. Harmless and rarely noticed.	2	7	4	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Toadtiny · minionToads sit in every wet ditch, bog and forest floor on Sedia, and the Mellowdeep Marsh is loud with them on spring nights. Their skin is mildly poisonous, so don’t lick one on a dare. They are worth nothing and eat a great many flies.	2	7	4	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Warty Tree Toadtiny · weakA lumpy brown toad that climbs, which surprises people. It sits on branches in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar eating beetles. The warts are harmless, whatever your grandmother said.	2	7	4	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Cave Toadtiny · weakA pale, warty toad that lives in caves and mine shafts and hunts crickets in the dark. Miners take it as a sign the air is still good.	2	8	5	1d2	1	DC 4	5	·
Menusian Dwarf Frogtiny · weakNo bigger than a thumbnail, this brown frog sings from the leaf litter of Menusia’s forests all night long. You will hear thousands and see none.	2	8	4	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Poison Arrow Frogtiny · weakTiny and painted in warning colors, this frog sweats a poison that Menusian hunters scrape onto their darts. It turns up in wet forests from Menusia to Tharsis. Don’t handle one barehanded, and don’t lick your fingers after.	2	8	3	1d4	1-2	DC 4	5
Strawberry Dart Frogtiny · weakA tiny red frog with blue legs, the strawberry dart frog lives in the wet forests and bogs of Menusia and Tharsis. Its skin carries a poison hunters wipe on blowgun darts, and the color is a warning that it means it. Handle one with gloves or not at all.	2	8	4	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Estuary Frogtiny · weakThe estuary frog lives where rivers meet the sea and in the swamp forests behind them, and it can stand water saltier than most frogs can. It’s small, brown and loud at night. Bait, mostly.	3	9	3	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Menusian Coast Frogtiny · weakA green and gold frog that breeds in the pools behind the beaches of Menusia and Amari. It calls loudest just before rain, and coastal fishermen trust it more than the sky.	3	9	2	1d2	1-2	DC 3	5
Menusian Flying Frogsmall · weakA green frog with huge webbed feet that it spreads like sails to glide from tree to tree in the Menusian forest. It can cover forty feet in one leap. Travelers who see one drop past their heads usually reach for a weapon first.	5	17	3	1d4	1	DC 4	10

Salamanders and Newts

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Salamanders and Newts#

One family of Wild Animals: 5 animals, levels 1 to 6. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Small, slick and mostly found by people looking for something else.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Menusian Salamandertiny · weakA slick black salamander spotted with orange that lives under rotting logs in the forests of Menusia and Amari. The skin is mildly poisonous. It does nothing much and is hard to find, which suits it fine.	1	4	3	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Yellow-Legged Salamandertiny · weakA slim black salamander with bright yellow legs that climbs the reeds and mangrove roots of Sedia’s wetlands. Herbalists collect them in spring for a tonic that does nothing, and sell it for a lot.	1	4	3	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Yellow-Spotted Salamandertiny · weakA black salamander with two rows of yellow spots, out on wet spring nights in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. It spends the rest of the year underground. Harmless.	1	4	3	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Crocodile Newttiny · weakPicture a crocodile shrunk to the length of a finger: a black newt with a ridge of orange knobs down its back. It lives in damp caves and old mines, and its skin oozes poison when it is grabbed. Wash your hands before you eat.	2	8	4	1d2	1	DC 4	10	·
Crypt Salamandersmall · weakA pale salamander that lives in the cool damp of graveyards, crypts and ossuaries all over Sedia. Gravediggers call it the bone-lizard and leave it be, believing it eats what’s left. It doesn’t, but nobody argues with a gravedigger.	6	19	4	1d2	1	DC 6	5	·

Fish

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Fish#

One family of Wild Animals: 4 animals, levels 1 to 6. Reading the tables says what each column means.

What anglers pull out of Sedia’s rivers and fens.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Toothless Blindcattiny · weakA pale, eyeless catfish no longer than a finger, with no teeth to speak of. It lives in the dark water under stream banks and in the springs that run through the woods and grasslands of Crecia and Tharsis. Harmless, and a curiosity for collectors.	1	5	4	1d2	1-3	DC 5	15
Fen Gruntertiny · weakA small olive fish named for the grunt it makes when pulled from the water. It lives in the bayous and fen pools of Tharsis and the swamps of Menusia. Anglers use it as bait or fry it whole.	2	6	3	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Yellowtail Floundertiny · weakA flat, brown-backed fish with a yellow tail that lies buried in the sandy shallows from the Crecian Gulf to the Amari Inlet. It waits for prey to swim over it. Fishermen net them by the hundred, and every port market sells them.	3	19	4	1d2	1	DC 5	35	·
Pikesmall · weakPike are long, toothy fish of the kelp beds and deeper water off Sedia’s coasts, built like a spear and nearly as fast. A big one will take a fisherman’s catch off the line, hook and all. The flesh is bony but good.	6	19	4	1d2	1	DC 5	35	·

Creatures of the Sea

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Creatures of the Sea#

One family of Wild Animals: 7 animals, levels 6 to 40. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Whales, sharks, seals and the things of the deep water.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Manta Raymedium · regularManta rays glide through the warm shallows of the Amari Inlet and the open Azulean Ocean, up to twenty feet from wingtip to wingtip. They eat drifting specks of food and ignore swimmers. Sailors take one breaching near the bow as good luck.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 6	30	·
Octopusmedium · regularOctopuses hide in the rocks and kelp along the coasts of the Sea of Nurn and the Crecian Gulf. They are clever enough to open a crab pot from the inside. Divers who poke into the wrong crevice come up with a bite and a story.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 6	30	·
Porpoisemedium · regularPorpoises run in small pods off the coasts of the Lutanian Ocean and the Sea of Mists. They follow ships for the scraps and want nothing else to do with people. Crecian sailors call killing one bad luck and won’t crew for a captain who does it.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 6	30	·
Sealmedium · weakSeals haul out on the ice and beaches of New Saellem’s arctic coast, around Criss Beach and the Frozen Wastes, and bark at anything that comes near. They are clumsy on land and fast in the water. Sealskin keeps a Saellem fisherman dry, and seal oil keeps his lamp lit.	6	22	4	1d4	1-2	DC 6	30
Squidmedium · minionSquid hunt the dark water off the coasts and rise at night toward lantern light. A big one can take a fisherman’s line and very nearly the fisherman. Fried squid is a Crecian harbor dish, which is how most people meet one.	6	22	4	1d4	1	DC 6	30	·
Sharkhuge · minionSharks cruise the deep water of the Azulean and Lutanian Oceans and come into the shallows when there’s blood in it. Anyone who goes overboard with a wound has very little time. Shark teeth are sold in every port as charms, and most of them are fake.	24	41	14	1d12	1	DC 6	10	·
Whalehuge · minionWhales pass through the Lutanian and Azulean Oceans on long seasonal routes, and the biggest are longer than a merchant ship. Most ignore boats. The ones that don’t can stave in a hull with one sweep of the tail, and the whalers out of Port Carvi earn their pay.	40	70	14	1d20	1	DC 6	10	·

Crabs and Crayfish

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Crabs and Crayfish#

One family of Wild Animals: 6 animals, levels 2 to 3. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Pinchers of the shore and the riverbank.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Amari Shore Crabtiny · weakA flat gray crab the size of a palm that scuttles sideways across the beaches and river mouths of Amari and Menusia. Its pinch draws blood but rarely more. Fishermen boil them by the bucket.	2	7	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Mellowdeep Crayfishtiny · weakA burrowing crayfish that stacks little mud chimneys over its holes in the Mellowdeep Marsh and the wet ground of Tharsis and Menusia. It pinches, but only if stepped on. Marsh folk boil them by the bucket.	2	7	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Mudflat Crabtiny · weakA small crab that scuttles over the mudflats and estuaries of Menusia and Amari by the thousand and digs in when anything comes near. Coastal folk catch them for bait and soup.	2	7	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Riverlet Crayfishtiny · weakA small crayfish that lives in shallow streams and river mouths along the coasts of Menusia and Amari. It hides under stones and pinches fingers. Good eating, but it takes a lot of them to make a meal.	2	7	5	1d4	1	DC 5	10
Tree Hole Crabtiny · weakA tiny purple crab that lives in the rainwater caught in hollow trees, far from any shore, and eats whatever falls in. Reach into a hollow trunk in the forests of Tharsis or Esthar and you may come out with one attached.	2	8	15	1d4	1-2	DC 8	15
Fairy Shrimptiny · weakTiny, glassy shrimp that swim upside down in the pools of the Mellowdeep Marsh and the other fens of Tharsis. They hatch after the rains and die when the water dries. Fishermen use them as bait.	3	9	1	1d2	1-6	DC 2	10

Snails

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Snails#

One family of Wild Animals: 6 animals, level 2. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Snails. They are exactly as dangerous as they look.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth
Telescope Hornsnailtiny · weakA snail with a long, narrow, tightly coiled shell like a spyglass, found in the wet cracks of the mountains of Jewall and New Saellem. Dwarves say a hornsnail on the rocks means water nearby, and they’re usually right.	2	7	5	1d2	1	DC 3	10
Knobbed Snailtiny · weakThe knobbed snail is a freshwater snail with an olive, knobbed shell that clings to stones in cold streams, from the high meadows of Jewall down into the forests of Crecia. It’s slow and harmless and good eating if you’re hungry enough. Dwarven cooks boil them in ale.	2	8	4	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Land Snailtiny · weakA land snail as big as a fist that grazes the bogs and swamp forests of Tharsis and Menusia. It leaves a slime trail any tracker could follow. Cooks in Tharsis serve them in garlic butter.	2	8	1	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Pebblesnailtiny · weakA snail smaller than a pea that clings to wet stones in the mountain streams of Jewall and New Saellem and along rocky shores. Nearly everything that eats snails eats it, and it is no use to anyone else.	2	8	2	1d2	1	DC 4	5
Tree Snailtiny · weakA bright, banded snail that lives on tree trunks in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. Every grove seems to breed its own colors, and shell collectors argue over them. Harmless.	2	8	1	1d2	1	DC 5	5
Wreathed Cactus Snailtiny · weakA small snail with a ridged, wreath-patterned shell that clings to bark and rock in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. It seals itself in during dry spells and can wait out a whole season. Harmless.	2	8	1	1d2	1	DC 5	5

Insects and Spiders

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Insects and Spiders#

One family of Wild Animals: 4 animals, levels 1 to 2. Reading the tables says what each column means.

The big ones worth a table of their own. The rest are vermin.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Scorpiontiny · regularScorpions hide under every other stone in the Sands of Bone and the Iron Sands, and in any boot left outside the tent. Most stings swell and burn for a day. Shake everything out before you put it on.	1	3	8	1d6	1	DC 5	40
Happy-Face Spidertiny · regularA pale little spider with a pattern on its back like a grinning face, the happy-face spider spins in the dark of caves, mines and old crypts. Its bite stings more than it harms. Grave robbers take it for a bad omen, which hasn’t stopped any of them.	2	6	9	1d4	1	DC 8	20	·
Leaf-Cutter Anttiny · weakLeaf-cutter ants march in long columns across Crecia, Amari and Menusia, each carrying a scrap of leaf many times its size back to a nest that can strip a garden in a night. One ant is nothing. Disturb the column and the soldiers swarm, and their bite stings for days.	2	6	8	1d4	3-8	DC 4	40
Tarantulatiny · weakTarantulas are hairy, hand-sized spiders that hunt from burrows in caves and the edges of the boreal forest. The bite hurts but rarely does harm; the hairs they flick when threatened are worse and itch for days. They’re surprisingly easy to tame, and some alchemists keep one on the bench.	2	8	8	1d4	1	DC 9	10	·