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 | |
