Plains Monsters

in Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game

• Antelope - Common sorts of wild herd animals, including deer, aurochs, elk, moose, and bison
• Aurochs - Wild cattle that are shaggy and rough-looking
• Bison - The largest species of wild bovines
• Black Rhino - Ill-tempered herbivore with horn, willing to charge intruders
• Cattle - Large mammals with cloven hooves and horned heads, raised mostly for meat, leather, and milk
• Centaur - Half man, half horse creatures that are haughty, aloof, but very honorable
• Cheetah - One of the fastest land animals - a large cat capable of reaching up to 75 miles per hour
• Dinosaur, Deinonychus - Medium-sized feathered dinosaur and skilled pack-hunter
• Dinosaur, Stegosaurus - Peaceable herbivorous dinosaur with armored plates and spiked tail
• Dinosaur, Triceratops - A three-horned herbivorous dinosaur, aggressive toward interlopers
• Dragon, Plains (Yellow Dragon) - Smallest of the true dragons with yellow skin dappled with light green patches
• Elephant - Massive herbivores with valuable ivory tusks
• Emu - Large flightless bird valued only as meat
• Hyena - Doglike carnivores who hunt, scavenge, and steal meals
• Hyenodon - Ancient four legged predators with massively built skulls featuring long jaws full of teeth and four great fangs
• Lion - Large cat found in grasslands and savannas with muscular bodies and prominent manes on males
• Mastodon - Intelligent, aggressive prehistoric relatives of the elephant
• Ostrich - Large flightless bird sometimes raised or hunted for food and decorative quills
• Titanothere - A huge prehistoric animal that resembles the rhinoceros with large, forked horns