Animal Monsters

in Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game

• Antelope - Common sorts of wild herd animals, including deer, aurochs, elk, moose, and bison
• Ape, Carnivorous - Powerful aggressive apes that prefer meat and kill anything they can catch
• Aurochs - Wild cattle that are shaggy and rough-looking
• Bat - Small, nocturnal flying mammal with natural sonar
• Bear, Black - Omnivorous bears that are not particularly aggressive unless cubs are threatened
• Bear, Cave - Monstrous bears even larger than grizzly bears
• Bear, Grizzly (or Brown)
• Bear, Polar - Long, lean carnivores slightly taller than grizzly bears, and just as hostile
• Bison - The largest species of wild bovines
• Black Rhino - Ill-tempered herbivore with horn, willing to charge intruders
• Boar - Bad-tempered wild swine covered in coarse, grayish-black fur
• Cattle - Large mammals with cloven hooves and horned heads, raised mostly for meat, leather, and milk
• Cheetah - One of the fastest land animals - a large cat capable of reaching up to 75 miles per hour
• Crocodile - Aggressive predators that lie mostly submerged in rivers or marshes
• Dinosaur, Stegosaurus - Peaceable herbivorous dinosaur with armored plates and spiked tail
• Dire Wolf - Efficient pack hunters that will kill anything they can catch
• Dog - Medium and large breeds of domestic and wild canines
• Eagle - Large birds of prey with heavy talons and hooked beaks
• Elephant - Massive herbivores with valuable ivory tusks
• Emu - Large flightless bird valued only as meat
• Falcon - Birds of prey with wingspans of 16 to 20 inches, popular hunting birds used by royalty
• Frog, Giant (and Toad, Giant) - Enlarged versions of common frogs; predators that attack smaller creatures
• Giant Bat - Large carnivorous bat with 15-foot wingspan
• Giant Hawk - Large raptors capable of carrying off Halfling-sized creatures
• Giant Rat - Large scavenging rodents that grow up to 4 feet long and weigh over 50 pounds
• Hawk - Raptors that prey on small creatures
• Hyena - Doglike carnivores who hunt, scavenge, and steal meals
• Jaguar - Great cats about 8 to 9 feet long that enjoy swimming and hunt near water
• Leopard (Panther) - Large cats that are 7 to 8 feet long including tail, and weigh about 175 lb
• Lion - Large cat found in grasslands and savannas with muscular bodies and prominent manes on males
• Mammoth - Huge, shaggy prehistoric relatives of the elephant
• Mastodon - Intelligent, aggressive prehistoric relatives of the elephant
• Mountain Lion - Great cats about 7 feet long and 140 pounds that hunt day or night
• Normal Rat - Omnivorous rodents that attack as a swarm
• Normal Wolf - Pack hunters known for their persistence and cunning
• Ostrich - Large flightless bird sometimes raised or hunted for food and decorative quills
• Owl - Birds of prey with large eyes and the ability to fly without making a sound
• Parrot (or Cockatiel) - Decorative birds about the size of a falcon, known for their ability to learn to mimic speech and other sounds
• Rock Baboon - Large, particularly intelligent variety of baboon that is omnivorous but prefers meat
• Sabre-Tooth Cat - A prehistoric great cat with very large canine teeth, robustly built with exceptionally long upper canines
• Sea Serpent - Serpentine monsters which live in the sea, ranging from 20' to 40' long
• Shark, Bull - Stocky, broad sharks that can tolerate fresh water and travel up rivers
• Shark, Mako - Fast-moving predators found in temperate and tropical seas
• Shrew, Common Giant - Giant shrews resemble giant rats, but are larger, being up to 6' long, and darker in color
• Shrew, Venomous Giant - A venomous variant of giant shrew, generally no more than 5% of those encountered
• Tiger - Large striped great cat with orange fur and dark vertical stripes
• Titanothere - A huge prehistoric animal that resembles the rhinoceros with large, forked horns
• Weasel, Giant (or Ferret, Giant) - Long-bodied predatory animals with short legs and pointed, toothy snouts
• Whale, Sperm - Enormous predatory whales up to 60 feet long that prey on giant squid
• Woolly Rhino - Prehistoric long-furred rhinoceros found in colder lost world areas