Animal Monsters

in Old-School Essentials Classic Fantasy

• Ape, White - Albino, herbivorous, gorilla-like apes that live in caves and emerge at night to forage
• Bat - Small, nocturnal flying mammal with natural sonar
• Black Bear - 6' tall; favour eating berries and roots
• Boar - Bad-tempered wild swine covered in coarse, grayish-black fur
• Camel - Irascible animals that are adapted to life in dry climates
• Cave Bear - Ferocious, 15' tall grizzly bears found in caves and Lost World settings
• Dire Wolf - Efficient pack hunters that will kill anything they can catch
• Draft Horse - Bred for great strength and endurance. Used to pull vehicles and ploughs or as beasts of burden
• Elephant - Massive herbivores with valuable ivory tusks
• Giant Crocodile - More than 50' long crocodile that will attack small ships
• Giant Ferret - 3' long ferrets that hunt giant rats in their burrows
• Giant Shrew - Brown-furred, mole-like, insectivores with long snouts. Dwell underground; skilled burrowers.
• Giant Toad - Warty amphibians with long, sticky tongues. As large as a great hound, weighing 150 to 250 pounds.
• Giant Weasel - 8' to 9' long, vicious, predatory mammals with rich fur of brown, gold, or white
• Grizzly Bear - Aggressive, 9' tall. Silver-tipped fur, brown or reddish brown in colour
• Hawk - Raptors that prey on small creatures
• Large Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Lion - Large cat found in grasslands and savannas with muscular bodies and prominent manes on males
• Mastodon - Intelligent, aggressive prehistoric relatives of the elephant
• Medium Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Mountain Lion - Great cats about 7 feet long and 140 pounds that hunt day or night
• Mule - Stubborn horse/donkey cross-breeds used as beasts of burden
• Normal Wolf - Carnivorous relatives of dogs that hunt in packs
• Panther - High-speed hunters that live in plains and forests
• Polar Bear - Aggressive, white-furred bears that stand 11' tall and live in cold regions
• Rat - Multitudinous, disease-ridden rodents that will eat anything
• Rhinoceros - Dim, armoured, herbivorous mammals
• Riding Horse - Lightly built horses adapted to run at high speed
• Rock Baboon - Large, particularly intelligent variety of baboon that is omnivorous but prefers meat
• Sabre-Toothed Tiger - Huge, aggressive cats with foot-long fangs. Normally only found in Lost World regions
• Sea Serpent - Serpentine monsters which live in the sea, ranging from 20' to 40' long
• Shark - Aggressive, predatory fish of low intelligence and unpredictable behaviour
• Small Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Tiger - Large striped great cat with orange fur and dark vertical stripes
• War Horse - Bred for strength and courage in battle
• Wild Horse - Lightly built horses adapted to run at high speed