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
• Baluchitherium - Giant prehistoric animal, the largest land mammal to ever exist
• 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
• Caecilia - Gigantic (30' long), grey, worm-like amphibians, with huge, toothed maws
• 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
• Draco - 6' long, carnivorous lizards with skin flaps between legs that enable gliding
• 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
• Gecko - 5' long, carnivorous, nocturnal lizards with light blue scales and orange spots
• Giant Bass - Shy fish that only attack when seeing a bite-size morsel
• Giant Catfish - 15' long, pale white fish with four feelers that lurk in mud
• Giant Crab - Unintelligent crustaceans that lurk in coastal waters and creep along beaches
• 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 Octopus - Giant, eight-armed cephalopods. Lurk in coastal waters, close to settlements.
• Giant Piranha - 5' long piranhas with black and green scales that attack anything in water
• Giant Rattler - 10' long snakes with brown and white diamond patterns on their scales, and a rattle of rasping scales on their tails
• Giant Rockfish - Spiny fish with lumpy, rock-like skin that live in saltwater shallows
• Giant Shrew - Brown-furred, mole-like, insectivores with long snouts. Dwell underground; skilled burrowers.
• Giant Squid - Giant, ten-armed cephalopods. Two of the ten arms are larger, and may be used to attack ships
• Giant Sturgeon - Huge aggressive fish with armour plating, nearly 30' long
• 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
• Horned Chameleon - 7' long lizards whose scales change colour as camouflage
• Killer Whale - 25' long, carnivorous whales. Dwell in cold waters and hunt sea creatures (including other whales)
• Large Crocodile - 20' or more long crocodile that may attack small watercraft
• 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 Crocodile - Large reptiles that are ungainly on land and live primarily in water
• Normal Wolf - Carnivorous relatives of dogs that hunt in packs
• Panther - High-speed hunters that live in plains and forests
• Pit Viper - 5' long snakes with grey/green scales
• Polar Bear - Aggressive, white-furred bears that stand 11' tall and live in cold regions
• Pteranodon - Giant-sized pterodactyls with wingspans of 25 feet or more
• Pterodactyl - Prehistoric winged reptilian creatures with a wingspan of around 25 to 30 inches
• 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
• Roc - Giant eagle-like birds with dark brown or golden plumage
• Rock Baboon - Large, particularly intelligent variety of baboon that is omnivorous but prefers meat
• Rock Python - 20' long snakes with spiralling brown and yellow patterns on their scales
• Sabre-Toothed Tiger - Huge, aggressive cats with foot-long fangs. Normally only found in Lost World regions
• Sea Snake - 6' long snakes that live underwater, coming up for breath only once per hour
• Shark - Aggressive, predatory fish of low intelligence and unpredictable behaviour
• Small Herd Animal - Wild animals that live in large, grazing herds
• Sperm Whale - Gargantuan whales up to 60' long. Dwell in open oceans and hunt deep sea monsters (e.g. giant squids)
• Spitting Cobra - 3' long snakes with grey/white scales
• Stegosaurus - Stocky, herbivorous dinosaurs with a ridge of plates along their backs, and a tail studded with spikes
• Tiger - Large striped great cat with orange fur and dark vertical stripes
• Triceratops - Massive (12' to the shoulder, almost 40' long), aggressive, herbivorous dinosaurs with a protective crest behind the head, and three long horns
• Tuatara - 8' long, iguana-like, carnivorous lizards with olive scales and a ridge of white spikes along the back
• Tyrannosaurus Rex - Great (over 20' tall), two-legged, predatory dinosaurs with huge jaws
• War Horse - Bred for strength and courage in battle
• Wild Horse - Lightly built horses adapted to run at high speed