Plains Monsters

in OSRIC

• Al-mi'raj - Large (3-ft) hares with black unicorn horns projecting from their foreheads
• Albertosaurus - Much smaller cretaceous carnivore
• Allosaurus - Jurassic carnivore
• Anklyosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore with bony, armoured back
• Apatosaurus - Jurassic herbivore, once called brontosaurus
• Argentinosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore, relatively recently discovered, twice as massive as brachiosaurus
• Axe Beak - Diurnal hunters, these ostrich-like birds run fast and attack prey with their strong beaks
• Baboon - An aggressive primate adapted to life on the ground
• Badger - Squat and broad, muscular, burrowing mammals with iron hard digging claws
• Brachiosaurus - Jurassic herbivore; long thought to be the largest land dinosaur
• Buffalo - Native to tropical and subtropical plains
• Bull - Very aggressive cattle
• Camarasaurus - Very common Jurassic herbivore
• Centaur - Half man, half horse creatures that are haughty, aloof, but very honorable
• Centrosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore that seems to have lived in very large herds
• Ceratosaurus - Jurassic carnivore
• Cetiosaurus - Jurassic herbivore, earlier relative of the other types
• Deinonychus - Cretaceous carnivore
• Diceratops - Cretaceous herbivore; extremely rare compared to triceratops
• Diplodocus - Jurassic herbivore, famously long
• Edmontosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore, formerly "anatosaurus"
• Elephant, African - Large mammal with grey hide, tusks, trunk and large ears found in subtropical plains
• Elephant, Asian - Large mammal with grey hide, tusks, trunk and ears found in subtropical plains
• Gorgosaurus - Cretaceous carnivore, smaller than tyrannosaurus
• Halfling - Diminutive, furry-footed demihumans who dwell in small villages (30–300 inhabitants)
• Hyena - Doglike carnivores who hunt, scavenge, and steal meals
• Hypacrosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore
• Iguanodon - Cretaceous herbivore
• Indricotherium - A prehistoric ruminant that looks like a large rhinoceros
• Jackal - Small wild canines that prefer to attack prey en-masse
• Lion - Large cat found in grasslands and savannas with muscular bodies and prominent manes on males
• Mastodon - Intelligent, aggressive prehistoric relatives of the elephant
• Monoclonius - Cretaceous herbivore with only one horn
• Pentaceratops - Cretaceous herbivore, resembling a triceratops with a longer neck-frill and two extra horns protruding from under its eyes
• Plateosaurus - Triassic herbivore
• Rhinoceros - Dim, armoured, herbivorous mammals
• Riding Horse - Lightly built horses adapted to run at high speed
• Saurolophus - Cretaceous herbivore
• Saurophaganax - Jurassic carnivore, may be just a very large allosaurus
• Shantungosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore
• Styracosaurus - Cretaceous herbivore with a distinctive spiky neck-frill; about half the size of triceratops
• Tarbosaurus - Cretaceous carnivore, closely related to tyrannosaurus
• Triceratops - Massive (12' to the shoulder, almost 40' long), aggressive, herbivorous dinosaurs with a protective crest behind the head, and three long horns
• Tyrannosaurus - Cretaceous carnivore, long thought to be the largest land carnivore of the dinosaur age
• Velociraptor - Cretaceous carnivore
• Warthog - Aggressive omnivore, related to a pig
• Wild Cattle - Skittish herd animals likely to flee at danger
• Wild Horse - Lightly built horses adapted to run at high speed