Filling a world! Help needed please.

Ferret

Explorer

• May 1, 2004

• #1

As some of you may have construed I am constucting my own world, in this world I want new creatures, but nothing that couldn't exist in a magicless world.

What I'm looking for are niche fillers, nothing extremly alien (Beholders, digesters, dark mantle etc.) but creatures which remain true to most of our (earths) animals (Sea lions, roc, kraken, carrion crawler etc.).

I have some of the sentient life forms stated or in my head so don't worry about them, also the evil humanoids I would like them to be fairly beastial if you wan't to do them, try to keep them like that.

I'll pop in every now an then to do some to, but I don't expect anyone to have them churned out.

So does anyone have some new and interesting creatures?

 

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fnork de sporg

First Post

• May 1, 2004

• #2

Could you tell us a little more about the world. Right now the question is far, far too opened ended for me to know what you're looking for.

What do you mean by niche fillers?

 

Ferret

Explorer

• May 1, 2004

• #3

You have the fast plains hunters, the dextrous tree climbers, the sea killer etc.

What do you wan't to know?

 

Gez

First Post

• May 2, 2004

• #4

You want ideas for all new beasties, or suggestions of existing beasties (in books or online) ?

The Tomes of Horrors and Creature Collections are full of animals that could fit your needs.

 

Hand of Evil

Hero

Epic

• May 2, 2004

• #5

There is no better place than history. I have a link at work I will post on Wolly mammals, it even has a size chart.

Some other ideas:
Eel shark - long and narrow of body, growning up to 15 feet, this shark lives in coastal swamps and marshes.

 

Last edited: May 3, 2004

Ferret

Explorer

• May 2, 2004

• #6

@Gez: Doesn't matter.

I have looked back at some of natures own, giant sloth, and others etc.

 

Filby

First Post

• May 3, 2004

• #7

Well, my setting (which I am also still making up, so no stats) has a critter called a tree lion... kind of a lanky, lion-sized big cat with dark gray fur with small black spots, a black mane, and a long tail to balance as it leaps from tree to tree. Long limbs, long retractable claws. It preys mostly on small game such as dire rats and wild boars. They're solitary and come together only to mate. Occasionally, a tree lion wanders out of the woods and attacks pigs, sheep, or goats.

All in all, it's very much like a leopard, so I suppose you could use a leopard's stats.

 

Hand of Evil

Hero

Epic

• May 3, 2004

• #8

You may find some of these interesting:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megafauna/default.asp

 

Ferret

Explorer

• May 3, 2004

• #9

I saw them when I read the "1000 usuful non-rpg sites" Book marked it too. Very useful.

 

Filby

First Post

• May 3, 2004

• #10

See if you can find After Man: A Zoology of the Future. It's a book with lots of great ideas about how vertebrate animal life would continue to evolve if humanity were taken out of the picture for 50,000,000 years. All that and full-color illustrations, which are definately the best part of the book. It's still in print.

Also: look for The New Dinosaurs by the same author (I forget his name). It's out of print, but you shouldn't have too much trouble finding it with a library computer and getting it via loan for a few weeks. This one speculates on what dinosaurs might have evolved into had the Big Rock not hit, and features just as many beautiful illustrations on every page.

I imagine that both would serve as a good source of inspiration for exotic animal life.

 

Last edited: May 3, 2004