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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 2109890" data-attributes="member: 2795">Animal Traits: An animal possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).* Intelligence score of 1 or 2 (no creature with an Intelligence score of 3 or higher can be an animal).* Low-light vision.* Alignment: Always neutral. Animals are not governed by a human sense of morality.* Treasure: None. Animals never possess treasure.AXE BEAKLarge AnimalHit Dice: 3d8+6 (19 hp)Initiative: +2Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares)Armor Class: 14 (-1 size, +2 Dex, +3 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 12Base Attack/Grapple: +2/+9Attack: Beak +5 melee (1d8+3/x3)Full Attack: Beak +5 melee (1d8+3/x3) and 2 claws +0 melee (1d3+1)Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.Special Attacks: Increased criticalSpecial Qualities: Low-light visionSaves: Fort +5, Ref +5, Will +2Abilities: Str 17, Dex 14, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 8Skills: Listen +6, Spot +6Feats: Alertness, Weapon Focus (beak)Environment: Warm or temperate plainsOrganization: Solitary, pair, or pack (3-10)Challenge Rating: 2Advancement: 4-6 HD (Large)Level Adjustment: --The axe beak is a large, vicious species of flightless bird distantly related to the ostrich, but having a temperment closer to that of the wolverine. Dedicated carnivores, axe beaks hunt grasslands in packs very much like wolves. In fact, an axe beak pack even has an alpha male. Axe beaks get their name from their oversized bony beak that resembles a crudely formed battle axe head.COMBATAxe beaks don't bite so much as they hack at their prey, swinging their beaks with their powerful, sinewy necks.Increased Critical (Ex): On a successful critical hit, an axe beak inflicts triple damage.BARRACUDA, GIANTHuge Animal (Aquatic)Hit Dice: 8d8+24 (60 hp)Initiative: +5Speed: Swim 90 ft.Armor Class: 14 (-2 size, +1 Dex, +5 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 13Base Attack/Grapple: +6/+21Attack: Bite +11 melee (2d8+10)Full Attack: Bite +11 melee (2d8+10)Space/Reach: 15 ft./10 ft.Special Attacks: Improved grab, savageSpecial Qualities: Low-light vision, scentSaves: Fort +9, Ref +7, Will +3Abilities: Str 24, Dex 13, Con 16, Int 1, Wis 13, Cha 7Skills: Listen +8, Spot +8, Swim +17Feats: Alertness, Dodge, Improved InitiativeEnvironment: Warm aquaticOrganization: School (2-12)Challenge Rating: 5Advancement: 9-16 HD (Huge); 16-24 HD (Gargantuan)Level Adjustment: --Giant barracuda inhabit warm salt waters. Lightning quick and highly predatory, they attack any prey which is injured, appears helpless, or is relatively small. Giant barracuda reach lengths between 20 to 25 feet long.(There is a photograph of a barracuda at this <a href="http://www.keyshistory.org/fish-great-barracuda.jpg" target="_blank">link</a>.)COMBATThe giant barracuda rushes into attack with its powerful jaws. It tries to catch its prey in these jaws so that it can savage the prey with thrashing about and grinding with its teeth.Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a giant barracuda must hit with its bite attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it succeeds on the grapple check, it can savage.Savage (Ex): A giant barracuda deals 2d8+10 points of damage with a successful grapple check.Skills: A giant barracuda has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.BOOBRIELarge AnimalHit Dice: 9d8+27 (67 hp)Initiative: +0Speed: 40 ft. (8 squares), fly 40 ft. (poor)Armor Class: 15 (-1 size, +6 natural), touch 9, flat-footed 15Base Attack/Grapple: +6/+16Attack: Bite +11 melee (1d10+6)Full Attack: Bite +11 melee (1d10+6) and 2 claws +9 melee (1d3+3)Space/Reach: 10 ft./10 ft.Special Attacks: PounceSpecial Qualities: Low-light vision, poison immunitySaves: Fort +11, Ref +3, Will +8Abilities: Str 22, Dex 11, Con 16, Int 2, Wis 14, Cha 6Skills: Listen +10, Spot +10Feats: Alertness, Great Fortitude, Multiattack, RunEnvironment: Any marshOrganization: Solitary or mated pairChallenge Rating: 5Advancement: 10-18 HD (Large); 19-27 HD (Huge)Level Adjustment: --The gigantic boobrie - an adult stands about 12 feet tall - is a marsh-dwelling relative of the roc. A boobrie resembles an enormous heron with a hooked beak. It has a number of small, sharp teeth along the edges of its beak. Its favorite foods, other than huge marsh catfish, are humans and sheep. It also preys on all manner of poisonous snakes and amphibians. A boobrie's long legs permit fast running and easy movement over swampy ground. The boobrie's flight is relatively slow and clumsy.COMBATA boobrie's main attack is by means of its long, hooked beak. It prefers to pounce on its prey.Pounce (Ex): If a boobrie charges a foe, it can make a full attack.CARNIVOROUS FLYING SQUIRRELTiny AnimalHit Dice: 1d8 (4 hp)Initiative: +3Speed: 30 ft. (6 squares), climb 30 ft.Armor Class: 15 (+2 size, +3 Dex), touch 15, flat-footed 12Base Attack/Grapple: +0/-10Attack: Bite +5 melee (1d4-2)Full Attack: Bite +5 melee (1d4-2) and 2 claws +0 melee (1d3-2)Space/Reach: 2-1/2 ft./0 ft.Special Attacks: --Special Qualities: Low-light visionSaves: Fort +2, Ref +5, Will +1Abilities: Str 6, Dex 17, Con 10, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 7Skills: Climb +6, Jump +10, Listen +5Feats: Dodge (B), Mobility (B), Weapon FinesseEnvironment: Temperate forestsOrganization: Pack (3-18)Challenge Rating: 1/4Advancement: 2-3 HD (Tiny)Level Adjustment: --Carnivorous flying squirrels are dangerous pack rodents. A carnivorous flying squirrel appears very much like a common squirrel, except that its head is noticeably lupine, including a mouth full of tiny but sharp canines. They usually travel through the trees, leaping from branch to branch, climbing by means of their strong toes and hooked claws. Despite their name, these animals don't really fly, but are capable of amazing jumps assisted by the flaps of skin growing between fore- and hindlegs. They prey mainly on birds, other small mammals, and lizards, but packs have been known to attack small, domesticated animals and even small humanoids (such as halflings or human children).COMBATCarnivorous flying squirrels leap at their prey (usually provoking attacks of opportunity).Skills: A carnivorous flying squirrel has a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks, and it can take 10 on Climb checks even when rushed or threatened. These animals are prodigious leapers, having a +12 racial bonus on Jump checks.CAVE MORAYMedium AnimalHit Dice: 4d8+7 (25 hp)Initiative: +3Speed: 5 ft. (1 square), climb 5 ft.Armor Class: 15 (+3 Dex, +2 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 12Base Attack/Grapple: +3Attack: Bite +3 melee (2d4)Full Attack: Bite +3 melee (2d4)Space/Reach: 5 ft./5 ft. (10 ft. when striking from protective cyst)Special Attacks: --Special Qualities: Blindsight 20 ft., low-light vision, protective cystSaves: Fort +5, Ref +4, Will +5Abilities: Str 10, Dex 17, Con 12, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 2Skills: Climb +15Feats: Combat Reflexes, ToughnessEnvironment: Any undergroundOrganization: Colony (4-16)Challenge Rating: 2Advancement: 5-8 HD (Medium); 9-12 HD (Large)Level Adjustment: --Cave morays appear to be a strange cross between slug and serpent. Their bodies are covered with slimy, brown scales, and they have bulbous eyes. Cave morays dwell in cyst-like growths adhered to cavern walls. While a cave moray can strike from its cyst with great speed, they are extremely slow moving otherwise. COMBATCave morays wait patiently in their protective cysts until prey comes within reach. Then the cave morays spring forth to bite.Blindsight (Ex): Cave morays ascertain all foes within 20 feet using sound, scent, and vibration.Protective Cyst (Ex): A cave moray spends most of its time coiled within an immobile, protective cyst of rock-like substance slowly excreted from the creature as it grows to maturity. When within its cyst, a cave moray has cover (+4 to AC) except when attacking. It is also virtually impossible to flank a cave moray except when it is attacking. An intelligent foe readies an action to time its attack with the cave moray's attack. It is possible to attack a cave moray's cyst. Treat this as attacking an object (although it does provoke attacks of opportunity if the attacker doesn't have Improved Sunder). A protective cyst is hardness 8 with 30 hit points (these hit points are separate from the cave moray's hit points).A protective cyst may be mistaken for a normal rock formation. A DC 15 Knowledge (dungeoneering) check recognizes a protective cyst for what it is. A dwarf or other approrpiate creature can use stonecunning to distinguish a protective cyst from normal rock (Search DC 15).Skills: A cave moray has a +8 racial bonus on Climb checks, and it can take 10 on Climb checks even when rushed or threatened.ELECTRIC EEL, GIANT Large Animal (Aquatic)Hit Dice: 5d8+5 (27 hp)Initiative: +3Speed: Swim 30 ft. (6 squares)Armor Class: 16 (-1 size, +3 Dex, +4 natural), touch 12, flat-footed 13Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+9Attack: Bite +4 melee (1d4+3)Full Attack: Bite +4 melee (1d4+3)Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.Special Attacks: JoltSpecial Qualities: Blindsense 30 ft., immune to electricity, low-light visionSaves: Fort +5, Ref +9, Will +2Abilities: Str 15, Dex 16, Con 13, Int 1, Wis 12, Cha 5Skills: Listen +7, Spot +3, Swim +14Feats: Alertness, Lightning ReflexesEnvironment: Warm aquaticOrganization: Solitary, pair, or group (3-5)Challenge Rating: 4Advancement: 6-10 HD (Large); 11-15 HD (Huge)Level Adjustment: --The giant electric eel lives in deep, warm fresh water rivers and lakes, where it prefers to lurk in areas of thick vegetation. They aren't actually eels, but are a type of fish. Electric eels prey most only fish and shrimp, but will eat refuse as well. There is a picture of an electric eel at this <a href="http://www.whozoo.org/Intro2000/tashcorm/LNC_ELECTRIC_EEL.htm" target="_blank">link</a>.A giant electric eel grows to a length of 18 feet and weighs about 600 pounds.COMBATGiant electric eels release a powerful electric jolt if frightened or molested. They also use this jolt to capture their prey. They can bite, but their jaws are surprisingly weak and they have no teeth.Jolt (Ex): Once every 1d6 rounds, a giant electric eel can generate a powerful jolt of electricity. Creatures within 5 feet of the eel suffer 6d8 points of electricity damage and is stunned for 1d6 rounds. Those within 10 feet suffer 4d8 points of electricity damage and is stunned for 1d3 rounds. Creatures no farther away than 15 feet suffer 2d8 points of electricity damage and is stunned for 1 round. A DC 14 Fortitude save halves this damage and negates stunning.Blindsense (Ex): A giant electric eel uses electrical pulses as a form of echolocation to pinpoint creatures within 30 feet. Opponents still have total concealment against the eel unless it can actually see them.Skills: A giant electric eel has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.HIPPOCAMPUSLarge Animal (Aquatic)Hit Dice: 4d8+12 (30 hp)Initiative: +1Speed: Swim 60 ft. (12 squares)Armor Class: 16 (-1 size, +1 Dex, +6 natural), touch 10, flat-footed 15Base Attack/Grapple: +3/+10Attack: Forefin +5 melee (1d4+3)Full Attack: 2 forefins +5 melee (1d4+3) and bite +0 melee (1d3+1)Space/Reach: 10 ft./5 ft.Special Attacks: --Special Qualities: Low-light vision, scentSaves: Fort +7, Ref +5, Will +2Abilities: Str 16, Dex 13, Con 17, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 6Skills: Listen +5, Spot +4, Swim +11Feats: Endurance, RunEnvironment: Any waterOrganization: Domesticated or herd (2-8)Challenge Rating: 2Advancement: 5-8 HD (Large)Level Adjustment: --The hippocampus is the most prized of marine steeds. They are strong and swift. A hippocampus has the rear body of a great fish and the forebody of a horse, except that its forelegs end in fins. Its rear body is covered with fine scales, while the foreparts are covered with thick fur. A hippocampus's mane, however, is not hair, but is a thick, waving mass of fins. Hippocampi are omnivores, feeding on both sea plants as well as small fish.COMBATUnlike terrestrial horses, hippocampi are aggressive, lashing out with forefins and biting as well.Carrying Capacity: A light load for a hippocampus is up to 300 pounds; a medium load, 301-600 pounds; and a heavy load, 601-900 pounds. A hippocampus can drag 4,500 pounds.Skills: A hippocampus has a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. It can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. It can use the run action while swimming, provided it swims in a straight line.</blockquote>

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