Any monster books with lots of (or entirely) normal animals

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Speaking of templates, I'd get a lot more use out of the templates I already have access to if I had a big fat book of every freaking animal I can think of that I could then template up. So far, I've only found books with a handful of animals mixed in with other monsters.

Any suggestions of sourcebooks packed with animals?

 

[Psion]

Speaking of templates, I'd get a lot more use out of the templates I already have access to if I had a big fat book of every freaking animal I can think of that I could then template up. So far, I've only found books with a handful of animals mixed in with other monsters.

Any suggestions of sourcebooks packed with animals?

How do you feel on PDFs?

There's one here at EN World game store:
http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?do=product&productid=465&source=Publisher Recent&internal=1

 

[Glyfair]

Tome of Horrors has a lot of animals (about 9 pages of animals, plus a handful specifically for snakes).

On RPGNow I've found Troll Lord Games "Animal Familiars"
Skeleton Key Games has 3 PDFs on Animals (North American Prehistoric, South American, Fantasy)

I wouldn't be suprised if a number are floating around the Creature Catalog

 

[Alzrius]

How do you feel on PDFs?

There's one here at EN World game store:
http://shop.enworld.org/index.php?do=product&productid=465&source=Publisher Recent&internal=1

I just want to mention this one again. The Bestiary: Predators is a 250-page PDF of nothing but real-world animals. Not just stat blocks, it describes their environments, tracks, mating habits, value of their pelts, rarity, and how good eatin' they are, and that barely scratches the surface. This is THE book for d20 animals.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just want to mention this one again. The Bestiary: Predators is a 250-page PDF of nothing but real-world animals. Not just stat blocks, it describes their environments, tracks, mating habits, value of their pelts, rarity, and how good eatin' they are, and that barely scratches the surface. This is THE book for d20 animals.

Yow.

Here's the acid test, though: Does it include Australian animals?

 

[Hairfoot]

Once they put in rabbits, cats and foxes, there was no point.

 

[Tuzenbach]

Yow.

Here's the acid test, though: Does it include Australian animals?

Ah, but the REAL acid test is.......






















.......does it include the Tazmanian Wolf? http://cas.bellarmine.edu/tietjen/images/tasmanian_wolf.htm

 

[Alzrius]

Here's the acid test, though: Does it include Australian animals?

Bear in mind, this book is specifically predators; animals that eat other animals. So in that regard, it does have some aussie animals, such as the Tazmanian Devil.

does it include the Tazmanian Wolf?

Actually, yes. More properly known as the Thylacine (aka Tazmanian Tiger, aka) the Tazmanian Wolf is one of the cryptids that the book talks about and has stats for.

Once they put in rabbits, cats and foxes, there was no point.

Cats were covered, and rabbits are in the next volume...but annoyingly, foxes weren't included.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Bah...the REAL acid test is if it has obscure predators, like members of the Cone Snail family, who eat fish nearly their own size.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cone_snail
http://www.emedicinehealth.com/wilderness_cone_snail_sting/article_em.htm

Sure, these fellas are small, but in D&D, they don't have to be... Dire Fiendish Feral Monstrous Cone Snail, etc.- I used one to attack a ship once.

And Piers Anthony and Clifford A. Pickover wrote a novel called Spider Legs about a giant Pycnogonid that attacked people...

http://www.divegallery.com/sea_spider.htm
http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=pycnogon

 

[Alzrius]

It doesn't have any sort of insects or arthropods, but Betabunny made it pretty clear on their homepage that that's because all such creatures are going to be in the third volume.