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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rappy" data-source="post: 5124767" data-attributes="member: 58456">Sorry folks, I was diving my time yesterday and today between yelling like a madwoman at my ISP and getting news on my grandmother being back in the hospital. But now I'm back, with a new creature for us to do statting "battle" with. Ikuya[sblock]STR 20DEX 10CON 20INT 6WILL 14PER 8Durability: 20/20/10/10Speed: Sprint 40, run 24, walk 8Reaction Score: Ordinary/2AttacksClaws 20/10/5Bite 20/10/5Defenses+5 resistance modifier vs. melee attacks-2 step bonus to resist toxinsArmor (Good): d4+1SkillsAthletics [20]; Unarmed [20]; Movement [20]; Stamina [20]-endurance [22]; Awareness [14]-intuition [15]; Investigate [14]-search [16], track [16]; Resolve [14]-physical [18].-----------------------DescriptionThe average grizzly (also known as "brown") bear stands about 1 meter high at the shoulder, or two meters when upright on its hind legs, and has front claws about 10 centimeters long. The Ikuya is its monstrous cousin: three times as large, with 30-centimeter claws and 8-centimeter teeth and weighing over 1,200 kilograms. Though a brown bear might have the same yellowish-white fur as the Ikuya, it is impossible to mistake one for the other.EncounterThe Koriak reindeer hunters of Russia's far north and the Inuit people of Alaska and northern Canada say that the Ikuya appears only when the weather is particularly harsh. Zoologists might say this is because the bear's usual game is scarce then, but those who claim to have actually seen it believe that the Ikuya brings the weather. At such times, the beast is ravenously hungry and attacks nearly anything edible.Despite its overpowering hunger, though, the Ikuya does not attack foolishly. It is an intelligent beast and well aware that human weapons can cause it pain. Consequently, if armed humans are the only available prey, it draws hunters far out into the wilderness in pursuit of it. Often traveling for days, the creature relies on its fantastic endurance while starvating and cold weakens its foes, before it finally turns and faces them.The Ikuya's combat tactics are simple. It begins with a powerful blow from the paws, meant to overwhelm its target. This initial attack combines the overpower and takedown maneuvers, incurring a +2 step penalty to its Unarmed Attack check. If the attack is successful, the victim is thrown to the ground. The great bear then brings its full weight down on the hapless victim, attempting to pin it. If the pin succeeds, the bear uses its powerful jaws to finish off its prey, not relenting until one or the other is dead.Habitat/SocietyThe Ikuya may be the only one of its kind. It is only encountered singly, and long periods of time pass between its appearances, which may be in widely different locals. Of course, the sheer ferocity of the giant bear makes it impossible for most people to move close enough to examine its old scars and survive. Two Inuit hunters killed such a creature in 1864 and shipped its skin and skull to the Smithsonian Institute, where it was identified decades later as a new species of bear - or perhaps a very old species. This would suggest that there must be more than one. But modern Inuit say that the skull and pelt in Washington, D.C., are not from the great bear at all, but from what the beast wanted the hunters to believe was the true Ikuya.  As proof, they point out that the next expedition the two hunters undertook was their last - they were never seen by mortal eyes again.The Inuit maintain that the Ikuya is a god, and that it brings vicious winters and horrible death to humans that do not show proper respect for the ordinary bears they hunt. This may be true only for the Inuit, however, since whites have been hunting bears in these regions since the 1800s, and few have encountered the Ikuya. On the ot her hand, the Ikuya may not be able to differentiate between various humans, and so may be wreaking its revenge on nearby inhabitants rather than distant civilized humans - unless, of course, the latter are foolish enough to come looking for it.[/sblock]Whoo...this is a tough one. The biggest problem is that we have unreliable narrator syndrome in an RPG title; is the Ikuya a unique magical god-beast, or simply a big bear? If it's the former, we can pin it down as a Large (or Huge?) Magical Beast [Cold], possibly around 20 hit dice to match an upper-par dire bear and show its brute strength, and work from there (including the conversion of the ability scores). If it's the latter...well, we could just have a cold-themed dire bear and call it a day.</blockquote>

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