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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sir Elton" data-source="post: 3397990" data-attributes="member: 14486">Part Iv: Animals And MonstersThe next step is a catalogue of Beasts.  Both mundane and those with enchanted form (Monsters).  In North America, the continent is populated by a range of animals: pumas, wolves, otters, wolverines, bears, badgers, and weasels.  In Pre-Columbian America, scientists are often adamant that there were no horses.  Well, that is going to change.AnimalsAside from insects, which are incountable to catalog for a Campaign Setting [ants are ants, and mosquitoes are mosquitoes], the easy thing to do is catalog which animals would be in the Campaign Area.  Animals do present a problem, however.  They are typically mobile.  Animals of note are presented in Fish, Amphibian, Reptile, Bird, and Mammal classifications.FishThe North Sea (Lake Ontario) boasts many species of fish that are useful for the Hellenic Colonists.  Notable species includes:* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinook_salmon" target="_blank">Chinook Salmon</a>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coho" target="_blank">Coho Salmon</a>* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walleye" target="_blank">Walleye</a>The East Sea (Lake Erie) also boasts species of fish that can be useful to the Colonists.* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_perch" target="_blank">Yellow Perch</a>* Walleye* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_bass" target="_blank">White Bass</a>(Stats are not listed in the d20 System, but can be found in RM's Creatures and Monsters under Small Fish and other RPG products [Like the Palladium One])AmphibiansThere are a couple of Amphibians in the campaign area.  This list comes from the list in Massachussetts.Salamanders (no d20 Stats.  RM Stats are found in Creatures and Monsters, and in Creatures and Treasures)    * Common Mudpuppy    * Jefferson Salamander    * Blue-spotted Salamander    * Spotted Salamander    * Marbled Salamander    * Northern Dusky Salamander    * Northern Two-lined Salamander    * Spring Salamander    * Four-toed Salamander    * Eastern Red-backed    * Eastern NewtFrogs and Toads (Same Source)    * Eastern Spadefoot Scaphiopus holbrookii    * American Toad Bufo americanus    * Fowler's Toad Bufo fowleri    * Gray Treefrog Hyla versicolor    * Spring Peeper Pseudacris crucifer    * American Bullfrog Rana catesbeiana    * Green Frog Rana clamitans    * Pickerel Frog Rana palustis    * Northern Leopard Frog Rana pipiens    * Wood Frog Rana sylvaticaReptilesLizards* Northern Fence Lizard    * Italian Wall Lizard* Five-lined Skink * Northern Coal SkinkSnakes* Northern Water Snake* Queen Snake* Northern Brown Snake* Northern Redbelly Snake* Common Garter Snake* Shorthead Garter Snake* Eastern Ribbon Snake* Eastern Hognose Snake* Northern Ringneck Snake* Eastern Worm Snake* Northern Black Racer* Smooth Green Snake* Black Rat Snake * Eastern Milk SnakePoisonous Snakes* Northern Copperhead* <a href="http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/massfs.html" target="_blank">Eastern Massasauga</a> * <a href="http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/wildlife/endspec/tirafs.html" target="_blank">Timber Rattlesnake</a>Turtles* Common Snapping Turtle* Common Musk Turtle* Eastern Mud Turtle* Spotted Turtle* Bog Turtle* Wood Turtle* Eastern Box Turtle* Northern Diamondback Terrapin* Eastern Redbelly Turtle* Common Map Turtle* Yellowbelly Slider* Red-eared Slider* Painted Turtle* Blanding's Turtle* Green Turtle* Atlantic Hawksbill* Loggerhead* Atlantic Ridley* Leatherback* Eastern Spiny SoftshellBirdsMigratory Birds of Note    * American Robin    * Arctic Tern    * Bewick's Swan    * Black-necked Swan    * Blue-winged Teal    * Bobolink    * Cackling Goose    * Canada Goose    * Dunlin    * Gadwall    * Green-winged Teal    * Grey Plover    * Mallard    * Northern Pintail    * Ross's Goose    * Semipalmated Sandpiper    * Snow Goose    * Sooty Shearwater    * Swainson's Thrush    * Three-wattled Bellbird    * Western Sandpiper    * WhimbrelPredatory Birds of Note* Bald Eagle* Golden Eagle* Turkey Vulture* American Black Vulture* North American Osprey* <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon" target="_blank">Peregrine Falcon</a>* Great Horned Owl* Barn OwlDomesticated and useful Fowl of note* Chicken* Wild TurkeyMAMMALS OF NOTEUseful Mammals* Moose* Deer* Elk* Beaver* Antelope* Rabbit* Domesticated Aurochs (Cows and Bulls)* Dogs* Ass* Donkey* Horse* Sheep* Cats* hog, pig, boarObnoxious Mammals of Note* Rat* Field Mouse* Mustelids* RaccoonsPredatory and Dangerous Mammals* Mountain Lion or Puma (use Leopard stats, RM use Lion stats)* Timber Wolf* Wolverine* Bear* Skunk* Bobcat* Wild BoarMONSTERSNow we list animals which has enchanted forms. Although an Olympian campaign suggests certain monsters (Satyrs, hydrae, Chimera, etc.) this is the New World and strange new monsters will be encountered.  Each are listed by type: Aberration, Dire Animal, Beast, Construct, Dragon, Elemental, Fey, Magical Beast, Ooze, Outsider, [Shapechanger], and VerminAbberationsAboleth, Athach, Avolakia (MMII), Choker, Destrachan, Drider, Ethereal Filcher, Hook Horror (MM II), Neogi (MM II), Otyugh, Rust Monster, Skum, Will o' the Wisp, and a Cerebric, lovecraftian psionic monster of a tenticular persuasion (you know what I mean, the monster whose name starts with an M and an F), and it's accompanying Template (FF).Dire AnimalsDire Mountain Lion (use Dire Lion stats), Dire Badger, Dire Bear, Dire Boar, Dire Elk (MM II), Dire Rhinoceros (FF)BeastGriffon, Hippogriff, Hydrae, Owlbear, Purple Worm, Megalodon (MM II), Razor Boar (MM II and CC I), Stirge, War Beast (MM II)ConstructAnimated objects, bronze serpent, Caryatid Column, golems (MM and MM II), half-golems (MM II), Helmed Horror (MoF), homunculus, Inevitables (MM, MoP, & FF), necrophidius (FF), retriever, Shield GuardianDragonChromatic Dragons, Faerie Dragon (MMIII-IV?, ToH), Gem Dragons (MM II), <a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mm/20040103a" target="_blank">Mercury Dragon</a> (WotC), Metallic Dragons, Half-Dragon Template, pseudodragon, song dragon (MoF)</blockquote>

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