Tabletop RPGs

The "shark of the prairies," the terrifying Jawjack seems to have been built entirely for two activities: running and eating.

When simply standing and watching for prey (which they can easily do from their height; a good half again higher than a horse), a jawjack looks a bit like a muscular kangar...

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Massive, dinosaur-like beasts, catamel stop for days at oases, collect water, and store it in large pouches on their backs. They consume this water as they spend weeks traveling in packs of 5 to 10 through the desert to the next oasis.

Desert predators sometimes target these water pouches, but the...

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The Oculus lives in desert environments, typically preying on relatively small and fast animals like rabbits and small deer. At about the size of a pony, they shouldn't be able to catch these prey, except for their powerful, fifth back leg. They typically crawl towards their prey, crouch, then use t...

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Often found near tallstriders, glowtongues are somewhat less mysterious if only because their habits are more normal to us.

Glowtongues look not unlike a rhinoceros or hippopotamus, though about half again taller than those creatures, and its back legs resemble that of a human. However, they pos...

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Deep in the woods lives a reclusive race of extremely magical humanoid wolves. Little is know of these creatures; they are almost always encountered alone.

Wolfen can naturally polymorph themselves into humanoid forms (human, elf, etc.). However, their natural polymorphism is less complete than...

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Squamatans are humanoid lizard-folk who have developed a highly advanced culture.

Squamatans

If you stumble across a squamatan in the wild, you'll probably be struck by two things:

Every squamatan wears a sturdy, beautiful loincloth made with colors and marks that communicate the squamatan's roles in soc...

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Druids often lament the fate of the tallstriders. Innately magical creatures, tallstriders wander the desolate areas of the world, filtering necrotic energy through their bodies to feed themselves, much like whales filter krill. As a result, they often wander magically desolated areas and clean it o...

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Denizens of swamps, mud, and watery underground environments, crabfish are normally quiet bottom-feeders who have an unfortunate quirk of biology. About once a month, they go into a courting frenzy, and anyone unlucky enough to stumble on a nest will find half a dozen extremely aggressive crabfish h...

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