Wandering Titans, part IV - Hot and Cold, Plus Two More to Complete the Set

This is the final planned entry in a series of Wandering Titans, which are part weather, part giant monster. 

Previous parts with more titans: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

The Plague of Flame

AI Generated via Bing.
"Roman Tile Mosaic of a Rat kaiju towering above a burning city."

 On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: Smoke rising from burning forests or villages.

Environmental Effect 

:  Intense heat wave. Metal becomes too hot to touch barehanded. Outbreaks of fever-causing disease. Dry material spontaneously bursts into flame. Swarms of smoldering vermin spontaneously generate where you least expect it.

Appearance
:  Flickering apparition of a colossal Rat, wreathed in smoke. 

Behavior / Desires
: Hungry. Devours/burns fields, food stores, forests, and wooden buildings. 

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Pyromaniac Rat Cultists. Skin pockmarked and burnt. Constructs of flame or smoke fill their wounds, replace missing limbs, and grant a sort of manic undeath fueled by arson.
• The smoldering vermin sometimes contain valuable exotic chemical substances within their bodies. More common is that they contain nasty exotic diseases.
• Exotic fires and unusual forms of heat, which can be bottled by a skilled arcane technician. Floo, Bale, St. Elmo's, an unnamed species of flame that burns songs as fuel...
• Regular fire, too, if that's what you're into.

The Frigid Scapegoat

AI Generated via Bing.
"Roman Tile Mosaic of a giant sheep or goat creature towering above a frozen city. People pray to it."

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Snowstorm contained in a precise cylinder.

Environmental Effect 

:  Cold snap. Flames diminish and new fires cannot be lit. Pipes and vessels of water freeze and burst. Those who freeze to death will find themselves mysteriously revived and healthy when the goat moves on and the landscape thaws, but other harm remains.

Appearance
: Giant Ram with horns like icebergs. Flurries of snow drift out between matted locks of tangled wool.

Behavior / Desires
:  It seems to take a fascination in random things, tilting its head and fixing its eyes in place for hours at a time. Sometimes it takes the things, and not just a fascination. It lets out a massive breath, a downburst of bitter frigid air, causing collateral damage and knocking things aside, leaving only the object of the Scapegoat's interest sitting in a wind-blasted patch. This object - which is always perfectly intact whether it be a a statute, a mural, or something abstract - is then delicately picked up with teeth the size of warships and tucked deep into its fur.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Ancient treasures tangled in its locks.
• Ancient people too.
• Also something called "slood", which no longer exists anywhere else.
• Petitioners beseech the Scapegoat to take their sins and obligations. If they attract its attention, it is often willing to oblige. It takes one of their limbs, too, frostbitten and broken off by its terrible breath.
• A caravan of frozen corpses. They corpses in question were people dying of something else, and will become so again once they leave the zone of cold. Their caretakers are trying to hitch a ride towards a specialist magical institution which can help them, but the Scapegoat is currently headed in the wrong direction.
• Lots of ice. Quite valuable in some settings.

And here are a couple bits of human-made giant goat artwork I found inspirational: "The Stilted Ram", by Michael MacRae,  "Summoning a god", by Calder Moore, and "Giant Goatman and his bridge", by Esteban Hernandez

The Fluffy Floppy Megabunny

AI Generated via Bing.
"Hyper fluffy giant bunny seen from below. Titanic rabbit towering into the sky. Tiny angry beady eyes. Ancient Painting."

 On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: The horizon and clouds in that direction look faintly blurry, as if seen through some lenses of the wrong prescription. Occasionally, a large white cloud seems to rise and then fall.

Environmental Effect 

:  Blades and claws are blunted. Stone becomes malleable. Iron becomes as plastic. Minus 1d6 damage when attacking unarmed or with physical weapons. Minus 1d6 from falling or other impacts, as well. A very faint ever-present mist moderates temperatures while making your hair bouncy and voluminous.

Appearance
:  Like an opaque cloud that leaps and bounds high into the air before slowly drifting back down.

Behavior / Desires
: Oh how it hates! It yearns in its heart to tear apart the pathetic creations of mortals. To trample their farms, and bring their empires to ruin, to lead mindless armies into pointless slaughter, and to hear their lamentations. Of course, none of that is obvious from its vast vacant expression. It just seems to bounce around harmlessly and at random.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• When the titan lands on top of you, it's said to be quite a relaxing experience, "like a fog made of hugs". It impairs visibility a bit, but doesn't impair movement and only lasts a few minutes at a time.
• Occasionally, patchs of "fluff" can get caught on brambles. These can be magically spun into a something like silk which is bouyant in air.
• Although the softening aura of the titan impedes the function of some devices, it enables forms of otherwise impossible crafting. A train of artisans follow the Megabunny in mobile workshops, creating ornate and durable artifacts out of materials which are difficult to work anywhere else.
• This train has grown over the years into a Wandering Festival which is part carnival and part trade show. In the big top, trapeze artists perform stunts without a net, jugglers juggle swords by the blade, and big dudes punch each other in the head while laughing. 
• Because blades and bludgeons are blunted, the most effective means of dealing with ne'er-do-wells (besides hiring a wizard) is via grappling. A tradition of wrestling has developed in the Wandering Festival, and the greatest wrestlers from all over the world come to demonstrate their prowess. Elaborate costumes are not required to enter the tournaments, but are appreciated by the crowds.
• Lots of happy people.

The Wretched Ape

"monkey"

 On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: Clouds of dust. Faint tremors and distant echoes of loud noises.

Environmental Effect 

:  Earthquakes.

Appearance
:  Big monkey. (Not actually an ape.)

Behavior / Desires
: It's a big monkey that knocks things over and shakes its fist at clouds. When it jumps around, it causes earthquakes.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Things which have been knocked over by a big monkey.

Additional Titans: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Slug Exclusion Zone

Name: Slug Exclusion Zone
Code: SLEZ
Types: Minor, Enpersoned?
Date: 237 AM

Summary: The Slug Exclusion Zone (SLEZ) is a circular exclusion zone about a mile in diameter that contains a single giant slug.

History: Slug magic was a form of magic that allowed practitioners to bond with slugs and use them as extensions of their own bodies. Slug mages could dip their hand in a vat of slugs and get a prosthetic slug hand that could manipulate objects, secrete slime, or fire projectiles (made of slugs). Slug magic was also used for healing, as slugs could regenerate wounds by permanently bonding with their host. Slug magic was popular in the region of Slough, where slugs were abundant and revered as sacred animals.

In 237 AM, a group of researchers from the University of Lysia San Slough decided to study the potential of slug magic for healing head injuries. They experimented on volunteers who had suffered brain damage, implanting slugs into their skulls and using slug magic to stimulate neural regeneration. However, something went wrong with the procedure, and instead of healing the volunteers, it transferred their ability to use slug magic to one of the slugs. This slug escaped from the laboratory and began to consume other slugs, growing in size and power. It also developed a rudimentary intelligence and a hostile attitude towards humans.

The slug slowly rampaged through the city of Lysia, leaving a trail of slime and destruction behind it. It killed three people and injured dozens more, before it reached the outskirts of the city and encountered the exclusion barrier. 

Features: The SLEZ is dominated by the presence of the giant slug, now estimated to be about eight hundred feet long and several feet thick, with a mottled brown color and numerous eyes and tentacles. It can use slug magic to manipulate other slugs within the zone, and spends much of its time herding a 'flock' of small ordinary slugs throughout the zone, eating whatever sparse vegetation manages to grow there among the slime-encrusted ruins. In addition to its mastery of slug magic, the giant slug also wields a number of looted entads, which are now embedded in its slimy hide. One of these entads grants it the ability to project its thoughts as speech, an ability it most frequently uses to announce its hatred of humanity and to recite crude poetry about moss. 

Only a relatively small portion of the city of Lysia was enveloped in the exclusion zone, and much of the rest of the surrounding city remains inhabited. Even the University continues to operate, though in a greatly reduced capacity after the loss of its main campus. A minor, but important, part of the post-exclusion Lysian economy revolves around trade with the giant slug. Despite its professed hatred of humanity, the slug is capable of using its magic to produce vast quantities of slime with various properties, and is willing to do so in exchange for organic refuse. These slimes are useful in various industrial processes and are also used directly in the manufacture of a number of consumer products.

There is rarely a need to send expeditions into the zone - and such expeditions make the slime negotiations more difficult besides - but with proper planning, these can be carried out safely. After the initial evacuation of the city, no one has been since been killed by the giant slug. Although the slug is a fierce combatant at close range, and does try to kill anyone who enters the zone, its top speed is less than one foot per minute. 

Ground Squirrels : Tree Squirrels :: Dwarves : ???

Dwarf digs hole. He also lives in the hole. Some squirrel is like that. 

But some squirrel lives in the tree and digs to bury his treasure. 

 

Another important thing about Tree Squirrels is that they forget about a lot of the nuts they bury. Those nuts grow into the trees in a form of forgetful symbiosis.

 If a dungeon is the acorn, then what is the tree? 

Please, my soul yearns for the answers to these mysteries.

Gretchpost 2021

This is my GLOG hack. It's called GLOLG: Gretchlings steaLing yOur LeGs

Here's the pdf download. Here's the character sheet.

Thanks for reading, and I'm sorry.

Color-coding Monsters by Genre

I've been making a lot of wood-block minis, lately, and need a good color-coding system.

Here's what I've settled on:

Artificial, Bestial, Chimerical, Dungeonesque,
Ethereal, Fay, Grubby, Haunting,
Inflamed, Moist

Each category is associated with a basic color term. I tried to make the split be along aesthetic and thematic lines, so that the color-coding of a monster indicates something about the style of game encounter it leads to, as opposed to indicating something about the monster's appearance or physiology.

For example: Werewolves are fully alive, but in terms of thematic associations, interactions, and weaknesses, they're very similar to vampires. (As recognized by pretty much every piece of 21st century pop culture.) So Instead of having a category for "undead", I have "Haunting monsters", which draws a big circle around that whole chunk of slightly tragic halloweeny horrors.

Artificial

Creatures of artifice. Robots, golems, and alchemical oozes. 

Thematic Commonalities:

• Rigid programming gone awry. (Golem guards preventing people from stealing, but doing nothing to retrieve stolen items. Oozes mindlessly cleaning all 'filth', including living creatures.)
• Unhealthy relationships between creation and creator.
• Unique specimens trying to make more of their kind (with potentially apocalyptic consequences if they succeed)
• The dangers of hubris.
  

Mechanical Commonalities:

• Very durable.
• Aversion to water or fire. (Sinks or short-circuits; overheats or explodes)

Edibility:

• Extremely inedible.
• You can eat these things, but they will really do a number on your digestion.
• 0/5. Would not recommend steel nachos dipped in alchemical cheeze.
  

 

 

Bestial

Big animals, ogres, any any critter that's down for a good wrassle. Things that you'd hunt or which would hunt you.

Thematic Commonalities:

• Hunting, being hunted. 
• Uncomplicated Nature, red in tooth and claw.
• Straightforward fights. Brutal but necessary actions.
  
• Overcoming adversity, making new friends (bestial creatures are the most likely to be tamable as pets.)
  

Mechanical Commonalities:

• No fancy tricks. Just brute force and animal cunning.
• Will attack if they have the advantage, and retreat if they don't (unless enraged).
• Wary of loud noises and fire (but only because they don't understand it.)
• Trying to exploit some other sort of clever weakness (like smelling salts or holy water) is more  likely to drive such a creature into a murderous rage than it is to actually scare them off.
  

Edibility:

• Yes, very edible.
• Delicious too.
• Just be warned that the feeling is mutual.

Chimerical

Whimsical creatures of folklore, especially those composed of two real beasts stapled together. Cryptids, centaurs, fearsome critters, and the like. I'm including flying-saucer style aliens here too.

Thematic Commonalities:

•  Solitary and elusive creatures, often the only one of their kind.
• Tall-tales. Chasing rumors. Piecing together clues. Monsters as mysteries.
  
• Fairytale-style allegories. Storybook logic.
• The wonder of the unknown.
  

Mechanical Commonalities:

• Flashy magical abilities.
• Some exploitable eccentricity. Easy to trick, if you did your research.
  
• If all else fails, it will probably help to play soothing music.
  

Edibility:

• Yeah probably.
  

10x10 Table of Monster Names, Presented Without Comment

	Artificial	Bestial	Chimeric	Dungeonesque	Ethereal	Fay	Grubby	Haunting	Inflamed	Moist
Artificial	Robot	Manbeast	Owlbear	Shoggoth	Modron	Candy Critter	Fake Egg	Zombie	Tarbeast	Submarine
Bestial	Stichthing	Bear	Snallygaster	Orcgre	Eternal Bird	Ball of Fur	Big Rat	Lycanthrope	Rakshasha	Shark
Chimeric	Gargoyle	Bigfoot	Panther	Cerberus	Ziz	Reptilian	Basilisk	Pumpkinking	Firefox	Kraken
Dungeonesque	Ooze	Dino	Gorgon	Eyebeast	Throne	Gnome	Spider	Shadow	Cherufe	Urchin
Ethereal	Meme	Bird of Prey	Pegacorn	Starspawn	Wingaling	Fairy	Bat	Ghost	Djinn	Flying Fish
Fay	Clone	Turtle Queen	Dryad	Mimic	Sylph	Li'l Elf	Ball of Teeth	Vampire	Will o Wisp	Jelly
Grubby	Golem	Beastman	Cyclops	Sewercrawler	Locus	Goblin	Wormlord	Mummy	Firebug	Eel
Haunting	Frankenstoid	Wolfpack	Mothman	False Hydra	Guardian Angel	Bogeyman	Lemur	Skeleton	Hellhound	Angler
Inflamed	Steam Punk	Rampager	Drake	Plaguehurler	Phoenix	Imp	Compostling	Devil	Flamespren	Fishstick
Moist	Snowman	Leviathan	Merfolk	Deep One	Nimbus	Lake Lady	Serpent	Swampheap	Salamander	Trout

Making Scrabble Tiles Into Cheap RPG "Minis"

Here's how to make cheap DIY wooden standee miniatures for 10 cents each.

 

Snail wizard modified from Twitter Emoji; Modron modified from AD&D Monster Manual II; plastic minis from Battlelore 2e.

 Instructions:

1. Get some Scrabble-style letter tiles.
• Here's an example search query on Amazon, but you can find similar tiles pretty much anywhere for around 0.04 USD per tile.
  
• For a bit of extra money, you can buy them pre-painted in a variety of colors. I bought the pink ones up above to make a gift for a family member, and had a bunch left over.
  
2. Glue pairs of tiles face to face to make a thicker wooden block.
• (A single Scrabble tile can be balanced on it's end, but it's not very stable.)
• A simple pva gluestick will do the trick. The resulting bond holds up to normal handling, but can be twisted apart. 
• A stronger bond can be made by scoring the surfaces and using a bit of wood glue, but I personally don't think it's worth the extra effort and mess.
  
3. Optionally: give them a couple quick coats of acrylic color. 
   
4. Print out some little images of critters.
• To avoid peeling, make the images slightly smaller than the size of the tiles. 
• For example, the scrabble tiles I bought are about 18x20mm, so I should have printed the images at about 17x19mm.
• I print two images per block. One for the front, and a mirror-image for the back.
• Make or select images with sharp lines and bold colors. Texture and fine detail gets washed out at this scale.
• I used GIMP to crop my images and Inkscape to scale and arrange them for printing. These are both free software.
  
• In Inkscape, you can change the default display units to mm under File > Document Properties.
• In this same menu, make sure the correct page size is selected. A4 is the default.
• Leave a bit of space around the edges of the page for printing margins.
  
• Once all your images are arranged, export the file as a pdf by choosing File > Save a Copy, and changing the file type to pdf. 
• Print this pdf at 100% size. Don't shrink to fit it on the page.
  
• Color printing services usually cost less than 1 USD per page; my local library charges 0.50 USD per page. You can easily fit 50 blocks worth of images onto a page, making the printing costs no more than 0.02 USD per block.
5. Cut out and glue the images onto the blocks.

Now you  have some nice little game pieces . They're not as fancy looking as molded plastic minis, but the advantages are:

• They're significantly cheaper, and easier to replace.
• They are much more durable than painted minis or paper standees. You can just throw a handful of these in a box or bag without concern.
• They stack nicely for compact storage.
• They're pleasant and easy to handle.
  

Formatted Example Downloads:

 

Here are some downloads for the doodles I made:

• Letter Size PDF
• A4 Size PDF
• Folder full of source images.
  

Wandering Titans, part III - Making Things Personal

 Part 1, Part 2

Here's another batch of titans as weather. See part 1 for explanation. The unifying factor with this batch is that these titans interact more directly with people. The first stretches the concept of "weather" a bit.

The Hard-hearted King of Dragons

Logan Feliciano
The artist's description is also pretty good RPG brainfuel.

 On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Just the dragon's sharp silhouette seen occasionally in the sky.

Environmental Effect 

:  Blades and claws become sharper. Stone becomes unchippable. Bones become unbreakable. Metal becomes impossible to bend.  +1d6 damage when attacking a target without hard armor, like plate or shell. Bouts of dart-like hail impale the ground.

Appearance
:  Gargantuan dragon with impenetrable scales. Wings held wide, blocking out the sun.

Behavior / Desires
: The King of Dragons hoards peace and stability. In a conflict between two states, it will rush to decimate the attacking armies. It will use its breath to turn revolters into glass. And there is nothing it finds more beautiful than a tyrant on their throne. 

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Sharp nailed dragon cultists on ineffable missions of political espionage.
• Piles of wicked stones, once merely gravel, now made impassibly dangerous by the Dragon King's presence.
• Woodland creatures impaled on supernaturally sharp brambles and branches.
• Beehives and waspnests grown to unreasonable size, their stingers empowered, and their queens driven mad with a lust for expansion.

Radiant Fowl

"The Dragon Prince" background by Michael MacRae, but I doodled a little bird on top. 

 On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: Light on the horizon. Most noticeable during the night.

Environmental Effect 

:   Brightness that rivals the sun's. Lights up the night like the day (including effects like vampire ensmoldering). Somehow penetrates indoors and into caverns. Don't need light sources, stealth is impossible.

Appearance
:  A giant glowing phoenix, wispy tail trailing off towards the horizon. Or maybe its more of a glowing rooster. The details are hard to nail down because you can't really look directly at the thing.

Behavior / Desires
: Witness it! Witness its luminous glory! This titan wants to be seen, appreciated, and maybe even worshiped. It tends to gravitate towards areas with large populations of people or polished surfaces, where it perches and preens.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Fluffy, arm-length, radiant feathers fallen on the ground. They glow so brightly it hurts to look at them. A single small barb casts light like a torch. Frequently leads to deadly conflict between rival feather-hunters.
• Cold-blooded monsters, standing still, eyes closed, basking in the ever-present glow.
• Travelling titan researchers bedecked in reflective protective suits. Despite its proclivity for precariously perching on buildings and blinding pedestrians, it's overall the safest titan to observe and study.
• Nomadic lycanthropes following the titan to avoid transformation, driven only a wee bit mad by lack of sleep.
• Basements and dungeons choked with new sprouted vegetation.

Desiccant Prowler

Nutchapol Thitinunthakorn

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)
: No clouds in the sky. No rain.

Environmental Effect 

:  Rivers and lakes dry up, soil turns to dust, plants wither. Deplete an extra water ration each day. Persistent magical effects falter.

Appearance
:  A dusty striped pantherine thing, surrounded by a thin choking haze

Behavior / Desires
: Lazily tears apart magical protections, sabotages water reserves. It doesn't kill things directly, but its mere presence is hazardous, and it likes to watch things die. Stares down at entire villages or herds as the life drains out of them, and them laps up their souls like a cat drinking milk.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Fanatical dust elementals and living stone statues, helping wage war on water-based life-forms. The titan is ignorant of their devotion.
• Arcanohazard disposal teams dragging wagonloads of janky cursed items and failed enchantments into the titan's zone of influence, hoping the beast will rip them apart for fun.
• The desiccated corpses sometimes begin to crawl around and gnaw. Don't let them get their teeth into you, or they'll steal your blood and soul. Outside of the titan's hex, they crumble into ash, which can be sold to wizards for its magic-suppressing and water-absorbent properties.

Kekai Kotaki

Additional Titans: Part 1, Part 2, Part 4

Wandering Titans, part II - Fast and Slow

Giant monsters that are also weather phenomena.

The basic mechanism I suggested in the previous post is to roll 2d6 each day, and move the titan to a neighboring hex when doubles are rolled. Here's a pair of titans brainstormed while thinking about twists to those rules.

Stampeding Winds

Keep track of the direction the titan last moved. Each day, roll 2d6, and use the sum to decide whether this titan continues in that direction (6,7,8) turns left or right (3,4,5;9,10,11), abruptly reverses direction (2) or stalls in place (12).

Donato Giancola

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Swirling clouds, moving at a visible pace, forming and dissolving in the blink of an eye. Distant sounds of roaring winds and hooves.

Environmental Effect 

:  Hurricane-force winds topple structures and knock you to the ground. But if travelling downwind, you'll find yourself magically invigorated and full of energy.  Travelling through the hex in the same direction as the winds provides the same benefits as a long rest. Travelling through any other direction is difficult and hazardous. Exiting the hex in the upwind direction is impossible. 

Appearance
: A herd of charging ethereal stallions precipitating from the air. Clouds run through the sky, and smaller instantiations charge along the ground. Windward, the air speeds up, forming into visible near-tangible wind-creatures, and then slowly dissipate as they approach the leeward edge of the hex.

Behavior / Desires
: Wants to run. Wants to be free. Wants mortal creatures to charge alongside it without end.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• The smaller manifestations of the Stampede can be captured and used as a magical power source. Poacher-wizards try to do this with elaborate steel wind-traps. But it's dangerous work, as the winds speed up to impossible levels to batter down walls wherever a member of the herd gets trapped.
• Wind-dependent ecosystems of whirlibirds, tumbletrees, and lumbering strandbeests.
• Homes or even entire castles tumbling through the air.
• An encounter with an instance of the Stampeding Winds. If it likes you, there's a chance it will bless you with tailwinds for the rest of the day. Party travels twice as fast until the next time they sleep.
• Travelers hitching a ride on the winds
1. Two blokes calmly rowing along in an airborne canoe.
2. A gang of witches racing along on suped-up broomsticks.
3. A village of people, rapidly evacuated, carrying as many possessions as they could grab from their now-destroyed homes.
4. Bandits in a balloon with long hooks and nets, snatching up possessions that people left behind.
5. 140-years-old woman, hunched over with age, slowly walking with the wind. Hasn't stopped or slept for the past 50 years. Barely kept alive by the sustaining force of the titanic winds.
6. A whale which beached itself and just kept going.

The Ponderous Ox

This one's simpler. Roll 3d6 each day and move the titan when you roll triples.

While the party is awake within the titan's hex, don't advance the time of day, and don't roll for its movement.

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Clouds frozen in midair. Things sound slightly more quiet than they should.

Environmental Effect 

:  Silence. Stillness. Fires stop crackling and flickering, but still give out steady heat and light. Rivers freeze in place while remaining fluid. A diffuse mist fills the air. The sun and moon appear frozen in the sky. Your heart aches with nostalgia for things you've never seen. Loosed arrows slow to a stop and hover in midair.  Rest and rations are optional when near this titan. Cannot gain XP while in this hex. As you travel away from it, time suddenly returns to normal as if you never approached the titan to begin with.

Appearance
: A massive buffalo, with fur like boulders and horns like mountains.  Always faintly visible, far off in the distance, behind the next hill, shaded by the mists. You can always approach the titan, but can never reach it. 

Behavior / Desires
: No one has ever seen it move, or do much of anything at all but slowly breathe titanic breathes. (But surely it must move, for how else can it travel from hex to hex?)

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Void monk meditating on a hilltop. No, they haven't been following the titan. They've been here in this spot as long as they can remember. The titan hasn't moved in all that time, they say. 
• Small towns that don't exist, fiercely aggressive towards outsiders.
• Strange pillars, can be hacked apart (may trigger localized earthquakes) and sold to wizards to make immovable rods.
• Empty cabins, with a warm hearth and hot soup inside. If you sleep in the soft beds inside, you'll wake up on cold ground outside, weeks later, the titan having moved on.
• Incomprehensible alien geometries slipping through the gaps between moments in time. Probably nothing to worry about.

Additional Titans: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4

Wandering Titans (Monster as a Hex/Weather)

• Idea 1: Storms are fun in hexcrawls.
• See this system of tiered weather tables 
• or this Weather Hex Flower
• Idea 2: Giant Monsters are fun. Yes? Yes.

I trust you see where I am going with this.

Rules

In addition to the normal features of a hex, the presence of one of these Titans adds some sort of environmental effect and additional things to encounter to the hex it's in. 

The Titan should move about the map, but not nearly as quickly as PCs. It's a mountainous lumbering beast. Untested suggestion: Number the 6 hex directions. Once per day, roll 2d6, move the titan in that direction if you roll doubles.

Combat stats aren't given to the Titans for the same reason that combat stats aren't given to a hurricane. 

Some Example Beasties

Flood Serpent

Flood by Sandara

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Towering Rainclouds. Clouds being unnaturally pulled in.

Environmental Effect 
:  Torrential downpours. Banks overflowing. Ankle-deep water even where you might not expect. Poor visibility. Need sheltered high ground to rest.

Appearance
: A raging river, rising into the air, and then flowing wherever it pleases.

Behavior / Desires
: Capricious. Sometimes languidly arcs through the sky. Sometimes rapidly tears apart towns with sadistic glee.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Bountiful fauna. Animals flee the floods, but mysteriously more than could possibly live in these areas.
• Strange fauna. Creatures subtly wrong in form. Alien mutations. When killed, their bones perpetually leak water.
• Landlocked Pirates. Special boats that allow them to sail along in the wake of the serpent's storms, pillaging evacuated villages. 
• Her sociable children. In calmer waters within the serpent's hex, you can find strange smaller serpents assigning quests and  promising various wet boons. Personally, I wouldn't trust the things. But if you think stealing a dozen cats in exchange for a sword that gives the wielder extra blood sounds like a good time, that's your prerogative. 

Lucas Roussel

gavi-gavi

Penumbral Hound

by Muroid

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Dimmed sky. Sun sets early if the titan is to the west, and rises late if the titan is to the east.

Environmental Effect 

:  Darkness. Like night during the day. The sun and moon appear constantly eclipsed. Light from large fires just doesn't seem to carry as far. Need held light sources to navigate. 

Appearance
: The stars blacked out by an indistinct silhouette. Two bright eyes like rival moons. An occasional glint of giant teeth.

Behavior / Desires
: Slowly and carefully plod across the forest. It wants to be left alone. It wants to contemplate the stars. It wants to sleep.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• The cult of Mother's Shadow. Blindfolded titan-worshippers, skilled in echolocation. Core dogma is that none who see the Hound's face should live to speak of it. 
• Wizard vision. Spend enough consecutive time near this beast and you'll begin see the unseen. Permanent if you spend at least a full consecutive lunar cycle in the Hound's hex, or a week there without sleep.
• Shadow pits. Places of deep shadow (small pits, crevices, overhangs) become physically deeper within the Hound's domain. Sometimes open to inhospitable worlds.
• Snarls of titan fur, tangled in tree-tops. Can be woven into coarse, scratchy, uncomfortable cloaks which  cling to shadow and help hide the wearer.

The Swine Which Seeks to Unite the Earth and Sky

MtG card art by G-Host Lee

On the horizon (visible in neighboring hexes)

: Clouds of dust, floating rocks seen in the distance. Occasional tremors as floating chunks of stone leave the area of the beast's influence and come crashing to the ground.

Environmental Effect 
:  The earth reaches towards to sky. Trees grow upwards at visible rates. You feel lighter on your feet and can lift more weight. Random updrafts and downdrafts. Whole chunks of land lift up into floating islands.  No fall damage. Bulky items easier to hold in inventory.

Appearance
: Thick vegetation spiraling upwards into the air, carrying masses of debris with it. Pieces flake off and float into the sky. The entire tangled grove always looks at least vaguely like a giant boar.

Behavior / Desires
: Uproots earthen structures and hurls them into the air. Carefully avoids damaging obelisks and towers. Bows in deference to particularly impressive spires and mountains.

Things to Discover or Encounter Nearby

• Foreign Isles. Some of the large floating chunks of rock have been drifting along behind the Swine for decades, and are host to strange endemic species.
• Skywood. Plants which have passed through the Swine's body become buoyant in air and desirable for building flying ships. Incredibly difficult to collect in large quantity without getting crushed.
• Vanguard Birds. A society of birdmen worship the beast, and zealously attack anyone who comes near (that can't fly). Easy to bribe with shiny objects.

More Titans:

Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Squirrels.

This is a list of very good squirrels. I hope you enjoy.

1. Eurasian Red Squirrel

by hedera.baltica

by hedera.baltica

 He is coming.

Skeleton Post 2019

It's a bestiary with over 300 skeleton variants. 42 pages long.

Too late for Halloween, and just in time to be late for Day of the Dead. Click here for the download link. I'll be back again next year with even more skeletons.

Again, here's the download link (PDF)

Wizard Pets! Eight Delightful Magically Engineered Creatures to Help Make Your Wizarding Tower feel like A Wizarding Home.

The Whole Menagerie. Wizard Shown for Scale.

Each of the following critters is made by some mad wizard to help with domestic tasks. Each exhibits some helpful behavior comparable to a cantrip. And each is capable of casting some sort of spell if a spellcaster touches it and focuses on feeding it some of their magical energy. (For GLOG, this would be Magic Dice; for a typical system, you would expend a spell-slot.) Think of them kinda like scrolls, but more huggable.

Signs of Angelic Heritage: A Table of d60 Biblical Oddities for Aasimar and Nephilim.

See that wheely thing in the lower right? That's yer pa.

I've seen complaints that in standard rpg settings, being half-angel essential amounts to being a very pretty human, which fails to capture the weirdness of old-school religious angels. So here's a list of traits that you might get when a properly Abrahamic angel sires a child with a mortal human.

I tried to include a variety of entries ranging from severe hinderance to mild superpower.

1. Trumpets sound whenever they arrive somewhere.
2. Left half extremely cold, right half extremely hot.
3. Supernatural affinity for playing trumpets. Nothing seems off about them until they start playing, but when the music starts, you can't help but weep.
4. Deep booming voice that commands respect.
5. Direct eye contact induces overwhelming terror. They wear shaded glasses so as to not be a nuisance.
6. Instead of eyes on their face, both eyes orbit around their head.
7. A hoop covered in eyes rotates around their waist. Makes it hard to fit through doorways, but they’ve found they can hang bags from it, so they’ve made a good career as a courier.
8. Has a wagon wheel growing out of their body like a tumor.
9. Rotates like a gimbal whenever they lose focus on, well, not rotating.
10. Eyes in hands.
11. Eyes everywhere except their face.
12. Too many eyes on their face.
13. They have an identical twin which drifts around in the air next to them.
14. Can only move around via cartwheeling.
15. Second face on back of head.
16. When they change direction, only their head rotates. If they want to move south, they have to side-shuffle
17. Has a bird head growing from their shoulder.
18. Always accompanied by gales of wind, even indoors.
19. Poofy hair. constantly charged with static electricity. 
20. Has a wire-frame cube floating around their body.
21. Lion-mane, bull horns, bird feathers. Kind of a mess to look at.
22. Can’t tell lies.
23. Doesn’t understand the concept of lies.
24. Causes nearby vegetation to dry out and burn.
25. Turns water into blood via touch. Skin covered in red after exertion.
26. Bodily fluids are extremely toxic.
27. Reduces the amount of light that bounces off of nearby objects and so appears to glow by comparison.
28. Locusts tend to congregate around them.
29. Screams proclamations about coming judgement.
30. All dirt is repelled from them. Clothes become clean, floors are automatically swept, topsoil is blown away as if by a horrible wind.
31. Golden bands encircle their body.
32. voice attracts birds. They hate birds.
33. They feel compelled to constantly sing praises. This makes them functionally mute, for most kinds of conversation.
34. They have a divine mandate to sing praises according to the heavenly schedule, and they burst into flame whenever they fail in their duties. But they lack the knowledge of what this schedule is. So they pretty much randomly catch on fire. Sleeps on stone. Carries around a bucket of water.
35. Can unlock doors with a thought, but cannot enter buildings that have been marked with blood.
36. Can move slightly into the fourth dimension. Body parts sometimes disappear.
37. Halo. The bright light makes it hard to sleep, so they have deep bags under their eyes.
38. Halo. The light is so bright that they have gone blind, and it hurts to look directly at them.
39. Standard angelic giant pigeon wings on back.
40. Dozens of regular-sized bird wings located in random places all over the body.
41. Body entirely tightly wrapped in wings.
42. Legs are made of wings. They can’t fly, and have to hobble around on a mass of feathers.
43. Wings in place of arms.
44. Wings on head. Tiny underdeveloped body. Can briefly flutter.
45. Has an inert, non-glowing halo floating around their head.
46. Just two wings covering their face. They constantly have to brush feathers out of their eyes.
47. They look just like a  normal human, but when you are close to them, you feel a pressure in your chest.
48. Hands hot like a burning coal.
49. Constantly wreathed in cold flames.
50. Appear to be made of snow.
51. Aura of intense uncomfortable heat.
52. Appears to be triplets, but is actually just one person with three bodies.
53. Always has a flaming sword. It’s not attached to their hands, but they can’t get rid of it. They were born holding a tiny warm dagger, and the weapon has grown with them. It gets more inconvenient and unwieldy each year.
54. They see normal now, but they came out of the womb in the form of a tiny fully grown man, with well-developed muscles and slight male-pattern baldness. Other than their size, their appearance hasn’t changed at all.
55. Can only speak Enochian.
56. Uncomfortably smooth.
57. Ten feet tall.
58. The size of an elephant.
59. Never stops growing, and doesn’t die of old age.
60. Sometimes accidentally moves from one point to another without passing through the intervening space.

d66^6 Terrible Demon Princes

So there's an insidious cult that's trying to bring about the end of the world, and your team of misfits is trying to stop them. As it goes.

But what horrible abomination are these cultists trying to summon?

Ramhedron the Many-headed Raj of Ramming
Hypnotically flashing version here.

Weird Creature/Familiar Generator

Behold!

By combining my grand exhaustive list of every animal in the cosmos with LawfulNeutral's arcane tables of metaphysical motivation and Dan's hideous pile of mutations (plus my own pile of mutations), and welding them together in the flames of my new generator, I have forged the ultimate in beast making technology.

Again, I say: Behold!

Click here to view the source list for this generator.

Your familiar appears to be a [personality] [animal] [mutationformat].
But in the spirit realm, it's [trueform]. Its  motivation is [motivation].

{mutationformat}
[mutation]
[mutation]
[mutation], and [mutation]
[mutation], [mutation], and [mutation]



{personality}
absentminded
agonizing
aloof
arbitrary
articulate
bizarre
business-like
busy
cantankerous
charismatic
clear-headed
clever
companionly
compassionate
conscientious
cowardly
crass
cruel
cultured
deceitful
decisive
deep
dependent
devious
dishonest
dry
dynamic
elegant
emotional
firm
flexible
forgiving
formal
fraudulent
gentle
gullible
healthy
hearty
helpful
iconoclastic
imaginative
impressionable
insouciant
kind
logical
mawkish
melancholic
miserly
moralistic
multi-leveled
mystical
naive
narcissistic
narrow
neglectful
neutral
noncommittal
noncompetitive
obnoxious
old-fashioned
opinionated
organized
peaceful
petty
plodding
possessive
prejudiced
private
prudent
realistic
regimental
repentant
romantic
scrupulous
secretive
sedentary
selfish
sentimental
small-thinking
soft
sporting
stable
stoic
strong
submissive
sympathetic
systematic
tasteful
teacherly
thoughtless
trusting
understanding
undisciplined
unfriendly
unimpressive
vacuous
well-rounded
wistful
youthful
zany


{trueform}
a pet rock
a rock with no sentimental value
a glowing crystal
a stone tablet
a perfect sphere of glass
a little blue dragonquest slime
a gelatinous cube
a gelatinous icosahedron   
a petri dish full of bacteria  
a little robot
a clockwork [animal]
a haunted doll
a golem
a talking car
a frankensteined corpse
a broken bottle
a plastic egg with a face drawn on
tangled string
??? probably not vomit ???
leather glove full of holes
sticky clump of hair
a tiny golden humanoid
a mass of writhing tentacles
a gem encrusted skull
nothing at all
an [animal] made of teeth
a hideous homunculus 
a living bloodstain 
a cherub
a tiny black hole
a living drawing
a formless shadow
an inverted [animal]
a faceless [animal] 
a [plant] with a face
a giant amoeba
a floating eyeball
a skeletal [animal]
a brown jenkin
a boneless [animal]
many colorful bubbles
a pulsing mass of meat
empty skin
a noxious cloud
a goat-headed child
a mirrored master
a devilish imp
a wheel covered in eyes
a floating cosmic fetus
a blemmyes
a nightgaunt
a flying polyp
living lightning
living fire
living smoke
a tiny dragon
a living severed hand
a will o’wisp
an amorphous slime
two goblins in a trench coat
a shoggoth
a ball of energy with many arms
a kite made of starry night sky
living ice
a living [animal] shadow
two intertwined humanoids
a tiny fairy noble
a coronet of weapons
a constantly flowering/decaying flower
a crystalline [animal]
a gate with legs
a floating piece of furniture
a [animal] covered in shrouds
a [animal]-shaped starry night sky
a flaming egg bearing a single rune
a window into other world
a headless [animal]
a [animal] with a strange mask
an animated knight harness
an [animal] with transparent skin
a tiny star
a smooth humanoid with no features except a mouth
a floating crystal key
a writhing animate sigil
a pygmy pale man
a one eyed umbrella 
a tiny human-faced planetoid
a desiccated saint
a coronet of hands with eyes
an abstract silver mechanism
living blood
a flaming glyph
a tiny sandstorm
a beautiful homunculus
a moebius strip
a many-armed bodhisattva
a microorganism invisible to the naked eye
a brutish gargoyle
different every time it's percieved
living water
an escher-like pattern
a brain and spine with construct legs
a [animal]’s cardiovascular system
a completely smooth shape
a a long dead relative
a cheshire [animal]
a small misshapen clone of you
a cenobite [animal]
a fat demon wearing a crown 
brilliant fire with six wings
a tattered mascot/costume
a living ball gown
a humanoid with many snakes for legs
a hollow suit of armor
a wendigo
a tiny version of a [animal] in a bottle
a swarm of hellish insects
a small aurora borealis
a floating grimoire
frickin' Buer again, that scamp
a crudely taxidermied [animal]
a [animal] made of spoons and twine
exactly what it looks like
tiny brown bubbles
a pool of blood
a glowing streamer
a ring of blue smoke
a splash of ink
a bundle of taught floating wires
ripples in the air
an animated drawing
a fractal, swirling pattern
a crystalline [plant]
a jet of dust
a tiny [animal] made of congealed light
a tattered stream of cloth
a translucent orb
a living mass of leaves
living ink
a tiny stormcloud
an arrowhead dashing back and forth through the air
a disembodied, sinewy hand
living snow
flower petals
a cracked glass [animal]
a perfectly equilateral yellow triangle




{motivation}
honor
the law
cultivation
discovering hidden truths and lies
recording facts
creating new life
preservation
devotion to others
domination
destruction
passion
raw ambition
to be autonomous
petty revenge
iconoclasm
purging the weak
toppling the powerful
political power
sexual pursuits
self disillusionment
cosmic truth
magical power
construction of its “great work”
aligning the stars
completing “the ritual”
evangelism 
consumption of flesh
the pursuit of wealth
exploration
ars gratia artis
charity
directionless sadism
nihilism
extreme vainglory
selfless altruism
purification of the self
purification of others
unfission
black and white justice
blue and orange justice
anarchy
obsessive random collecting
glory hounding
spreading moral decay
spreading moral enlightenment
targeted assassination
wanton violence
prevention of entropy
encouragement of entropy
the creation of utopia
proving a universal axiom
seeding mistrust
formation of bonds
severing of bonds
extreme asceticism
extreme hedonism
vague destiny
releasing its imprisoned master
protecting the weak
restoring its good name
spite
preventing the escape of the enemy
courting romantic interests
the thrill of the hunt
gourmet
scientific documentation
usurping a usurper
finding something lost
historical documentation
stopping the apocalypse
forgetting a troubled past
hiding from betrayed allies
remembering its past
freedom from obligations
starting the apocalypse
collecting contracts
collecting bounties
collecting relics
infiltration of secret societies
theft of secrets
protecting secrets
spreading scientific advancement
igniting conflict
preventing conflict
impovering the land
rejuvenating the land
a very precise destiny
escapism
wallowing in its tragic past
finding a worthy successor
returning the land to nature
spreading religion
glamour
the genocide of [animal]s
reviving an extinct species
finding worthy adversary
playing the cosmic “game”
inverting social norms
enforcing social norms
justified revenge
disproving an unsatisfying axiom
colonizing the land
avoiding its vengeful ex
hiding from bounty hunters
completing a graduation trial
adding to its extremely specific collection
to catch them
to train them
“observation”
an unstable thing that changes every day
literally stealing candy from babies
a mystery even to itself
[motivation] and [motivation]


{animal}
witch's butter
fly agaric
bearded tooth
bleeding tooth
death cap
cordyceps-infested bug
moldy bread
scarlet elf cap
slime mold
chicken of the woods
prototaxite
glass sponge
calcarea
demosponge
homoscleromorpha
comb jelly
brain coral 
pipe coral
stony coral
zoanthid
sea whip
sea pen
anemone
man-o-war
box jelly
lion's mane jelly
moon jelly
irukandji
immortal jellyfish  
moss animal
salp
pyrosome
sea squirt
sea pork
sea tulip
piure 
mimic
leech
earthworm
bobbit worm
christmas tree worm
feather duster worm
sand mason worm
pompeii worm
bearded fireworm
ragworm
bone eating snot flower
methane-eating worm
giant tube worm
mongolian death worm
spoonworm
peanut worm
nematode
horsehair worm
penis worm
mud dragon
goblet worm
bedford's flatworm
tiger flatworm
candycane worm
planarian
fluke
tapeworm
acorn worm
arrow worm
ribbon worm
horseshow worm
gastrotrich
velvet worm
water bear
trilobite
anomalocaris
sea spider
horseshoe crab
orb-weaver
portia
peacock spider
trapdoor spider
funnel-web 
wolf spider
tarantula
diving bell spider
net-casting spider
mirror spider
twig spider
ant mimic spider
burrowing scorpion
bark scorpion
emperor scorpion
deathstalker
tanzanian red claw scorpion
fattail scorpion
hairy scorpion
pseudoscorpion
whip spider
mite
tick
harvestmen
vinegaroon
camel spider
sleipnir
giant african millipede
amazonian giant centipede
house centipede
pauropoda
sea monkey
tadpole shrimp
copepod
barnacle
mantis shrimp
krill
woodlouse
giant isopod
tongue-eating louse
roly poly
crayfish
shrimp
lobster
squat lobster
porcelain crab
hermit crab
king crab
spider crab
spanner crab
fiddler crab
ghost crab
helmet crab
giant enemy crab
springtail
conehead
bristletail
silverfish
mayfly
dragonfly
ice crawler
lice
thrip
booklice
cicada
aphid
scale insect
whitefly
planthopper
leafhopper
moss bug
water strider
assassin bug
bedbug
stink bug
shield bug
leaf-footed bug
titan beetle
hercules beetle
elpehant beetle
goliath beetle
atlas beetle
stag beetle
featherwing beetle
ladybird beetle
weevil
mealworm
deathwatch beetle
warty leaf beetle
firefly
click beetle
bombadier beetle
doodlebug
tiger beetle
whirligig
sacred scarab
golden tortoise beetle
hornet
tarantula hawk
social wasp
cuckoo wasp
potter wasp 
sand wasp
army ant
leafcutter ant
fire ant
carpenter ant
bullet ant
honeypot ant
killer bee
honeybee
bumblebee
mason bee
carpenter bee
plasterer bee
atlas moth
silk moth
grease moth
ornate moth
death's head moth
luna moth
monarch 
zebra swallowtail 
forest mother-of-pearl
blue morpho
peacock pansy
cramer's eighty-eight
glasswing
black swallowtail
flea
housefly
horsefly
robberfly
botfly
soldierfly
cranefly
mosquito
lovebug
snakefly
antlion
dobsonfly
webspinner
stick insect
grasshopper
cricket
katydid
weta
cockroach
termite
mantid
earwig
twisted-wing parasite
sea urchin
sunflower sea star
crown-of-thorns starfish
common sea star
red knob sea star
royal starfish
brisingid
brittle star
sea pig
pineapple sea cucumber
orange sea cucumber
giant california sea cucumber
japanese spiky sea cucumber
chocolate chip sea cucumber
snake sea cucumber
sea apple
sea lily
sand dollar       
dwarf seahorse
candiru
mudskipper
climbing perch
flying fish
lungfish
frogfish
elephantnose fish 
bony eared assfish
flounder
barreleye
lamprey
sting ray
pufferfish
lionfish
hagfish
electric eel
sarpa salpa, the dreamfish
beluga sturgeon
giant oar fish
ocean sunfish
manta ray
great white shark
whale shark
sardine
carp
trout
talapia
mackerel
catfish
sockeye salmon
alaska pollock
swordfish
yellowfin tuna
alantic cod
blue marlin
koi
blue tang
clownfish
sea dragon
angelfish
betta splendens
coelacanth
dunkleosteus
tiktaalik
haikouichthys
stethacanthus
megapiranha
fur bearing trout
mermaid
mermaid
dolphin wielding a knife
namazu
Leviathan
hammerhead shark
wobegong
carpenter shark
cookiecutter shark
thresher shark
goblin shark
poison arrow frog
bullfrog
grassland 
slippery
treefrog
riverfrog
bufo
harlequin toad
suriname toad
cane toad
beaked toad
snouted toad
olm
axolotl
siren
crested newt
hellbender
giantsalamander
marbled slamander
mud salamander
mole salamander
mythical firey salamander
caecilian
eocaecilia
diplocaulus
loggerhead turtle
box turtle
snapping turtle
galapagos tortoise
soft-shelled turtle
leatherback turtle
mud turtle
mata mata
snakeneck turtle
big headed turtle
tuatara
worm lizard
mexican mole lizard
crested gecko
fat-tailed gecko
leaf-tail gecko
clawed gecko
gargoyle gecko
leopard gecko
tokay gecko
new caledonian giant gecko
veiled chameleon
horned chameleon
panther chameleon
brookesia micra
giant chameleon
brown leaf chameleon
green iguana
marine iguana
rock iguana
desert iguana
spiny-tailed iguana
chuckwalla
mosasaur
blue tailed skink
red eye crocodile skink
prehensile-tailed skink
indian skink
komodo dragon
malayan water monitor
nile monitor
bengal monitor
tree crocodile
blue spotted tree monitor
secret toadhead agama 
shield-tailed agama
spiny-tailed lizard
sailfin lizard
thorny devil
frilled-neck lizard
rainforest dragon
bearded dragon
mountain horned dragon
garden lizard
oriental garden lizard
fan throated lizard
hump nosed lizard
flying lizard
jabberwocky
hydra
wyvern
dragon turtle
long
pixiu
jaculus
gila monster
spinytail lizard
plated lizard
collared lizard
spectacled lizard
anole
wall lizard
tegu
basilisk
basilisk
blind snake
cobra
mamba
sea krait
coral snake
spider-tailed horned viper
spiny bush viper
copperhead
rattlesnake
eyelash viper
long nose viper
taipan
spreading adder
flying snake
boa constrictor
green anaconda
emerald tree boa
rainbow boa
sand boa
titanoboa
pipe snake
black-headed python
burmese python
albino burmese python
reticulated python
scrub python
pygmy python
blood python
calabar python
rat snake
vine snake
garden snake
elephant trunk snake
tentacled snake 
tschuchinoko
hoop snake
feathered serpent
crocodile
alligator
caiman
gharial
dwarf crocodile
tomistoma
pterosaur
rhynchosaur
loch ness monster
longneck
threehorn
duckbill
spiketail
sharptooth
smashyhead
microraptor
yi qi
ostrich
emu
rhea
cassowarry
kiwi
tinamou
moa
chicken
junglefowl
quail
partridge
pheasant
turkey
grouse
peafowl
chachalaca
cockatrice
duck
goose
swan
magpie goose    
screamer                
demon duck
bony-toothed bird
crane
barn owl
screech owl
elf owl
bubo
strix
burrowing owl
mousebird
hornbill
woodpecker
toucan
honeyguide
barbet
kingfisher
trogon
terror bird
harpy eagle
monkey-eating eagle
bald eagle
golden eagle
martial eagle
steller's sea eagle
buzzard
hawk
condor
bearded vulture
griffon vulture
king vulture
turkey vulture
hooded vulture
osprey
secretarybird
kestrel
peregrine
hobby
merlin
sparrow hawk
gyrfalcon
cockatoo
macaw
lovebird
lorikeet
budgie
kakapo
cardinal
thrush
babbler
lark
tit
robin
rook
crow
raven
magpie
jay
jackdaw
bird-of-paradise
shrike
rockfowl
cowbird
finch
swallow
hoatzin
hummingbird
potoo
flamingo
grebe
shorebird
gull
auk
tropicbird
loon
albatross
emperor penguin
chinstrap penguin
little blue penguin
rockhopper
macaroni penguin
jackass penguin
stork
boobie
cormorant
frigate
snakebird
pelican
shoebill
heron
ibis
spoonbill
hamerkop
dodo
white-bellied green pigeon
rock dove
pigmy pouter
fantail
frillback
short-faced tumbler
capuchin pigeon
english carrier
roadrunner
coua
common cuckoo
malkoha
turaco
bustard
phoenix
scutosaurus
hypsognathus
mesosaurus
eunotosaurus
tetraceratops
ophiacodon
dimetrodon
cotylorhynchus
proburnetia
anteosaur
estemmenosuchus
placerias
wadiasaurus
gorgonopsid
pristerognathus
tritylodon
platypus
short-beaked echidna
long-beaked echidna
steropodon
kangaroo
oppossum
possum
sugar glider
koala
wombat
bandicoot
marsupial mole
tasmanian devil
tasmanian tiger
sea cow
dugong
elephant
hyrax
tenrec
golden mole
elphant shrew
aardvark
glyptodont
pink fairy armadillo
three-banded armadillo
yellow armadillo
screaming hairy armadillo
giant armadillo
long-nosed armadillo
silky anteater
giant anteater
northern tamandua
southern tamandua
three-toed sloth
two-toes sloth
giant ground sloth
sloth so slow that it fell out of time
hoolock
siamang
lar gibbon
crested gibbon
orangutan
gorilla
chimpanzee
homo erectus
homo sapiens
neanderthal
denisovan
hobbit
elf
gigantopithecus
bigfoot
roswell grey
macaque
baboon
langus
proboscis monkey
mandrill
mangabe
tamarin
marmoset
capuchin
saki monkey
howlermonkey
spidermonkey
uakari
squirrel monkey
ruffed lemur
sifaka
ring-tailed lemur
koala lemur
bush baby
aye-aye
potto
loris
tarsier
flying lemur
treeshrew
pygmy rabbit
sumatran striped rabbit
flemish giant 
netherland dwarf
angora
lop-eared rabbit
hare
pika
jackalope
carbuncle
springhare
beaver
kangaroo rat
gopher
mole rat
terrestrial porcupine                    
chinchilla
viscacha
hutia
guinea pig
cabybara
mara
spiny rat
paca
pacarana
arboreal porcupine
red squirrel
grey squirrel
malabar giant squirrel
grizzled giant squirrel
flying squirrel
red giant flying squirrel
pygmy squirrel
chipmunk
prarie dog
marmot                 
rat
mouse
gerbil
crested rat
vole
lemming
muskrat
hamster
pack rat
deer mouse
dormouse
jerboa
solenodon
moonrat
shrew
hedgehog
mole
desman
giant flying fox
blossom bat
tube-nosed fruit bat
nectar bat
rousette
monkey-faced bat
vampire bat
vesper bat
horshoe bat
ghost-faced bat
sac-winged bat
mouse-tailed bat
pangolin
husky
corgi
poodle
chihuahua
greyhound
afghan
akita
mastiff
bulldog
dachshund
german shepherd
chow chow
wolf
coyote
jackal
red fox
arctic fox
fennec fox
pipe-fox
tanuki
dhole
maned wolf
bush dog
cù sìth
sloth bear
brown bear
polar bear
black bear
panda bear
sun bear
sea lion
elephant seal
walrus
monk seal
fur seal
harbor seal
weasel
badger
otter
marten
mink
wolverine
grison
polecat
skunk
racoon
coati
kinkajou
olingo
olinguito
ringtail
cacomistle
red panda
tiger
lion
jaguar
leopard
caracal
serval
ocelot
lynx
cheetah
puma
pallas cat
persian
hairless sphynx 
siamese
scottish fold
maine coon
munchkin
smilodon 
civet
linsang
genet 
bearcat
mongoose
meerkat
kusimanse
fossa 
hyena
leucrotta
manticore
narwhal
dolphin
beluga
porpoise
false killer whale
pygmy sperm whale
beaked whale
baleen whale
hippo
domestic pig
wild boar
warthog
deer-pig
forest hog
pygmy hog
dromedary
bactrian
alpaca
llama
guanaco
vicuña
saola
bison
buffalo
cattle
auroch
yak
mountain goat
goat
sheep
ibex
muskox
serow
impala
gazelle
wildebeest
gerenuk
dik-dik
oryx
kudu
saiga
bonnacon
giraffe
okapi
beast of shanxi
shiva's beast
decennatherium
qilin
pronghorn
elk
moose
red deer
white-tailed deer
reindeer
water deer
pudu
tufted deer
musk deer
chevrotain
chalicothere
horse
mule
ass
zebra
pegasus
kelpie
white rhinoceros
black rhinoceros
sumatran rhinoceros
unicorn
baird's tapir
lowland tapir
kabomani tapir
mountain tapir
malayan tapir
baku
lancelet
lampshell
chiton
tusk shell
clam
oyster
mussel
cockle
scallop
geoduck
giant land snail
conch
periwinkle
escargot
abalone
cone snail
bubble snail
golden snail
banana slug
leopard slug
blue dragon nudibranch
orange peeel doris
sea lemon
spanish dancer
lion nudibranch
clown nudibranch
regal sea goddess
diamondback tritonia
spanish shawl
chromodoris
phylliroe
eastern emerald elysia
lettuce sea slug
headshield slug
sea hare
semislug            
limpet
nautilus
flapjack octopus
blue-ringed octopus
glowing sucker octopus
coconut octopus
giant octopus
common octopus
telescope octopus
seven arm octopus
blanket octopus
wunderpus
mimic octopus
argonaut
vampire squid
collosal squid
bigfin squid
flying squid
pencil squid
whip-lash squid
deepsea squid
spirula
cuttlefish 



{plant}
potted fern
coconut
dried-out stick
venus fly trap
pitcher plant
bladderwort
bramble
bamboo
kudzu
sundew
bonsai tree
cactus


{mutation}
colored vivid {red|orange|yellow|green|blue|purple}
with glowing eyes
with the eyes of a [animal]
with the skin of a [animal]
with the mind of a [animal]
with membranous wings
with feathery wings
with insect wings
with the limbs of a [animal]
with the face of a [animal]
that looks like a [animal] in the mirror
surrounded by a swarm of tiny [animal]s
which commands the respect of every [animal]
with poisonous foot-spurs
with a bite that makes the target allergic to meat 
with a gigantic purple nose-cleaning tongue 
with the ability to spray blood out of its eyes 
which will starve to death in front of food if it's not prepared quite right
whose head swells with fragrant ambergris  
with dozens of eggs embedded in the skin of its back 
with corkscrew horns and beard of chaos 
with huge heat-radiators for ears
which resembles a terribly venomous creature 
with a hump filled with fatty nutrient supply 
with necrotic bacterial spit 
with a crown of stinging tendrils 
with overlapping armored scales 
with a freakishly extended tapping finger 
with loose skin flaps between wrists and ankles 
with an abdominal pouch 
whose skin is striped black and white 
with incredible head rotation 
with a parasitic tongue-louse 
with rows of sharp, replaceable teeth 
with adorable pink fan gills 
which can sense when someone is about to die 
with shaggy fur and prehensile trunk 
with a musical bone crest 
which is immune to pain from acid and capsasin 
with a horrifyingly distendable stomach 
with a buoyant, curling shell 
which can create sticky, microfibrous slime 
which is friendly with tooth-cleaning {[animal]|bird}s 
which is friend-shaped  
with a loud musical penis 
with a cavitation claws 
which can shoves its ribs through its skin to defend against attack 
with an inflatable nasal sac 
with webbed feet which let it run on water 
which reverts to embryo-form after adulthood
which has an extended rostrum with transverse teeth 
which smells like fresh popcorn 
which can vomit up its digestive tract in defense 
with a face full of tentacles 
with slick transparent skin 
with huge feet for subsonic communication 
with a milk-producing udder 
with a suction-cup head 
with a brilliant plumage 
which can sleep with only half of its brain
with hideous facial tumors 
with bright blue feet 
which is inexplicably tapir-like
with a body primarily composed of electricity generators
which shrinks when hungry
whose skin pops off when its startled
with giant terrifying fangs that protrude from mouth
with the instinctive compulsion to perform lobotomies
whose bodily fluids are potent hallucinogens
which is completely naked and covered in sweat
with appendages on either side of the mouth which shoot out glue
whose vocalizations resemble industrial noises
with giant eyes that burn away each day and regrow each night
which is bioluminescent
with a spring-loaded spine for turbo charged backflips
with long thin legs and neck
which has a growth on its back that resembles a [animal]
whic sweats bright red sunscreen
with a long tongue which  winds around through holes in its skull to act as a built-in helmet
with fingers on its {face|legs|feet|wings|arms|back|tongue}
which is photosynthetic
with barbed hooks on its skin
which sprays acid from butt
with teeth that never stop growing
with a dangly lure hanging from its face
which becomes immobile and eats its own brain
which can stun other creatures by screaming loudly
with taste buds all over its body
with a huge body and a tiny head
with 12-inch thick skin
with a broad protuberance on its face that can be used to sense electromagnetic fields
with telescoping, upward facing eyes surrounded by a transparent reflective dome
which is supernaturally good at predicting the movements of other creatures, but needs to sit motionless for an hour observing the creature before it can act
with defensive quills
whose joints shift around so that it can curl up into a ball
with a beautiful unicorn horn which is actually a tooth
which is covered with spikes which transport fluid to its mouth
with a thin tail which can be used as a whip
with breathes through its skin (no lungs)
with eyes on swivels
whose skin can change color and texture
with a goofy-looking air-filtering nose
which is inflatable
with tiny, pathetic, useless wings
with limbs lined with razor sharp suction cups
with scythe-like jaws
with loose wrinkly skin
with curled prehensile tail
which reproduces by budding
with a  nearly 2-dimensional body
which can fit through any hole larger than its head
whose eyes are useless
with fleshy growths on the nose which have a highly delicate sense of touch. It can predict earthquakes by shoving its face into dirt
with broad pads on its feet which stick to walls
with  big feathery mouthparts for filter feeding
with 5 eyes, a backwards-facing mouth, and a bendy claw arm on face
with a third eye in the middle of the forehead
whose knees retract into its body
covered in dense soft fur which makes water dangerous 
with backwards {hands|feet|hands and feet}
that resembles wood
with giant shovel hands
which leaves behind a scent trail
with an elongated neck
that rolls like some sort of demented wheel
with bright eyespots to confuse  predators
with a long tail in place of its hind legs
with retractable spikes that bursts out of its eyes
with an internal turtleshell
with antennae that enhance its sense of smell
which can explode
with a tiny malformed twin inside its skin
of unusually small size
of unusually large size
with {1|2|3|4|5|6} heads
whose rear has the head of a [animal]
as pale as moonlight
as dark as a raven
mixed with a [animal]
with a proboscis
with a {slicing|crushing|hooked killing|flat|chisel-like|net-like|thin probing} beak
which lives in  a shell stolen from another creature
with a stinger on its butt
with antlers
with a neck frill
with a thick head for ramming
with long claws
with retractable claws
with one big spike on each limb
which has just a single finger in place of each foot
with cutting Incisors
with meaty lobster Claws
with one Big Crab Claw
with mantis-style Forelimbs
with a spiked tail
with a club-like tail
with a large sail of spines connected by skin
with incredibly {kicking|punching|headbutting} ability
with a pharyngeal Jaw
which uses its {claws|teeth|spines|tail} to deliver potent venom which  [venomeffect]
which has mastered the art of fire
with a turtle Shell
protexted by a clam shell
covered in a chitonous exoskeleton
which is poisonous (do not eat)
which releases an ink cloud when threatened
covered in osteoderms
that plays dead
with body parts that fall off to distract predators
with extreme temperature resistance
which can enter stasis
which can rapidly regrow limbs
that does not age
which can metamorphose into a new form. This new form is a [animal] [mutation]
which is very fat
which purifies its surroundings
with heat sensitive pits in its face
with a big nose for tracking smells
with accute hearing
that echolocates
which can sense magnetic fields
with 360 degree vision
with ultraviolet vision
which can see polarized light
with a body covered in sensitive hairs
with big whiskers
which can sense blood
with an excellent sense of air pressure
with five feathery wings
which likes to ride around on a parachute
that can jump 10 times its own height
that can sprint at incredibly speeds
which is skilled at endurance running
that Burrows underground
that slithers
which is bouyant
which is amphibious
with skin that hypnotically pulses 
with striped skin
with spotted skin
which is more ugly than usual
with a beautiful mane of soft hair
with reflective camouflage 
which attaches foliage to its own body
with too many limbs
with atrophied limbs
with fewer limbs than usual
with really short limbs
covered in fleshy protrusions that look like limbs but aren't really
with extreme sexual dimorphism
which never stops growing
which moves in packs
which is in a symbiotic relationship with [animal]s
which is part a eusocial hivemind
which produces an artistic mating display
which engages in ritualistic combat
that is capable of language
which perfectly Mimics Sounds
which sings
that carries babies around in its mouth
that builds eleborate nests
that forces other creatures to raise its young
that has a strong nuturing instinct 
that engages in war
which kills for fun
which can remember faces and holds a grudge 
which has learned to engage in economic transactions
which lays eggs
which suffers from alcoholism
which uses tools
with opposable thumbs
with a vise-like grip
with a prehensile {tongue|nose|lip|penis}
which can eat stone
with cheek pouches for storage
which drinks blood
with cookie-cutter jaws it uses to steal chunks of flesh
which lives on top of a [animal]
which lives inside of a [animal]
which can eat radiation
which can steal abilities from things it eats
which farms tiny [animal]s for food
which has a symbiotic relationship with a [plant]
which eats only meat
which vomits up nutritious food
which levitates
which weaves sticky nets
which sheds spores

{venomeffect}
causes pain
causes bleeding
causes paralysis
causes hallucinations
dissolves flesh
clots blood