Deer and Antelope#
One family of Wild Animals: 20 animals, levels 3 to 12. Reading the tables says what each column means.
The grazers of forest and plain. They bolt first and ask nothing, and they feed half the hunters on the continent.
| Animal | Level | Health | AC | Bite | Group | Tame | Worth | Lives in |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reedbucksmall · weakReedbucks are tawny antelope that hide in the tall grass of the Crecian prairie and the Amari grasslands. They give a sharp whistle when they spot you and are gone before you spot them. The meat is lean. | 3 | 12 | 4 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 10 |         |
| Bongotiny · weakThe bongo is a shy antelope with a chestnut coat, thin white stripes and long spiraled horns. It browses the grasslands and thickets of Crecia and Amari at dusk and bolts at the first snapped twig. Carvers prize the horns. | 3 | 22 | 12 | 1d4 | 1-2 | DC 3 | 10 | |
| Nyalamedium · weakNyala are spiral-horned antelope: the males gray and shaggy, the females smaller and russet with thin white stripes. They graze the thickets and grasslands of Crecia and Amari and freeze before they run. Their hides tan into soft leather. | 4 | 20 | 5 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 45 | |
| Swamp Deermedium · weakA heavy brown deer with many-tined antlers that feeds in the wet meadows and riverside woods of Tharsis and Esthar. When one gives the alarm call the herd bunches together, and stags in the rut are short-tempered. | 4 | 20 | 5 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 6 | 20 |  |
| White-Lipped Deermedium · weakA thick-coated deer with a white muzzle that lives in high forest and alpine meadows from Jewall to New Saellem. It handles cold and thin air better than any horse. Mountain folk hunt it for hide and meat. | 5 | 21 | 5 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 6 | 10 | |
| White-Tailed Deermedium · weakA brown deer that flags its white tail when it runs, warning every other deer nearby. Herds graze the prairie and the edges of the woods in Crecia, Tharsis and Esthar. It’s common game, and the venison and hides sell at any market. | 5 | 21 | 4 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 10 | |
| Oribismall · weakThe oribi is a small, slender antelope of the Crecian and Amari grasslands that lies flat in the grass until it is nearly stepped on, then bounds away whistling. Falconers prize them as quarry. A tamed one makes a pretty, useless pet. | 6 | 18 | 6 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 8 | 75 | |
| Antelopemedium · weakThe plain brown antelope of the open grassland, grazing from Crecia to Amari and Moria. It bolts at the first sign of a hunter and runs faster than most horses. Bows and patience bring it down; chasing it doesn’t. | 6 | 22 | 6 | 1d6 | 1 | DC 6 | 15 | |
| Bontebokmedium · weakBonteboks are small antelope with a white blaze down the face, and they graze the open prairie of Crecia and Amari in herds. They are easy to spot and hard to catch. The meat is good. | 6 | 22 | 12 | 1d4 | 1-3 | DC 3 | 10 | |
| Waterbuckmedium · weakWaterbuck are big, shaggy antelope with a white ring on the rump, and they graze the grasslands of Crecia and Amari. Their flesh smells and tastes of musk, so lions and hunters both pass them over when they can. The horns make good knife handles. | 6 | 22 | 4 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 6 | 10 | |
| Red Deersmall · weakThe big russet deer of the open grassland, ranging across Crecia, Amari and Esthar. In the autumn rut the stags roar all night and will charge a rider. The rest of the year the herd runs at the first scent of people. | 6 | 28 | 8 | 1d4 | 2 | DC 4 | 25 | |
| Tufted Deermedium · weakA small dark deer with a tuft of black hair on its brow and two fangs that hang below its lip. It barks like a dog when startled and lives alone in the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. Despite the fangs, it eats leaves. | 7 | 23 | 4 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 20 | |
| Addax Antelopemedium · weakA pale antelope with long twisted horns that wanders the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria in small herds. It hardly ever drinks, getting its water from the plants it eats. It bolts at the first scent of a hunter. | 8 | 24 | 8 | 1d4 | 3-4 | DC 5 | 10 | |
| Gazellemedium · weakA slender, fawn-colored antelope with ringed horns that grazes in herds on the open grass of Crecia and Amari and the scrub of Moria. A herd bolts at the first sign of a hunter, so bring a bow, not a spear. | 8 | 24 | 4 | 1d4 | 2-6 | DC 5 | 30 | |
| Oryxmedium · weakA gray antelope with a black face mask and straight horns as long as a spear. Herds of oryx cross the dry scrub and badlands of Crecia, Amari and Moria. A cornered oryx lowers its horns and charges, and those horns have killed lions. | 8 | 24 | 5 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 80 | |
| Sambar Deermedium · regularA big, shaggy, dark-coated deer of the forests of Tharsis, Esthar and New Saellem. When alarmed it stamps and gives a ringing call that warns everything nearby. Hunters prize the antlers and curse the call. | 9 | 26 | 4 | 1d6 | 1 | DC 7 | 10 | |
| Spotted Deermedium · weakA small dark deer with pale spots, found in the grasslands and scrub of Crecia and Amari. It’s skittish and feeds mostly at dusk. A fawn raised by hand tames easily. | 9 | 26 | 6 | 1d4 | 1 | DC 5 | 20 | |
| Deermedium · weakDeer are the everyday game of Sedia’s forests, from the oaks of Esthar to the taiga of New Saellem. They bolt at a snapped twig, so a hunter who brings one home brought a bow and a lot of patience. Venison and buckskin both sell in any market town. | 10 | 28 | 8 | 1d4 | 1-2 | DC 4 | 25 | |
| Okapilarge · weakStriped legs like a zebra and a body like a dark horse, the okapi browses quietly in the scrub and grassland of Crecia and Amari. It’s shy and hears a footstep at a long distance. Corner one and its kick can break a leg. | 11 | 30 | 6 | 1d6 | 1 | DC 5 | 25 | |
| Elklarge · regularA tall deer with a dark mane and antlers as wide as a cart, at home in the pine forests of Tharsis and Esthar and on the tundra edges of New Saellem. Bulls in the rut fight anything that comes near, people included. One elk feeds a camp for a week, and the hide sells in any town with a tanner. | 12 | 32 | 7 | 1d8 | 1-4 | DC 8 | 45 | |
