Great Cats#

One family of Wild Animals: 16 animals, levels 4 to 10. Reading the tables says what each column means.

Tigers, lions, leopards and their kin. Every one of them is a predator that would rather ambush than chase, and most are sold as pets to people who should know better.

Animal	Level	Health	AC	Bite	Group	Tame	Worth	Lives in
Jaguarmedium · regularJaguars hunt the Menusian jungle from the ground, the branches and the water, and their bite cracks a turtle shell. They are seldom seen and often heard. The rosetted pelt sells well in Kyra.	4	19	13	1d10	1-2	DC 18	30
Cheetahmedium · regularCheetahs are the fastest thing on four legs on Sedia, and they run down antelope on the Crecian prairie and the high grasslands of Amari. Out of breath after a chase, they are no threat at all. Tharsian nobles keep trained ones for coursing, and a good one costs more than the horse.	4	20	12	1d10	1-6	DC 15	30
Cougarmedium · regularThe cougar is a tawny, long-tailed cat of the forests of Tharsis and Esthar, and the one people mean when they say something followed them home from the woods. It ambushes from above or behind. Look big, keep facing it and don’t run.	5	21	8	1d10	1-4	DC 9	10
Darkwood Tigermedium · regularThe darkwood tiger hunts the pine country of Tharsis and the forests of Esthar and New Saellem, a striped ghost that runs to thirty stones. It takes deer and the odd woodcutter’s ox, and it rarely uses the same trail twice. A clean pelt sells well in Tharsis, where the old families like a tiger skin in front of the hearth.	5	21	10	1d10	1-2	DC 15	10
Mountain Lionmedium · regularJewall calls the cougar a mountain lion, and the ones on the slopes of Mt. Tyr and the Kyrian Range are bigger and bolder than their forest cousins. It hunts goats and ibex from the rocks above the trail. Miners walk in pairs for a reason.	5	21	8	1d10	1	DC 9	10
Pumamedium · weakThe puma is the jungle cougar of Menusia and the forests of Amari, darker and quieter than its northern kin. It waits in the branches over the water and drops on deer and monkeys that come to drink. Few who meet one see it first.	5	21	8	1d10	1	DC 9	10
Lionmedium · regularLions hold the open grasslands of Amari and Crecia, and the males do a great deal of roaring and very little hunting. The lionesses do the killing. A tamed lion is a status animal in Dumasque, where the tribes trade them as gifts.	6	22	10	1d10	1-3	DC 16	10
Snow Leopardmedium · regularSnow leopards hunt the crags around Mt. Tyr and the ridges of New Saellem, gray-spotted and almost invisible against the rock. A family of them will stalk travelers on a mountain pass for miles before deciding. A tamed one is rare and sells well to anyone who can keep it cold.	7	23	14	1d10	2-3	DC 17	120
Leopardmedium · regularLeopards are spotted, patient and strong enough to drag a deer up a tree, and they live almost anywhere on Sedia with cover, from the hills of Jewall to the edges of the Crecian prairie. One may follow a party for a day without being seen. Leopard pelts are a staple of the fur markets.	8	24	13	1d10	1-3	DC 15	10
Panthermedium · weakA black leopard that hunts alone from the branches in the forests of Tharsis and Esthar. In bright light you can just make out the spots under the black. Most people who have seen one are the ones it let go.	8	24	13	1d10	1	DC 15	10
Amari Tigermedium · regularThe amari tiger ranges farther than any other tiger, from the montane grasslands of Amari to the Crecian prairie and the Menusian coast. It is a patient ambusher and a strong swimmer. Taming one is close to impossible, and the few kept in captivity belong to people who would rather not say how they got them.	8	25	13	1d10	1-2	DC 18	90
Menusian Tigermedium · regularThe menusian tiger is the great orange-and-black cat of the Menusian jungle, and it also hunts the forests of Amari. It weighs as much as three men and kills with one bite to the neck. Villagers in its range don’t walk the forest after dark, and visitors shouldn’t either.	8	25	12	1d12	1	DC 10	20
Nigeer Tigermedium · regularThe nigeer tiger is small for a tiger and dark, with close-set stripes, and it hunts the jungle and riverbanks of the Tropics of Nigeer and the Amari coast. It swims well and often takes its prey at the water’s edge. Fishermen there leave a share of the catch on the bank, which may or may not help.	8	25	14	1d10	1-4	DC 18	20
Clouded Leopardmedium · regularThe clouded leopard is smaller than its cousins and climbs better than any of them, and it lives on the cliffs and canyons of Jewall and New Saellem. Its coat is patterned with big dark blotches like spilled ink. Pelt traders pay more for one than for a snow leopard because they so rarely get the chance.	10	27	12	1d10	1-3	DC 16	220
Kyrian Tigermedium · regularThe kyrian tiger is the biggest striped cat on Sedia, pale-coated and heavy in the shoulder, and it hunts the forests and shores of Amari and Menusia. Kyrian soldiers prize its claws as trophies. The tigers take a dim view of this.	10	27	12	1d10	1-3	DC 16	60
Crecian Tigermedium · regularThe crecian tiger is a lean, tawny tiger of the open prairie, and the herds of Crecia and Amari are its living. It stalks through tall grass almost on its belly. Ranchers in Crecia pay well for its pelt and better for proof it’s dead.	10	28	11	1d10	1	DC 17	40