Zoola  Animal  Primeval

This scavenger is a 9-foot-long millipede. It won’t deliberately engage in combat, but these arthropods will crawl over a path inflicting damaging secretions over fleshy things with which it comes in contact. They also tend to be nocturnal, dark and essentially silent, making the odds of one unsuspectingly crawling over a sleeping adventurer higher than most like. To detect one in the night, even with Darkvision requires an Awareness check (TM:18).

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

This is the dire boar, standing six feet to the shoulder and weighing 1800 pounds, these primeval warthogs have powerful jaws, as well as sharp tusks and teeth. Additionally, they have a bony exoskeleton over their backs, giving them better defense.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

The dire bat is a fearless monster. It dwarfs even the modern giant ones with its 15-foot wingspan and 200-pound bodies. They group together but rarely in numbers more than four. Their swooping down from above often happens with the cover of night or in dark places where their echolocation permits them to see when their prey usually cannot. This often allows the dire bat a free-first-strike as a sneak attack; however, Awareness checks by the victim or group (TM:14; TM:13 with nightvision; TM:11 with darkvision) should be permitted. If the sneak attack is success and the victim unaware, then the dire bat is given a free 3 hex movement at the end of turn that it used for the attack. Because of their sensory abilities, dire bats are unaffected by magical darkness, but can be grounded and unable to fly by the effects of silence.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

A dire bear measures roughly 20 feet tall when standing on its hind legs and weighs over 2,000 pounds. It further has bony plates covering his back, shoulders, neck and head, giving it an improved Defense. Further, it has a vicious attack of claws and bite which it can split between two opponents if it chooses, as if having spinning moves.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Closer in appearance to a large wolf, these beasts stand about four feet to the shoulder. They are faster than a horse and have a powerful attack. Further, their bite acts like it has an infusion of cold, making victims suffer an extra d4 points of cold damage. Although rare, they are pack animals, typically being in numbers between two and eight when they are encountered. Moreover, there is an unexplained connection between these canines and goblins, as if there is an innate training skill that goblins have. These canines will act as guards, pets and mounts for goblins. A tribe will have roughly one dire wolf for every twenty goblins. Further, goblins are uniquely shaped to sit between the spiny plates of a dire wolf's back.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Epicyon can well be described as a giant and enraged pitbull. It is taller than a jaguar at the shoulder and nearly the size of a tiger. Rather than being built for speed and endurance, Epicyon is the epitome of brute strength, and has jaws so powerful that they can crush bone. The largest of epicyon can weigh over 300 pounds. A turf war between a pack of these fighting a dire wolf pack would be a frightening sight to behold. The packs of epicyon can grow up to a dozen. As with all primeval creatures, epicyon are immune to specific Mind and Spirit attacks, such as sleep, charm, and fear, automatically saving on any such. Moreover, these canines are immune to cold attacks.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

This fast-running beast is like a large monitor lizard with longer legs. It is ten feet in length and four feet to the shoulder, weighing about 600 pounds. The gorgonops has dinosaur head with massive canines so large they nearly protruded beyond its lower jaw. In addition to its deadly bite, the gorgonops can trample through an opponent of medium-size or smaller, similar to the charge skill, enabling one to immediately close 10 feet of space, which will inflict damage and knock the victim prone. These are solitary creatures with two meeting only to mate.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Iguanodons are not typically predatory, but they are omnivores and will respond if threatened, devouring whatever it was that posed a risk. Their form of attack against human-sized prey is a stomping, often running through and not returning to fight. With their 30-foot-long, 7000-pound bodies to their advantage, iguanodons often crush smaller opponents. From one to four might be found together.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Standing over 15 feet tall with a head-to-tail length over nearly 30 feet, the claws of this enormous creature are over three feet long. However, the lunar therzan uses those claws mainly to tear into the giant fungi on the larger moon, Gayna, were they reside. Nonetheless, if spooked, these creatures can inflict some serious damage.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Massive prehistoric relative to the elephant. Unlike the mammoth, the mastodon is a forest-dwelling beast, living in herds up to forty when traversing grasslands or plains. However, when a herd is attacked, most attempt to flee with only the prey and perhaps a few others remain to fight. Their huge tusks thrash for a blunt attack. As with all primeval beasts, mastodons are immune to effects which require a preservation save with Mind or Spirit.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

A megatherium is essentially an elephant-sized ground sloth with a bad temper. It also has giant claws and can stand on its hind legs to appear even more massive. One might run into up to six of these at one time.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

This super-croc is 40 feet long and weighs over 10,000 pounds. When successfully attacking its prey, it automatically catches any medium or smaller sized victim in its mouth. This will require an action of grapple-escape to free oneself. When having a trapped victim in its mouth at the end of each of the sarcosuchus’ turns, it will automatically deliver d4 Body points of piercing damage. Once securing its victim, the sarcosuchus will attempt to retreat to devour its meal privately. It will only release and attack another prey if it is physically harmed, and then it will only do so 50% of the time. The sarcosuchus rarely appears with others of its kind.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

The saber-tooth tiger stands over three feet to the shoulder and is eight feet from snout to rump. The cat weighs over 700 pounds. These creatures have swarming as a natural skill, making their hunting packs of up to eight a serious danger. Like all primevals, certain Mind and Spirit preservation saves are automatically made.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

Terror Birds are 9 foot-tall, flightless birds that resembled over-sized ostriches with the head of a bird of prey. They weigh about 750 lb and are quadrupeds; however, their front legs are shorter which they only use when galloping. They walk casually on two at Orange movement, but can drop to all four and increase to a surprising Green speed. Withered, rudimentary wings rested either side of their immense heads that made up a large part of their bodies. Their beak pecks are very dangerous. There is a variant of this giant bird that went to live in the deep-dark. That variant is nearly all black in color and has developed darkvision up to 60 feet.

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

 Zoola  Animal  Primeval

These pack carnivores are roughly the same size as a human, but with a long tall and stride nearly horizontally at about 3 feet tall. Also, they are covered in a combination of scales and feathers, but they are flightless. When attacking for the first time against a victim, they will try to leap from 10 feet away. If there is room for such an attack, this it will act as a charge skill, gaining an additional d20 to the attack.