Animals represent the typical mammal that moves on four legs such as a dog, fox or bear. Many animals are not fearsome unless encountered in larger numbers, and many are fairly intelligent:
- Armor Class: 20
- Hit Dice: 7 + 2
- Attacks:
- Breath Weapon (Acid, 7 HD)
- Claws (1d6)
- Claws (1d6)
- Bite (2d10)
- Special Defenses:
- Mindless
- Half Damage vs. Edged Weapons
- Resistance to Ammunition
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Immune to Fear
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 8
- Experience Points: 1200
Description: Essentially an undead form of regular black dragon, it attacks primarily with its acidic breath weapon, which is quite potent even for its undead status. Like other forms of undead, it is immune to sleep, charm and hold spells, and can be turned by clerics (as a Spectre).
- Armor Class: 14
- Hit Dice: 2
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 8
- Experience Points: 75
Description: Giant bats have a wingspan of 15 feet and weigh about 200 pounds. They have the same sensory abilities as normal-sized bats, but being much larger they are able to directly attack adventurer-sized prey.
- Armor Class: 13
- Hit Dice: 2
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 8
- Experience Points: 30
Description: Giant mother rats are scavengers, but will attack to defend their nests and territories. A giant mother rat can grow to be up to five feet long and weigh nearly 70 pounds. A single giant mother rat will generally be shy but will attack fearlessly when cornered, biting and chewing with their sharp incisors. Any rat bite has a 5% chance of causing a disease.
- Armor Class: 13
- Hit Dice: 1
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 8
- Experience Points: 10
Description: Giant rats are scavengers, but will attack to defend their nests and territories. A giant rat can grow to be up to four feet long and weigh over 50 pounds. A single giant rat will generally be shy but larger packs attack fearlessly, biting and chewing with their sharp incisors. Any rat bite has a 5% chance of causing a disease.
- Armor Class: 16
- Hit Dice: 5 + 3
- Attacks:
- Breath Weapon (Fire, 2HD)
- Bite (1d6)
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 9
- Experience Points: 550
Description: Hellhounds are canine creatures from the Realm of Nightmares that can breathe fire. A typical hellhound stands over four feet tall and weighs over 100 pounds, and can often surround itself in hellish fire to protect itself. In addition to its fiery breath weapon, hellhounds can rend flesh with its powerful bite.
- Armor Class: 15
- Hit Dice: 18
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Fear
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 11
- Experience Points: 4625
Description: While adult krakens are possibly the largest known creature in Sisalus, juvenile krakens aren't quite as massive, about 75 feet long with 10 barbed tentacles that can reach an additional 250 feet or so. Krakens strike their opponents with their tentacles, then grab and crush them within their huge jaws. Once an opponent is hit by a tentacle, the juvenile kraken does an automatic 3d6 points of damage each round.
- Armor Class: 16
- Hit Dice: 8
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Fear
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 11
- Experience Points: 462
Description: The individual tentacle of a juvenile kraken can reach nearly 250 feet and does 3d6 points of damage upon a successful hit during combat. Once an opponent is hit by a tentacle, the victim is grabbed and its movements greatly restricted; the victim then attacks at a -4 penalty and the kraken does an automatic 3d6 points of damage each round.
- Armor Class: 18
- Hit Dice: 6 + 1
- Attacks:
- Bite (2d4)
- Claws (1d4)
- Claws (1d4)
- Barbed Projectiles (3d6)
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 9
- Experience Points: 555
Description: Manticores appear as overgrown lions with thick leathery wings and a terrifying face. Their tail ends in an assortment of spikes that the beast fires as projectiles (typically three per round). Manticores are about ten feet long and weigh half a ton, and are vicious predators, having a preference for human flesh.
- Armor Class: 14
- Hit Dice: 3
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 7
- Experience Points: 75
Description: Normal ferrets (weasels) have long bodies, short legs and pointed, toothy snouts. They are cunning, crafty hunters that are surprisingly quick and agile in combat. When a ferret bites a living creature, it hangs on, rending with its teeth each round and causing automatic damage.
- Armor Class: 11
- Hit Dice: 0 + 1
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 5
- Experience Points: 3
Description: These omnivorous rodents thrive almost anywhere but are relatively easy to dispatch or drive away.
- Armor Class: 10
- Hit Dice: 0 + 1
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 12
- Experience Points: 25
Description: Rot grubs are one-inch long vermin found in carrion, dung and other such garbage and organic material. When a living creature contacts an area infested with rot grubs, they will attack and try to burrow into the victim's skin. If that occurs, the nasty creatures will then attempt to burrow themselves directly to the victim's heart, doing 2d6 damage each round they are not extracted and killed.
- Armor Class: 18
- Hit Dice: 5
- Attacks:
- Bite (1d6) + Rust Metal Possessions
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 7
- Experience Points: 405
Description: Measuring about five feet long and three feet high, a rust monster's touch can transform any metal object into rust. Hence, metallic shields, chain and plate armor, and all metal-based weapons (such as a sword) can be immediately reduced to a powdery rust upon a successful hit (striking the creature as well as defending against it). Hence, rust monsters are best kept at a distance!
- Armor Class: 13
- Hit Dice: 1
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 9
- Experience Points: 37
Description: Ranging from rust-red to reddish-brown in color with a dirty yellow underside, stirges are about one feet long and have a wingspan of about two feet. When a stirge attacks and successfully hits a creature, it attaches and automatically hits each round thereafter, draining blood equal to 1d4 damage.
- Armor Class: 18
- Hit Dice: 5
- Attacks:
- Breath Weapon (Acid, 5 HD)
- Claws (1d4)
- Claws (1d4)
- Bite (2d6)
- Special Defenses:
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 8
- Experience Points: 600
Description: Young black dragons prefer to ambush their targets using their surroundings as cover, often choosing to hide underwater. Black dragons are more cruel than white dragons but are still motivated mostly by the urge to live, breed and collect treasure. Unlike their more mature brethren, young black dragons cannot yet cast spells.
- Armor Class: 12
- Hit Dice: 0 + 2
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Resistance to Ammunition
- Slowness
- Half Damage vs. Blunt Weapons
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 12
- Experience Points: 5
Description: Like "normal" zombies, these undead chickens are slow but move silently, are rather strong and must be literally hacked to pieces to "kill" them. They take only half damage from blunt weapons and only a single point from arrows, bolts or sling stones (plus any magical bonus). Chicken zombies never have Initiative and always act last in any given round. Like all undead, they may be Turned by Clerics and are immune to sleep, charm and hold magic.
- Armor Class: 13
- Hit Dice: 3
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Resistance to Ammunition
- Slowness
- Half Damage vs. Blunt Weapons
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 12
- Experience Points: 100
Description: Like "normal" zombies, these undead cows are deathly slow but move silently, are very strong and must be literally hacked to pieces to "kill" them. They take only half damage from blunt weapons and only a single point from arrows, bolts or sling stones (plus any magical bonus). Cow zombies never have Initiative and always acts last in any given round. Like all undead, they may be Turned by Clerics and are immune to sleep, charm and hold magics.
- Armor Class: 13
- Hit Dice: 0 + 4
- Attacks:
- Special Defenses:
- Immune to Charm Person
- Immune to Hold Person
- Immune to Sleep
- Resistance to Ammunition
- Slowness
- Half Damage vs. Blunt Weapons
- Save As: Fighter
- Morale: 12
- Experience Points: 10
Description: Like "normal" zombies, undead giant rats are slow but move silently, are strong and must be literally hacked to pieces to "kill" them. They take only half damage from blunt weapons and only a single point from arrows, bolts or sling stones (plus any magical bonus). Giant rat zombies never have Initiative and always act last in any given round. Like all undead, they may be Turned by Clerics and are immune to sleep, charm and hold magic.