Mazaron's Castle: Bestiary

Enter the Bestiary if you dare!

This section of the castle (sorry about the smell) has dozens of new monsters to populate your campaign world and throw at your hapless PCs. My Bestiary has everything you need, from new dragons and drakes to prehistoric creatures to monsters from the far future to beasts from a strange land called Australia. I have something for everyone here. I am especially pleased with the new monsters you fill find from the new worlds of Thagril and Dalvashia,two settings ripe with potential and sure to see more development in time. I apologize for any incovencience, but the monsters in the Bestiary are still in 2nd format. The Castle is slowly going about the process of coverting them to 3E, though will always keep 2E versions posted as well. My next project, along with several friends I have met, will be a netbook of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures in 3E stats, which should appear here hopefully in the next month or two.

	Australian Monsters - To supplement any campaign adventure in Australia, I present the AD&D stats for a number of wild animals from the land Down Under, ranging from prehistoric creatures such as the marsupial lion and the diprotodon, to modern day wildlife such as the kangaroo, Tasmanian Devil, and the emu. (Framed)
	Australian Monsters 2 - New article, contains three new Australian fantasy monsters, one based on real life (the giant blue-ringed octopus), one on history (the spectral explorer), and one on legend (the yowie).
	Fantasy Birds of the Realm - This file contains four new avian creatures, suitable for any AD&D campaign.
	Buata - A short file, contains stats for the buata, the Polynesian version of the orc, well suited for a South Pacific campaign setting or any campaign adventure in a tropical island setting.
	A Dalvashian Bestiary - as well as revised standard ones - from a campaign world of my group's, known as Dalvashia. Come see what monsters are like on a world where amphibians, insects, and crustaceans are at the top of the food chain. Game statistics on such unusual creatures as oilcrabs, tree growlers, and corkbugs.
	Dougal Dixon's After Man - A Zoology of the Future is a work of speculative zoology that explores the Earth 50 million years into the future, one in which man and his descendents have utterly vanished. Instead, those creatures that were able to survive the reign of man spread and flourished, creating entire new species. Bats became large land predators, rats became carnivorous, and other strange life forms developed. Here, I offer what I hope are playable AD&D versions of the various creatures he described. (Framed)
	Monsters Galore - Eight new monsters of a variety of types, including three new drakes, the death head crab, and living weather.
	New Monsters - Here are three new creatures, the exotic Anauroch Sand Fox, an intelligent avian race known as the Bitternai, and the unwelcome pest known as the Dark Starling.
	Pooh - On the rec.games.frp.dnd newsgroup last year, I posted what I hoped were humorous stats for various inhabitants of 100 Aker Wood, notably Pooh, Tigger, Pigglet, Eeyore, and Rabbit. Some thought them hilarious, others hated them. Just something light hearted. Decide for yourself!
	The Real Eaters of the Dead - Monster Manual II introduced the vulchling, a race of bird-like creatures having the appearance of vultures, with some vaguely human features. Inspired by recent reports of California Condors and their return to the wild (and their subsequent behavior), I present here a revised vulchling, along with three other types of sentient vulture or condor-like monsters.
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	A Thagril Bestiary - Five new monsters from a newsgroup discusson on Thagril, a world that was once covered in a titatnic world ocean but that has now receded to former levels. Many monsters adapted to life in the areas of now vanished seas, and I present them here for your use.

Enter the Bestiary if you dare!

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