 November 2, 2007 - 11:13am | I thought I would post the stats of some of the creatures I've made up for my game. A little background for you. All these creatures hale from the planet Mahg Mar. Which in my campaign is a dry barren place. There is only one major settlement there. Mahg Mar city. The home of the university. The inner city is a refined nice city. Like you might find any where. But as you branch farther out. The old and more decayed it gets. Anyways the planet pretty much consists of three different terrain types. Sandy dune seas. Hard pack desert with scattered small bushes and clumps of grass. Then finally hilly ravines, and badlands leading to volcanicly active areas. These creatures are from the volcanic areas. Lava Bear Type: Medium Carnivores Number: 1-2 Move: Med. 50m IM/RS: +6/55 Stamina: 120 Attack: 55 Damage: 3D10 Special Attack: - Special Defense: Resistant/Immune to Heat Native World: Mahg Mar Description: These are fairly rare carnivores that live in the lava badlands. It primarily hunts Sulfur Fish and Heat Salamanders. They are large about the size and shape of a black bear. But instead of being covered with fur. It is covered with heavy scales. Scales of a dark red color. These scales seem to give the creature its heat resistance. A handy feature in the enviroment it lives in. As it has been seen clawing Sulfur fish out of the boiling streams they live in. The next unusual feature are there claws and teeth. They are formed of a natural iron alloy. They are extremely hard and durable. Lava bears are very aggressive in protecting its territory. Having no natural predators. It is almost fearless. Sulfur Fish Type: Small Herbivore Number: 1-20 Move: Fast 90m IM/RS: +7/65 Stamina: 10 Attack: 35 Damage: 1D5 Special Attack: - Special Defense: Resistant/Immune to Heat, Stinks like Sulfur. Native World: Mahg mar Description: Carp like fish bright orange. These fish live in the boiling streams of the Lava badlands of Mahg Mar. They are herbivores. Eating the red algae that grows in that regions super heated streams. Heat Salamander Type: Small Omnivore Number: 1-10 Move: Med 60m IM/RS: +6/60 Stamina: 20 Attack: 50 Damage: 1D10 Special Attack: Lock jaw, after a successful attack. The salamanders jaws lock remaining stuck on target doing 1D5 per round till killed or pryed off. Special Defense: - Native World: Mahg Mar Description: These are large reddish, brown lizard like salamanders. They live in the lava badlands of Mahg Mar. They subsist on any thing they can get. Be it algae blooms in the streams, carrion, or by hunting. They tend to hunt in packs. One by itself is not much of a threat. But a large group of them can be damgerous. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. |
 November 2, 2007 - 12:11pm | Feel free to start a project on it. Great work! A whole slew of creatures will be coming at you in next month's issue. They didn't make it into this month's issue becasue of all the artwork required. Lava creatures is a great theme! |
November 2, 2007 - 12:44pm | Feel free to start a project on it. Great work! A whole slew of creatures will be coming at you in next month's issue. They didn't make it into this month's issue becasue of all the artwork required. Lava creatures is a great theme! Maybe once I get enough stuff created I'll do that. Right now I'm just creating as needed for my game. Then again it would be a neat project. I'll have to think about it. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. |
 November 2, 2007 - 12:49pm | Hey Ronin - how about starting a project on a new Creatures of the Frontier book? You could do it by star system... or you could do it by environment or terrain types... or just one big alphabetized list - but it would be really cool especially if we could illustrate them! It would make a great PDF. Plus it's very old-school like a Monster Manual from the 80s :) 3. We wear sungoggles during the day. Not because the sun affects our
vision, but when you're cool like us the sun shines all the time. |
November 2, 2007 - 1:02pm | Isn't Mahg Mar tropical? This is how I envision it http://starfrontiers.us/node/1558 sweet creatures...oh and start a project  |
November 2, 2007 - 1:08pm | Feel free to start a project on it. Great work! A whole slew of creatures will be coming at you in next month's issue. They didn't make it into this month's issue becasue of all the artwork required. Lava creatures is a great theme! Maybe once I get enough stuff created I'll do that. Right now I'm just creating as needed for my game. Then again it would be a neat project. I'll have to think about it. |
November 2, 2007 - 2:03pm | Isn't Mahg Mar tropical? Not in my game baby!   It sounds like I may have to create a project of some sort. But it may be a little while as real life is becoming a vacuming sucker of time. Hope fully in the next couple weeks I'll get something going. You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug, especially when its waving a razor sharp hunting knife in your eye. |
 November 2, 2007 - 2:04pm | I have wanted to use the inferno setting for quite some time now. Keep it up. Getting a working, meaningful and realistic ecosystem is key. |
 November 3, 2007 - 10:29am | Get that project going as soon as you can, Ronin! Looking forward to joining and trying to add some critters myself... |
November 3, 2007 - 10:36am | I'm very interested in hearing more about Mahg Mar. You should do an article in the Star Frontiersman. I would love to see what you have fleshed out. Maybe even do a Mahg Mar campaign project if you have enough developed. I love the name, and with a focus on lava, it would be awesome. |
 November 8, 2007 - 3:03am | Isn't Mahg Mar tropical? This is how I envision it http://starfrontiers.us/node/1558 I get this message when I try to follow that link: "You are not authorized to access this page." |
November 8, 2007 - 7:22am | Isn't Mahg Mar tropical? This is how I envision it http://starfrontiers.us/node/1558 I get this message when I try to follow that link: "You are not authorized to access this page." The link is too Fistful of Credits. I set up the project for Members only (anyone can join) because it's a Star Frontiers module for GM's. If you were to see some of the content it would ruin the game if you decided to play it. Make sense? Here is the disclaimer on the front page. Here is a scan and html version of the module (It has not been remastered yet.) |
