===== CREATING ANIMALS =====

Often overlooked, animals provide great depth to a setting as well as out-of-ordinary puzzles or obstacles to Adventurers.

Guides need the following minimum information (or "stat block") for animals assisting or opposing the Adventurers.

===== Core Animal Design =====

☐ **ANIMAL NAMES** \\
  * What names do people call this animal?

☐ **ANIMAL APPEARANCE** \\
  * What does the animal look like? Shape? Covering? Markings? Colors? Features?
  * Movable appendages? 
  * What does the animal sound like?
  * How large is the animal?
  * Entire animal is mobile?
  * Hovers or flies?
  * Makes noise when approached or touched?

☐ **ANIMAL USES** \\
How can or do people use this animal?
  * Staple food?
  * Medicinal?
  * Narcotic?
  * Poison?
  * Cloth?
  * Ritual?

===== Additional (Optional) Animal Design =====

☐ **ANIMAL ENVIRONMENTS OR LOCATIONS** \\
Where can you find this animal?
  * Salt water?
  * Fresh water?
  * Coastline?
  * Mountains?
  * Underground?
  * Swamp?
  * Cold?
  * Living on another creature?

☐ **ANIMAL SEASONS** \\
When is this animal most readily found?
  * Rarely?
  * Seasonally?
  * Annually?
  * Year round?
  * Daytime only?
  * Nocturnal?

☐ **ANIMAL REQUIREMENTS OR DIET** \\
What does the animal require to thrive?
  * Salt or fresh water?
  * Blood?
  * Herbivore?
  * Omnivore?
  * Carnivore?
  * Animal flesh?
  * Insects?
  * Decaying/decayed plants?
  * Decaying/decayed animals?

☐ **ANIMAL GROUPS** \\
What groups or social structures can this animal form?
  * Herds
  * Packs
  * Hierarchies
  * Pairs
  * Solitary

☐ **ANIMAL TERRITORY** \\
What territory does the animal claim?

☐ **ANIMAL MATING OR REPRODUCTION** \\
What reproductive strategies will this animal follow?
  * Courtship Rituals?
  * Procreation?
  * Gestation?

☐ **ANIMAL YOUNG** \\
What kind of care does the animal provide for its young?

☐ **ANIMAL LAIRS OR NESTS** \\
What kind of lair or nest does this animal prefer?

☐ **ANIMAL INTELLIGENCE** \\
How smart is this animal?
  * Instinctive?
  * Trainable?
  * Complex problem solving or tool use?

☐ **ANIMAL COMMUNICATION** \\
How does this animal communicate?
  * Noises?
  * Pheromones?
  * Posture or Body Language?

☐ **ANIMAL RESPONSES** \\
What customs, superstitions, phobias, or laws are triggered by this animal?

☐ **ANIMAL MOVEMENT** \\
How fast does the animal move, especially in combat?
  * Crawling?
  * Running?
  * Burrowing?
  * Swimming?
  * Flying?
  * Climbing?

☐ **ANIMAL ARMOR OR DEFENSES** \\
How tough are the animal defenses or hide, especially in combat?
  * Weaknesses?

☐ **ANIMAL ATTACK METHODS** \\
How does the animal attack?
  * Strengths?

☐ **ANIMAL ATTACK FORCE** \\
How deadly are the animal attacks?

☐ **ANIMAL SPECIAL EFFECTS** \\
Does this animal possess any Special Effect (SFX) abilities such as magic use, mutant powers, or psionics?
  * Stores energy?
  * Stores water?
  * Resists heat, cold, fire, etc?
  * Fast growing or reproducing?

☐ **ANIMAL EFFECTS** \\
What effects can use or exposure to this animal cause?
  * Spines?
  * Generates electrical shock?
  * Poisonous?

Animals may enhance or impair one or more of the Adventurer Attribute Score or Attributes Reserves.

^ Physical   ^ ^ Physical Reserves  ^ ^ Mental       ^ ^ Mental Reserves      ^ ^
| Strength   | | Strength Reserves   | | Intelligence | | Intelligence Reserves | |
| Endurance  | | Endurance Reserves  | | Will         | | Will Reserves         | |
| Agility    | | Agility Reserves    | | Awareness    | | Awareness Reserves    | |
| Dexterity  | | Dexterity Reserves  | | Ingenuity    | | Ingenuity Reserves    | |
| Appearance | | Appearance Reserves | | Charisma     | | Charisma Reserves     | |
| Speed      | | Speed Reserves      | | Reflexes     | | Reflex Reserves       | |

====== Animal Worksheet ======

^   ^ CORE ANIMAL DESIGN ^ ^
| ☐ | Animal Names       | |
| ☐ | Animal Appearance    | |
| ☐ | Animal Uses  | |
^   ^ OPTIONAL DESIGN ^ ^
| ☐ | Animal Environment | |
| ☐ | Animal Seasons     | |
| ☐ | Animal Requirements | |
| ☐ | Animal Groups | |
| ☐ | Animal Territory | |
| ☐ | Animal Mating or Reproduction | |
| ☐ | Animal Young | |
| ☐ | Animal Lairs or Nests | |
| ☐ | Animal Intelligence | |
| ☐ | Animal Communication | |
| ☐ | Animal Responses   | |
| ☐ | Animal Movement | |
| ☐ | Animal Armor or Defenses | |
| ☐ | Animal Attack Methods | |
| ☐ | Animal Attack Force | |
| ☐ | Animal SFX Abilities | |
| ☐ | Animal Effects | |

===== Salvage Space: Animals =====

◢ [[:salvage_space:animals|Salvage Space: Animals]]

▲ [[:Chronology:]] :: ◢ [[:Chronology:references#creatures_03.o|References: Creatures]]

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