Freelance Traveller

Less Dangerous Game

It is often said that man - or, in this case, the sophont being - is the most dangerous game one can find oneself in a confrontation with.  This section, as its title implies, contains information on less dangerous game for the player-characters to confront.

• Bardicant (Benedikt Schwarz)
• Bezel-De (Bill Cameron) Kill it on sight - but will you see it in time?
• Bread Worms (Cian Witheren) Arthropods as sandwich wrappers
• Bughunter (Martin Carter) Less dangerous, more annoying
• Chupacabra (Tom Bladon) A predator with a long history of conspiracy theories
• Damnthing (Scott Diamond) An encounter with this fish had better not be a CASUAL encounter...
• Devil Squirrel (Scott Diamond) The mob is poisonous.
• Dombrowski's Lion (Scott Diamond) Seen or unseen, an undesirable encounter
• Echmerial and Incorial (Benedikt Schwarz) A riding animal and a pet, but closely related.
• Falgaatu and Falgaat Nahr (Benedikt Schwarz) A visual 'kissing cousin' to the manta ray
• Parasite: Mercurial Fluke (Tom Bladon) A parasite that can affect humans, though it targets certain wildlife
• Four From the Jungle (Timothy Collinson) Birds, bugs, and vegetation
• Garinars (Graham Bayley) A canny pack predator
• Grass Manta (Scott Diamond) An amphibious apex predator with the ability to fly.
• Harpooner (Scott Diamond) A predator less dangerous to humans than its prey
• Jump Remora (Timothy Collinson) Ships claim to encounter them in jump, but what are they?
• Kellika (Benedikt Schwarz) Not what is generally meant by 'invasion from Zho space'.
• Collinson's Kirpi (Timothy Collinson) An exotic variant of an uncommon pet
• Korvan Puma and Korvo Cat (Ken Pick) The Pet of Kings
• Leliax (Benedikt Schwarz) Visually attractive, but dangerous
• Marsh Animals (Scott Diamond) From the aggressive to the inoffensive
• Pikerines (David Bradshaw) Intelligent (but not sophonts) and aggressive birds
• Plain Mental (Timothy Collinson) Four animals from the plains - three of which have psionic ability
• Podge (Scott Diamond) Domesticated, a wonderful pet. Undomesticated, don't mess with them.
• Eightball Puppeteer (Scott Diamond) Luring its prey into its clutches in a most sophisticated way
• Red Spiny Runner (Sarah and Scott Diamond) Sought for both pets and painkillers
• Revvil (Benedikt Schwarz) Insectoids can be more than just slightly annoying...
• The Rhabdomane (Paul Drye) An invasive species that changes the environment to suit itself
• Rudur (Benedikt Schwarz) A calm and revered omnivore, or a carnivorous killer
• Saphirean Running Owl (Benedikt Schwarz) A popular pet, and a self-maintaining substitute for a densitometer...
• Sargmay (Benedikt Schwarz) An attractive not-a-bird.
• Shaduquaram (Benedikt Schwarz) A big lump, mostly harmless. Mostly.
• Three Shipborne Sightings of Animals (Timothy Collinson) Three common ship animals
• Skrafolg (Benedikt Schwarz) A scavenger whose external symbiote digests for it
• Spindizzy (Scott Diamond) Floating gasbags with a sting
• Squeedles (Jane Polwin, stats by Timothy Collinson) Good pet, good eating, or nuisance?
• The Swagfoxx: Fuzzy Nuisance of the Spaceways (Jeff Wheeler) A foxlike hexapod with jackdaw-like characteristics
• Ushamaagian Dryad (Benedikt Schwarz) Fungus-eating trees that like droyne
• Victoria Glider-Wolf (Scott and Sarah Diamond) If your prey flies, shouldn't you?
• Yenner (Benedikt Schwarz) Both a nuisance and a farmer