Plants and Animals for Sci-Fi or Post-Apocalyptic Settings
Special Abilities: As humans spread out into the galaxy they • Bite: Str encountered, or created, more things that might • Bash: Str + d6; The Bash Lizard must run at want to eat them. Here are a few of them… least 2”. If the attack produces at least a shaken result and the target is smaller than size 3, the attack is also treated as a Push. BASH LIZARD • Armor +2: Thick Skin • Near Sighted: The Bash Lizard cannot attempt This bad-tempered, carnivorous beast looks like cross to bash any target farther away than 5” if the between a T-Rex and a Ram, with lots of sharp teeth, target is not moving and has not moved since short upper arms, and large curled horns on its head the Bash Lizards last turn. (males and females). They travel in family groups of one male, 1d3 females, and 1d3 young. The adult Young Bash Lizard male can grow up to 4 and a half feet tall while the Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d4(A), Spirit d6, females average about 4 feet. The young do not have Strength d8, Vigor d8 horns but can bite just like the adults. Skills: Athletics d6, Fighting d6, Notice d6 Pace: 8; Parry: 5; Toughness: 4 Bash Lizards will charge and attack anything up to Special Abilities: size 3 and have been known to turn over and/or • Bite: Str damage ground vehicles. • Size -1
Male Bash Lizard
Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6(A), Spirit d8, BLUE RAY Strength d12, Vigor d12 Skills: Athletics d8, Fighting d10, Notice d6 Blue Rays are much larger and smarter than their Pace: 8; Parry: 7; Toughness: 11(2) terrestrial cousins, up to 8 feet across. They have 6 Special Abilities: short legs with pincers evenly spaced along their • Bite: Str underside. These pincers are not used for combat • Bash: Str + d6; The Bash Lizard must run at but are capable of manipulating nets and holding least 2”. If the attack produces at least a spears. They are known for cultivating fish and shaken result and the target is smaller than various forms of sea weed. size 3, the attack is also treated as a Push. Given their farming activities and advanced level of • Armor +2: Thick Skin tool use, some scientists have speculated that the • Size 1: The Male Bash Lizard has a high mass. Blue Rays may come close to human level • Near Sighted: The Bash Lizard cannot attempt intelligence. No one has been able to communicate to Bash any target farther away than 5” if the with them to find out though. These beings are very target is not moving and has not moved since dangerous to any creature that threatens them in the Bash Lizards last turn. the water. Female Bash Lizard Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6(?), Spirit d6, Attributes: Agility d6, Smarts d6(A), Spirit d8, Strength d8, Vigor d6 Strength d10, Vigor d10 Skills: Athletics d8, Fighting d8, Notice d6, Stealth d6 Skills: Athletics d8, Fighting d8, Notice d6 Pace: -; Parry: 6; Toughness: 6 Pace: 8; Parry: 6; Toughness: 9(2) Equipment: Spear, Net Special Abilities: • Size 1 Eye Pod waits for small creatures (or large insects) to • Aquatic: Pace 12 drink from its central hole and then springs the two • Resilient: Blue Rays can take 1 Wound before leaves shut, trapping the target. being Incapacitated. If a larger creature gets too close to the Eye Pod, it CHAMELEON SNAKE can emit a shrill, painful sound by pumping air from an internal bladder through small vents in its base. The Chameleon Snake is non-poisonous but is usually This causes all creatures within 5” to make a Fear between 9 and 12 feet long. These strong check using the Terror rules. The sound can be heard constrictors are almost impossible to spot before for up to a mile away. they attack from a concealed position on the ground The Eye Pod leaves have a Hardness of 4. It takes one or from overhead locations such as trees and rocks. day to refill its air bladder after it is used. They can move very quickly through trees by brachiating (Flipping end-over-end between Disturbing and Eye Pod or two while trying to branches like a monkey swinging by its arms). sneak up on someone could be disastrous! Chameleon Snakes attack by wrapping around the target. A Chameleon Snake has enough dexterity and strength to bind up to two adjacent human sized KUDZU2 targets. Ignoring the lessons of history, someone decided An unlucky target could even be captured and that the plant called Kudzu would be great for lifted into the air by one of these monsters terraforming large open areas on sub-optimal hanging down from a tree, making it very difficult planets. Kudzu2 is a mutated form of this strong, fast for anyone to assist them. growing, flowering vine. It is edible but very bland and unappealing.
Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4(A), Spirit d6, Kudzu2 vines have a Hardness of 8. An attack that Strength d10, Vigor d10 exceeds that amount of damage will clear a path Skills: Athletics d8, Fighting d8, Notice d6, Stealth through it approximately 1” high, 1” wide, and 1” d12 long. The Kudzu2 will grow enough to cover such a Pace: 6; Parry: 6; Toughness: 7 path in just 4 hours. Special Abilities: • Arboreal: Pace 8, In dense trees Kudzu2 does not attack in any conventional way but • Constrict: +2 to Athletics and Strength rolls it seems to be attracted (like some insects) to the made to grapple. gases created when creatures exhale. If a still, • Crusher: +2 to damage when using the sleeping, or disabled creature is within 2” of a Kudzu2 “Crush” option on an Entangled or Bound foe. mass the vines will use a combination of movement • Additional Action: A Chameleon Snake may and growth to envelop the creature. After one hour grapple up to 2 adjacent targets of Size 0 or the target is Entangled; after two hours they are less may ignore 2 points of Multi-Action Bound. Escape actions are made at -2. penalties each turn. The vines do no additional damage to trapped EYE POD victims, they just hold them until thirst or hunger takes its toll and then gather nutrients from the This annoying plant can be found growing in dense decomposing mass. Not a pretty way to go. woods and underbrush. They get their name from a distinctive center hole flanked by two large blue leaves that usually lay out flat in an oval pattern. The KUDZU KLOWN SHOCK MONKEY
These small scavengers look almost feline. They get These small, fuzzy tree dwelling creatures don’t their name from their odd orange with white striped normally “attack” anyone. Instead they do damage coloring, combined with the fact that they live safely accidentally by just touching creatures and objects. inside Kudzu2 patches somewhat like a clown fish Something in their makeup causes them to absorb lives inside anemones on Earth. Any creature and discharge electrical energy through leathery traveling near or through a Kudzu2 patch is patches on their hands. vulnerable to attack by these pests. Shock Monkeys are very curious and love to examine Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4(A), Spirit d6, creatures and objects. If a one of them touches an Strength d4, Vigor d6 object with a battery (like scientific field equipment Skills: Athletics d8, Fighting d6, Notice d6, Stealth d8 or any energy weapon) it drains all power from the Pace: 6; Parry: 5; Toughness: 2 object. Special Abilities: • Claw: Str With a simple medical procedure (a successful • Size -3 Healing or Science check) the energy pads can be • Environmental Resistance: Kudzu2 does not disabled. Once this is done, a Shock Monkey can be react to, or attack, Kudzu Klowns. domesticated very easily and kept as a pet. Some • Leaper: The Kudzu Klown can jump twice as spacers consider it bad luck to sell the little creatures far as normal. In addition, it adds +4 to but pet stores will pay $50 each for them. damage when leaping as part of a Wild Attack instead of the usual +2. Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d4(A), Spirit d6, Strength d4, Vigor d6 SAWBILL Skills: Athletics d6, Notice d6 Pace: 5; Parry: 2; Toughness: 2 Sawbills are bad tempered, predatory birds with Special Abilities: large, serrated beaks. The largest specimens found • Drain: A Shock Monkey drains the energy have a wing span of about three feet. They prefer to from any battery powered item smaller than operate as scavengers but will attack to defend their a basic car that it touches. By doing this, it nesting area. They tend to live high up on cliff walls becomes Charged. in extended family groups of 30 to 40 members. • Charged: The next 3 creatures or items that the Shock Monkey touches are shocked. (For Attributes: Agility d8, Smarts d6(A), Spirit d6, creatures, See Electricity under Hazards). Strength d6, Vigor d8 Items with electrical circuits take 2d6 Skills: Athletics d10, Fighting d6, Notice d6 electrical damage. Pace: 4; Parry: 5; Toughness: 5 • Size -3 Special Abilities: • Bite: Str+d4 • Buffet: A Sawbill can make an Athletics Test Written By: Mitch A. Williams against a target’s Agility to make the target Distracted. Savage Worlds License Agreement • Size -1 This game references the Savage Worlds game system, available • Flight: Pace 12 from Pinnacle Entertainment Group at www.peginc.com. Savage Worlds and all associated logos and trademarks are copyrights of Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Used with permission. Pinnacle makes no representation or warranty as to the quality, viability, or suitability for purpose of this product.
