Flightless bird just seems like a good baseline animal to have stat wise; like fast, unpredictable , has knife legs but potentially not as solid as a wolf or jaguar. also chimps are a lot stronger than your average monkey, like stronger than most people. Also did you ever read about that famous chimp that flipped out one day and ate a ladys face and the E.R staff were offered counselling because the injuries were so horrific?
I agree with scrap princess... Simians are a lot stronger than any monkey. Mandrill is the largest monkey and weight only 70 lbs yet chimps weight 110 lbs. In truth, all simians weight over 100 lbs.
We simians are giants in the animal world although we don't realize this sometimes.
I can't change your mind, but I'm confident that some movie/series/book will eventually show you that you're missing out on the horror potential of bovines
I looked that up after this post but they can't. There has been drownings though where a sawn has knocked someone out of boat and prevented them from getting to shore
I figured you'd say that about whales in general , but sperm whales look weird as shit to me so I said that type in particular. Consider as a baseline "super big underwater creature" then
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This is the list of horror-game-appropriate animals for Demon City. If you see anything missing, inconsistent, or that you think should be fleshed out more, let me know. No, I didn't include hippose, the most dangerous animal in Africa. Yes, what was on purpose.
Note that "Calm Check" is how much seeing the animal in the wild freaks people out.
And remember: in real life animals are our friends and we are far more dangerous to them than they are to us--except for ones from Australian who can fuck right off.
ANIMALS
Animals can become menacing in many ways—as familiars to witches (see pg XXX), as drone slaves (see pg XXX) to necromancers or demons (see pg xxx), as revenants (see pg xxx) come back from the dead—and its also possible that they could simply decide on their own they’ve had enough and begin to kill us all.
Statistics for some horror-friendly animals are listed here: All animals have Cash and Knowledge at 0—Appeal scores indicate how likely the average naive observer is to approach the animal. Insects, rats and other vermin attacking in groups together are covered under “Swarms” (see pg XXX). Supernaturally intelligent or controlled animals which are not normally dangerous like birds or housecats will generally attack a target’s eyes first.
Alligator/Crocodile
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 6
Perception: 2
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 4/5 if attacking
Notes: Amphibious, bite grapples & inflicts damage simultaneously, can’t open their mouths if held closed.
Bat
Calm: 1
Agility: 4
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 2/4 if attacking
Notes: Echolocation, Flying
Bear
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 8
Perception: 6
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 4/5 if attacking
Notes: Bite or “hug” inflicts damage and grapples simultaneously
Boar/Wild Pig
Calm: 2
Agility: 2
Toughness: 5
Perception: 4
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 1/4 if attacking
Bobcat/Lynx
Calm: 1
Agility: 5
Toughness: 2
Perception: 6
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 3 only if attacking
Cat
Calm: 1
Agility: 5
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 3
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Chameleon
Calm: 2
Agility: 5
Toughness: 0
Perception: 3
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 1 only if attacking
Notes: When hidden, requires a Perception Check against a 6 to find
Cheetah
Calm: 2
Agility: 6
Toughness: 4
Perception: 6
Appeal: 3
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Notes: Can run 40 mph over sprint distances
Coyote/Jackal
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 2
Perception: 6
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 1/3 if attacking
Crane
Calm: 3
Agility: 3
Toughness: 0
Perception: 2
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Notes: Flying
Crow/Raven/other small birds
Calm: 1
Agility: 7
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Notes: Flying
Dog
Calm: 3
Agility: 3
Toughness: 0-2
Perception: 6
Appeal: 3
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
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Eagle/Falcon/Hawk
Calm: 1
Agility: 7
Toughness: 1
Perception: 7
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Notes: Flying
Electric Eel
Calm: 2
Agility: 6
Toughness: 0
Perception: 3
Appeal: 3
Calm Check: 2/3 if attacking
Notes: Aquatic, tts only attack is a painful shock—failing a Toughness check vs a 0 causes damage as an ordinary attack.
Elephant
Calm: 3
Agility: 2
Toughness: 9
Perception: 4
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 0/5 only if attacking
Notes: Trample attack is made at Agility 1 but causes Massive Damage
Fox
Calm: 1
Agility: 5
Toughness: 1
Perception: 6
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Frog/Toad
Calm: 2
Agility: 5
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 1 only if attacking
Notes: Some are amphibious, the only ones that can effectively attack humans are poison arrow frogs, which range from mildly to immensely toxic (like the tiny Golden Poison Frog)—Intensity 1-10.
Goat
Calm: 3
Agility: 2
Toughness: 1
Perception: 3
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Gorilla
Calm: 2
Agility: 6
Toughness: 7
Perception: 5
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 0/4 only if attacking
Notes: Climbing, opposable thumb
Hare/Rabbit
Calm: 0
Agility: 3
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 1 only if attacking
Notes: Lagomorphs ordinarily have no effective attack against humans. Hares can run up to 30mph for short distances.
Horse
Calm: 1
Agility: 4
Toughness: 7
Perception: 5
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 4 only if attacking
Notes: Can run up to 25-30 mph
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Hyena
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 4
Perception: 6
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Insects/Spiders
Calm: 0
Agility: 1 (land) 7 (flying)
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 0-3
Calm Check: 0-1
Notes: Some amphibious or aquatic or amphibious, some fly. Most have no effective attack alone, except venomous ones (including bees, wasps, harvester ants, caterpillars and spiders) which can vary wildly, from Intensity 1-10. The most dangerous ones are spiders, including Brazilian Wandering Spiders and Australia’s Northern Funnel Web.
Jaguar/Leopard/Panther
Calm: 3
Agility: 5
Toughness: 6
Perception: 6
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 4/5 if attacking
Notes: Can climb trees
Jellyfish
Calm: 2
Agility: 1
Toughness: 0
Perception: 1
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 0/3 if attacking
Notes: Aquatic. Jellyfish stings range from harmless in some species to intensity 10 toxicity. They have no other effective attack alone. Australia’s Box Jellyfish is toxicity 10 as are tiny Irukandji Jellyfish—no bigger than a thumbnail. The massive (8 ft diameter) and eerie Lion’s Mane Jellyfish has an Intensity 1 toxin.
Komodo dragon
Calm: 2
Agility: 2
Toughness: 4
Perception: 1
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Notes: Komodo dragon’s mildly toxic bites cause the victim to make a Toughness check vs intensity 1 or lose a point of Toughness, however this toxin alone can never bring an adult below 0.
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Leech/Slug/Snail/Worm/Maggot
Calm: 5
Agility: 0
Toughness: 0
Perception: 1
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 0/3 if on the character
Notes: Some are amphibious, normally have no way of attacking humans, though leeches can spread infections.
Lemur
Calm: 1
Agility: 6
Toughness: 0
Perception: 6
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Notes: Climbing, semi-opposable thumb allows some ability to manipulate objects
Monkey/Chimp
Calm: 1
Agility: 7
Toughness: 1
Perception: 4
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 4 if attacking
Notes: Climbing, opposable thumb
Octopus/Squid
Calm: 4
Agility: 6
Toughness: 0-4
Perception: 3
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 3 for giant squid only, 4 if attacking
Notes: Aquatic, eject obscuring ink clouds (Perception vs 2 to find your way through), chameleonlike coloration (5 to find a hidden octopus), the only ones with an effective attack against humans are the blue ringed octopus (Poison intensity 7 or suffer total paralysis for 1-10 hours and die within 1-10 minutes if not given cpr) and, possibly, the giant squid.
Owl
Calm: 1
Agility: 7
Toughness: 1
Perception: 7
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 0, 2 if attacking
Notes: Flying, night vision
Peacock
Calm: 1
Agility: 1
Toughness: 0
Perception: 2
Appeal: 5
Calm Check: 0 only if attacking
Notes: No effective attack against humans unless their face is already very close to beak or claws
Piranha
Calm: 1
Agility: 4
Toughness: 0
Perception: 3
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 4 if recognized
Notes: Aquatic. Piranha are only dangerous in Swarms.
Snake—constrictor
Calm: 2
Agility: 6
Toughness: 1-3
Perception: 4
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Note: amphibious, the largest pythons are technically capable of killing an adult human but in practice it’s incredibly rare, in most cases the constrictor is frightening and perhaps an impediment but not a real danger.
Snake—venomous
Calm: 2
Agility: 6
Toughness: 0-1
Perception: 4
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Notes: Amphibious, snake venoms vary wildly in toxicity by species as well as amount of venom delivered per bite—Intensity 1-10. Intensity 10 snakes mostly come from Australia including the Inland Taipan, the Dubois Sea Snake (widely distributed there and in Southeast Asia), and the excitingly-named Eastern Brown Snake.
Stingray
Calm: 3
Agility: 3
Toughness: 1
Perception: 3
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 0/3 if attacked
Notes: Aquatic. Most stings are merely painful, but if the victim fails a Toughness check vs 0, the embedded spine can cause a standard damage.
Swan
Calm: 2
Agility: 2
Toughness: 0
Perception: 2
Appeal: 4
Calm Check: 1 only if attacked
Notes: Flying, floating, swans usually have no way of hurt adult humans.
Tiger
Calm: 2
Agility: 5
Toughness: 7
Perception: 6
Appeal: 2
Calm Check: 4/5 if attacking
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Tortoise/Turtle
Calm: 4
Agility: 0
Toughness: 1
Perception: 1
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 2 only if attacking
Notes: Amphibious, shell can provides protection equal to Toughness 1-4 against incidental damage, they’re normally harmless, other than snapping turtles, which can bite off a finger—treat as an Agility 3 standard attack that’s never fatal.
Vulture
Calm: 2
Agility: 2
Toughness: 1
Perception: 4
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 3 only if attacking
Notes: Flying, harmless normally
Wolf
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 4
Perception: 6
Appeal: 1
Calm Check: 3/4 if attacking
Wolverine
Calm: 2
Agility: 4
Toughness: 3
Perception: 6
Appeal: 0
Calm Check: 2/4 if attacking
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"All Disturbing Animals"
24 Comments -
Maybe you missed crustaceans like crabs, lobsters and shrimps?
May 27, 2017 at 2:06 PM
nah i left them out because they're not scary
May 27, 2017 at 2:25 PM
Flightless birds like rhea, cassowary or ostrich.
Baboons/mandrills (though chimp is close enough)
May 27, 2017 at 3:39 PM
Flightless birds are, like hippos, rl scary but not movie scary. At least so far.
Baboons and Mandrils probably need their own stats between chimp and gorilla...
May 27, 2017 at 3:42 PM
Even the shoe horse crab?
May 27, 2017 at 3:50 PM
Also... Under insects you put spiders, beetles, centipedes and the like?
May 27, 2017 at 3:53 PM
horse shoe crabs are gross, but not...sinister?
idk. I'm having a hard time picturing it.
Insects include all that stuff bc they have the same stats.
May 27, 2017 at 3:56 PM
Ok. I think the list is complete than... Just one more question.
Abyssal fishies can go under shark?
May 27, 2017 at 4:03 PM
which are you thinking of? the ones i can think of aren't shark-level dangerous, just ugly
May 27, 2017 at 4:05 PM
though i did add some poisonous fish and scorpions
May 27, 2017 at 4:21 PM
I thought viperfish and anglerfish... Now I remembered piranha too.
May 27, 2017 at 5:01 PM
Japanese Spider Crab?
May 27, 2017 at 5:41 PM
Flightless bird just seems like a good baseline animal to have stat wise; like fast, unpredictable , has knife legs but potentially not as solid as a wolf or jaguar.
also chimps are a lot stronger than your average monkey, like stronger than most people.
Also did you ever read about that famous chimp that flipped out one day and ate a ladys face and the E.R staff were offered counselling because the injuries were so horrific?
May 28, 2017 at 2:03 AM
Bulls can inspire unnerving imagery, and Bisons are supposedly horror beasts in eastern european folklore.
May 28, 2017 at 4:37 AM
I agree with scrap princess... Simians are a lot stronger than any monkey. Mandrill is the largest monkey and weight only 70 lbs yet chimps weight 110 lbs. In truth, all simians weight over 100 lbs.
We simians are giants in the animal world although we don't realize this sometimes.
May 28, 2017 at 6:32 AM
I read somewhere that a male swan can really hurt you, breaking bones even by hitting with their wings...
May 28, 2017 at 9:18 AM
I read somewhere that a male swan can really hurt you, breaking bones even by hitting with their wings...
May 28, 2017 at 9:18 AM
Yeah I should make chimps stronger.
I'm going with 2 Toughness though (human strength). They're stronger by body weight, but weigh less
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/05/24/the_cbo_says_23_million_fewer_americans_will_have_insurance_under_the_ahca.html
May 28, 2017 at 9:40 AM
Not scary
May 28, 2017 at 9:40 AM
Not scary
May 28, 2017 at 9:40 AM
I can't change your mind, but I'm confident that some movie/series/book will eventually show you that you're missing out on the horror potential of bovines
May 28, 2017 at 11:13 AM
I looked that up after this post but they can't. There has been drownings though where a sawn has knocked someone out of boat and prevented them from getting to shore
May 28, 2017 at 11:44 AM
I figured you'd say that about whales in general , but sperm whales look weird as shit to me so I said that type in particular. Consider as a baseline "super big underwater creature" then
May 28, 2017 at 11:47 AM
"There is no cow level."
May 28, 2017 at 1:11 PM