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Ideas for Animal Encounters?

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Anyone out there got some good ideas for some animal encounters/adventures?

Also are there any materials or resources that go into more depth on animals than books 0-3 do?

Some background:

I just got back into playing Traveller a few weeks ago. I use to play as a teen in the mid and late 80s. I found all my old beat-up LBBs at my parents house and have started playing with my daughter. This is her first experience with a RPG and she really likes how the game develops as a story. She loves animals. I currently have her hunting down a Jabberwock -SP? on Kasaan in the Vega Sector for a zoo on Terra. She should be compleating it soon. So, I'm looking for some fresh ideas. Thanks!

-David
 
Anyone out there got some good ideas for some animal encounters/adventures?

Also are there any materials or resources that go into more depth on animals than books 0-3 do?

Some background:

I just got back into playing Traveller a few weeks ago. I use to play as a teen in the mid and late 80s. I found all my old beat-up LBBs at my parents house and have started playing with my daughter. This is her first experience with a RPG and she really likes how the game develops as a story. She loves animals. I currently have her hunting down a Jabberwock -SP? on Kasaan in the Vega Sector for a zoo on Terra. She should be compleating it soon. So, I'm looking for some fresh ideas. Thanks!

-David
 
dence wrote:

"Anyone out there got some good ideas for some animal encounters/adventures?"


Sir,

Check out the TML Archives here at TravellerRPG. You'll find them at the Mailing Lists link and you needn't join the TML to read the archives.

(Tooting my own horn now) This May, I posted a writeup about a nasty little creature called "Bezel De". Just go to May in the Archives, search by author, and look for post by 'Whipsnade'. If you follow the thread, you'll find other animals posted too.

Just checked and - oops - I had the wrong month! Check out June 0f 2003 and the thread 'Favourite Animals'.


Sincerely,
Larsen
 
dence wrote:

"Anyone out there got some good ideas for some animal encounters/adventures?"


Sir,

Check out the TML Archives here at TravellerRPG. You'll find them at the Mailing Lists link and you needn't join the TML to read the archives.

(Tooting my own horn now) This May, I posted a writeup about a nasty little creature called "Bezel De". Just go to May in the Archives, search by author, and look for post by 'Whipsnade'. If you follow the thread, you'll find other animals posted too.

Just checked and - oops - I had the wrong month! Check out June 0f 2003 and the thread 'Favourite Animals'.


Sincerely,
Larsen
 
I'm due to finish TA?:Animal Encounters in the next month or so ... that will have 70-80 animal encounters in it.
 
I'm due to finish TA?:Animal Encounters in the next month or so ... that will have 70-80 animal encounters in it.
 
Originally posted by Tanuki:
Check out this post on the Mantis Shrimp: http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=44;t=000030;p=1#000006

Nasty little (and not so little -- they get as big as your arm) creature from our own Terra that can kick serious butt.
Click to expand...
I brought one of these little stinkers home once by accident when I purchased a bit of "live lava rock." We saw it the first night and thought "What a score! A freebe!"

Then my fish started to disapper and my starfish were loosing their legs! The darn thing ate about $120.00(US) of my fish then had babies! It was only about 2 inches long. (Thankfully, it died soon afer and My lionfish made short work of the devils offspring.

They don't call them "Death Shrimp" for nothing. They are real mean little guys. I have read about them breaking the glass of tanks with their powerful mandibles. I read about a guy who picked one up in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef and it mangled his hand so bad it had to be amputated.

Sorry to get off subject, but it is kind of funny that one doesn't really have to go very far to move from SciFi to reality.

Thanks for everyones input so far! I've got some good ideas that should keep my daugher busy for a while.

-David
 
Originally posted by Tanuki:
Check out this post on the Mantis Shrimp: http://www.travellerrpg.com/cgi-bin/Trav/CotI/Discuss/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=44;t=000030;p=1#000006

Nasty little (and not so little -- they get as big as your arm) creature from our own Terra that can kick serious butt.
Click to expand...
I brought one of these little stinkers home once by accident when I purchased a bit of "live lava rock." We saw it the first night and thought "What a score! A freebe!"

Then my fish started to disapper and my starfish were loosing their legs! The darn thing ate about $120.00(US) of my fish then had babies! It was only about 2 inches long. (Thankfully, it died soon afer and My lionfish made short work of the devils offspring.

They don't call them "Death Shrimp" for nothing. They are real mean little guys. I have read about them breaking the glass of tanks with their powerful mandibles. I read about a guy who picked one up in the waters of the Great Barrier Reef and it mangled his hand so bad it had to be amputated.

Sorry to get off subject, but it is kind of funny that one doesn't really have to go very far to move from SciFi to reality.

Thanks for everyones input so far! I've got some good ideas that should keep my daugher busy for a while.

-David
 
It's always a good idea to look at lesser known invertebrates for ideas of nasty, weird or just plain strange creatures and their lifestyles and habits. Metamorphisum (sp), survival strategies, sexual differences (male and female mosquitos--plant juice drinkers until the female needs to grow eggs), fungi that mutate from harmless to deadly depending on food availability.

Just read a bit and put the characturistics into something furry or feathered instead of chitin covered or shelled.

Another idea is something I do to make alien animals. I combine two names from an invertebrate and a vertebrate: Crab-Monkey, Buffalo-Beetle, Centipede-Pterodactyl; or from two widely seperated vertebrates: Pirahana-Dog, Lamprey-Eagle. It's a simple exersize and I've used it numerous times to describe the animals encountered by players.

Other sources may include the Discovery Channel's: "The Future is Wild." Dougal Dixon's: "After Man" and "The New Dinosaurs" may prove to be of inspiration for some new beasties.

Have fun with it. I've found a good place to start is the library and go to the children's section on animals. They have very easily absorbed books (Amazing Tree Crickets or something like it) that can provide a good starting point.

Lord Iron Wolf

The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" is from 12-14 years old.
 
It's always a good idea to look at lesser known invertebrates for ideas of nasty, weird or just plain strange creatures and their lifestyles and habits. Metamorphisum (sp), survival strategies, sexual differences (male and female mosquitos--plant juice drinkers until the female needs to grow eggs), fungi that mutate from harmless to deadly depending on food availability.

Just read a bit and put the characturistics into something furry or feathered instead of chitin covered or shelled.

Another idea is something I do to make alien animals. I combine two names from an invertebrate and a vertebrate: Crab-Monkey, Buffalo-Beetle, Centipede-Pterodactyl; or from two widely seperated vertebrates: Pirahana-Dog, Lamprey-Eagle. It's a simple exersize and I've used it numerous times to describe the animals encountered by players.

Other sources may include the Discovery Channel's: "The Future is Wild." Dougal Dixon's: "After Man" and "The New Dinosaurs" may prove to be of inspiration for some new beasties.

Have fun with it. I've found a good place to start is the library and go to the children's section on animals. They have very easily absorbed books (Amazing Tree Crickets or something like it) that can provide a good starting point.

Lord Iron Wolf

The "Golden Age of Science Fiction" is from 12-14 years old.
 
Imagine, there they where, a group of PC's (and one NPC) jump into a remote system...they discover the ONLY source of water is a planet listed as 90% hydro but dicover it has no free standing bodies..it's a literal mudball, oh well.

inbound, the ship (a venerable old scout) takes an internal hit from a planetary weapon (two intersecting particles, one psositive, one negative that react violently when they intersect..sound familiar?)...now they have to land, one more hit and their doomed !!! (ship is forced down out in the middle-of-nowhere)on approach they scan...the beam(s) came from two sites...

one site is in the northern hemisphere, the other in the southern and they have to go to one and shut it down before they leave...the engineer stays behind to do repairs, they others take the ATV (wheeled, no grav ) and off they lumber threw the muck...kilometer after stinking, slimey, gooey kilometer they wallow...(little knowing the base is a moiving platform that slides around the planet with it's counterpart in the south like a mud-submarine, sufacing to fire, and compleatly AUTOMATED !!!)...

Then IT hits them, the biggest, greyhound bus sized nastiest combination nightcrawler/leech/tick/thingy I could design for this pit...and its thinks the shiny, moving, 1/4 its size ATV looks damn yummy....

...conclusion on encounter, big nasty teeth CAN do wonders, even on 'protected' vehicles...

P.S.
we never had the chance to finish this adventure, maybe i'll break it out and try it on a new bunch of vict--<uhm>----travellers

 
Imagine, there they where, a group of PC's (and one NPC) jump into a remote system...they discover the ONLY source of water is a planet listed as 90% hydro but dicover it has no free standing bodies..it's a literal mudball, oh well.

inbound, the ship (a venerable old scout) takes an internal hit from a planetary weapon (two intersecting particles, one psositive, one negative that react violently when they intersect..sound familiar?)...now they have to land, one more hit and their doomed !!! (ship is forced down out in the middle-of-nowhere)on approach they scan...the beam(s) came from two sites...

one site is in the northern hemisphere, the other in the southern and they have to go to one and shut it down before they leave...the engineer stays behind to do repairs, they others take the ATV (wheeled, no grav ) and off they lumber threw the muck...kilometer after stinking, slimey, gooey kilometer they wallow...(little knowing the base is a moiving platform that slides around the planet with it's counterpart in the south like a mud-submarine, sufacing to fire, and compleatly AUTOMATED !!!)...

Then IT hits them, the biggest, greyhound bus sized nastiest combination nightcrawler/leech/tick/thingy I could design for this pit...and its thinks the shiny, moving, 1/4 its size ATV looks damn yummy....

...conclusion on encounter, big nasty teeth CAN do wonders, even on 'protected' vehicles...

P.S.
we never had the chance to finish this adventure, maybe i'll break it out and try it on a new bunch of vict--<uhm>----travellers

 
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