Bear

Beer
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Black Beer

Brown Beer

All of these ursoids are omnivorous, although the gigantic cave bear tends towards a diet of meat.

All have excellent hearing && smell but rather poor eyesight.
    <Scent: DSG, Odor Detection: basically, 70% chance to avoid surprise, before surprise is even rolled>
        <70% is the chance for a dog to do this -- adjust downward if a bear's sense of smell is not as keen -- though note that the sense of smell does vary among dog breeds>
        <Scent should be a defined ability. Protection vs. Surprise would be another way to put it.>
        <Scent should be in the SPECIAL DEFENSES field>
    <WSG, Vision && Visibility>
Size shown is average for the variety, and larger individuals will be correspondingly more powerful.
    <relate hp ranges to size, source: wiki>

Combat:
Hug: If a bear scores a paw hit with an 18 or better it also hugs for additional damage as indicated.

The bear is the sacred animal of Hachiman && Modi.

<Scent, Climb, Swim - w>
<Bears may be drunk in autumn - w>
<Bears do have Lairs, irl - w>
<Bears can moan (UA) - w>

Bear / Black
(Ursus americanus) (Ursus thibetanus)

FREQUENCY: Common

FREQUENCY: Common ([Cold Wilderness Hills], [Cold Wilderness Forest])
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Swamp])

FREQUENCY: Common ([Temperate Wilderness Hills], [Temperate Wilderness Forest])
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Swamp])
<note: black bears seem to enjoy civilized areas as well>

NO. APPEARING: 1-3
ARMOR CLASS: 7
MOVE: 12"
HIT DICE: 3+3
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 16
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-3/1-3/1-6
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hug (2-8)
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: M (6' + tall)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: III | 85 + 4
SAVES: 13.14.15.16.16
REDLIST: LC (Ursus americanus), VU (Ursus thibetanus)

Encounter: Black bears are usually not aggressive. <re-roll hostile encounter reaction, once?>

<image: see B3.13>

Bear/ Brown

European Brown Bear (Ursos Arctos Arctos)

FREQUENCY: Uncommon

FREQUENCY: Common ([Cold Wilderness Forest])
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills], [Cold Wilderness Swamp])

FREQUENCY: Common ([Temperate Wilderness Hills],[Temperate Wilderness Forest] )
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Swamp])

NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 6
MOVE: 12"
HIT DICE: 5+5
% IN LAIR: Nil (1 Bear: forest, TPL30:5th, REF3.37)
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 15
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-6/1-6/1-8
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hug (2-12)
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L (9'+ tall)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: V | 300 + 6

SAVES: 10.11.12.12.13

Encounter: Brown bears are aggressive. <re-roll friendly encounter reaction, once?>

Combat: The brown and cave bears will continue to fight for 1-4 melee rounds after reaching 0 to -8 HP.
At -9 or greater damage, they are killed immediately.

Bear, brown (WSG) : This animal cannot reliably be used to carry anyone
or anything unless it is magically befriended and trained. It is
possible to domesticate and train a bear by non-magical means,
but there is a 30% chance per month thereafter that the animal
will revert to its natural temperament and head back for the wild.
A bear used as a mount or a pack animal will traverse any kind
of terrain except for swamp and desert. Its nonretractable claws
make it sure-footed on most terrain, but prevent it from negotiating
smooth slopes that are severely or moderately inclined.
A bear is omnivorous; it can and will eat anything that a man
can eat. It needs eight times as much food and six times as much
water as a man does to maintain full strength.
NORMAL LOAD:
MAXIMUM LOAD:
NORMAL:
RUGGED:
VERY RUGGED:
FIRE: 4/8/10
WEATHER: 6/11/12
NOISE: 6/11/12
ODOR: 5/9/11
OTHER: 5/8/11

Bear/ Brown/Grizzly

The grizzly bear is a brown bear of very aggressive disposition. <re-roll friendly encounter reaction, twice?>

<kodiak:>
<<"Size range for females is from 225 kg (500 lbs) to 315 kg (700 lbs) and for males 360 kg (800 lbs) to 635 kg (1400 lbs).[6] Mature males average 480–533 kg (1,058–1,175 lb) over the course of the year,[7] and can weigh up to 680 kg (1500 lbs) at peak times.[2]", "An adult male Kodiak bear stands up to 1.5 m (5 ft) tall at the shoulder when it is standing on all four legs. When standing fully upright on its hind legs, a large male could reach a height of 3 m (10 ft)." - wiki>>

Bear / Cave

Ursus spelaeus

FREQUENCY: Uncommon

FREQUENCY: Common ([Dungeon Level V])

FREQUENCY: Uncommon ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Cold Wilderness Forest])

FREQUENCY: Uncommon ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Hills])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Temperate Wilderness Forest])

NO. APPEARING: 1-2
ARMOR CLASS: 6
MOVE: 12"
HIT DICE: 6+6
% IN LAIR: Nil (4 Cave Bears: hills, TPL24:4th, REF3.29)
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 13
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-8/1-8/1-12
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hug (2-16)
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L (12'+ tall)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: V | 475+8

SAVES: 10.11.12.12.13

Encounter: Cave bears are quite aggressive.
<re-roll friendly encounter reaction, once?>
<>(Aggresive & Semi-intelligent: they pursue fleeing characters 80% of the time.)<>

Combat: The brown and cave bears will continue to fight for 1-4 melee rounds after reaching 0 to -8 hit points.
At -9 or greater damage, they are killed immediately.

The cave bear is the sacred animal of Skoraeus Stonebones and Luthic.

geneweigel wrote:
Sorry, I thought this thread was for D&D questions. My mistake. I didn't see the heading was "Lejendary Things".

I just checked BEASTS OF LEJEND (I should have just went to that in the first place!), and you scaled the polar bear way down like it should be (below the browns) so I'll assume that "monster" was supposed to be a fantastic bear.

Hi Gene,

Sure, and my responses of late tend to reflect the fact that I am not feeling very well.

Although the polar bear is the largest of the ursines, it is not as robust as the brown speies--Kamchatkan, Kodiak, and even grizzley, so that is how I stated them out in the BoL book.

Regards,
Gary

geneweigel wrote:

No need to explain about that. Heres to your prompt recovery!

For your reference this is what I was referring to before:

Black Bear (HD: 3+3 Dmg: 1-3/1-3/1-6 Hugs 2-8 )
Brown Bear (HD: 5+5 Dmg: 1-6/1-6/1-8 Hugs: 2-12)
Cave Bear (HD: 6+6 Dmg: 1-8/1-8/1-12 Hugs: 2-16)
"Northern Bear (Polar Bear)" (HD: 8+8 Dmg: 1-10/1-10/2-12 Hugs: 3-18 )

The BEASTS OF LEJEND only has a smattering of the pleistocene with some proboscoids and humanoids. Did you have or plan on having a pleistocene ursoid in an expansion?

Okay Gene...and thanks!

I would exchange the stats for the bears listed as follows:

Brown for polar

Cave for brown

Polar for cave, making the short-faced bear the most dangerous...and likely the fastest in movement as well.

I do not plan to detail Pleistocene creatures for the LA game as these are not particularly desired by the game audience (even though it should be obvious that I am most fond of all extince life forms from the Age of Reptiles on up!0

Cheerio,
Gary