FREQUENCY: Uncommon ([Cold
Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills], [Cold Wilderness Forest],
[Cold Wilderness Plains])
FREQUENCY:
Rare ([Dungeon Level III])
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 5
MOVE: 12"
HIT DICE: 3
% IN LAIR: 15%
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 16 <(+4
to hit)> <(would THACO 12 be the same?)>
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-4/1-4/2-5
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Musk, exceptional
intelligence in combat
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral (evil)
SIZE: S
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: III |
125 + 3
Wolverines inhabit only colder
regions (which is fortunate for mankind, for
these animals are horrible).
They are vicious, hateful, destructive
carnivores who kill for
the sheer love of ending another creature's life.
Bears
&& wolves respect these creatures'
ferocity. Their SPEED is partially
responsible for their high
armor class, and their ferocity in combat makes
their attacks have a +4
on "to hit" dice rolls: A wolverine can squirt its
disgusting musk at any opponent
at its rear. The musk is equivalent to that
of a skunk
(q.v.). A wolverine will purposefully destroy food or human
goods of any sort by spraying
musk upon the unwanted items. Although
only semi-intelligent in
most things, in hunting and combat the creature is
exceptionally intelligent.
Giant Wolverine
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Wilderness
Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills], [Cold Wilderness Forest], [Cold Wilderness
Plains])
FREQUENCY: Very rare ([Dungeon Level IV])
NO. APPEARING: 1
ARMOR CLASS: 4
MOVE: 15"
HIT DICE: 4+4
% IN LAIR: 15%
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3 ~ 15
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 2-5/2-5/2-8
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Musk, exceptional
intelligence in combat
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi
ALIGNMENT: Neutral (evil)
SIZE: M
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: IV | 205
+ 5
<use the image from the Complete Druid's Handbook>
The drow are purely malign
by temperment, as hateful as wolverines, as opportunistic as hyneas.
- Gary Gygax
Setting aside the debate
of nature versus nurture, there are always abberations, and with intelligent
creatures change is possible. Consider how many monks and priests were
martyred in the conversion of the Friesains to Christianity, but eventually
they prevailed. Contrast that with non-intelligent species, a wolverine
for example. The likelihood of one not being an aggressive hunter-killer
is infinitismal.
"Outsiders" is not a term
that properly connotes non-human origination. It implies that the world
is the inner, central place.
Demons
and devils are creatures of pure evil, just as there those of pure good.
Neither sort of entity can
ever be anything else in my view.
It is akin to the wolverine
example given above.
"Minorities" aren't that
in their own country, and RPGs, D&D in particular, are played in thre
majority of nations of the world. It is social-economic class that is the
determanant, not ethnicity. Most gamers are highly literate and of the
middle class. About a quarter of them are connected to information technology.
In all, males outnumber females by about 9 to 1--so there's the minority
that publishers would most like to attract to RPGs 
Cheers,
Gary