Bear, Northern (Polar Bear)

BEAR, NORTHERN (Polar Bear)

FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Wilderness Mountains], [Cold Wilderness Hills], [Cold Wilderness Forest], [Cold Wilderness Plains])
FREQUENCY: Rare ([Cold Freshwater Surface])

FREQUENCY: Rare ([Temperate Wilderness Mountains], [Temperate Wilderness Hills], [Temperate Wilderness Forest], [Temperate Wilderness Plains]) <rw=x?>

NO. APPEARING: 1-6
ARMOR CLASS: 6
MOVE: 12" // 9"
HIT DICE: 8+8
% IN LAIR: Nil
TREASURE TYPE: Nil
NO. OF ATTACKS: 3
DAMAGE/ATTACK: 1-10/1-10/2-12
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Hug 3-18
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Nil
INTELLIGENCE: Semi-
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: L (14' tall)
LEVEL/X.P. VALUE: VI | 900 + 12

As with all other types of bears,
these dwellers in subarctic && temperate regions are omnivorous. <what about arctic?>

A paw hit of 18 or better indicates a "hug," <punctuation>
inflicting 3-18 points of +additional+ damage.

These aggressive animals will FIGHT for 2-5 rounds after being brought to 0 to -12 HP,
but from greater damage they die instantly.

The polar bear is the sacred animal of Kos.

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