FREQUENCY: Rare
NUMBER APPEARING: 30-300
ARMOR CLASS: 6 (7)
MOVE: 12”
HIT DICE:1-6 hit points
% IN LAIR: 80%
TREASURE TYPE:A, Q x 20, T in lair; M on individuals
NO. OF ATTACKS: 1
DAMAGE/ATTACK: By weapon type
SPECIAL ATTACKS: Leader types
SPECIAL DEFENSES: Leader types
MAGIC RESISTANCE: Standard
INTELLIGENCE: Average to very
ALIGNMENT: Neutral
SIZE: M
PSIONIC ABILITY: Leader types
Attack Defense Modes: Leader types
Amazons are women (and men) who are generally found in
tropical and subtropical regions;
they are not usually nomadic, and
live in small well-guarded towns and cities, often walled. Amazon
women perform all the functions that we would think of men as
performing (like fighting and hunting), while the men are generally
passive homebodies, and have a lower status than in most other
societies. Both sexes generally see their situation as being proper
and normal, and they will resist changes to the contrary. Male
adventurers may find themselves objects of curiosity and disbelief
(“Don’t you men know you could get lost or killed out in the
wilderness? That’s woman’s work!”); attempts to establish male
superiority will meet with derision, anger, and possible ostracism,
expulsion, or arrest. Amazon colonies tend to be geographically
isolated from the rest of the world, and have little external trade.
Higher-level Fighters, Magic-Users, and Clerics will be found (all
of them female) in the same levels and percentages as found using
the bandit tables; i.e., for every 20 amazons, there will be a 3rd-level
fighting woman, etc. The mounting, armor, and arms of an amazon
colony are as follows:
| Studded leather armor, long composite bow | 10% |
| Studded leather armor & shield, sword | 30% |
| Studded leather armor & shield, spear | 20% |
| Studded leather armor, 3 javelins | 10% |
| Light horse, leather armor & shield, spear or lance | 10% |
| Light horse, leather armor & shield, sword | 10% |
| Light horse, leather armor, short composite bow | 10% |
Cities and towns will have 1-4 ballistae and a 50% chance of 1-4
catapults placed on towers around the walls. Higher-level person-
ages have a 2% chance per level of having acquired a unicorn as a
mount, and will not be found wearing heavier armor than chainmail.
If magical armor is indicated for such a character, it will be of that
type.
Deities worshipped by amazon tribes are invariably female, and
representative of power or war.
Created by Roger E. Moore
| Dragon | - | Monssters | - | Dragon 43 |
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2 | Alea Thegal (amazon 6; 93.28)
1 | Agripina (amazon priestess 7; 92.81)
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