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Original Edition Authors: Clark Peterson and Bill Webb

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CREACURE C O L L E C T I O N R E V I S E D

Preface Abandoned Albadian Battle Dog Alley Reaper Amalthean Goat Angler Ooze Aquamis Asaatth Barrow Worm Bat Devil (Piterin) Belsamaug Berserker Wasp Blade Hood Blight 'Wolf Blood Mare Bone Lord Bottle- [mp Brewer Gnome Carnivid of Shadows, The Carnival King, Jack of Tears Carnivial Krewe, Alligator Warrior Carnival Krewe, Blood Kraken Carnivial Krewe, Necromantic Golem Cathedral Beetle Cave Moth Cave Shrike Celesti4an Cerulean Roc Charduin-slain Char fiend Child Trap Coal Goblin Cold Slime Coreanic Steed Crescent Elk Desert Falcon Dire Monitor Dragon, Mock Dragon., Tar Dragon, Wrack Dragon., Firewrack Dragon, Seawrack Dragon., Woodwrack Dread Raven Dream Snake Drowned Lady Dune Delver Dwarf Hound Dweller at the Crossroads

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Ebon Eel Emperor Stag Feral (Demon) Firedrake Fleshcrawler Forge Wight Frost Ape Garabund, the Obsidian Hound Giant, Steel Giant, Stick Goblin Bear Golem, Bone Golem, Copper Golem, Lead Golem, Mithril Golem, Silver Golem, Wood Gore Beetle Gorgon, High Gorgon, Low Great Swan, The Grippett Hamadryad Hanid

Harriet, Great Hill Howler Hollow Knight Hookwing Hornsaw Unicorn Huror Ice Basilisk Ice Ghoul Ice Haunt Ice Weasel Inn-wight Iron Tusker Keffiz Lotus Flowers Manster Manticora Marrow Knight Memory Eater Mere-lurker Mill Slug Miredweller Miser Jackal Mistwalker Moon Cat

Harpy

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TABLE O F CONTENTS

Murderspri te Muskhorn Narleth Night Singer Night Terror Night Tyrant Orafaun Paragon Crocodile Plaguecat Proud, The Pyre Ratman (Slitheren) Ratman, Brown Gorger Ratman, Diseased Ratman, Foamer Ratman, Red Witch Ratroo Reaver, The Red Colony River Nymph Rumbler Runnk Sage Camel Sand Burrower Sandmasker Savant Hydra Scythe Falcon Searing Wind Seaspark Sentry Crows Serpent Root Siren Vulture Skin Devil Skyquill Slarecian Slarecian Gargoyle Slarecian Ghoul Slarecian Language Virus Slarecian Muse Slarecian Shadowman Sleet Devil Solar Scarab Sour Grub Spider-Eye Goblin Spire Wyvern Spirit of the Plague Steel Beetle Storm Kin Strife Elemental Swamp Gobbler Tanil's Fox

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Thunder Orb Trogodon Troll, Steppe Ubantu Tribesman Undead Ooze Unholy Child Valraven Vengaurak Vrail Well Spirit Willow Tree Warrior Wolf Spider, Giant Woodshaunt Wyrmspawn

Appendjx One: Templates Butcher Spirit Carnival Krewe, Plague Wretch Fatling

Hag, Brine Hag, Cavern Hag, Ice Hag, Moon Hag, Storm Hag, Swamp Inquisitor Morgaunt Tokal-infested Unhallowed, The Unhallowed, Faithless Knight Unhallowed, False Lover Unhallowed, Forsaken Priest Unhallowed, Treacherous Thief

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AppendjxTwo: Character Races Dwarves Dwarves, Charduni Dwarves, Forsaken Dwarves, Mountain Elves Elves, Dark Elves Elves, Forsaken Elves Elves, Wood Elves Gnomes Gnolls Half-elves Half-orcs Halflings Humans Terali

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P RE F A C E

When Anthony Pryor and Joseph Carriker asked me tal write the preface to the revised version of the Creature Collection, I thought back to conversations I had a long time ago with Steve Wieck about the forma.tion of Sword and Sorcery Studios and to the early days of d20, when no one knew whether this grand experiment would succeed or fail. I recalled Steve and I wondering how the Creature Collection would shape D&D and the d20 license. And as I thought fondly about those heady days, I kept coming back it0 the same realization:

This was the book that started it all. For Scarred Lands fans, the Creature Collection

was tlne introduction to that wildly popular setting; with tantalizing references to an as-of-then undetailed world of gods and titans, and a host of new monstrous creatures and races. The book conjured images of a grim world of heroic fantasy with a touch of classical mythology that begged both to be explored by garners and expanded by writers.

I t was also the first major release under the d20 license. While there were other smaller products, the Creature Collection was a hardback book of monsters that beat the official Monster Manual to the shelves. And in doing so, it set the standard for d20 products from ithat time forward. What an accomplishment!

Today, the tantalizing clues in the original Crea- ture Collection have been realized in the many Sword & Sorcery Studios books expanding and detailing the Scarred Lands.

But still, the Creature Collection stands apart. In my mind, this is because, as mentioned in the preface to the original edition, at its heart the

Creature Collection is a book of monsters and beings that could find a home in any fantasy set- ting. Back when the original was being formulated, Steve Wieck and I joked that the Creature Collec- tion was the Fiend Folio of 3rd Edition D&D - it contained new and interesting monsters to surprise and challenge players. Time has proved that com- ment to be true. The quality and creativity of the Creature Collection monsters has survived count- less d20 products and are still as vibrant as ever. Moreso, in my opinion, than in any other book of monsters yet published.

So when it came time to consider a reprint - and with the announcement that D&D would be updated to a “3.5” edition - it was decided that rather than simply reprint the book we would bring to bear the experience we gained in over two years of creating d20 products. We used the opportunity to take a fresh look at old favorites. Anci we brought Scott Greene, the famous d20 monster guru, on board to give the original monsters his special touch.

So for those who are picking up the Creature Collection for the first time, you are getting all the creativity of the original Scarred Lands product coupled with our years of hard-earned experience. For those who are already fans of the Scarred Lands, consider this a revisiting of some old friends!

It was my great pleasure to produce the first Creature Collection, and it is now my similar plea- sure to introduce the revised version of a book that has already established itself as a classic.

I welcome you, friends old and new, to the Creature Collection!

Enjoy!

Clark Peterson

Necromancer GamedSword &Sorcery Studios

October, 2002

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CREATURE C O L L E C T I O N REVISED

Abandoned Large Humanoid (Abandoned) Hit Dice: 2d&4 (13 hp) Initiative: +O speed: 40 ft. Armor Class: Base AttacMGrapple: +1/+9 Attack:

Full Attack:

14 (-1 size, +5 natural)

Club +4 melee (ldb4) or slam +4 melee (ld6+4) Club +4 melee (ld6+4) and slam -1 melee (ld6+4)

Space/Reach: 10 ft./tO ft. Special Attacks: Musk Special Qualities: Track Saves: Abilities: Skills:

Feats Power Attadc Environment: Warmforest Organization:

Treasure: None Alignment:

Fort +5, Ref +0, Will +O Str 19, Dex 10, Con 15, lnt 6, WK 10, Cha 7 Climb +9, Hide +1/+5, Listen +1, Jump +9, Survival +1

Solitary, pair, family (2-4), or tribe (5-20) Challenge Rating: 1

They became known as the Abandoned by those few who remembered them at all.

Today, only a small tribe of viren still exists, deep in the tropical jungles of Termana, in parts of the Gamulganjus where other humanoid races cannot (or have yet to) intrude.

The Abandoned have only a crude intelligence, yet remain painfully self-aware. They speak their own language of grunts, clicks, and howls, and they know nothing of other races since they live in seclu- sion. Their first reaction to humanoid intrusion is generally to flee, but fear quickly turns to anger as the injury and insult of ages past comes to a boil. Knowl- edge of the titans’ overthrow might placate or even please the Viren, if it could be communicated some- how, but these wild people have little reason to believe that any gods or overlords would treat them any more fairly than they have been treated thus far. And yet, what secrets and wonders of the ancient world might these simple people take for granted?

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