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Sun Oct 07, 2012 4:41 pm Animal Lords

With the Cat Lord being well documented in the Gord books and various publications, I'm kind of curious about the other Animal Lords, their alignments and allegiances, how they manifest on Greyhawk, and if there is anything I might read over for ideas.

There used to be a couple of them detailed in the wiki and I'm unable to find any source material for an expansion of the various Animal Lords.

Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:24 pm

A few Animal lords were detailed in the Planescape monster compendiums (I think it was PSMC II). For some reason they made the Cat Lord female!
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Mon Oct 08, 2012 5:54 am

There was a generic animal lord template in the 2nd edition Outer Planes Appendix, Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix One (not two), and for 3.x in the Tome of Horrors and Pathfinder Bestiary 3.

By far the best treatment of these beings is in "Kings of the Wild" by Dave King, which you can view here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/109348650/Kings-of-the-Wild

The 2nd edition Cat Lord is female just because that's how Tony DiTerlizzi wanted to draw her. The in-game rationale is that the old male one died in the background to the adventure Something Wild. Ignore that, if you prefer the male one.

Sat Oct 13, 2012 7:23 pm

I'm sure I've seen an illustration of a male Cat Lord and a female Mouse Lord...was that 3E?

Sun Oct 14, 2012 3:36 am

The male Cat Lord reappeared in 3e's Epic Level Handbook. I have no idea where you saw the Mouse Lord.

Sun Oct 14, 2012 2:32 pm

Ah, I found it. The Tome of Horrors, by Necromancer Games (and reprinted for Pathfinder & Swords & Wizardry by Frog God Games).

Thu Oct 18, 2012 11:24 pm

Thank you, both! Wink