Some rough-and-ready and totally unofficial stats for the Leaping Bear, based on Sandy's assertion that this is a prehistoric bear-dog and the stats for that particular beastie in my own game system :
LEAPING BEAR
(*Amphicyon giganteus*)
STR 5d6+15 33-34 Move 6 CON 2d6+6 13 Hit Points 20 SIZ 4d6+12 26 Fatigue 47 INT 4 4 POW 3d6 10-11 Hit locations as a bear DEX 2d6+6 13 Bite 6 30+4 1d10+3d6 Skill bases as a bear, with modifers for stats Armour 4 points skin and fur
Well, I wouldn't want to meet that on a dark night! Apologies for any miscalculation in the attack bonus; it's been a long time since I played RQ and I couldn't remember how its worked out for animals (doesn't look the same as for humans judging from the RQ3 creatures book).
Physically, the animal looks much like a bear, except for the dog-like head and tail. It's about the size of a tiger, and is carnivorous. My book of mammalian paleontology carelessly omits to describe the colour (had they never been to Prax/Sartar??) but I'd guess it's brown or black.
Incidentally, there were many different sorts of bear-dog, most of them far smaller than the above animal. I'm betting on this one because most of the others look much more dog-like and would therefore be unlikely to be called 'bears' by Sartarites. OTOH, they would have been more agile and more likely to 'leap'.
All hail the Reaching Moon
Trotsky
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