Coming soon from the public domain for your game: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods for Dungeon World.

Coming soon from the public domain for your game: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods for Dungeon World.

Coming soon from the public domain for your game: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods for Dungeon World.

10 thoughts on “Coming soon from the public domain for your game: Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods for Dungeon World.”

  1. Tony Ferron:

    The gumberoo (Megalogaster repercussus) lives in foggy regions, especially near wooded ocean coasts in northern climes. Fortunately, gumberoos seem to be rare, but this might be because this beast prefers “to remain in hiding most of the time in the base of enormous, burned-out cedar trees, from where it sallies forth occasionally on frightful marauding expeditions.” A gumberoo is always hungry and attempts to devour anything that appears to be food. “A whole horse may be eaten at one sitting, distending the gumberoo out of all proportions, but failing to appease its hunger or cause it the slightest discomfort.” A gumberoo resembles a coal-black, almost hairless bear. Its skin is “smooth, tough, and shiny and bears not even a wrinkle.” In fact, a gumberoo’s hide has amazing elastic properties. “Its elastic hide hurls back with equal ease the charging elk and the wrathy hornet.” Fire, however, proves to be a particularly effective weapon against a gumberoo, but care must be taken, for these beasts tend to explode when burned.

    Magical, Solitary

    Claws and Fangs (1d10 damage); 12 HP; 4 Armor

    Close, Messy

    Special Qualities: Elastic hide

    Instinct: To devour

    Moves

    ● Explode if set on fire

    ● Hurl back an attack

  2. There’s one for all of the creatures. The public domain text I glommed these from was written in part by an early 20th-century dendrologist, who provided Latin names for the creatures.

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