DINO QUESt!

a game of dinosaurs and journeys

Dino Quest! RPG is a roleplaying game about
prehistoric animals on a journey, fighting against
hazards, wildlife, and other dangers along the way.
To play, you need: 2 to 6 people (including the Dino
Master or DM), 2 six-sided dice, character sheets,
something to write with, themed snacks, and eggs.
ROLLING
When you attempt something risky, roll 2d6 and add
the appropriate attribute bonus.
- A total of 6 or less is a miss; things don’t go
well and the attempt turns out badly. Increase
panic by 1.
- A total of 7-9 is a partial success; you do it,
but there’s some cost, compromise, retribution,
etc.
- A total of 10 or more is a full success; you do
it without complication.
- A total of 12 or more is a critical success; you
gain some extra benefit or advantage.
Optionally, snake eyes is a critical failure; things go
catastrophically wrong and increase panic by 1.
ADVANTAGE & DISADVANTAGE
Advantage reflects positive circumstances which
help a roll. Disadvantage reflects circumstances that
hinder a roll. Advantage and disadvantage come
from special abilities or when the DM says. (For
example, the DM may tell you to roll with advantage
when hiding in dense foliage the same color as your
feathers, or roll with disadvantage when escaping
through freezing-cold river rapids.)
- When you roll with advantage, roll 2d6 and
reroll the lower die (and add the appropriate
attribute bonus).
- When you roll with disadvantage, roll 2d6
and reroll the higher die (and add the
appropriate attribute bonus).
You always just reroll once. If you have both
advantage and disadvantage on a roll, they cancel
each other out.
ATTRIBUTES
- Strong—aggressive, powerful, forthright,
charging in.
- Steady—level-headed, enduring, experienced,
standing tall.
- Swift—evasive, quick, fast-thinking, alert.
- Shrewd—clever, perceptive, canny, insightful.
Allocate +2, +1, 0, -1.
SPECIES
Choose a species which comes with a special ability.
A species also has a native habitat, a specific diet,
and a place for a nickname. This nickname is how
they refer to themselves or what others call them.
(Ex. ‘Clubtail’ for ANKYLOSAURUS.)
If more than one player wants to play the same
species, either come to a consensus or go outside
and play a game of egg toss.
The rules of egg toss:
- Stand an equal distance apart. If two people
want to play the same species, stand directly
across from one another. If three people, form
a triangle. If four or more, leave and make
new friends.
- Toss the egg.
- They catch it, then they toss it.
- When the egg returns to the original tosser,
everyone takes a step back.
- Repeat.
- Anyone who breaks the egg is eliminated.
Whoever remains may play the coveted
species.
After choosing your species, roll+nothing to
determine your attack power, which is how
much panic you inflict on a successful attack.
On a 10+, it’s 3. On a 7-9, it’s 2. On a miss, it’s 1.
 PANIC
Panic is a measure of your control over your wild
animal impulses.
- When you fail a roll, increase your panic by 1.
- When harm befalls you, increase your panic
accordingly (+1 to +3 depending on severity).
When your panic meter is full, you lose control.
Describe how you lash out, flee, imperil yourself
or others, or make things worse. Each character
present must roll to protect themselves or get you
under control—they can’t do both at the same time.
If someone succeeds at getting you under control,
decrease your panic by 1 and return to your senses.
If no one succeeds in getting you under control,
describe what happens (blind rampage, death,
flight, etc.) and create a new character to play.
CONDITIONS
A condition is an infirmity or negative effect which
decreases an attribute by 1. The DM says when you
mark a condition. Conditions are caused by the
environment (Cold, -1 Swift), bad choices (Hunger, -1
Strong), or harm (Bleeding, -1 Steady).
Increase panic by 1 when you are stricken with a
condition while you have a pre-existing one.
BONDS
Bonds are a measure of your relationships with other
characters. The more boxes you have marked with
another character, the better you know them.
At character creation, say who knows your character
best and explain why. They start with 3 bond with
you. Then say who knows your character least. They
start with 0 bond with you. Everyone else starts with
1 bond with you.
Spend 1 bond to: 22: If I see something out of place then I must
- Roll with advantage when helping or hindering investigate
them 23: Always offer help
- Inflict +1 or -1 panic when you hurt them 24: Always trust strangers
- Offer them 1 experience to do what you want 25: Never go back, only forward
26: Always hide at the first sign of danger
At the end of the session, say which character has 31: Always have tooth & claw ready at the first
learned the most about you or how you behave. sign of danger
They mark +1 bond with you. 32: Never look a carnivore in the eyes
33: Always be in the back
Mark 1 experience for each full bond (all 6 boxes 34: Never cross water
marked) you have with someone else at the end of 35: Always shriek when surprised
a session. 36: Always be the last to fall asleep and the first
to rise
INSTINCTS 41: If I see someone else fleeing, then I stampede
with them
Your instinct is your biggest gut reaction. It is an 42: Always chase darting little things
impulse that drives you towards specific behavior. 43: Always assume the worst
You are, after all, a wild animal. 44: Always avoid heights
45: Never kill
46: Never cross open country
You can heed your instinct or not, it’s your choice.
51: Never run from a fight
If you do what your instinct says, you gain a benefit
(and likely complicate the fiction). If you act against 52: Never leave anyone behind
53: Always try to impress the opposite sex
your instinct, you suffer for it.
54: Never go head-on; always from the side
55: If I see an egg, then it’s now my egg
Your instinct is challenged by the DM when they
think it pertains to the scene. 56:
61:
- When your instinct is challenged and you do 62:
63:
what your instinct demands, make your next
roll with advantage. 64:
- When your instinct is challenged and you 65:
ignore your instinct, make your next roll with 66:
disadvantage.
ADVANCEMENT
Roll for a random instinct or, with consensus,
everyone hand-picks their own: At the end of a session, each player asks themselves
11: Always stick close to the one you trust most questions and marks 1 experience for each ‘yes’
12: If I see food then I eat it answer.
13: Never trust strangers
14: Always hide my true intentions If your species is carnivorous:
15: Always make my intentions clear and truthful - Did I protect someone else from harm?
16: Always seek revenge - Did I meet danger head-on?
21: Never sit still - Did I indulge my appetites enthusiastically?
If your species is herbivorous:
- Did I keep someone else from doing something
unwise?
- Did I stand tall against danger?
- Did I witness death?
If your species is omnivorous:
- Did I make sacrifices to help someone else?
- Did I see something new and notable?
- Did I lure, trap, trick, or misdirect?
When all 6 experience boxes are filled, clear them
and increase your level by 1.
When you level up:
- Decrease your panic by 1.
- At odd levels (3, 5, etc.), gain an additional
special ability OR choose to increase your attack
power by 1 (to a maximum of 4).
THE EGG
Along with dice, you should have brought an egg to
the game table. Any sort of egg will do. Roll to see
who gets the egg first. Whoever is holding the egg
leads the way for that journey.
When the destination is reached or goal achieved
that completes the journey, you’ve accomplished
your task. Pass the egg. You can’t get the egg back
until everyone else has held the egg and led the way.
When you lead the way, you choose who:
- Forages for food and water. They
roll+Shrewd.
- Looks out for hazards and trouble. They
roll+Swift.
- Surveys for a safe resting place. They
roll+Steady.
- Protects the others. They roll+Strong.
You can assign multiple roles to the same character.
You can also come up with your own roles or assign
none at all. Get ready for trouble if the group isn’t
acting cautiously or is lacking food and water,
however.
Meanwhile you:
- Roll+Strong if you’re leading the way with
might and fortitude, charging ahead yourself or
keeping strict discipline.
- Roll+Steady if you’re leading the way
pragmatically, wisely, with the benefit of
experience, or playing peacemaker and role
model to those you lead.
- Roll+Swift if you’re leading the way with haste,
wanting to make good time at speed.
- Roll+Shrewd if you’re leading the way cleverly,
using shortcuts or stratagems to make the
journey easier.
- Assign yourself a role instead.
For as long as you lead the way, you make decisions
as the leader of the group. The other characters
don’t have to listen to you, but they should. Let your
leadership style come from your character details.
Anyone who breaks the egg brings misfortune on
the group. You are encouraged to draw and write on
the egg.
THE JOURNEY
The journey is the grand arc of the story. Many
stories happen along the way, but ultimately the
march towards the final destination is what binds
everything together.
Roll for why you’re journeying together (see
SCENARIOS) or come up with something
collaboratively.
The final destination may change over the course of
a journey. Events may transpire that thwart a journey
entirely. If that’s the case, stop and conceive of a new
final destination or a whole new journey.
It should always be the case that you’re on a journey.
If a journey ends one way or another, another
journey begins right away. If you aren’t on a journey,
you are simply an aimless wild animal.
A journey has a track with boxes which are filled in
as you near your goal. If the journey is short, simple,
or not very daunting, 3 boxes. If it is long or arduous,
6 boxes. The DM decides how many. Each box
represents an individual leg of the journey.
A leg of a journey is variable. It can be traversing a
swamp, traveling across a great mountain range,
crossing hundreds of miles of plains, or just getting
out of a hole. (It can also be backtracking, staying
put, accomplishing a task, or meandering randomly.)
It can take hours, days, weeks, or even more
depending on the situation. The main thing is that
there’s a single main goal to accomplish.
Everyone who works towards the forward progress
of a journey rolls to complete the current leg, with
roles assigned by whoever is leading the way. If a
complication arises (on a 7-9 or a miss), a problem
is introduced which must be dealt with to progress.
The manner of the problem depends on which
roll had complications. (If the lookout rolled and
missed, a rockslide! If the forager rolled a partial
success, there’s a scarcity of a specific kind of food.)
Multiple complications can be blended into a single
large problem. (The rockslide buried the only edible
plants in the area.)
When all problems that arose from complications
are dealt with, mark the box and complete that leg
of the journey.
When all boxes in a track are filled, you complete the
journey:
- Level up! Clear any marked experience boxes
and increase your level by 1.
- You can disappear into the wilderness. Create a
new character to play.
- Make preparations for a new journey.
 THE MAP
At character creation, everyone makes a map
together, which is filled out as play progresses.
When the journey is first laid out, the final destination
should be clear—place it on the map. Each person
then says what they’ve heard about the territory
between here and there—they place a point of
interest imprecisely on the map. After that’s done,
each person says where they’re from and places
their home territory on the map.
Leave plenty of blank space to explore.
QUESTIONS
The first session is about collaborating to create
characters, the premise, and the world. To facilitate
this, ask questions and act on the answers.
Specifically ask:
- When does this take place? Mesozoic, near
future, etc. Also where?
- What is the level of naturalism? Establish how
anthropomorphic you want the characters to
be, how scientifically accurate, gritty survival or
high adventure survival, etc.
- What brings you together? There’s a special
reason that brings together carnivores,
herbivores, and omnivores of different species.
- What journey are you all on and why? Decide
what the arc of the story will be and what you
are moving towards.
- What things would you like to see? Specific
cool prehistoric animals, plot points, weird
esoteric mysteries like pyramids in the
Mesozoic, etc.
- What should we avoid? Excessive descriptions
of violence, horror, etc.
- What do you do? Establish the first scene and
ask this, then keep asking it.
THE DINO MASTER
Your agenda as the DM:
- Make the natural world vibrant, dangerous,
and teeming
Fill the scenes with cycads, whispering ferns,
buzzing insects, hooting dinosaurs. Pump up the
saturation. Every inch along the journey should
be packed with friends, enemies, dangers, and
complications—as dense as the most teeming
metropolis.
- Fill their lives with dangers, complications,
and hardship
Journeys are high adventures. Do everything
you can to prompt daring action scenes, high-
stakes decisions, and moral speeches. Tie them
up in the lives of others. Make their surroundings
alternately hostile, beautiful, strange, and
inviting. Always: be their biggest fan.
- Play to find out
Prepare as little as possible. Never conceive a
plotline. Have interesting situations in mind and
incorporate them, with changes, as play evolves.
Leave room to be surprised yourself.
When someone rolls and misses, when the players
are waiting around for something to happen, and
when the fiction demands it, you make your move.
Do the following (and only the following):
- Hint at unseen/future peril
e.g. A mournful wail in the night, fresh tracks,
freak weather on the horizon, rumors among
the herds.
- Entangle & disorient
e.g. Separate them, throw them in the middle
of a stampede, involve them in an inter-herd
dispute, cast blame for a kill on someone wholly
unexpected.
- Change their surroundings
e.g. The weather suddenly changes, the
landscape transitions from one biome to
another, a cliff blocks their way, an earthquake
shifts the terrain
- Hurt them
e.g. A fearsome predator erupts from the
brush and attacks, their hunger pangs inflict
a condition, enemies steal a beloved friend, a
beloved friend turns on them.
- Present a tough choice
e.g. Take the cliff path or pass through
Graveyard Valley, Iguanadon mothers need
more food than is available for everyone, leave
the injured one behind or stay and face the
pursuers, take the hit or dodge and expose a
friend to the follow-up.
- Move time forward
e.g. Skip past the desert crossing to the
confrontation at the end, let them pass the night
by, flashforward to when the wildfire is upon
them, skip to the end of a conversation.
- Progress a threat
e.g. The pursuer closes in, the disease spreads,
the storm worsens, more volcanoes erupt.
- Ask questions and build on the answers
e.g. How do you know this? What kind of
dinosaurs live here? Have you ever met this kind
before? And after everything: What do you do?
THREATS
A threat is a danger to the players controlled by the
DM. It can be an environmental hazard (tar pits), a
group of animals (tyrannosaur tribe), an individual
(Scar the one-eyed vengeful utahraptor), and
anything else—disease, weather, infighting, etc.
A threat has a name, a want, and a list of things it
will do if it gets its way. Threats progress (get worse)
when players fail risky rolls, make glaring missteps,
or are waiting passively for their surroundings to act.
When a threat progresses, mark off something on its
list of consequences and that comes to pass.
To make a threat:
- Give the threat a name.
- Give the threat a want. This is what it wants to
do or will do if things get worse.
- Create a list of things which will happen as the
threat progresses. The further down the list, the
direr the consequences should be. Come up
 with 3-6 things.
Threats can be rolled back by proactive action
from the players (unmark one of the things on the
list). Threats can also affect other threats. When a
particularly dire consequence is marked on one
threat, it may automatically cause one to be marked
on another. Lastly, threats are not static. As they
react and progress, things may change: rewrite its
want, change or reorder the list of bad things, even
give it a new name if its very nature is now different.
The players should be able to see any threats their
characters are aware of. You can hide the particulars
of that threat’s list, but do show them how long the
list is and how many have been marked off so far.
The Great Screaming, an eternally marching
stormfront beyond proportion
Want: to destroy everything in its path and reforge the
landscape into something unrecognizable
1: The horizon darkens: a gray wall looms,
stormclouds of destruction.
2: The storm closes the distance across the sky,
its fringe causing ceaseless rain
3: The sources of the rivers feeding this land are
deep within the storm: a torrential flash flood
erupts from every rivermouth, carrying tons of
denuded trees, boulders, and drowned bodies.
4: Tens of thousands of animals have packed into
the bottleneck canyon that leads to safety.
5: The storm has come: galeforce winds, flying
debris, floods, lightning, torrential downpours,
mudslides, certain death.
Infighting among the Edmontosaurus herd
Want: to break apart the herd so they can be more
easily picked off by the Tyrannosaurs
1: Twenty-Eyes, the herd leader, disappears
into the night and there are many aspiring
successors.
2: Blame is cast on the players for Twenty-Eyes’
death.
3: Intraspecific fighting erupts among the
boisterous males.
4: Even the females join in on the dueling,
leaving no one to browse for food, care
for young, or keep watch against roving
Tyrannosaurs.
5: Many have been injured in the fighting and
the herd breaks up along family lines.
Redback, the horrible skinless Gorgosaurus
Want: to hunt down those who pushed him into the
boiling geyser
1: Redback has caught the scent; his hoarse roar
can be heard in the distance at night.
2: Rumors come from a displaced
Compsognathus gang that friend of the players
has been killed by a horrible formless monster.
3: The players fall into Redback’s trap.
SCENARIOS
THE K-T EXODUS!
(A Land Before Time, Disney’s Dinosaur)
Example: Asteroids, volcanoes, earthquakes, and
tsunamis have ravaged your homelands. There is a
fabled distant valley where you and your kind may
find shelter, but it is a long way from here, across
hostile terrain. Your goal: to find the fabled valley
and there survive extinction.
Your goal:
1: To reach a fabled valley of plenty where all
species can live together in harmony.
2: To deliver a mysterious egg to a distant place
where others of its species are said to live.
3: To find the hidden entrance to a great
underground cave system which will shelter
you from intensifying meteor showers.
4: To escape from the greatest storm imaginable,
a vast horizon-spanning weather system
enveloping all before it.
5: To outrun a spreading plague and plant blight,
seeking refuge in a land untouched by decay
across the limitless desert.
6: To find your juvenile offspring, who you think
may have wandered far downriver to the
coastal clifflands.
CAVEMEN & DINOSAURS!
(One Million Years B.C., Tor)
Example: Your world is a psychedelic mish-mash
of geologic eras: tyrannosaur versus smilodon
versus primitive human. Your greatest enemies are
humans, who have mastery of fire and tools. As the
cavedwelling humans prepare for the Great Hunt,
you and other dinosaurs must migrate away from
the killing fields lest the mammals finally reign
supreme. Your goal: to migrate to the lava lands
where reptiles, not mammals, may rule.
Your goal:
1: To drive out all the humans from your lands.
2: To find the lava lands, a place without
mammals where dinosaurs may flourish.
3: To flee before the Great Hunt of the humans.
4: To seek out the Great Gathering of humans
and strike a renewed fear of dinosaurs in their
hearts.
5: To journey to the great mountaintop-dwelling
Shaman of Shamans, through whom you may
broker a peace with the mammals.
6: To find and eat the special plants that
grow on the far side of the glacier, activating
your consciousness and revealing the secret
knowledge of fire, tools, and other human arts.
RAMPAGE BY GASLIGHT!
(King Kong, Adele and the Beast)
Example: You have been taken from your home—a
long-forgotten and distant place—into the bustling
chaos of a human city, say Paris, London, or New
York. It is the late 1800s or early 1900s. You and your
fellow antediluvian beasts constitute the greatest
scientific discovery of the time—and a great money-
making scheme besides. You are put on display in
a zoo, theatre, or circus from which you make your
escape into the city. Your goal: to make it safely out
of the mazelike metropolis to the countryside.
Your goal: CHRONODINOSAURUS! Special ability: NATURAL
1: To take revenge on the showman who was (Groom of the Tyrannosaur Queen, Primeval) DEFENSES
cruel to you. Nickname: _______________
2: To find an entrance to the sewers or Example: You are a native of the Mesozoic. There
catacombs where you can disappear and are interlopers: time-traveling humans have come ANKYLOSAURUS A squat
survive on refuse. to stay or kidnap you and bring you into the future. grazer with an armored body
3: To flee to the countryside farm of a Their technologies are unfathomable to you, but and swinging club tail.
sympathetic human. you must devise a way to drive them out from where Eats: Plants Habitat: Coastal
4: To rescue your relatives still caged and they don’t belong. Your goal: to somehow find the woodlands
chained elsewhere. thing that allows humans to time travel and destroy Special ability: DEFENDER
5: To chase down and stop others from your it. Nickname: _______________
home who have captured a helpless, innocent
human. Your goal: APATOSAURUS A whip-tailed
6: To find a way back home. 1: To destroy the human camp/settlement. sauropod which browsed at all
2: To find the thing that allows humans to time heights, from ground level to
ESCAPE FROM DINO PARK! travel and destroy it. the highest treetops by rearing
(Jurassic Park, Trespasser) 3: To escape to the future in order to avoid the back on two legs.
looming extinction event in the past. Eats: Plants Habitat:
Example: You have been revivified by science—your 4: To release the enslaved dinosaur lackeys of the Semiarid prairies with riverine
DNA, your vital essence, or your mummified remains humans. forests
reconstituted into life once more. The state-of-the- 5: To rescue your captured relatives in the future Special ability: COZY FRIEND
art amusement park dedicated to showcase you and bring them home. Nickname: _______________
and others like you has almost impervious security 6: To time travel to another prehistoric time
measures… but when they somehow fail, you seize period and there reign supreme. ARCHAEOPTERYX A small,
the opportunity and escape. The park staff will do feathered critter which scurried
anything to ensure that you’re taken alive or killed DINOSAURS up trees and glided or flapped
before you escape into the greater ecosystem. Your down to snatch miniscule prey.
goal: to decimate the park staff and claim the park ALLOSAURUS A long-tailed Eats: Meat, Insects Habitat:
grounds or disappear somewhere they can’t reach. theropod with eye crests, which Mangrove lagoons
ambushed and ran down prey, Special ability: EYESNATCHER
Your goal: dispatching its quarry with Nickname: _______________
1: To escape to a vast uninhabited nature slashing bites.
preserve. Eats: Meat Habitat: Semiarid BARYONYX A semiaquatic
2: To claim the park grounds for yourselves and prairies with riverine forests fisher specialist with hooked
drive the humans out. Special ability: SCENT TRAIL claws and a crocodilian head.
3: To find your way towards the hypnotizing Nickname: _______________ Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
lights and sounds in the distance—a human River deltas
city. AMARGASAURUS A Special ability: WATERY
4: To take revenge on humanity. sauropod with a double row DOMAIN
5: To destroy the technology that revived you. of deadly spines on its neck Nickname: _______________
6: To survive the crossfire of two rival corporation which it clattered together as a
security teams who are battling it out for warning display.
ownership over you. Eats: Plants Habitat: Coastal
woodlands
BRACHIOSAURUS An erect-
necked, short-tailed sauropod
which specialized in treetop
browsing.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Semiarid prairies with riverine
forests
Special ability: SPOTTER
Nickname: _______________
CARNOTAURUS A nearly-
armless, snub-faced predatory
theropod with a pair of bull
horns.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Mud
flats and coastal plains
Special ability: RUSH
Nickname: _______________
COMPSOGNATHUS A slender
beach-stalking ambush
predator and sometimes
fisher with an extremely long
tail used for balance while
running.
Eats: Meat, Insects, Fish
Habitat: Arid seaside brush
Special ability: GANG
Nickname: _______________
CONCAVENATOR A long-
distance runner theropod with
an odd hump on its lower back.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Wetlands
Special ability: LONG-
DISTANCE RUNNER
Nickname: _______________
CONFUCIUSORNIS A crow-
like flying bird with a toothless
beak.
Eats: Insects, Fish Habitat:
Forests with lakes
Special ability:
MOCKINGZARD
Nickname: _______________
CRYOLOPHOSAURUS A
predatory theropod with
scallop-like crests above the
eyes for display.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Cold
polar forests
Special ability: ROAR
Nickname: _______________
DEINOCHEIRUS A duck-billed,
hump-backed, terrible-clawed,
big-tongued, 40 foot tall
oddity.
Eats: Plants, Fish Habitat:
River deltas
Special ability: TERRITORY
MARKING
Nickname: _______________
DEINONYCHUS A fearsome
sickle-clawed leaping
ambusher.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Semiarid
prairies with riverine forests
Special ability: TRACKER
Nickname: _______________
DILOPHOSAURUS A long-
distance pursuer of prey with
twin head crests.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Semiarid riverbanks
Special ability: CORPSE
MOUTH
Nickname: _______________
EDMONTOSAURUS A grazing
duck-billed herbivore which
moved in large herds.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability: MASTER
FORAGER
Nickname: _______________
EPIDEXIPTERYX A small
flightless bug-eater with
an underbite, long display
feathers at the end of a stub
tail, and bat wings.
Eats: Insects Habitat: Forests
with lakes
Special ability: PREY ANIMAL
Nickname: _______________
GALLIMIMUS A gracile
ornithomimosaur with
powerful hindquarters for
swift running, which served
as its primary defense against
predators.
Eats: Meat, Plants Habitat:
Woodland
Special ability: GAMBIT
Nickname: _______________
HALSZKARAPTOR A duck-
sized, duck-like lake-dweller
which lived in a manner similar
to waterfowl —paddling
along the water surface and
snatching fish with its sharp-
toothed duckbill.
Eats: Insects, Fish Habitat:
Lakes
Special ability: SUBMERGE
Nickname: _______________
HETERODONTOSAURUS A
scrub-eater, rodent-chaser,
and scavenger with fearsome
tusk-like fangs.
Eats: Meat, Plants Habitat:
Deserts
Special ability: HOME TURF
Nickname: _______________
IGUANODON A common
cattle-like grazer with large
‘thumb spikes’ and a grasping
‘pinky’.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Coastal
areas
Special ability: BONDED
Nickname: _______________
INCISIVOSAURUS A small
oviraptorosaur with large eyes
and buck teeth.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Forests
with lakes
Special ability: WHO, ME?
Nickname: _______________
LAMBEOSAURUS A
hadrosaur with an extremely
large, oblong hollow crest.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability:
WEATHERSENSE
Nickname: _______________
MAIASAURA A herd-mover
and colony-nesting hadrosaur
which walked on two feet as
a juvenile and all fours as an
adult, and whose diet included
rotting wood.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Wooded highlands
Special ability: MATRIARCH
Nickname: _______________
MASIAKASAURUS A small
theropod with a downward-
curving lower jaw suited for
seizing fish.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Coastal swamps
Special ability: LOCKJAW
Nickname: _______________
MICRORAPTOR A small
arborealist capable of flight,
covered in iridescent black
feathers.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Forests with lakes
Special ability: SKREE!
Nickname: _______________
MONONYKUS A fast runner
with a pair of stubby spikes
in place of arms, used for
scratching termite mounds
open.
Eats: Meat, Insects Habitat:
Sparse desert woodland
Special ability: CLUMSY
Nickname: _______________
ORNITHOMIMUS A small
prey animal which ate plants
and small vertebrates, whose
defense was its fast speed.
Eats: Meat, Plants Habitat:
Coastal woodlands
Special ability: WATCHFUL
Nickname: _______________
OVIRAPTOR A parrot-beaked
theropod with a head crest and
strong young-rearing habits.
Eats: Meat, Plants Habitat:
Desert dunes
Special ability: EGG THIEF
Nickname: _______________
PACHYCEPHALOSAURUS
A bipedal ornithiscian with a
spike-ringed dome head used
for defense and intraspecific
combat, like headbutting rams.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Coastal
woodlands
Special ability: HARDHEAD
Nickname: _______________
PACHYRHINOSAURUS A
ceratopsian with a plain frill
and large, flat bony knobs
where its horns would be.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability: SWORN
ENEMY
Nickname: _______________
PARASAUROLOPHUS A
hadrosaur with a long, hollow
nasal crest projecting out of
the back of its head.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested valleys
Special ability: BELLOW
Nickname: _______________
PROTOCERATOPS A big-
headed ceratopsian with
minimal frill adornments and
undeveloped horns.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Desert
dunes
Special ability: NEMESIS
Nickname: _______________
PSITTACOSAURUS A bristle-
tailed bipedal ceratopsian with
a relatively large brain and
eyes.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Forests
with lakes
Special ability: CAMOUFLAGE
Nickname: _______________
SALTASAURUS A short-
necked sauropod with armored
plates.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Mud
flats
Special ability: TRAMPLE
Nickname: _______________
SAUROLOPHUS A hadrosaur
with a thin, flute-like crest.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability: FLOCKING
TOGETHER
Nickname: _______________
SAUROPELTA An ankylosaur
with fearsome curved shoulder
spikes.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Semiarid prairies with riverine
forests
Special ability: DINO-A-DINO
Nickname: _______________
SCELIDOSAURUS A lightly-
built, lightly-armored
ankylosaur covered in small
scales.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Semiarid riverbanks
Special ability: ARMORED
Nickname: _______________
SPINOSAURUS A massive
finback-sailed hunter with
hooked claws and crococdilian
features, lethal on land and in
water alike.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Coastal mangroves
Special ability: TAIL WHIP
Nickname: _______________
STEGOSAURUS A slow-
moving tree browser with a
dorsal crest of bony plates
and a spiked thagomizer tail,
used for thermregulation and
defense respectively.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Semiarid prairies with riverine
forests
Special ability:
THERMOREGULATION
Nickname: _______________
STYRACOSAURUS A
ceratopsian with an ornately
spiked frill and a large snout
horn used as a thrusting
weapon.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability: HERD ALPHA
Nickname: _______________
THERIZINOSAURUS An
ungainly, giraffe-necked
erect theropod with
disproportionately massive
claw hands that shredded
plant matter and predators
alike.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Woodlands
Special ability: SHREDDER
Nickname: _______________
THESCELOSAURUS A
kangaroo-like bipedal
ornithiscian with strongly
muscled arms and blunt-
tipped grasping claws perfect
for burrowing.
Eats: Plants, Insects Habitat:
Wooded estuaries
Special ability: BURROW
Nickname: _______________
TRICERATOPS A large
ceratopsian with a knob-
covered frill, a pair of massive
brow horns, and a smaller
snout horn.
Eats: Plants Habitat: Coastal
woodlands
Special ability: THREAT
DISPLAY
Nickname: _______________
TROÖDON A big-eyed,
big-brained hunter which
flourished in chillier low-light
climes.
Eats: Meat, Plants Habitat:
Polar forests
Special ability: BIRD BRAIN
Nickname: _______________
TYRANNOSAURUS A
powerful predator that tackled
the most daunting prey of
its day (horned and armored
giants), dispatching them with
the most powerful bite known
among land predators.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Coastal
woodlands
Special ability: BLOODIED
Nickname: _______________
UTAHRAPTOR A relatively
slow-running predator that
relied on cunning, ambush,
and an oversized sickle claw.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Semiarid
prairies with riverine forests
Special ability: LEAPER
Nickname: _______________
VELOCIRAPTOR A small
turkey-sized predator that
latched onto larger prey with
sickle claws and used its long
tail and feathered arms to
maintain balance during the
ensuing struggle.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Desert
dunes
Special ability: TWITCH
REFLEXES
Nickname: _______________
NON-DINOSAURS
ANUROGNATHUS A bat-like
pterosaur with a snub tail and
snub face.
Eats: Insects Habitat:
Woodlands
Special ability: STRUGGLE
Nickname: _______________
BEELZEBUFO A massive
toad with bony spikes that ate
small vertebrates such as baby
dinosaurs.
Eats: Meat, Insects Habitat:
Forested swamps
Special ability: UNFLAPPABLE
Nickname: _______________
BELEMNITE A squid with
an internal skeleton and ten
barbed sucker limbs for snaring
prey.
Eats: Fish Habitat:
Continental shelf
Special ability: SPRAY
Nickname: _______________
COELACANTH A bony fish
that drifts on deep ocean
currents and eats whatever
prey it encounters, resting
during the day in crevices of
underwater volcanoes.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Deep sea
Special ability: SENTINEL
Nickname: _______________
DEINOSUCHUS A colossal
armored crocodile which
preyed on giant dinosaurs.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Estuaries
Special ability: DEATHBLOW
Nickname: _______________
DIMORPHODON A fanged
pterosaur which could only
manage awkward, frantic,
short bursts of flight and
accordingly spent most of its
time scurrying around on all
fours like a maniac.
Eats: Meat, Insects Habitat:
Coastal woodlands
Special ability: FLIGHTY
Nickname: _______________
HELICOPRION A shark with a
circular buzzsaw whorl of teeth
on its lower jaw.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Continental shelf
Special ability: VENGEFUL
Nickname: _______________
HESPEROSUCHUS A dog-
sized terrestrial crocodilian
with long legs that ran down
its prey.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Forests with lakes
Special ability: SPEED
DEMON
Nickname: _______________
HYPERODAPEDON A low
crawling reptile that dug up
plants with its massive naked
mole rat-like teeth.
Eats: Plants Habitat:
Woodlands
Special ability: PLANTSPEAK
Nickname: _______________
ICHTHYOSAURUS A marine
reptile with more or less the
appearance of a dolphin,
which hunted its favorite
delicacy, squid, using large
hypersensitive eyes—and
which also gave birth to live
young.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Open ocean
Special ability: DEEP SEA
DIVER
Nickname: _______________
KOOLASUCHUS A lumbering
amphibian like a giant
salamander which predated
on animals in streams.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Polar riverine valleys
Special ability: STRANGE
Nickname: _______________
LONGISQUAMA A small lizard
with a unique vertical dorsal
array of long scales used for
display.
Eats: Insects Habitat:
Riverine forest valleys
Special ability: SEMAPHORE
Nickname: _______________
MEGAZOSTRODON A shrew-
like ancestor to all mammals
adapted to nocturnal habits
which laid eggs and nursed its
young.
Eats: Meat, Insects Habitat:
Woodlands
Special ability: INSIGHT
Nickname: _______________
NYCTOSAURUS An island-
hopping pterosaur which
sported an L-shaped crest on
its head as large as the rest of
its body.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Islands
Special ability: WATER-WISE
Nickname: _______________
PLESIOSAURUS An ungainly
bottom feeder with a long, rigid
neck and flippers.
Eats: Meat, Fish Habitat:
Continental shelf
Special ability: POD
SOCIALIZATION
Nickname: _______________
QUETZALCOATLUS A
giraffe-sized pterosaur which
scavenged and hunted while
on all four limbs on the ground
but could also fly for more than
a week without ever touching
down.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Semiarid
prairies
Special ability: WORLD
TRAVELER
Nickname: _______________
REPENOMAMUS A stout,
stocky mammal like a badger
which ate dinosaurs.
Eats: Meat Habitat: Forests
with lakes
Special ability: DETECTOR
Nickname: _______________
SHAROVIPTERYX A gliding
reptile with hindlimb wing
membranes.
Eats: Plants, Insects
Habitat: Riverine forest
valleys
Special ability: TRIVIAL
Nickname: _______________
SPECIAL ABILITIES
AIR MARTIAL: When you snatch someone flying out
of the sky, you say if they ever take flight again.
ALTRUISM: When you spare or save someone’s life
and allow them to flee the scene, hold 3 tokens.
At any time, you can spend 1 token to have them
appear and offer help.
ARBOREAL: When you escape danger by scurrying
up a tree to a place where no one can reach you,
decrease your panic by 1.
ARMORED: You have natural armor, which decreases
panic suffered from being hurt by 1.
BELLOW: When you raise your head to the sky and
call for help, roll+Strong. On a 10+, one character
who knows your call may choose to inexplicably
arrive on the scene, when a moment earlier they
were somewhere else. On a 7-9, they heard your call
and will be at your side shortly.
BIRD BRAIN: When you closely examine a situation,
roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, ask 3 now or hold some for
later in the same situation. On a 7-9, ask 1 now or
hold it for later in the same situation. On a failure, ask
1 now or later, but get ready for complications.
- What happened here recently?
- What is about to happen?
- What is the best way in/out/past?
- How can I avoid trouble or hide here?
- How can I get ___ to do what I want?
- What here can I use to ___?
BLOODIED: When your panic increases to half of
maximum or higher, roll+Strong. On a 10+, choose
1. On a 7-9, roll for which one.
1: Inflict +1 panic until the end of the scene.
2: Decrease any panic suffered by 1 until the end
of the scene.
3: You momentarily lose control and lash out at
everything within reach, inflicting 2x panic.
4: You run away, disappearing from the scene.
After a moment, you rejoin the scene at an
opportune moment in an advantageous
position (decrease your panic by 1 upon your
return).
5: Treat your next roll as a 10+ result.
6: Take the egg.
BONDED: When the character(s) you have the highest
bond with is trapped, in mortal danger, or dies, you
immediately know. You don’t know any specifics,
just an impression you can be certain of.
BOUNCEBACKABILITY: When you have more than 1
panic left unmarked and you would increase your
panic to maximum, instead you survive with 1 panic
unmarked.
BURROW: When you spend a length of time digging a
hole, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, choose 2 for your hole.
On a 7-9, choose 1. On a failure, the DM chooses 1 for
which the opposite is true.
- It’s sheltered. Decrease any panic suffered by 1
while inside.
- It’s defensible. Roll with advantage against foes
while inside.
- It’s cozy. +1 panic clears when sleeping inside.
- It has a hidden exit.
CAMOUFLAGE: When you are concealed in natural
surroundings, no one will notice you until you make
a movement.
CLUMSY: When you fail a roll to carefully manipulate
something with your mouth or forelimbs, mark
experience instead of increasing panic.
CORPSE MOUTH: Your saliva is so rotten that it might
as well be venom. When you bite an animal, it suffers
+1 panic 1d6 times afterwards.
COZY FRIEND: You can act as shelter, providing a safe
resting place for your friends who can fit between
your legs. When you shelter others, it is as if you are
sheltered as well even if you’re totally exposed to the
elements.
DEATHBLOW: When someone or something increases
your panic to maximum by hurting you, you can
outright kill or destroy the culprit in the split second
before you lose control.
DEEP SEA DIVER: When you dive deep, roll+Swift. On
a 10+, when you return you’ve brought something
up from the depths, say what. On a 7-9, you’ve
brought something up from the depths, the DM says
what.
DEFENDER: When you defend someone or
something, roll+Steady. On a 10+, hold 3 tokens. On
a 7-9, hold 1 token. When whatever you’re defending
comes under attack in the same situation, spend 1
token to choose 1:
- Redirect the attack to yourself.
- Decrease panic inflicted by the attacker by 1.
- Automatically hit the attacker, inflicting 1 panic.
- Give advantage to someone else on their next
roll against the attacker.”
DETECTOR: When you sniff the air for something, the
DM will tell you if it’s nearby.
DINO-A-DINO: When you challenge someone to take
you on one-on-one, they must accept the challenge
or increase their panic by 1.
DISASTERSENSE: you always know when a natural
disaster (a storm, volcanic eruption, earthquake,
etc.) is about to strike. When that’s the case, the DM
tells you something’s coming and gives you 1 token
to hold. Spend 1 token to choose 1, or give it to a
friend to do the same.
- Know exactly what’s coming and from where
- Know where safe ground is
- Name someone who is caught exposed by the
natural disaster
- Make a roll with advantage to deal with the
natural disaster
EGG THIEF: At any point you may snatch the egg from
someone else and lead the way yourself.
EYESNATCHER: When you go for the eyes, roll+Swift.
On a 10+, they are blinded and choose 1: they are
also deafened, struck dumb, or unable to smell. On a
7-9, they are blinded but you have to hang on for a
while—roll to get off safely.
FATE: When your panic is increased to maximum and
before anyone tries to protect themselves or get you
under control, you can choose to simply die. Describe
who discovers your body later (a hundred million
years hence, a few moments, etc.). Your remains will
be displayed in a museum; say specifically which
one. If you do, join the group in a subsequent scene
as a new character with the same level and number
of special abilities as you had previously.
FINK: When no one has food, you always have a
secret stash but it’s lost if anyone finds out.
FLIGHTY: You can increase your panic by 1 to
immediately break free of anything trapping or
restraining you.
FLOCKING TOGETHER: When you lead others out of
imminent danger, roll+Swift. On a 10+, you’re all
through safely. On a 7-9, choose 1: you get hurt or
someone you lead gets hurt. On a failure, everyone
except you gets through safely—you’re trapped on
your own.
GAMBIT: When you are leading the way you can
choose at any time to turn anyone’s failure into a
10+ success, but you must immediately give the egg
to someone else by lobbing it to them underhand.
They now lead the way.
GANG: You are a gang of 2 to 6 individuals. Roll with
advantage when you gang up on an individual and
they roll with disadvantage against you.
HARDHEAD: When you run at full speed and bash
your head into something, roll+Strong. On a 10+,
choose 2. On a 7-9, choose 1 and the DM also
chooses 1 which applies to you.
- It’s moved.
- It’s broken.
- It’s trapped.
- It’s exposed.
HARDY: Increase maximum panic by 1.
HERD ALPHA: When you lay out an elaborate plan
while leading the way, everyone to whom you
assign a task rolls with advantage while they act
on that task according to plan. Anyone who rolls a
failure or goes off-plan loses their advantage. Those
who end the leg of the journey with their advantage
intact mark experience (if that’s everyone, you mark
experience too).
HOME TURF: When you are in your native habitat,
turn a failure into a 7-9 success when foraging for
food and water, looking out for hazards and trouble,
surveying for a safe resting place, or protecting the
others.
INSIGHT: When your instinct is tested, roll+Shrewd.
On a success, make your next roll with advantage
whether you follow your instinct or not.
LEAPER: when you spring from concealment to catch
someone unawares, roll+Swift. On a 10+, choose
1. On a 7-9, the DM will give you 2 of the following
options—choose 1 of them.
- Kill them.
- Injure them.
- Take something from them.
- Capture them.
LOCKJAW: When you have your jaws wrapped around
something, increase your panic by 1 to ensure that it
will never get free.
LONG-DISTANCE RUNNER: When a chase begins,
roll+Swift. On a 10+, hold 3 tokens. On a 7-9, hold
1 token. On a failure, hold 1 token but whatever you
choose has consequences. During the chase, spend
1 token to choose 1
- You run relentlessly, exhausting your adversary
- You run swiftly, closing the distance between
you and your adversary
- You run cannily, putting an obstacle in front of
your adversary
- You run fearlessly, overcoming an obstacle in
such a way that impresses, dismays, or frightens
your adversary
- You run sneakily, disappearing from view and
coming upon your adversary later in a
vulnerable moment
MANIPULATOR: Others always believe you when you
lie to them or when you conceal your motives and
intentions.
MASTER FORAGER: When you look for food which
you can eat, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, you find just the
kind of food you like (fresh kill, fruit plant, termite
mound, etc.) and there’s plenty of it to share with
others who eat what you eat. On a 7-9, you find just
the kind of food you like but it’s been claimed by
others and they won’t share anything for free.
MATRIARCH: When you spend a period of quiet
intimacy with others telling them a story, all who
listened closely choose 1: clear 1 condition, mark 1
experience, decrease panic by 1.
MENTOR: When someone comes to you for advice,
tell them honestly what you think the best course
of action is. If they act on your advice, you mark
experience. If they succeed at their action, they mark
experience too.
MOCKINGZARD: You can perfectly imitate the
vocalizations of any animal you have heard before.
NATURAL DEFENSES: When someone hurts you (and
you’re not caught by surprise by the attack), you
automatically hurt them right back, inflicting 1 panic.
NEMESIS: You have a nemesis. At the start of every
session, roll+nothing. On a success, hold 1 token.
At any time during the session, spend 1 token to
choose 1.
- Your nemesis appears and complicates the
efforts of other foes.
- Your nemesis or their tracks show you a way in/
out/past.
- Get your nemesis to do what you want.
OPPORTUNISTIC EATER: You can safely eat anything
your fellow player characters can eat.
PARLEY: when you come upon a group (i.e. a herd)
and seek their help, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, choose
3 and you don’t owe them a favor. On a 7-9, choose 2
and you do owe them. You and your friends:
- Decrease panic by 1.
- Learn of a shortcut on your journey.
- Hide/shelter from danger with the group until
the coast is clear.
- One, some, or all will come with you—they are
going that way anyway
PATHOLOGIES: When you would increase your panic,
you can choose to mark a new condition instead (if
you already have a condition, increase panic by 1
normally).
PLANTSPEAK: You can talk to plants—or rather, you
have a canny way of noticing bent leaves, out-of-
place twigs, and rustled fronds. When you closely
examine plants by holding them in your mouth
or forelimbs, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, ask 2 now or
hold some for later in the same situation. On a 7-9,
ask 1 now or hold it for later in the same situation.
On a failure, ask 1 now or later, but get ready for
complications.
- Who has passed by here recently?
- Who is watching/listening?
- Which way is danger?
- What are you plants hiding from me?
POD SOCIALIZATION: At the end of the session, you
can choose two characters who learned the most
about you or how you behave—each marks +1
bond with you—or choose just one character who
marks +2 bond with you.
POLAR WALKER: You are immune to freezing cold and
ice never breaks when you walk across it.
PRECISION BLOW: When you inflict panic, you can
choose to inflict any amount of panic you like, less
than or up to what would be the normal amount of
panic.
PREY ANIMAL: When you flee from something
that would eat you and you make a huge ruckus
(shrieking, knocking things over, running in circles,
etc.), roll with advantage to evade.
PROPHECY: When you predict what will happen by
staring up at the night sky, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+,
you see a shooting star: it will come to pass, or close
enough, in an ultimately favorable way. On a 7-9, a
star in the sky grows larger: it will come to pass in a
minor way, not entirely favorably. If you predict your
own death, roll with advantage.
ROAR: When you make an ear-splitting cry to frighten
others, roll+Strong. On a success, everyone around
you freezes for a split second. On a 10+, also choose
someone who heard you—they must flee helter-
skelter away from you until they think they’re safe.
RUSH: When you rush into danger without regard for
your personal safety, roll with advantage for as long
as your actions can be deemed reckless. Anyone
who recklessly follows you does the same.
SAFE HAVENS: You know of 3 safe havens. At any
time, you can draw on the map one of the three safe
havens you know about. It is secure from outside
danger and has food and shelter. Say how you came
to know of it.
SATED: When you kill, decrease your panic by 1.
SCENT TRAIL: As long as you have a piece of
something (e.g. a dinosaur’s feather), you always
know which direction the rest of it is.
SEMAPHORE: When you get to a high vantage point
and make your presence known (a call, dance, etc.),
you are always able to summon others of your
species. Roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, there’s as many of
your species here as desired and they’re friendly. On
a 7-9, choose 1:
- There’s only one.
- They signal back: you must go to them.
- They love you but don’t like your friends.
- They can only help you if you help them.
SENTINEL: You don’t need to sleep, you can see
perfectly in the dark, and you make all rolls with
advantage in darkness.
SHREDDER: When you viciously tear at something
with your claws, make your next roll with advantage
against each who witnessed your handiwork.
SKREE!: When you shriek to let your friends know of
danger, roll+Steady. On a 10+, your friends make
their next roll with advantage. On a 7-9, they make
their next roll with advantage but the danger comes
for you.
SLY SPY: When you observe someone who is alone
and they don’t know you’re watching, the DM will
tell you one secret about them. You can only use this
once per individual.
SNOUT-TO-SNOUT: When you are close enough that
you can smell someone else’s breath and they can
smell yours, you can ask them one question which
they must answer truthfully. They then ask you one
question, which you can answer truthfully or not,
but if you lie you can never use this on them again.
SONG: When you sing a calming song to soothe your
friends, say what you sing about and roll+Shrewd.
On a 10+, all your friends who listened don’t increase
their panic when they fail rolls until the end of the
scene. On a 7-9, all friends who listened don’t
increase their panic the next time they fail a roll. It
must be a song they’ve never heard before. decrease panic by 1 and transfer it to you.
SPEED DEMON: When you are running flat-out in a
situation where stopping or slowing would mean
your doom or someone else’s, turn a failure on your
roll into a 7-9 success.
SPOTTER: When you scan the horizon from your
highest vantage point, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, you
see something auspicious, say what. On a 7-9, you
see something auspicious, say what—but the DM
says something inauspicious you also see.
SPRAY: You can create a stinging, noxious cloud that
functions as a temporary barrier which no one but
you and others of your species can cross.
STRANGE: The first time someone sees you, they
hesitate in surprise.
STRUGGLE: You can increase your panic by 1 to add
+2 to a roll.
SUBMERGE: When you disappear out of sight under
the surface of a body of water, you can choose to
inexplicably reappear anywhere else in the scene,
dripping wet.
SUSPICIOUS EYE: When you carefully examine a
suspicious area, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, ask 3 now
or hold some for later in the same situation. On a 7-9,
ask 1 now or hold it for later in the situation.
- Is there an ambush or trap here?
- What will happen when it is sprung?
- What else is hidden here?
SWORN ENEMY: When you declare your intention to
defeat a foe, you make all subsequent rolls against
them with advantage and make all rolls against
anyone else with disadvantage. This remains until
you defeat the foe.
SYMPATHETIC HEALER: When you touch someone
with your forelimbs for a long quiet moment, they
may clear a condition and transfer it to you or
TAIL WHIP: When you hit someone with your tail,
roll+Strong. On a 10+, they are dazed and move—
stumbling—in a direction you say. On a 7-9, they are
dazed and stumble somewhere the DM says.
TERRITORY MARKING: When you clearly mark the
perimeter of an area with signs of your presence
(your scent, feathers, claw marks, etc.), all foes who
enter that area suffer 1 panic and all friends inside
roll with advantage.
THERMOREGULATION: You are immune to heat and
fire.
THREAT DISPLAY: When you single out someone else
and make a threatening display, roll+Shrewd. On a
success, they are frozen in place for as long as you
maintain your display and they choose why: they are
confused, they are frightened, they are hypnotized,
they are impressed. Additionally on a 10+, friends
roll with advantage against the target for as long as
the target is frozen in place (and the target rolls with
disadvantage).
TRACKER: When you follow a track or trail of someone
whose trail isn’t cold, roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, you
find them quickly and they don’t know they were
followed. On a 7-9, you find them quickly OR they
don’t know they were followed.
TRAMPLE: At any point during a scene you can decide
to exit the scene by the shortest route, trampling
anyone in your way and inflicting as much panic on
those trampled as on a successful attack. You cannot
return until a subsequent scene.
TREAD LIGHTLY: When you take special care while
journeying and progress at half your normal speed,
you and your friends leave no traces of your passage
(footprints, scent, sound, etc.).
TRIVIAL: When you are pursued by someone larger 7-9, you can do as you like but they’ll catch on after
than you, you can increase your panic by 1 to have a bit.
them give up the chase or attack.
WORLD TRAVELER: When you come to a new place,
TWITCH REFLEXES: When you are betrayed or you can tell everyone about a local animal, plant,
ambushed, you have anticipated it and get to terrain, or point of interest that gives you and your
act first. When you betray or ambush others, you friends an advantage.
have prepared for it and make your next roll with
advantage. APPENDIX
UNFLAPPABLE: Anyone unfamiliar with you dvan
personally will not attack you for as long as you
remain motionless.
CREDITS
VENGEFUL: When someone you have any bond with
dies in front of you, declare who you hold most dvan
responsible. Roll with advantage against them
forever thereafter.

WATCHFUL: When you closely survey a scene,

roll+Steady. On a 10+, ask “What here is not as it
seems?” and the DM will answer truthfully. On a 7-9,
ask the same question but the DM will give you only
a hint or an impression.

WATER-WISE: You always know the direction to the

nearest body of water. If you’re surrounded by water,
you always know the direction to the nearest land.
The DM will say which direction; if it’s not on the map
already, you draw it.

WATERY DOMAIN: When you pull a non-aquatic

individual into a body of water, you are in control of
their fate and decide what happens to them.

WEATHERSENSE: When you predict the weather by

sensing subtle atmospheric conditions, roll+Steady.
On a 10+, you’re right. On a 7-9, it’s not what you
wanted but your plans aren’t ruined. On a miss, it’s
not at all what you wanted and the DM won’t tell you
what’s coming until it’s upon you.

WHO, ME?: When you act innocent or harmless

in order to get away with something in full view,
roll+Shrewd. On a 10+, you can do as you like. On a