I continued my work in the bestiary and have finished marking the habitats of all land mammals in the World. I just have to take care of birds, aquatic animals and insects and I can consider going back through and making labels to indicate rarity. Won’t that be fun?

One thing I’ve done to make cataloging the animals easier is that I don’t distinguish between individual species within a genus and occasionally within a family. Instead, the idea is that the particular animal has a different “skin” based on the area. For instance, the system wouldn’t distinguish between a spotted hyena found in Shabba (an area that’s equivalent to the Sahel on Earth) and a striped hyena found in Babu Dhaba (the equivalent of Persia). However, I have to check the ranges of all the different species so I can better replicate the equivalent ecosystem on Earth in the World. I’m definitely thankful for articles that include full maps of habitats.

Another thing I’ve done, that I wanted to mention yesterday but was in a bit of a hurry to get the post out before I had to deal with other things, is that certain types of Demihumans that come in Chromatic series is that all lower-level variants continue to appear in environments with their higher-level cousins. This can mean that encounters will involve low-level mobs with more dangerous high-level monsters mixed in. Did I mention that there are certain penalties for fighting critters that are much weaker than you? Yes, well, that’s a factor as well to add to the frustration. The World isn’t especially nice to the Players.

Anyway, if I can finish my work on the bestiary and the Rookies’ stats over the weekend, I should be in a decent position to dive into the story proper for next week. Stay tuned..

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