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Tall and thin-legged, a snow loper is a fast-moving omnivore. It has a very short neck and a large head with a wide, toothy mouth. Long hair covers its roundish, muscular body. Below its mouth are two thin arms with two-fingered hands that it uses mainly for grasping food or navigating treacherous climbs. Since it lacks thumbs, it doesn't really use tools.
Most people speculate that the snow loper is a genetically engineered creature intended to be used as a mount in steep, rocky environments. In the Ninth World, however, many snow lopers roam wild.
Motive: Self-defense
Environment: Snow lopers live in small packs in cold climes or high altitudes.
Health: 12
Damage Inflicted: Minor wound (3 points)
Movement: Long
Combat: A snow loper can defend itself with a vicious bite, but more likely, it flees from danger.
If a wild snow loper is caught, it can be tamed and trained relatively quickly, becoming cooperative and docile. The creatures are slightly more intelligent than typical animals, and some can even be trained to use cyphers and other simple devices.
Use: Most likely, characters encounter a snow loper as a mount, probably in the service of a scout, a trader, or an explorer. Loot: A snow loper has only what its rider gives it.
If a wild snow loper is caught, it can be tamed and trained relatively quickly, becoming cooperative and docile. The creatures are slightly more intelligent than typical animals, and some can even be trained to use cyphers and other simple devices.
Use: Most likely, characters encounter a snow loper as a mount, probably in the service of a scout, a trader, or an explorer.
Loot: A snow loper has only what its rider gives it. Rumors say that in the vast, warm lands to the north dwell tan, hairless lopers identical in all other ways to snow lopers.
GM Intrusion: The snow loper gains an immediate extra action, which it uses to bolt away.