I've decided to try to start a comprehensive critter guide for the 0-100 rank crowd, given the constant set of what to hunt questions, and the general incompleteness or vagueness of the answers. There are some aspects that will be hard to pin down (weapon skills and defensive skills), but others are quite clear.

As I come up with something, complete and presentable, I'll be looking for someone to host the info.

For starters, I'm using appraisal to try to get exact stats on as many low-mid level critters as possible. I'm doing all of my apps with 30 in each stat, and then will increase the stats to 31 and do them all over again, and so on.

I've almost completed Riverhaven, and the table is posted below. I'd be pleased to get information, suggestions and or comments on what I've done so far.

My thanks to Ranik, Sablina, et. al. for the great maps.

Riverhaven and Environs
Critter Appraisals (January 2004)
All Appraisals are with 30 each in Agility, Strength, Reflex

A/S/R	Description
0	significantly less
1	quite a bit less
2	definitely less
3	rather less
4	somewhat less
5	not quite as
6	about as
7	a little more

Critter	Place	Map	Agility	Reflex	Strength
Giant Salt Crab	Salt Yard	30	1	1	1
Ship's Rat	Salt Yard	30	0	0	0
Corpse Grub	Dunshade Manor	30b	1	1	1
Dark Fiend	Dunshade Manor	30b	2	2	2
Pale Grey Death Spirit	Dunshade Manor	30b	6	6	6
Tortured Soul	Dunshade Manor	30b	1	1	1
[adjective] Wildland Goblin	Wildlands	31	1	1	1
[color] Boobrie	Zaulfung	31	1	1	1
Spiny Dyrachis	Zaulfung	31	3	5	6
Wild Boar	Northeast Wilds	31	1	1	1
Lesser Shadow Hound	Zaulfung	31a	7	6	6
Lesser Sluagh	Trackless Swamp	31b	3	3	3
Swamp Troll	Trackless Swamp	31b	4	4	4
Giant Thicket Viper	Pejek Bog	31c	4	5	4
Heggarangi Frog	Pejek Bog	31c	0	0	0
Piruati Serpent	Pejek Bog	31c	4	3	3
Arbelog	West Wilds	32	2	2	2
Black Bear	West Wilds	32	1	1	2
Goblin Shaman	West Wilds	32	1	1	1
Grass Eel	West Wilds	32	2	2	0
Meadow Ram	West Wilds	32	1	1	1
Scarlet Crayfish	West Wilds	32	1	1	1
Young Ogre	West Wilds	32	3	3	5
Dusk Ogre	West Wilds	32/32a	2	2	2
Giant Wolf Spider	West Wilds	32a	3	3	3
Great [color] Boobrie	Zaulfung	31	x	x	x
Greater Sluagh	Zaulfung	31a	x	x	x
Nightstalker Unyn	Pejek Bog	31c	x	x	x
Rhoat Moda	Pejek Bog	31c	x	x	x
Scout Ogre	West Wilds	32	x	x	x

Unyns and Modas are Premium only.
Great Boobries, Greater Sluaghs and Scout Ogres, I did not encounter.

Talliman

>>For starters, I'm using appraisal to try to get exact stats on as many low-mid level critters as possible. I'm doing all of my apps with 30 in each stat, and then will increase the stats to 31 and do them all over again, and so on.

Great idea, but I think 30 is way too high a set of stats to really get an accurate idea of how these lower circle creatures stack up.

Or, to put it another way, you have both wildland goblins (stop teaching around 40 ranks or so) and meadow rams (the ones near Crossing in the Premium area are teaching me TM fairly well with over 60 ranks) with the same general stats.

So, I suspect, if you could, start out with about 15s for the 0-50 (or more) areas, since that will give a better reading on those creatures that are so far down the ladder; and 15 is probably closer to what the hunters at that circle would have.

Just my 2 lirum.

~Kyn

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>> Barghest
>> Nightreaver Unyns

I'll check them out.

>> Greater Shadow Hounds

Any idea when the greater vs. lesser come out? I didn't see great boobries, great sluaghs or great hounds.

>> Nightweavers

Not on Ranik's maps?

>> Rhoat Modas and Nightstalker Unyns: not just premie

Everything past the gate is premium, right? Does that mean they also spawn in the 3 rooms between the stream bank and the gate?

>>Not on Ranik's maps?

Are now. Basically same area as Nightreavers. One letter difference threw me off first time I was there.

-Ranik

>> Great idea, but I think 30 is way too high a set of stats to really get an accurate idea of how these lower circle creatures stack up. Or, to put it another way, you have both wildland goblins (stop teaching around 40 ranks or so) and meadow rams (the ones near Crossing in the Premium area are teaching me TM fairly well with over 60 ranks) with the same general stats.

My plan was to use my empath, starting at 10 points of each. And for all of the low-level critters, I will probably do that. But as long as my apps don't start falling into the "great deal less" range, I should still have the ability to discern 1-4 point stat differences, as I increase my stats from 30 to 34.

Talliman