Animals in Ars Magica

In the new version am working on, it's listed as a common barn owl.

I have come across a case where there's official stats for an animal, but I've come across fan-made stats that I feel capture the essence of said animal better. I want to include both versions in the document, and am not sure how to mark them differently.

List both along with references. This is a fox per book XYZ, this is an alternate fox per user Mustermann. Same as there are stats of like 6 types of dogs.

I found out some animal stats have been copied wrong into the document, and looks like the latest Errata made some changes to some animal stats.
So I plan to revisit the file and update it, but it's a good chance to add more stats, so if anyone has an animal they'd like stats for, speak up.

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Thank you, the files are very useful in my saga. Being an animal specialist makes It invaluable.

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Need any specific animal stats?

We're into cold climate (Scandinavia) so anything from there would be nice !

Just curious, any news on that updated version?

Last one I managed to find was 1.5

It has been on the back burner for a while now. Am trying to find the time to move it forward. It might not have as many extra animals as i originally planned, but it will be an update.

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Thanks for the update. :smile:

I have finally got around to add the latest errata to some animals, and added some 10 animals, but am wondering, is this enough for an update?
If you want more animals, which animals would you like to see statted?

if you're errata'ing animals, check the large lizard. the stats don't match qualities.

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Thank you for bringing this to my attention. There are some mistakes there, and I sent a message to David Chart to hopefully include that in the next Errata.

This is the PDF version of the file. Soon it will get updated with a few more animals.

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Arf, one of my player wants to make a panther or leopard and of course, they are not in this list.
You'd know where to find that?

Realms of Power: Magic, pg. 61 there is a Panther of Virtue :slight_smile:

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As per your request, I added the panther to animals I'll stat. Hoping to get the new version ready soon, because I want to finish statting up a few more animals.

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You'll want to look at the errata, as there are changes I didn't see in your work. Also, note that some animals were missed in the errata when changing powers to qualities. I submitted a bunch of these for errata.

Yeah, I plan to look at the new errata, because the changes in the former errata have been fixed already in the new version.

Errata has been updated to the stats. The Errata for the Waral Lizard actually came from me.

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