Creating a TTRPG: ACC - Australian Creatures

 

Australia has always had a large collection of dangerous and poisonous animals. Man killing spiders, venom dipped octopuses, stomach tearing birds, neck snapping marsupials, salt water blenders with scales, blood drinking bugs striking faster than 5000 times the blink of an eye, ocean based box shaped poison dispensers, a horrendous amount of deadly snakes, bird eating spiders, great white butchers of the sea and black and white living missiles to name a few.

The scariest part is that this is a handful of Australia's deadliest animals. This doesn't include the megafauna that only recently stalked the great red continent. 

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on who you ask) most of the megafauna was wiped out due to natural climate disasters within the area. ACC is the question of "What if those events didn't happen?". A version of Australia that was still teeming with 200kg wombats, lizards the size of buses, 11 foot tall kangaroos, 7 metre long crocodiles, thylacolea carnifex better known as the marsupial lion, a ten metre tall bird weighting half the amount of a car. 

An Australia which was more coastal than arid desert. A country in which at first was to be a penal colony but then became a to explore and document. A more fantasy based Australia, an Australia lost to time in which we didn't come as settlers but as researchers and adventurers.

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A list of 100 different Australian Animals both past and present. I'll be starting in alphabetical and working my way through current, cryptid and megafauna Australian animals. Also delving into how current Australian animals would evolve knowing that megafauna still exist. Could we find redback spiders the size of cats if their prey was megafauna marsupials? Would we have a new beast of burden in the Diprotodon?

I look to create a more savage, fantastical, mythical and brutal Australia for people to play in. I present the Animals of Australasia.