Pack Scarabs

PACK SCARAB
Armor Class: 4 (16)
Movement: 9" (90')
Hit Dice: 2
Attacks: bite for 1-3
Cost: 20 gp
Load: Up to 200 lbs/2000 coins at full speed, up to 400 lbs/4000 coins at 6" (60') movement

Pack scarabs are man-sized beetles used as pack animals. Although clumsy and stupid they are fearless and prefer a diet of feces, carrion and filth. Although they can be fed Zorse feed, in environments where dung and rotting matter abounds they are capable of feeding themselves. Although the males of the species sport a curved horn, it is not a weapon and is often used to anchor a lead to male pack scarabs.

Nguamodon

NGUAMODON
Armor Class: 6 (14)
Movement: 15" (150') without any burden or rider
Hit Dice: 3
Attacks: bite for 1-3 and 2 thumb spikes for 1-3
Cost: 100 gp
Load: Up to 40 lbs/4000 coins at 12" (120') speed, up to 800 lbs/8000 coins at 6" (60') speed

Also known as pack lizards, Nguamodons are a horse-sized species of iguanodon. Herbivores that can survive for two weeks without food or water, they are commonly used as pack animals although any burden limits them to a quadrupedal gait that reduces their speed and renders them unable to use their thumb spikes in combat. They are placid, stupid and easily spooked.

Mounts and Pack Animals of Planet Algol Pt.1

Nguamodon - Horse-sized iguanodons, semi-bipedal, can go two weeks without food or water.

Ornith - Quadrupedal horse-sized "bird horses" with four clawed feet and a parrot-like head.

Pack scarab - Man-sized clumsy, bumbling scarabs. Stupid but fearless, eats offal, carrion, feces and filth.

Swordbeak - Larger, feather-less vicious cousins to the orniths with a long vulture-like neck and a curved sharp sword-like beak.

War lizard - Bipedal dinosaurs, the light varieties are similar to sturdy, scaled deinonchynus while the heavy varieties resemble smaller ceratosaurus. The warhorses of Planet Algol. They must regularly gorge on meat.

Zorse - A true, viable species on Planet Algol, as opposed to the Horse-Zebra hybrids of the same name and apperance of our Earth