Veteran Talent

[Shadekeep]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Monster variability is what keeps the Expert Naturalists employed.

Also knowing what mushrooms to eat (or not eat). ^_^

Incidentally, there is also attribute variability even within a species. There are often gender differences, such as male lions and female hyenas being larger and more aggressive than their gender opposites. And juveniles will have different stats than adults. Of course there are also individual differences, too, but the range of those is typically more narrow. When an individual animal has exceptionally different stats from the baseline, this is often obvious in the creature's appearance (size, musculature, movement, etc).

Even animals with baseline stats can be made interesting by giving them atypical behaviours and habits. Take for example the Tsavo lions as seen in "The Ghost and The Darkness". This real pair of lions had unusual, almost preternatural, behaviour that made them even more dangerous than regular lions.