[Rq-rules] Intelligent Lions

[Lance Dyas]

Roger Benham wrote:
>
> I'd be interested to read it! 
>
It was a part of the Heracles Myth
http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00212/greek.html
" These particular mares, owned by the giant Diomedes, were four 
uncontrollable, frenzied man-eating horses, and the animals Heracles was 
after to steal. Heracles, bringing along a youth named Abderus with him, 
succeeded in making away with the four mares - although with Diomedes 
hot on his heels. Heracles then made the enormous and possibly delicious 
mistake of leaving Abderus behind with the mares while Heracles went to 
fight off Diomedes and his men, which resulted, as he later found in 
dismay, of the horses making a tasty and slightly gruesome meal out of 
human.

Understandably not taking this in a very kindly manner, Heracles 
relieved his grief somewhat by feeding Diomedes to his own carnivorous 
mares, and took advantage of the post-feasting doze of the horses to 
bind shut their mouths and lead them back to Eurytheus."

> All I did was use the standard horse and let it eat meat- I think the 
> bite damage from a horse is highly overdone; we use 1D4 instead of the 
> 1D10, but the carnivorous horse did 1D10 anyway.
>
> I remember reading a 2000AD comic years and years ago in which Johnny 
> Alpha ended up in a parallel world called Hell, and pursued by variant 
> four horsemen of the apocalypse. 
>
> They rode armoured, lizard-like horses
>
Horse like lizards (or are those lizard like horses?) also featured in 
Talislanta .... called them Equus
>
> which I use extensively in my medievalesque campaign.
>
Robert Jordan's Wheel of time had an oriental style culture which made 
use of dinosaur like creatures
including  flying ones used as mounts (no they werent considered 
dragons) though they were not really
central to the chronicles.
>
>
>     From:  /Lance Dyas <lancelot at inetnebr.com>/
>     Reply-To:  /"Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules at crashbox.com>/
>     To:  /"Discussion of RuneQuest rules." <rq-rules at crashbox.com>/
>     Subject:  /Re: [Rq-rules] Intelligent Lions/
>     Date:  /Fri, 03 Nov 2006 20:41:16 -0600/
>     >Roger Benham wrote:
>     >>
>     >>I do remember terrifying and battering a party with a flesh-eating
>     >>horse once... nasty hooves, trample and bite.  It scared them- they
>     >>climbed trees to hide from it!
>     >>
>     >Carnivorous horses are featured in greek mythology I vaguely recall
>     >and a science fiction fantasy world where normal horses died off and
>     >folks attempted to gene engineer something to replace them. very
>     >very cool
>     >
>

I'm not remembering what the science fiction novel was
Time for the Stars by Heinlein has intelligent ones.. but that isn't the 
one I'm remembering. sigh.*


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