Photograph it. Then fight it.
Every page in your journal is a fighter. The capture rolls its stats, the species sets its moves, and the place you found it sets its rarity. A good photograph is a good draft pick.
Bouts are turn-based and typed: Beast beats Flora, Flora beats Mineral, Mineral beats Avian, Avian beats Aqua, and Aqua beats Beast. Pick the right move and the number comes up big and red.
Spar Lord Beastmont's menagerie for practice, then challenge friends by field code. Their creatures are their photographs too. Bragging rights are permanent.
Anything that creeps, blooms, or stubbornly sits
A dog on the corner. A fern in the shade. A very committed boulder. If you can frame it, it counts.
The darkroom names your find
Your shot is identified and takes a page in your journal — with stats, moves, and a rarity earned by where you found it.
Your photographs fight
Six stats, four moves, five types in a circle. Take your beasts to Lord Beastmont's study, then to your friends. Your pigeon is somebody's problem now.
From the registry
Every species begins with somebody's photograph
There is no bestiary written in advance. The first player ever to photograph a red fox created the Red Fox — named it, dated it, and wears the discovery forever. Every creature in the world's registry traces back to one person's walk outside.
Your photo is the creature. The background lifts away, and what you saw becomes what you battle with.
The specimen above is real: the first Red Fox, recorded during field testing, not half a mile from Central Park.
The camera is my own invention, I shall have you know. Photograph a beast properly and it takes more than a likeness. It takes the BEAST.
And what does one DO with a journal full of beasts? Ha! The finest thing of all. They fight. Bring me your first, and we shall have a bout.
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Write to the field office
contact@beastsofthefield.comQuestions, press, or a particularly good pigeon photograph.