Leopard
The leopard is the fastest Beast on the Arena, and its agility is so great that nobody can follow him when running. As with other felines, it’s a lethal scavenger, able to devour a defenseless enemy in a very short time.
At Level II, it can use its Bite to gain +1 Damage Die, and gains Slippery, ignoring its enemies’ attack radius (like red Hyaenas). Its greatest advantage, anyway, is its speed: there’s no other fighter in the basic set that can move 9 hexes without running or leaping.
design process
The miniature should show this beast running to reflect that it’s the fastest fighter in the game, something that the prototype’s miniature didn’t.
3DBreed: “I’ve been doing some tests with the leopard and a running stance is going to be hard: these critters run by leaping, so we could only have it in a horrible sort-of upside-down triangle pre-jump stance; obviously, we cannot model it when it’s in the air.”
We had our doubts at first about the girth of this feline compared with the rest of the Beasts. But we made a proportions line-up, and we all accepted its size: it looked fine compared to the Panther, and just a little bigger than the canids.