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Animal-Horse / Appearance

Customizing Horses: Table 1

Overall Coloring and Appearance

1d20	Color	Comments
1	Black	Black pigment is present throughout, including both skin and hair.
2	Brown	The coat is a mixture of black and brown hair.
3	Black-brown	Black is the predominant pigment, but the muzzle, and sometimes the flanks, are brown.
4	Bay	The color varies from a dull reddish-brown to a golden shade that is nearly chestnut.
5	Bay-brown	The predominant pigment is brown but the muzzle is bay. The legs, mane, and tail are black.
6	Chestnut	A red-gold color with a number of varying shades.
7	Cream	This color is a result of unpigmented skin. The eyes of these horses are always pink or blue in color.
8	Dun	This is a primitive coloring that is characteristic of wild horses. It can be either a yellow dun (a sandy sort of yellow) or a blue dun. In the latter instance, the skin of the horse is black. The mane and tail are usually dark.
9	Gray	This is a varied mixture of black and white hairs on a black skin.
10	Blue roan	This is a blue-tinged gray that is a result of white hair on a body with black or brown pigmentation.
11	Red roan	An earthy red the result of bay or bay-brown body color with a mixture of white hairs overall.
12	Strawberry roan	This is a dusty or smokey rose color that is the result of a chestnut body color with a mixture of white hairs.
13	Piebald	The coat of these horses is made up of large, irregular patches of black and white, similar in appearance to common milk cows.
14	Skewbald	This is the same as the piebald, except in this instance the black coloring is replaced with any other color.
15	Odd-colored	This type is any coat that has more than two different colors.
16	Palomino	A rich yellow-gold coat with a white mane and tail.
17	Liver chestnut	This coat is the dark red color of raw liver.
18	Dapple gray	Dapple gray is a storm cloud gray, darker than a usual gray, with small patches and flecks of lighter coloring on the chest, belly, and hindquarters.
19	Sorrel	A sorrel is a chestnut red-brown coloring somewhere between bright bay and yellow chestnut. The mane and tail are both white or reddish in color.
20	Albino	An all-white animal, an albino is the result of a complete absence of pigmentation in both the skin andhair. These horses are always pinkeyed.